Monday, February 25, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
My FIRST and SECOND KICKSTARTER PROJECT.
Hi people, the time has come. I just recently launched my first KICKSTARTER project. Funny enough, this is the second time I'm on KICKSTARTER because the first one was a successful comic anthology. This project took me a year and if you like it, follow it via FACEBOOK and spread the word. Thanks!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Winter Break
A belated Happy New Year to everyone! Its been 3 months since I last posted anything on blogger. This is the first time ever in 2 years that I've taken a hiatus without posting anything within a two weeks span. Well the biggest reason is because I flew back to Singapore for Winter break and was busy with freelance, family/friend gatherings and visiting studios. I got the opportunity to catch up with great comic artist, Sonny Liew and also, Troy Chin, the insane self taught comic artist. I also visited Feng Zhu's School of Design and got a little tour around the building. One word, INSPIRING. Last but not least, gave a talk at Nanyang Polytechnic as an Alumni sharing my experiences in the States.
Sonny Liew's Studio: I've known Sonny since 2009 and our first ever meeting was at McDonald Back then he just finished Wonderland and had already published a few other books. I was crazy enough to email him and ask him out for advice as a fellow artist. Surprisingly he agree to meet up and ever since then, we've been in contact. Currently his schedule is packed with a few books and when I was at the studio, he was being interviewed. So I took the opportunity to snap some photos. He is a HARDWORKING and HUMBLE artist. Very down to earth and encouraging. We discuss about trends and the future of comics in Singapore and Asia while his editor and assistant work nonstop.
Till this date I refuse to believe Sonny is a human. Look at all those work!?!
Where does he find time to do oil paintings like that? Maybe he is secretly a mutant and has 6 hands!!!
FZD School of Design: Can't say enough about the school. Having Feng Zhu as a mentor/teacher/master is just too good to be true. I didn't get the chance to talk to him in person as he was not available during the time of visit but I did get to meet Elvira, the Industrial Relations Officer. She is super nice and gave a great tour of the building. I saw portfolios and got a glimpse of class room life in the school. Below are the standards of their student work. You can see more here on their website. MINDBLOWING~~
The Highway to Entertainment Design: According to Elvira, there is no internet access in the school. This is to prevent students from surfing the net or using facebook. So what if they need research? Well there's a library in the school to borrow books for reference. The students come into class from 10am to 630pm daily. Within each day one might have 2-3 lecture classes which runs for about an hour or so. After class, students stay in their respective studios to work. YES WORK, you hear it correctly.
NYP Talk: 8 hours before my flight back to the States, I visited my old school as an alumni to give a talk. Well some what of a talk I guess. Its more like sharing my experiences in the U.S. from collaborating with Microsoft as an art director on a NDA game to my invitation to Baltimore Comic Con as a special guest. But I wanted it to be more than a normal sharing session or talk. So I came up with a topic for my presentation which is titled," The Art Of Giving Up". This is what I told them, "I figured that sometimes students in schools are so hard to inspire so instead of forcing them to work hard, why not tell them to give up. If you can't stop them, JOIN THEM." So my entire presentation became this idea of giving up. But what I wanted to share wasn't to give up on art, it was to give up on things like 1) arguing/talking back to your professors 2) Procrastinating 3) Being Lazy, etc. In the end it was really fun and lots of students stayed on to ask questions about studying abroad. Hopefully I'll get to do more sharing and presentations similar to such in the future. This is the fourth time I've done it in school and I guess I really enjoy talking. Ha!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Freelancing - Gutters 351
Two days ago I did a freelance gig with http://www.the-gutters.com/. This all happened because I met Rich Young, one of the editors in Gutters awhile back in Baltimore Comic Con. This is the third time I've been contacted as the first two scripts didn't work out for both parties due to schedules. It is extremely interesting and stressful because the turn around time was slightly more than a day. ( I receive the email 2pm on Monday and had to turn it in 7pm the following day)
The funny thing about this gig was that I'm in the middle of doing projects for Microsoft and Mattel and something was due the following day. I dunno what struck me to do it but it was a combination of these reasons. (1) I free bad about rejecting the script again. (2) Its a great way to push and see what I can do under such extreme deadlines. (3) I've never really done mainstream comics before.
Now with those 3 reasons, I agreed to do the job but regretted my approach. Firstly, I challenged the script and drew something different at first knowing it might not go through. Secondly, I decided to inked it traditionally. Thirdly, I didn't do the final page in my usual art style. It was a fun learning experience and definitely, I've enjoyed drawing it. The entire process from digital sketches to revisions, tight pencils and inks took 7 hours. I didn't do the colors and lettering which look awesome. (I think the colorist and letterer bail me out) Here's the ink to the comic.
The final comic. I only did the inks.
When I got the script, I wanted to change the actors into kids (sketch on left)
in line with the second panel which is suppose to be a school bus. I did
the sketches in photoshop.
The blue pencils were done on 11 by 17 bristol and inked over.
Here's the final scanned inks.
When I finished the page, I send over my reference images in hope that the colorist will have an easier job because his/her turn around time was 4 hours.
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