Where The Wild Things Are

"Let the wild rumpus start!" ~ Love this movie!! :)

more workshop sketches

good workshop today! :)

Pastel

Pastel

digital - based on a photograph

Koop by Mia

"The Thief and the Deserter"

Another piece for "City of Thieves"

"City of Thieves"

"Walk home to Piter"
Based on the book "City of Thieves" by David Benioff

Fox

Old Classics

I think Hollywood pictures in the past paid so much more attention to composition and proper lighting. Was just re-watching a couple of old classics and decided to reproduce a couple of my favorite shots...
Decided to paint Ms. Hepburn .... just for fun ...

"Flamenco" sketches

I'm not sure which pose to use for the final painting ... hmm....

Character Design Forum - Challenge Submission

This is my submission for the CD Challenge: "Re-design Jessica Rabbit"
I won!! :)

More Muni Sketches

Winter

"Mushaboom"

The Muni "L" Lines

Thumbelina- House

Thumbelina

The view out my window

Thumbelina

PDO - Sunrise in Sumatra

PDO - Dense Jungle

PDO - evening on a tree

"Peppy's Day Out" - storybeats

"Peppy" - Tests

These are Photoshop tests for "Peppy's Day Out".


Another test. Have been very much into the works of Bruno Aveillan lately.
Not very sure about the results though.... I just don't want to overdo them...

And another test. This is a view from inside the Submarine - the gang's first sighting of the island.

This is a gift

To a good week-end, Sea Ranch style!

pastel on pastel paper

Gesture Drawing

I've always thought of gesture drawing as "exercising" for artists :>

Quick Pastel Study - Golden Gate Park

Officially obsessed with Travel Pastel

And more travel pastel

Commercial work - Tube Interactive

These are two posters I did during my internship at Tube Interactive about 4 years ago.

Babyboss Mural Design - Beijing

More Travel Pastel

Travel Pastel

Me Luv Vacation!! :-)

Just for fun :)

Snow White - Into The Forest

Winter's NO Fun!

Hate the rain....Hate the wind....Hate the cold....

"Peppy's Day Out"

Recently watched Godard's "Pierrot Le Fou". Completely inspired!!! luv how he uses three basic primaries as a palette for the entire film- very Mondrian, how very post-modernist of him! Anna Karina is gorgeous in the film, simply divine!! Perhaps not anymore now....

So...finally! finally!! inspired to write a new pet project called "Peppy's Day Out". This is just a little sneaky preview as to how the direction of the project will be going....

The story is very much inspired by "Pierrot Le Fou" (duh!), and also the movie "Bandits" and the 60s and rock n roll.....whohoooo!!!

Plenty more coming up.

The Mysterious Affair At Styles- cover design

"Mysterious Affair at Styles" - Madam Inglethorpe

Patricia Wood's "LOTT3RY" - Cover Design

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT an actual film. All writing credits should go to Patricia Woods. I am simply doing this for the fun of it :-)

Patricia Wood's "LOTT3RY" - Cherry Character Design

SF Park(ing) Day!!

Got a little side-tracked......

Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY - Set Design

Have been working on this painting way too long. So at the risk of over-working it, this painting is done....for now......I guess.......

Do me a favor, please do NOT zoom in.....spare yourself the horror...wahakakak..

Patricia Wood's "LOTT3RY" - Holsted Set Design + Color/ Mood

I don't know what happened, but these past couple of days....I just suddenly had an urge to paint and draw again!!! Any aspiring artists out there would understand if I say that these moments are indeed very rare at times.....

After 2 idle months, I'm more than happy to be back drawing and painting again.

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

Ok, I have to admit I have been obsessed with Mary Blair lately. I just recently bought her book and I was completely "blaired- out"!!

The following is a try-out piece I did (trying for the art and flair of Mary Blair)
It took me a while....but experimenting the color schemes was fun FUN FUN!!!

The story behind "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is about the murder of a rich widow and it's a whodunit story about which of her family members did it for their inheritance.

