Suzuki Swift Sport Fan Polo Tee

Tools
Digitally manipulated via Photoshop 6.0

About
Suzuki Swift Sport Fan Polo Tee Shirt

Year
March 2011

eXpressions
Before I did the Colt Version R shirt, I act experimented using a different car. Since Swift Sport was I first dream car (which I didn't manage to get it), I've decided to give it a go.

I was planning to make that "gritty-washed" feel hences I over-contrast it intentionally to give a a "retro-washed" feel.

Like the Colt Tee, I printed it and worned it countless times, now the print is almost faded and I'm thinking of re-printing it using better materials.



"Suzuki Swift Sport" is copyright of Suzuki Motors Co Ltd.
All Photos are source either from the internet of from the HyperRev Vol 121 SWIFT Catalog.

Colt Version R Fan Polo Tee

Tools
Digitally manipulated via Photoshop 6.0

About
Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R Fan Polo Tee Shirt

Year
March 2011

eXpressions
As a fan and owner of the Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R. I just gotta do a Polo Tee-shirt to show my fan for the car.

I've already had the 1st generation Colt Turbo Club SG shirt some time back with a BIG Garage R logo at the back, not exactly my kind of shirt. So I decided to do my own polo Tee based on my very on design, without any affliation from any of the folks in CTFSG.

Was pretty happy about it and printed it. I've been wearing it for months to the point that the colors are beginning to fade.


"Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R" are copyright of Mitsubishi Motors Co Ltd. All images and logos are sourced from the Mitsubishi Motors Japanese website.

Getting Back In Business....

Finally, my work project goes LIVE and I finally broke loose from the crazy 24/7 workload....for now. I think I'll be free for at least half-a-year before future assignments. At the meantime, lots of stuff to catchup, not only on work but on my house, friends, car, exercise and so on. Hope I can get my feet back and start drawing and posting more stuff.

Nope, my HDD full of goodies are still gone. To make matters worst my OTHER portable HDD was corrupted and I lost 20% of data, some artworks are gone...sigh.

But somehow I'm numb to all this. I gotta invest on a new rig, specially for graphics!

Stay tune for more updates by me.

Comic: Ex Wallaby 99 Part 1

Tools

Pencil-drawn, Inked, effects by Photoshop 6.0.

About

Document the experience of a NSF from the Scout Platoon of 46th battalion of the Singapore Armour Regiment (46SAR), NS batch 1998 -2001 during Exercise Wallaby 99.

This short strip documents the first 2 days of their training stint in the foreign land of Australia. From the thick, humid tropical forest of Singapore to the Dry and hot Australian outback. It's not only a culture shock, it's a whole new test of endurance and survivability.

Year

1999/2000

eXpressions

Found these strips when I was clearing some files, so decided to include here....This is done during my NS days based on my experience of Exercise Wallaby without any sanction from the official media or mindef.

I had this idea as I was reading a copy of "Army Daze" comic done by Cheah. However I feel it not an accurate or an outdated representation of how and what army life is all about.I was intending to draw based on my own experience right down to the mission/exercise level. From my recce prep to my FTX missions all the way to live firing exercise. Including the heli-insertion and all the funny/scary/tired encounters we had throughout the 3 weeks stint.

But alas, unlike other NSF who get laze to work only 8 to 5 as a military clerk. I'm a full combat troop in an active battalion. With all the training, exercise and "shit work" flying around, it isn't a very condusive place to draw.

Hence the idea was scrapped after the 2nd strip barely half-done.Am I going to carry on? Too late, I lost most of the detailed memories needed to complete the strip, but all the vivid memories during EX. Wallaby 99 will stay in my life forever.

Crisis in Work and others...

Over the past 3 months has been a roller coaster ride for me as my workload goes full swing. Hardly had time to do anything since I've been doing overtime, delicating most of my hours to work....So no updates on artwork from me, at least not till later part of the year.

Well, as if work is not enough, I was hit bad by another "disaster". I lost my portable HDD. I'm not sure if I dropped it or someone stole it (unlikely) but I've lose a whole of stuff in it. My work documents, my personal files, my photos and MP3s and more relavant to this blog, my artworks.

Sure most of my artworks are hand drawn so I'm still not too affect as I still have my original copy, but I lost some of my rare digital works which I never get to post online...any I lost my watermark design.

I've yet to discover the full extent of my loss but day by day I made very demoralizing discovery of my losses. I'm still hoping one day I'll find my HDD, hoping it's just a misplacement. But if my HDD was really stolen of taken by someone, I don't care if he copied my stuff or abuse it, I just want my files back.....

C.M.O.S: Foxtrot Oscar Mike...

Tools

Characters and background individually drawn. Merged together with basic shading and rendering effects using Photoshop 6.0.

About

Although Omega and Flint had vast experience in military contracts, their contracts are usually within the region with terrain they are familiar with.

