House of Totoro - The Final

Tools
NEC Projector (Countesy of my project Admin), pencil for outlining, 8 tins of various colored emulsion paint from either Nippon, ICI or Colorland, brushes of various size, thinners and cloths used typically for painting.

About
The final drawing of the Totoro creatures for our "feature wall".

Year
August 2010.

eXpressions
After various sketches and discussion my wife, we finalized the design on paper. I borrowed the projector my of Office admin (Thanks SoSi!) and project the image on the wall while outlining with a pencil.

The rest is painting! Joining forces with my wife, we managed to complete the paint in 1 day, with minor touchups in subseqent days. This is my first major wall painting.

This is only part of our painting, wanna see the whole thing? First you must know us, then pay us a visit...We'll treat you nice homecooked meal! :)


The Totoro characters are Copyright and properties of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.

House of Totoro

((Living Room - sketch 1)

(Living Room - sketch 2)
(Dining Room - Sketch 1)
(Dining Room - Sketch 2)
(Study Room)
(Drawing table cum lightbox)

Tools

Just sketched

About

Rough interior sketch my our home's desired design.

Year

April 2010

eXpressions

How to renovate and decorate our home interior has been a headache and major cause for our move-in plans.

After much fruitful discussion, we decided to create more of a comtemporary Japanese kind of theme with a touch of tradition sense. Much from the inspirations from one of our favorite anime, Totoro where the characters from modern Japan moved into a traditional japanese rice plantation village to recuperate and live a rural life.

Out of enthusiasm, I did my own research and did some rough sketches on our interior desired theme.

This is a basis of what we show to our interior designers so there will not have any miscommunications.

Hand-drawn Christmas Gift Tags

Tools
Hand-drawn, inked and colored with color pencils.

About
Gift Tags for my colleagues during Christmas 2004

eXpressions
It was Christmas in 2004 and as a yearly practice, I'll buy little presents for my colleagues. With some ideas I decided to draw and personalise my gift tags to my colleagues.

I love my gift tags so much I scanned them before pasting them to the presents.

I wonder how many of my colleagues still keeps their gift tag. I knew one is lost as the Colleague opened the present and throw the wrapper into the gift, totally ignoring my tag...bummer!