A Due Colori

Beautiful photography by Alberto Seveso. I've always been fascinated by the way ink swims and dances in the water when I painted. But it's even more amazing when Seveso captured them in images. I just love looking at the details of each images, they look almost like a beautiful, multicoloured silk dress worn by mermaids underwater. So much so that I could almost just draw a face of a girl with her long silky hair twisting and floating around her and her arms wrapped around the lovely and elegant inky dress. Amazing!

All images taken from here.

Fashion Illustration

Currently I've got a student directed project that allows me to do just about anything I want for the project, so long as it is fashion/ textile related, of course. 

I've always been fascinated with fashion illustrations. I love drawing girls with beautiful dresses. My best friend from high school used to think I might study fashion instead of architorture (which was SO not for me, hence I fired my bosses... JK!! Reno, Jenny and Tim are great people) coz of those drawings. Neither am I in fashion as well, btw, but in textile design :) Anyway, a decade or more after my first attempt in my extremely primitive sketches of girls with pretty dresses on, I'm now given an opportunity to fully control the direction of my project.

Here are really simple boards that I've come up with after diong some research. Illustrations are all by other super talented artists. Kelly Smith, Bec Winnel, Brittany Lee, Yulia Brodskaya and Catherine Campbell are amongst those whose works I've used to convey what the illustration style/ technique/ materials that I'd like to explore in this project. 

Laura Laine is exceptionally noteworthy. Her illustrations are simply amazing. I'd wish to develop my own style of illustration too and this project would defo be a great stepping stone towards that.

Hopefully they'll turn out as great as I imagined them to be. 

Dreams Can Come True

An illustration of a bird that I did since 2008 that I totally forgot about posting up till now! 

I drew this bird in a few hours one Saturday morning at the end of that year, primarily for a short screen printing course I did with CAE, which required us to get a design photocopied onto a transparency before exposure on the screen. Instead of getting an existing photo or illustration by others, thought I should draw one myself, for this blog. 

I love her :) She was first drawn with black ink fineliners and texta on paper.

Lil' Mikey would like to say...

Mummy Mon

Daddy Mon

...to the world! With him are his mum and dad. You might say that Lil' Mikey could have been a girl since he's carrying this flower CD player (yes old school), well, let's just say that his mum hand sewed it and insisted that he used it.

Initially I was trying to illustrate a Miniature Schnauzer but sketches after sketches still couldn't get it to how I'd like it to look. Meanwhile I side-doodled and eventually found it more fun to draw and paint out my version of slobbery, gel-like monsters...at least when they're young. As they grow up, they start to develop stronger legs and arms, more hair too if they were males :P Females, however, still glide, they don't walk. Despite their differences and colour, one characteristic common through all of their life stages are their large, yellow 2~3 front teeth protruding out of their mouths.

By the way, after it all I thought Lil' Mikey resembled the River God from 'Spirited Away' heaps. Don't you think? I'd say great minds think alike then, hah.