Now they are all prep all and conducting a final mission briefing before they embark on their first overseas military contract. Although it is just a simple recce and patrol mission, they lack local knowledge on the terrain and people.....And they are pretty nervous.

Year

Mid Oct 2010 to Early Nov 2010

eXpressions

Due to my busy work schedule, I didn't have time to sit down and complete the drawing at 1 go. I split into 3 milestones.

1st milestone is to draw a full figure Flint complete with full gears and weapons. Spending little spare time I took 1 week to complete.

The 2nd milestone is Omega with her full gear. I too spend 1 week to complete her due to my work.

The final milestone is the background, which I took 1 hour to complete.

Merging the pictures took about another 1 hour. I haven't done such artwork for a long time....still hope to get it colour.

C.M.O.S: Omega Angel

Tools
Pencils Only

About
Omega Angel, a Combat Contractor for C.M.O.S.

Year
2009

eXpressions
This supposed to be a colored artwork which I was planning for my laptop's wallpaper, guessed I procastinated too long.

It's a more updated rendition of one of my oldest characters, "Omega Vengence". Whom I renamed it to "Omega Angel" to sound more convincing and less "superhero". Created in 1996, I was heavily influenced by Image comics' "Gen 13" and "WildC.A.T.s" series, as well as Yukito Kishiro's "Gunnm" series (known as Battle Angel Alita in USA)

Omega was initially a member of the highly coverted S.O.V. team of bounty hunters. After the team split, Omega continued her days as a paid vigilante. In the C.M.O.S. series, she eventually teamed up with a fellow bounty hunter called "Flint", whom later became her love-interest.

CMOS is actually a kind of semiconductor commonly found in digital cameras. I actually learned this during my Polytechnic days and thought it's a cool name for a comic title. For the past 10 years, I created C.M.O.S with the meaning of "Cyber Mercenaries Onset Service" as Omega and Flint take up jobs via an online Mercenary Guild. During 1996 Internet in Singapore is at it's infancy and the word "Cyber" is like damn cool!

After 10 years, I decided to revamp C.M.O.S. to be more matured and convincing. The word "Mercenary" is something most do not want to be associated with. Instead they are now called "Contractors". Now C.M.O.S stands for "Civilian Military Operations Services" where Omega and Flint takes on both Military and Civilian "contracts" legally as Combat contractors.

Combat Contractors of the 21st century are bounded by a different set of Geneva conventions crafted after the Terror War. They are now required to wear the tag "Contractor" during their military operations.

For military contracts, Combat Contractors are not subjected to protection from interrogation and cannot be considered as POW. However, they are required to receive fair medical treatment and are to be treated humanely if captured.

For civilian contracts, Combat contractors are not sanctioned by the authorities and can be arrested and sentenced without trial if their operations is deemed as a major threat to the general public.

Weapon Talk: SR-98P PARAcarbine

Tools
Pencils with help from the ruler

About
Weapon from the "C.M.O.S" Universe. The SR-98P PARA-Carbine. A unique weapon that is effective in both air and underwater.

Before the Global Terror War, Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS) developed the SR-88 assault rifle meant for export, however the rifle was not very successful in sales. Subsequently, CIS was bought over by ST Kinetics and the SR-88 ceased production.

After the war, TT Kinetics (Rename from ST Kinetic) released most of it's old rifle patents and designs, including the SR-88, to open market as it deemed the designs obsolete and have reached it's "end of lifecycle". Various emerging firearms manufacturer adopted the SR-88's design in their product.

Based on combat experiences gathered from the war and a need for a fully functional underwater assault rifle, a Singaporean independant firearms Manufacturer, Combat Innovation Standards Pte Ltd (ironically AKA CIS), bought the SR-88 blueprints to work on a prototype.

In barely 2 years, a working prototype, codenamed "Harpoon-S", was announed to the market and the final product, renamed as SR-98, when into production the following year.

The SR-98 operates basically like any other rifles in the market. It's based on the close-bolt action. The only innovation is that it chassis, magazines and barrels are completely water-tight with "Submerging Integrated Liquid Lid" (S.I.L.L) waterproof component that allow a S.I.L.L. compressed gas nip to be fitted. This allows the rifle to be fired underwater up to the depth of around 3 meters. Each S.I.L.L. gas nip can be use for a magazine of 30 rounds.
S.I.L.L. technology is patented in UA, EUS and Trancel City.

The "P" Variant PARA-Carbine is configured for light-weight airborne/seaborne operations with a foldable and extendable stock and integrated Picatinny Rails for Tactical customizations.

