2015- A new beginning

"The world is vast. The wind is blowing. It's time for another adventure."

The theme of this image is embarking on a new adventure. Many mysteries to solve out there.

Ink. Drawing

Blocked with color in Photoshop.

 Original Sketch.

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Good day all.
This is my first 2015 art post.
When I was drawing this I was trying to reflect on my 2014 adventure.
It truly has been a fun, bitter sweet roller coaster ride. Full of questions, worries and uncertainties.

In the beginning of 2014, some people told me that when I'm old im going to regret what I lost in exchange of pursuing my dream.
That became a question that I kept asking to myself was about whether my dream is worth pursuing for.
After many months of being in emotional rollercoaster ride (..and many motivational youtube videos later)
A friend shared about his experience abroad and how he had matured from it.

Thus I decided to go on a solo "soul-searching" trip :x

That truly was an unforgettable experience. I realized all the worries I had before the trip was useless and I will never know what the future held.
Sometime planning helps, at times when shit happens, you just got to make lemonade out of it :p

On the way home, I remembered a quote from a movie I watched long time ago.
"You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period."- Christopher Gardner, pursuit of happyness.

At the end of the day, there is nobody who could stop you from what you want.. except for yourself.
I have to admit at time chasing after this dream is so painful, but I guess its like love isn't it?
Only when it means so much to you, you would feel that its worth getting hurt over.

The best part of 2014 was that I gained many companions who are all chasing after the same dream when I went to Bali Illustration workshop.
The sight of so many people from different walks of life and countries, coming together to do art.. is just amazing.
Talking to them, seeing them posting their work, makes me feel I should work even harder!

Talking to the mentor I realized that they also fret but they manage to overcome it and faced it frontally.
They are human too, not too different from me, but they asked the correct questions of "how" instead of "why"
(How to reach there? instead of Why am I here?")

Facing it frontally is the hardest hurdle but I believe one day, it would pay off. So I am trying to learn (while incepting myself to do so too) :D

This year,  the question Im going to ask to myself would be
"Are you having fun chasing after your dream?"

Hopefully I can positively shout Yes at the end of the year :)

Cheers!

Inktober part 3 (day 12-17)

Sorry for the lack of update! Has been busy!!

For this batch of Inktober I decided to do postcards.

All of these postcards are for friends that helped out during my solo trip to Japan. 

Honto ni arigatou gozaimasu! (truly I am thankful!)

  

All of them are done with ink pen and then colored using watercolor.(The colors are kinda faded and the value slightly darkened after being scanned into the computer...)

 Traditional painting is so much harder (I miss you ctrl+z) but I have to say its faster in a way because it does not allow you to noodle around since there is a limitation (e.g canvas)

Tho, there are so many mistakes and poor execution here and there, I sincerely hope they will like it!

Merry Xmas and Happy new year!!

Inktober day 11

 

Day 11- Make haste my liege!

Wanted to do something dramatic for a change, inspired by manga like wolfsmund and the work of amazing Vargasni. I have been into armors recently and had tonnes of fun researching the diff type of armor... geeking out when I found some amazing ref over at pinterest xD

Done in pen and paper but did the color wash and font in photoshop.(The font is called comic ballon, I downloaded it from dafont website :D )

 I will attach the black and white below for comparison... as usual feel free to c & c!

Inktober day 10

Day 10

Its fun to go on an adventure with friends~!

Inktober part 2

After coming back from Bali, I am guilt ridden that I never completed inktober.. (+ I was being terrorized by my good friend Nana to finish it.. thanks girl!) So here are the continuation to inktober............ though more like inkcember by now :p

Day 7.

Just another hero on adventure asking for a direction from a nearby ogre.. 

Drawn using pencil and pen.. I am trying to learn drawing cleanly with pen and really struggling with it. It's past midnight here and my eyes and hand (and my patience) grew unsteady thus if you scrutinize the drawing you could see so many mistakes :x personally I felt the cleaned up sketches kinda lost a certain touch that existed in my rough sketch. But really had a lot fun doing this!

Day 8

"What are ya looking at?! Even minotaurs needs a proper balanced diet!" 

Trying out a new medium since my pen ran out of ink!!

Day 9

Hero Dispatch Center!

I was inspired to do this when I was having daily morning meeting at work. Just thinking how will heroes's  workplace looks like. I thought perhaps people from all over the country will send pigeons to the guild master with their requests and then they will send different hero party to do whatever is needed, from slaying the legendary behemoth or the journey to find the golden egg ...or simply a request to unclog your toilet! 

"Just send the pigeon and we will make it work!" Perhaps their motto could be as commercialized as that. :B

As a sidenote..... this drawing kinda saved my life.. cause I was still awake doing it when the power suddenly tripped. I left the room to find that there was a fire in the kitchen.. oh boy... how exciting is my life! :D

Bali trip + BIW 2014!

I had the opportunity to join the BIW 2014 batch 1! tonnes of fun and met so many awesome people! a lil bit sad that I could not see carla in action.. but oh well it was still a great experience! I will post up a char design I did over there when I finish with the fix up. Meanwhile, here are some sketches I did in Bali prior to the workshop.

While waiting for the plane, I encountered a very beautifully made horse statue.

In Ubud for the whole day. This was in Agung Rai Museum.

 Agung Rai Museum 2 I really love this spot.. it just look so beautiful.

Sketching in the hotel... something stink inside the room... is it me?!

Sketching in the hotel part 2.Arabian dude.

Inktober part 1

I tried to contribute to this year's inktober. Though due to various circumstances in life and "cough" holiday to japan, I stopped after day 6.

Day 1. Some Dwarfs. Learning to use brush pen..My hand kept shaking as I drew.

Day 2. Charging orcs army. Learning to be cleaner in lines and value.

Day 3."My long awaited first epic fight is against... A slime??!"

Day 4. "I am gonna be a (rich) hero!!" 

I have been reading too much of fantasy mmorpg novel... tried to do some watercolor wash over the inkworks just for fun.

Day 5. Just another dwarf on an adventure.

 Day 6. Koropukkuru and a cat sharing an umbrella.Wanted to try a softer look.
Was partly inspired by a meeting with mr pumpkin, a cute cat.