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.

Story Me

My bestie from highschool is an amazing illustrator who is working in an animation company called Story Me near Bangsar. Just a week after I arrived in Malaysia for holidays she invited me over to her office. It is the best and most amazing studio and working environment I've ever seen. Her colleagues are friendly and down to earth. Always smiling and funny. I'm glad that her office offers such nurturing environment to work in. Their office is warm, comfortable and the deco has such creative and personal touch to it. Everyone works on Mac desktops and their library is consisted of books of illustrations and animations from Pixar, Disney and others. Also, who gets to have the TV on the entire time when they work? Well, them. They were playing Spiderman on their flat screen TV and I was seated on the couch in front of the TV, with full, floor-to-ceiling view of the surrounding towns and courtyard some ten floors below or something. The surrounding glass windows really opens up the office space, beautiful! I wouldn't even mind staying there! 

 

Sitting in front of the TV with a great book to read through :)

I love my sandals!

Oldie But A Goodie

We all know that pencil, gouache, watercolour and ink have been used for centuries already. Yet one thing that I love most about these traditional drawing medias is how artists nowadays can still produce beautiful and contemporary illustrations with them. 

As powerful as computers can be in helping illustrators produce artwork now, still, a humble pencil gives an edge to an artwork that the computers can't.

In this post I just wanted to share some boards that inspired my work for the post just before this.

The illustrations here are all not mine but works of many talented illustrators that I greatly admire.

 Works of Kelly Smith, Bec Winnel and Laura Laine

 

 Works of Krista Hout, Lorelay Bove and Catherine Campbell

Works of Kelly Smith, Catherine Campbell and Laura Laine

Charley Harper- Simple Shapes with Textures

 

Found out about him from another blog and couldn't wait to see his works from that book! So I tried finding him from my uni library and was ecstatic that we had his book!! The book was superbly ginormous, the biggest and heaviest I've seen and I used it when I was doing some lifting exercises at home. Could be around 2~3 kgs. 


Great works can be achieved with just simple shapes and textures, inspirational!

Robert Best- Illustrations

Simply classic, stunning and downright beautiful illustrations by Robert Best.


Love his techniques and skill. So impressed! The way the hair appear soft, romantic, make-up done perfect and how shades and tones give such strong suggestion on fabric type is really something. By far the best watercolour illustrations of fashionable girls I've ever seen.


Compare the last illustration to the very first Barbie ever made! Though I suspect the Barbie below might have been remade as the real vintage one made in 1959 had really pale and porcelain looking skin.