Belated Sketchcrawl Post - Part 2

Ooh. Nothing like vaccuuming and cleaning the apartment after a hard day at work. It's so invigorating....not. I still fantasize of the day I am able to train my cat to do the housework in return for me making sure that she does not starve!

Ok,  onto the sketchcrawl. 
We were still in the ..uh...fish tunnel at this point, joined by the hilarious and talented duo of Aimee and Julius.


After infecting some school kids on a field trip, and a good amount of tourists and possible out of towners with flu in the enclosed fish tunnel, I let my good friends lead me back to the  entrance of Aquaria to make our way down the whole  place properly and do some kick-ass sketchin' (that is, my pals be doing kick-ass sketchin' whileI was trying not to drip all over my sketchbook)

Anyway, that snapping turtle up there. Gamera, anyone? It's so awesome.


The Mexican Smiling Walking Fish Which is Not Really a Fish was shy and wouldn't smile for us that day.The crabs are hilarious. They lounged around in this cool-whaddaya-looking-at manner, and there's this pattern on their body that made them look like they're grinning. Very insidious. 


Everyone loved this chameleon because it stayed so freaking still and thus, easy to sketch. Tart.


A fish and a terrapin were huddling together under some foliage, conspiring perhaps to elope and quit the show business forever.


I am positively enamoured by this iguana. What a regal creature he is.



This turtle is a freaking cute fella who wouldn't keep still! Always scampering up and down. What a brat. But a cute brat, nonetheless.


At this point I'm super tired and my drawings had gone to pots. Not that it wasn't kind of potsy to begin with. 



The Nautilus is a wondrous creature that had to be seen to believed. I kinda wished it was bigger though. Like whale-size, Captain Nemo holy jeebus kinda big. That was would be so awesome. Someone was wondering what it would taste like. Tsk tsk tsk.  Some people can be so barbaric ;)

Thus concludes Sketchcrawl 2009 from my end! There're some other sketches but they were too blobby or too drippy to be worth the space. More stuff from other sketchcrawlers can be seen here.

Woo! I'm finally done! Time to catch Henry Cavill's uncovered regal behind in The Tudors. I understand that it has much historical significance.

Belated Sketchcrawl Post - Part 1

Two weeks ago I went for a Sketchcrawl event with a bunch of my pals. Venue, Aquaria, KLCC. Stuff to draw? Fish, and.. more fish. One of my friends actually drew a babboon (he said it was from a poster or did he actually caught his reflection in the aquarium glass? One wonders).

Anyway, it was great fun despite the raging flu I had that day because I woke up too early (I am unfortunately not a morning person. The surest way for a person to die is to be extra cheerful and chirpy in close vicinity to me in the early morning). By the time Sketchcrawl ended, I'm pretty sure I've infected at least a few hundred people in the Aquaria with my drippy nose and mucus expulsion. It's quite an empowering thought.

Here is proof I severely need to brush up on life-drawing, or any kind of drawing in general. My first attempt of sketching that morning yielded these sad blobs

Ok, so I'm terribly rusty. It should get better after that right?


..right???

.....

I still fail at sharks, per se. But there will be other times!

No fishies in this page. If I remember right we ended up going straight for the tunnels which held sharks, turtles, rays, turtles and a bunch of small sea fishes.

I wished I had brought my portable watercolour to try out during this sketchcrawl. Some of the fish were really colourful and it would be nice to be able to render them out.

That odd pufferfish.. is really fascinatingly ugly and manic looking. Like a crazy clown. Or something.


My poor rendition of a gorgeous cylindrical tank with a whole tree trunk in it. It was surrounded by lots of fish swimming around it like the inside on a washing machine spin cycle. They were silver in colour with red tips at the tail and fins and watching them go round and round in flashes of silver and red were pretty amazing.

These are at the petting section. You can reach in and fondle them as you like. Poor bamboo shark and starfish must be cranky. I would to, if people keep reaching in and touching me without permission.


This (manta?) ray is a magnificent beast! It covered the whole top of the tunnel as it glided by gracefully.

Part 2 to come soon...

WOW

Bill Presing did it again! His latest post of Chun Li (complete with work progress) is simply amazing. I love his soft and subtle colours! And there's just something so charming about his drawing that just makes you smile.

Here's the entry: http://billpresing.blogspot.com/2009/04/between-rounds.html

Here's hoping he'd draw Leon Kennedy of RE one day the same way hu hu hu XD

Redhair WIP

I don't know when am I going to finish this. It's something I do between work (to keep me sane) but my pc at work is much too slow thanks to Vista. It makes multi-tasking practically impossible! I'm editing in Premier and when it's slow it's really frustrating! And the internet has been really nuts lately too. It make me want to kick someone in the nuts.

I feel so cranky! Can't wait to go home and squeeze my dear cat >.<

Thanks to Mel for her tips on anatomy (my knowledge of anatomy is just so nonexistent) and colour :D

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I blame this awful drawing on the cranky state of my body right now. Last night I couldn't sleep because it was too warm, and woke up with a flash fever and a horrible headache. I had to take the day off from work because goddamnit, I felt like I just want to curl up and die. The headache and general discomfort continues until I took a nap and took some fluids, some meds. Internally I was telling myself how everything in a human body are made up of a series of very precise processes, and a slight rise of temperature, or change in acidity etc can just throw everything off balance. How I hate it when things get thrown out of balance!

Anyway I can't sleep again, and the headache persists and I feel so very cranky so here it is. In a perfect world, Bella Swan will look like this, and Edward Cullen can look at her and choke on his own vomit and die.

