The Grim Squeaker

Possibly the cutest character in the Discworld, and then Hex and his pink teddy bear comes second. No..sometimes Death himself can be so damned cute too you want to noogie his bony head. I love Terry Prachett's Discworld. This is so far the longest obsession I have had with anything - I counted back the years when I first started collecting his books ...it was about 8 years ago. 8 years! Mr Terry Prachett sir, may you continue to write more brilliant stories that strikes a chord in my heart and soul like no other, and may any screen adaptations of your book be tasteful and masterfully done.

Strictly speaking, this is not part of the job description

Bought these pens today at lunch time and they are awesome! One end's a magic marker, and the other is a finer tip that's really awesome for sketching. Best of all - the blue one is photoblue - won't show up when you photostate or scan your sketch in black and white!

Ended up playing around with the pen (I really love the blue one) almost all afternoon (bought a new sketchbook too)... and went on to splodge the sketches with some cheap markers I got some time ago (and some more from Aimo's hoard of Copics)

Some unreferenced doodles of Aeris and Harle (of Chrono Cross) but I think I got her costume wrong













Doodles of the Folie a Deux girls, a silly story a bunch of friends and I made up way back in uni.

Ye gads markers are evil. I can't stop playing with them even when I get dizzy from inhaling all the aceton.

Last but not least, Hogfather TV Movie is LOVE.

Some Doodles

...from work. It was a terribly sleepy day - my colleague caught me nodding off in my chair several times!





































































Apple fritters are awesome!

Office Sketch!!

It's been quite a while! My dear collegue Sandra had started life drawing sessions at work, and hopefully it'll be a routine because I want to be better at drawing, also I've never actually done any real life drawing practices (Bad! I know yes, BAD!! But not too late to start, I hope!) The above is the first one I did on Monday (actually there's an earlier one last month but that one sucks real bad plus I can't find the drawing anyways) and well, it didn't look like our (reluctant) model at all (who happens to be our concept artist haha!)

The 2nd drawing is of our videographer (posing all fancy with lollipop in his mouth XD) I think this turns out slightly better except that his fingers are all wonky.

















Then today at lunch with colleagues I did this. That's a bunch of us at the table, and my fish head with rice noodle took so long to prepare I imagined that they actually had to catch the fish first, milk the cow, grow the vege, wait for vegetable to pickle...oooh, I don't know.
















After lunch we had a life drawing session, and that's Sandra there posing all cool and sexy-like (yes we take turn to pose XD so everyone gets it)















And a classic Aimo pose. She said I made her bum look big hahahaha.

















There's another one of Mel but it looked so damned bad I'm embarassed. Sorry Mel!!! I'll do a better picture next time. So I'll put up this pic of girls in 70s garb instead, platforms and bell bottoms.

W.I.P

Yet to be finished illos of a dancer. The initial lineart can be seen over on the Onion-y Livejournal!(just scroll down a few posts) I wanted her to be redhead and thought a an aqua blue/green would contrast with her hair so beautifully, and when I finished up the dress, something is disturbingly familiar but I can't put a finger to it.

Then it hits me. This is what Ariel of the Little Mermaid would look like if that green fish body of hers is a green dress instead of a..a fish body!

So here it is, a somewhat accidental fanart of Ariel (or maybe not, since her bangs and face isn't the same AT ALL) or maybe I should just change the colour of her hair and dress. (But I love that sea-green shade!!! AGH)

"I want to drink goooooaaaaaat's blooooooddddd..."
"But son, it's only Tuesday."


I love Don Hertzfeld.

Those office sketches

These are old but still essentially office sketches in the sense that they're probably done

1. During a meeting
2. During one of those dreary moments you can't seem to concentrate on your work anymore
3. When you have a brain diarrhea

The smaller lady has such a horrible skewed face..I just saw that now. Ugh.