Agatha Christie's "Mysterious Affair at Styles"

"Mary Cavendish"
(Corrected the painting a little....the previous version was too pretty- even for Mary)

Sketchcrawl- San Francisco- June 05 2008

"Patricia Woods' LOTT3RY"- Character Design (Perry)

"Patricia Woods' LOTT3RY"- Character Design (John)

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Set Design (Holsted's)

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Set Design

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Character Design Sketches

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Character Design Sketches

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Character Design Sketches

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Storybeats

The project "LOTT3RY" is based on the novel "Lottery" by Patricia Woods. It's a beautiful story about a 31- year- old man with an IQ of 76 who won 12 million dollars in the Washington State Lottery. The story offers a wide range of design possibilities- from comedy to drama to tragedy to thriller....it really has everything!

Note: This project is not affiliated to Patricia Woods. This is only a student project, not an actual film.

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- Thumbnails

These thumbnails are rough "idea sketches" for my latest project "LOTT3RY". They're not exactly the final layouts for the film, but these thumbnails are done to open up the mind to the many design possibilities for the story of the film. They're semi- abstract and not exactly understandable, but they're fun and resourceful!

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY"- color script

"Patricia Wood's LOTT3RY" - Color Script

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- Set Design

Drawing overlays on 3D models (Photoshop/ Maya)

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- Hyde Character Design

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- Jekyll Character Design

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- Shape and Tonal Script

The Particular scene that I worked on is the chapter on the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. The death of Sir Danvers , brutally killed by Hyde is symbolic of the death of Dr. Jekyll himself. As after this chapter in the book, the character of Dr. Jekyll starts to deteriorate- giving way to Hyde.


The overall shape and tonal script starts and ends the same way. While in the beginning, order prevails over the life of Dr. Jekyll, in the end- order is disturbed by disorder (Sir Danver's blood) . After killing Sir Danvers, Hyde steps over his blood, leaving foot trails on the floor. This greatly symbolizes the death of Sir Danver's which represents the death of Jekyll, as the birth- point for Hyde.


(for more inquiries on the project, please contact me)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- storybeats

"Jekyll and Hyde" - thumbnails

"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a visual development project I worked on in the late winter of 08.

Based largely on the classic novel, the concept behind the look is that of duality (twos) Everything is designed in twos. The element of twos is subtly stitched into everything from props to characters to even the editing of the scene.

Tetra Campaign

This is a collaboration project I recently did with an Advertising major in the Academy.
He wrote the headlines and the body-copies. I did the illustrations. Thank's David!

This is a student project, there is no affiliation to Tetra whatsoever. This is not an actual ad.

Figure Drawing

We had a really great model today.
These poses ranges between 2-4 mins.

Here's more prop designs for "Madam Ohno"
Love the meat slicer....and the fridge.......scary without trying too hard.

These are the developments of "Madam Oh No".
Madam Oh No is the butcher's wife who butchered her husband and sells off his meat.

Her personality is one which is misleadingly bad. You get the sense that she is capable of doing the most evil of things, but something about her makes the audience sympathize with her and the reasons of her crime.

Quite a challenge to design such a character. Her personality is very much referenced from Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal". Her look is inspired from a rice-cooker.

Design- "Madam Oh No"

Final Character Design- Madam Oh No.

Piglock Sketches

"Piglock" Character Design sketches.
property of Wijio Animation Studio

Photoshop- digital painting
13 hours

Thoughts

Photoshop.

"TWO" Character Design- O&O

Character Design: The Concierge, O&O
Digital

I like the design for them, though the concept lacks originality.

"TWO" Character Design- Emil and Emilie

Character Design: Emil and Emilie
digital/ mixed media

The final designs are a little more classical than I wanted....

Character Design- Emil and Emilie

Character Design for: Emil and Emilie
"TWO"
(there's also a sketch for the concierge, O&O)

"TWO"- character design sketches

None of these and more got through the weekly reviews- due to irrelevancy. But I'm posting them up anyway....

"TWO"- more set design sketches

These are some of the sketches that made it through the weekly reviews.

TWO- Hootel set designs

Figure Drawing

"Two" more color scripts

This may be the final color script. I like it way better than the previous 5. The change is not too forced, but still apparent.

"TWO"- Tonal and Color Scripts

Jun and Joe- 2005

"Dream Slaves" character design sketches for my graduation short-film

"TWO" - storybeats, sketches and ideas

"Paper Plane" - storyboard