Deep Purple

Fiddling around with SAI again, colour tweaks in Photoshop. Just a quick colour test so forgive the imbalance on her face (her eyes are so disturbingly misaligned... gross)

Blueeeeee

Better post this up since I'm in this super rare hardworking mode >.<

She looks so blue! Give her some chocolates!

Octo Hair Clip

Augh started out doing this feeling optimistic then my bad painting skill takes over. It sorta got overdone, and by the time I got to her shoes, I got lazy. Yucks!

It's that loose and not-so-contained kind of quality in a painting that still eludes me - back to practicing I guess!

Done in Painter SAI!

Octogirl

Fooling around in Painter SAI again. Seriously, this thing is awesome. It's like the best of Photoshop and Painter combined together in about 2 MB of application. Anyway, I like octopus. Octopusses? I should go to sleep now.

Toodles

Was trying out Painter SAI at the behest of my colleague Mel, who is extremely wonderful at painting with it (check out her lovely mer-people over at her blog listed on the side - that girl is AMAZING!)

I can't paint all that well, but I must say this application's pretty sweet! Easy to use and light on computer memory :)

Rough Doodle-doo

Quick doodle while transferring files over to server. Odd Sarah and some smatterings of outfits. It's such an uninspiring Monday, can you tell?

I love you and yet I hate you

Damn you Bourdain. Your traipsing around the world had rendered me unable to sleep so I am up at this ungodly hour. And in mere hours I will have to go to work for it is already Monday, probably fueled by an uninspired, insipid breakfast while you feast away on pasta slathered with sauce concocted from roasted tomato on a balcony facing the ocean in Sicily. I hate you, Bourdain (but I love you too. Such a complicated emotion it is).

To make matters worse, my cat is trying very hard to occupy my workspace by sitting on my tablet and hooking a paw over my working hand. I am only tolerating her because she recently had her uterus and Falllopian tubes removed and is wearing a pathetically hilarious cone over her head. Only this time, kitty.

Random colour sketch rendered in Photoshop. Testing out that whole colour in grayscale first then overlay colour in different layer thing.

Detail of her face.

Bourdain is My Bane

You know that show 'No Reservation'? Where celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain traipse around the world and partake in the cuisines with wanton abandon? (he was less enthusiatic with the fermented shark in Iceland.. but still ..) It makes me hate him because I am practically chartreuse with envy. Yes! Not merely green, but chartreuse! It takes a special kind of jealousy to be able to turn into a specific hue of green.

What's worse is that after a session of the show, I'd be left with tantalizing images of gorgeous food which sears itself into my mind, and I'd go home to salvage a kitchen which yields nothing but instant noodles (onions included if one is feeling fancy).

INTRO: The Office Hooch

...who is amazingly endowed and has the tendency to wedge herself between people who are in a relationship.

Darkstalker Babes

Made for the Udon Darkstalker competition but it didn't make it :( Ah well. It was such a rush job too. Serves me right to procrastinate XD

Before I forget, massive congrats to Zid and Laine for making the cut!

Drawn and coloured entirely in Photoshop.

Characters are from the Darkstalkers video games by Capcom, so pleasedonotsuekillormaimthankyou :)

INTRO: The Sibling

...who holds a dark, dark secret.

Oh looky! It's Friday the 13th today. Anyone crossed a black cat yet? Nearly been hit by car for at least 5 times consecutively since you woke up? Got mugged and accidentally tasered yourself when you're trying to accost said mugger? I myself had fallen sick today with the flu - it's lucky in the fact that I don't have to go to the office but unlucky in the sense that getting sick as an adult sucks way more than when you were a kid.
And I haven't posted for about a week when I said I'm going to post regularly! So much for keeping to my words...

My Cat is Crazy

My cat is in heat now and is desperately horny. So desperate that she sprays places in the apartment (purpose is to leave her scent for male cats to follow, like a breadcrumb trail). When I clean up these 'marks', she sprays ME instead. It's like being peed on and I feel completely violated >.<

Time to get you snip-snipped, you shameless hussy!

Where's the Scones

..and clotted cream and tea cakes and little cucumber sandwiches?

INTRO: The Angry Octopus

An angry octopus with hypertension wielding a hapless carrot by means of weapon.

INTRO: The Tech Lady & The Superhero

Meet May Gene. Engineer by day...

Superhero(ine?) by night!

Much thanks to Felix Thoo who came up with the idea years ago :)

BA-BOOMPH

Morrigan, cuz everyone seems to be drawing Morrigan these days and I'm jumping on the wagon.

INTRO: The Overworked Designer

Every day, every weekend, every hour of the day. The chores are endless. There's no time for sleep, rest or love, Dr Jones! When will he ever get his break?

INTRO: The Protagonist and Chicken

Odd Sarah being spied by a dubious chicken as she walks back from the workplace she detests.

In case you're wondering, Odd Sarah is a whacked out story I've been developing since forever (make that, thought into conception eons ago, and sort of forgot about it despite always doodling Odd Sarah-esque non sequiteurs. Is this how you spell that last word?) Will post the very first drawing of Odd Sarah up here soon, and hopefully it will all make sense.

AWK!

I thought I can do another Odd Sarah drawing today but no such luck! Lots of things with dire deadlines coming up so those were first priority.

Have a busy bird instead!

INTRO: The Lady

A young working professional hooked on expensive coffee and doughnuts (though it's not apparent here). What role will she play in Odd Sarah's life?

One of those days

GUHHH

Gummy Teef

Happy New Year!

3 days late... but eh. I usher in this lonely art blog into the new year with a lame sketch. Will probably clean it up all nice and proper soon!