Goodbye 2011

Seriously I still don't understand how time works - it just went by so quickly! 2011 has been really a great year for me; so many ups and downs and shit happened, but hey life goes on! When you hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up. Hopefully this is what will happen in 2012. Looking back 2011 it has to be a year for my studies. I had a big comeback (woot woot!) on my grades since it went downhill after PMR. LOL. Not to mention I effing nailed all my classes to a point people nicknamed me as the Maya (3D program) God. HAHAHA. Here's hoping I will maintain the drive for studies and keep improving and have better artworks to share with everyone. I wish everyone stays healthy for the upcoming year nevertheless. Goodbye 2011 and hello 2012!! Partayyy and work hard bitches! When life gives you lemon, just sell it and buy yourself a drink!

This is my last artwork of 2011: guess the portrait? 

I tried to approach the same drawing style back in March. Clearly a failure

Sunday Portrait

I just don't feel like doing any academic-related work today - So I did this. Guess the sketch?

Wilfred

to be continued

Capt. America 2.0 & More

Challenge of the week:

Complete this by Tuesday

Update V2: Don't think will be able to get it done by Tues.  Really taking time on this one

2. finish reading 'One Day' by tomorrow
3. clean up my place + 1 threadless submission (Tuesday)
4. Final Destination 5 + 1 threadless submission (Wednesday)
5. Warrior (Thursday) + grocery shopping

That's the plan for this week so far.

Random Update

Howdy everyone! Not sure if you are aware but I deactivated my facebook account recently. Reason? None. Just feel like detoxing from facebook addiction I guess. Two screenings coming this week but I can only attend one because both take place same date with only an hour gap. Ugh. Currently reworking on my blue valentine painting and this is a glimpse of what I achieved after 4 hours.

So many mistakes in my original painting! Gosling face was flat and weird hair/neck/mouth. I feel so much better with this one. Will upload the 'finish' painting once I'm satisfied. You know what they say, an artwork is always unfinished because there's always room for improvement. Guess I figured that by now.

UPDATE:

SO MANY MISTAKES!!!!!

200th Post - Blue Valentine

I'm getting good.. This is 3 hours. LOL

Totally didn't save the working file for the one with the background.. So I touch up abit the headshot

Extra sketch : Keanu Reeves

I gave up my tickets for Cowboys & Aliens today to go for another movie - 50/50. I made the rightest decision of the day! It was so so so good. The girls and uncle next to me literally can't stop crying and that made me kinda had teary eyes too. Awrghh. JGL can do no wrong, just like Gosling.

Shoutout to Chunn Hoo : Happy Birthday!

One Day

Another day another painting. This is yet to be done but I'm just kinda upset everytime when mum calls, her first question will be like, 'what are you doing now? Sleeping?" Not cool mum. Not cool. I woke up everyday 9 in the morning tops. No afternoon nap.

half an hour progress

3 hours

3 and a half (close to 4 actually LOL)

I think I am getting faster with this one.

Captain America

There are two ways (generally) I get inspired to do a drawing: either I am extremely upset or I watched a movie that leave real deep impact on me. So this is me doing Captain America, literally. Still in progress because it takes the patient of god to do a painting like this. Wonder how others able to do it within 2 hours. FML

2 hours

5 hours

7 hours

Seriously I don't remember I can paint like this. Gosh. Talk about improvement

UPDATE: Done in 10 hours! Not that bad actually

Touch The Sky is Up for Scoring on Threadless!

VOTE FAIRLY!!

Bad Media Influence

Rainy Day

Window Pane

Conversation

Slide

Fresh Air

Untitled

Can you guess which photo(s) wasn't altered via Photoshop?

Sean Preston

One of my recent sketch/drawing of Sean Preston aka Britney Spear's son. So adorable!

Sean Preston

Haight

Beelice in Blendedland

Might not as good as the first one but i felt like I need to put this idea out.. might work on the characters in the future.




Beelice in Blendedland by ~MintZhet on deviantART

Belice in Blendedland.. argh.. genius title

Next

Chapter of Life

Life is filled with multiple chapters that capture the various seasons in life. Some have many colorful and vivid chapters, while some have just a few simple chapters. Just like a book, the various chapters tell of part of the story. To know of the full story, you just have to finish all the chapters of the book. However, it is not that simple to figure out the story of a person’s life for the process of writing the book is a long one.

Just like a book, the story of one’s life needs an author and the author is none other than the person whose life is being lived. A person writes his own destiny, with his own strokes, his own words and his own poetry. The beauty of this is that for every book that is being authored, none are the same. Each book carries the unique sequence of life stories that the author lives everyday. There are no edits, no re-writes and no reprints for the author’s words are the final unchanging truth. This causes the manuscript to be the final published work, which can lead to certain consequences.

One of such consequence is that the book can only be written once. The author’s pen of actions writes out the stories. Some choose to write a story of a deep romance that is filled with beautiful chapters of discovering, falling in and out of love. Some choose to write a tale of adventure with thrilling chapters of waking up in foreign lands and discovering new things everyday. Some end up writing a sad tragedy with chapters of gut wrenching despair. Some end up writing a comedy filled with chapters of laughter and joy. While some, the most desolate lot of all, waste their lives. Their pens never moved, their pages flipped without ever writing a word. These end up with a blank book with a blank page to start and a blank page as its end.

The pages of this book are white as the story has not been written yet. The only thing certain is that the author has the freedom to write his own story. Everyday he flips a new page and writes new lines to fill his story. Writes pages to complete chapters and completes chapters to finish his book. However, be warned that even if one does not fill the book with stories, the pages still turn on each new day.

As each new day beckons, the page is flipped. There lies a pristine new page for another word, another phrase, another sentence, another paragraph, another story to be written. We control what happens or what does not happen. We can fill the book with stories of compassion or excitement or waste it all away. We ultimately determine our destiny, what happens next.

(P/s: Somehow I am scared and intimidated by the person who drew this.)

Pure Imagination (Final Version)

Practice makes perfect. This is a far cry from the one I posted previously. Here's wishing it will help me to win some much needed money.

Pure Imagination 2.0 by ~MintZhet on deviantART

(P/S: A click on the link above won't hurt much too. :p)

UPDATE: The first one got disqualified thanks to the watermarks. FUCK

Pure Imagination

Shauna

After various rough drafts I decide to do a new one from scratch. DAMN IT.

1st draft - not exactly rough draft since I started to color it but it just doesn't feel right

2nd draft: too 'adult'

Final version

to be colored.. if i am free and feel like continuing

Felix & the Goldfish

Step by Step Guide To Do An Illustrator Drawing

1. Draw a rough pose

2. Correct the pose (stabilized the weight)

3. Put in some details - Apply clothes/ features

4. more details (*correct the structure if necessary)

5. refine the lines and get rid of extras edges

6. start to outline the drawing in illustrator.

7 & 8: Scale and put in basic colors (*keeps checking the outlines.  Changes are inevitable)

9. Details: Shadows : By this stage all structures should be in a satisfaction level

10. Apply background. Composite.