WIIIIIIIIiiii

Art entry made for a competition at ImagineFX. The first prize is a Wii!!!!
This a fan art of Noein - To Your Other Self, a series I know nothing about until the competition came up and I watched it on youtube.

The Wii the Wii Wii Wii Wiiiiii

Ok!

Finished this while watching episodes of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends on DVD. Background is not complete...I'm not sure what to put, except maybe draw other characters with 'normal' pets looking at them. If I'm not too lazy that is. GAH. I haven't drawn a full background in... wait a min, I don't think I've ever drawn a full background EVER!

Hm. Hungry. Just ate fries, now I feel like some sausages!

WIP...

...which will probably stay that way because I've decided not to finish it. Half through I thought the painterly style doesn't really suit the drawing. Will probably rework it cell style or something.
Done in Photoshop.

The nicest thing about weekends is having the luxury of just lolling around and not do anything. The not so nice aspect? Having to always think what to have for lunch. Or dinner.

More office sketch!

Yeap more office sketch. It's when my mind wanders when I work (which often happens) all these silly doodles started appearing. Anyhoo, this girl has more than two arms, yes. I couldn't decide which pose is better.















This is a ...uh..a crazy witch.
'Nuff said.



A colleague brought Chrono Cross character guide book, and I was reminded how awesome the game was. Still is. Too bad I can't draw as awesomely as Nobuteru Yuuki. Harle there has so many limbs (yes, I was indecisive about the pose) that she looks like the Goddess Kali instead.

Kid has missing feet because I failed to draw within the paper itself! AGH

Bunga

...I...ran out of ideas for a composition and background.
Argh!

She's kinda looks like one of those Bratz doll, doesn't she? (I hate those Bratz dolls).

Big Headddddd

Big headed people are no good. Their heads get too big, and their feet too small, their necks'll snap off after a few steps.

Yes, Office sketch again

Our director came in today, but so did the scriptwriters and they ended up having a long meeting which took the whole day.
So my work are being held back till tomorrow, and I was able to sketch this between storyboard thumbnails...
It's one of a crazy witch and a... random jumping girl. Bad anatomies afoot!

More office sketch

Probably less coming next week. It's going to be crunch time in the office now!

I'm wishing that my doodles actually have a certain theme, or topics and subjects instead of random bit and bobs of nothing. But then again doodles are supposed to be random bit and bobs and nothing, and that's all my brains are able to churn out last Friday at work.

What to do, what to do now..?

Office Sketch!...

I am so sleepy now

Someone back in uni came up with this phrase: I'm too lazy to sleep.
I remember going - what the heck how can you be too lazy to sleep? That doesn't make sense.
But now it kinda does - I'm sleepy but I'm too tired to drag myself upstairs so that makes me lazy I guess.
You can tell I'm real sleepy when I start rambling like this. Night u all.

Blah

Ok another random landscape that was done because I was bored and started splotching colours in Photoshop. Bits and pieces and crap were added without paying attention to issues like perspective and whatnots and pretty soon this picture happened.

I better be drawing something exciting soon. Like angry vegetables.

Something Old

I did this prior to the visit to SDCC 'o6 in the middle of this year. It started out as a sketch - real crappy with skewed eyes and whatnots hahaha. Scanned and cleaned up digitally (sorry, I can't find the cleaned up lineart, and at this point can't be arsed to find it >.<) and finally coloured and abused with much Photoshop brushes. See the dinky sketch here.
And don't laugh!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I like drawing Santarinas (ever since an ex-collegue mistook some cross-dressing j-rockers as one HAHAHAHA). I like drawing smexy girls. And now it's Christmas. So this is my Christmas hooch of the year. (actually done for a current colleague who wanted something naughty..but I couldn't really pull anything very naughty, or at least naughty in a witty way. I suck. Well, next time!)

Sketched out in pencil (below) and cleaned up.

and finally coloured in Photoshop. (Click for bigger pic)

Have a great Christmas and good year ahead, everyone!