May-June 2014 Art Dump!

Hey there!
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted on this blog, and I’ve been delving into some major digital works. So check out the images below!

1. Maleficent
Maleficent has always been my favourite Disney villain, perhaps even my first favourite Disney character ever! Angelina Jolie portrayed her so well (in spite of some disappointing plot elements in the film). Made on Procreate and Photoshop CS5.

2. Baekhyun x Coffee
I’ve long been curious and interested in how coffee can be used a sort of medium for painting traditionally, especially with watercolour. The upper one is obviously a digital work, with a coffee-themed palette, incorporating coffee stains and a general brown scheme. The lower one is my first attempt at a traditional artwork made with water and coffee. It’s obviously amateurish but, hey, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. Plus, the smell’s good!

3. 11 Days Have Passed
This one was made when I was practicing painting traditionally. There’s a certain element of permanence when you’re painting traditionally and with watercolour, because you can’t press ctrl + z to undo mistakes. I guess the combination of what went right and what went wrong was the reason why I like this one so much.

4. Tokyo Ghoul!
2-3 weeks back, I got suckered into reading Tokyo Ghoul and I love it so much! It’s got blood, guts, cannibalism, death, ambiguous morality and just a whole lot of darkness and I love it! These two were my first works for the fandom, and they were also my first works on my new graphic tablet. Upper one is Rize Kamishiro and the lower one is a genderbent version of Ken Kaneki, the main character. The Kanji in the second one means “Tragedy”, an allusion to Tokyo Ghoul’s most famous intro: “I’m not the protagonist of a novel or anything…I’m just a college student who likes to read…but if, for argument’s sake, you were to write a story with me in the leading role, it would certainly be…a tragedy.”

5. Once
Made this when I brought up my old Nightwish playlist and started jamming to symphonic power metal again. Model is based off Floor Jansen (who is now the new lead vocalist for Nightwish and I am pretty stoked for their next album. Imaginaerum was good and all, but this is Floor!!!)

Stagger

One of my longest works up to date, and not because of its complexity but because my muse hasn’t visited me in a really long while.

I didn’t keep work time. I also did not use PS on this, just Procreate.

WIP stills here and here.

Commissions are open; leave a message here or at my website.

Happy Virus Day!

Someone asked me to draw Chanyeol (again) and I consented, both because it’s been a long time since I’ve last drawn Yeollie and also because, good God, my last artpiece of him was fucking a…trocious.

Ergo, here I am, hoping that I could redeem myself.

Also, this is the second entry to my Wolf art series.

Now that I look at it again, I’m cringing. So many mistakes (he doesn’t look like Chanyeol, he looks like Suho asdfghjkl).Ugh.

You can check out the WIP stills here.

Work time: 5-6 hours (because I kept on making breaks and doing assignments and yeah, I’m rationalizing my shit out)

Platform: Procreate, Photoshop CS5

Requests and commissions are welcome! Drop a comment or leave a message at my website here.

난 늑대고 넌 미녀

This is an extremely (and oh God, by extremely, I mean really extremely) late birthday gift to Yanting, a friend from Singapore that I met online through EXO (specifically a fic but let’s not go there). She loves Baekhyun, and so do I, especially his vocals (but D.O and Chen will always be my faves, just saying).

Based off their “Wolf” comeback.

You can check out the WIP stills here.

Work time: 2.5 hours (because I temporarily forgot how to paint)
Platform: Procreate, Photoshop CS5

Requests and commissions are welcome! Drop a comment or leave a message at my website here.

Hyorin, the Assassin

After a millenia of stowing it away in the recesses of despair otherwise known as Unfinished Works folder, I finally got to complete this commission. Not exactly how I imagined it would be, but I’m pretty content with it.

Here’s a few screenshots of Hyorin.

I like to pretend I’m fluent with Photoshop.

I find this immensely pretty for some odd reason unbeknownst to me.

Obviously, wounds don’t look good if you allow them to fester. Unless you’re into gangrene and that kind of shit.

The finished work!

So, guys, if you have requests, feel free to comment down below or leave a message on my website here.

October Artwork Trashbin

Compilation of some works that I’ve done for October. Revival post for this blog since it’s been ages. I apologize, dear followers.

Battle Sister Rapunzel
Well, this was a result of two fandoms clashing in: Warhammer 40k and Tangled. Done on ArtRage 3, minor tweaking on Photoshop CS5.

Celeste
Uh, my professor at Uni. Yeah. (awkward)

Clarissa Fray
Tweaked a bit with it. Done after I watched the movie at the cinema. Artrage 3.

Fortuitous
A much older work but I tinkered with the layers on Artrage so you can say it’s a recent one? Lol.

Padme Amidala
First legit work on Procreate. Infamously, the work that also destroyed my stylus. Ever since, I’ve been using my digits to work. Hmm.

Hyorin, the Assassin
Model based off Hyorin from SISTAR. Still unfinished. Will probably remain unfinished.

Do Kyungsoo
Doesn’t seem like Kyungsoo in the slightest. Oh well.

Anyhow, those were my works for October. I’m pretty sure there’s more but I kinda deleted some of them. I’m passive-aggressive like that.

D.O. Progress

A progressive series of one of my works (that are still in progress lol i am never gonna finish them at this rate ha)

First, of course, was the reference photo:

Second, the linework:

Thirdly, adding some colours down:

Yes, he is not as fair as he was in the photo. Call it artistic liberties, if you will (lol im just looking for reasons not redo this whole thing).

Anyhow, hopefully I can finish him soon. (I won’t hope, if I were you).

ipad doodles strike again

Doodledee, doodledum

This time around, I got to collaborating with Yanka again (we did a lot previously). This is Nana, from the South Korean girl group After School. I did the linework while Yanka did the colouring.

Linework:

With Colour:

You can view my other works here and here.

And check out Yanka’s as well here.

Palette

Made this with watercolors, the thinners set to a maximum to give the illusion of almost 0% opacity. 🙂
Recording script for this work here. Warning: there must have been a glitch in the recording, because my lines weren’t that thick (as attested by the final piece above).