SR-98P PARAcarbine
Designed year: 2029
Manufacturer: Combat Innovation Standard Pte Ltd (new CIS)
Weight unloaded: 2.9kg
Weight loaded(30 rounds with S.I.L.L. apparatus): 4.7kg
Barrel Length: 450mm
Total Length with stock extended: 950mm
Cartridge: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Close rotating bolt
Rate of Fire: 600 rds/min(standard), 180rds/min(underwater)
Muzzle Velocity: 700m/s(standard), 299m/s(underwater)
Effective Range: 500m(standard), 20m (underwater)
Feed system: 30 rounds S.I.L.L. STANAG
Sights: Aftermarket sights with Backup iron sights.

Year
Oct 2010

eXpressions
Designed this weapon during NS times in 1998 or 1999. During that time I had a big fasination on Singapore-made weapons like the Ultimax 100, SAR-80 and SR-88B. SR-88 was pretty low-profile as SAF did not adopt the weapon. It's meant for export.

With rumors of a new weapon in the works as SAF's standard issue, I begin to speculate how the weapon might looked like. Banging on my knowledge on the Israeli Galil Assault rifle, I fused the Galil and SR-88 together to form a new hyrid called SR-98.

The waterproofing part is only though off after I decided to make this the main medium-sized weapon for my "C.M.O.S" female protagonist, Omega!

It's only a year later I realise the new weapon is indeed the SAR-21 bullpup rifle, a total different philosophy from my conventional "SR-98" look.

More sketchs of Characters and weapons coming up for "C.M.O.S."

Weapon Talk: LM-12B

Tools
Pencils only, and of course, with ruler

About
Weapon from the "C.M.O.S" Universe. The LM-12B Tactical Assault Rifle. A Standard issue of the UA Army after the war.

The LM-12 is the standard Weapon used by the UA Army since the end of Global "Terror War". The original design, based on the bullpup configuration, is innovated by reowned firearms designer Nikolai Korzhukov. The LM-12's design managed to keep most of the operating functions similar to the war-proven AR15 and M16 rifles which most UA soldiers are familiar with.

It was further enhanced and modified by it's mass manufacturer, United Arms Agency Inc, to cater for both advanced military and civilian needs.

LM-12 features the NATO k.V. box magazine that is known for is versatility. It's rotating buldge tip enables the magazine to be attached to the weapon at any angle, reducing reloading times and magazine/ammunition damage/jamming during the heat of the battle. Due to the unique design, the k.V. box magazine is also capable of holding up to 50 rounds of standard NATO 5.56mm ammunition. Currently, Magazines payloads are available in 50 rounds, 40 rounds and 25 rounds for civilian use.

The LM-12 is compatibility with plug-in I.O.N. booster adapters for increased rate of fire and range without replacing a delicated barrel or bolt carrier assembly. However the barrel's heating threshold will exceed after 3 full Magazine of continuous firing and the weapon's thermo fail-safe mechanism will lock the trigger until the barrel cools down below threshold. The mechanism can, however, be overwritten with a add-on module.

The LM-12 is also fully ambidextrous with no external parts swapping needed. The weapon can be easily switched by re-assembling the weapon and switching the positions of it's internal components

The LM-12 "B" variant includes an integrated Picatinny rails with P.R.I.C.K interfaces ports for tactical flexibility with the latest weapons attachments.

Designer: Nikolai Korzhukov
Designed year: 2026
Manufacturer: United Arms Agency Inc
Weight unloaded: 3.5kg
Weight loaded(50 rounds): 5.1kg
Barrel Length: 500mm
Total Length: 750-800mm
Cartridge: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Close rotating bolt
Rate of Fire: 700 rds/min(standard), 1300rds/min(I.O.N. booster)
Muzzle Velocity: 750m/s(standard), 1300m/s(I.O.N. booster)
Effective Range: 500m(standard), 950m (I.O.N. booster)
Feed system: k.V. box Magazine, 25/40/50 rounds
Sights: Aftermarket sights with Backup iron sights.

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
Designed this weapon during NS times in 1999 or 2000. Was inspired by the SAR-21 and AUG-77 then. This weapon was the main weapon used the male protagonist in my "C.M.O.S." Series.

Since then, firearms evolve a little to accomodate customized add-ons, so I updated my weapon to go with the trend and added a little FN F2000 elements to it. Quite happy with the outcome.

More sketchs of Characters and weapons coming up for "C.M.O.S."

Cashcards for Colt Turbo Forum SG

Tools
Digitally traced image of the car from speedhunters.com using Photoshop 6.0. and the mouse (lazy to connect tablet)

About
CTFSG's cashcard (unofficial)

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
One of the member of CTFSG seeked my help to redesign the CTFSG logo for the cashcard. I took a step further to recreate the whole CTFSG banner logo since the forum was moved to a new host.

This traced Colt looks to be more "3D" compare to my first attempt (Thanks to speedhunters.com for the source). The design is fortunately quite well received with orders from 18 members (considering it's small members base).

If you own a Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R or all of it's variants, do Visit CTFSG at it's new location at http://ctfsg.signorekai.com/index.php

Traced from the image found in speedhunters.com