You're Truly Missed

This was created for a friend, Prema. She went to US for 2 years. She is truly missed by all her friends in Malaysia. Hope that she can cope with the environment there. Take good care of yourself, Prema... :P

Tool(s) Used: Adobe Photoshop CS3

2nd Illustration Coloring

This is my 2nd attempt to color illustration. Like the previous post, I color the background color of the image before proceed to the shadows & tones. This colored-lineart is used for this experiment.

This lineart is licensed under GPL ver.2. The details of the lineart are as below:

Licence: GPL ver. 2
Author: Aoi (a-o-i.deviantart.com)
Project: The Mana World

This is what I got after I color the background of the image.

Tool(s) Used: Adobe Photshop CS3

This is the final result of the process... :P Notice I have added some glow around the girl to make her abit glowing in the darkness of the night.

p/s: Special thanks to Aoi..

Color Process Using Adobe Photoshop CS3

Have been always wanted to be able to color illustration just like anime & manga. Today, I finally got the chance to finished 1 of the illustration. :P happy2 me... This is the reference that I have used.



Before shadows & tone can be apply to a picture, it is always advisable to fill the background color of the picture. From there, you can proceed to the shadows & tones to make the picture more realistic. As what you can see from the image below, shadows & tones contribute alot to the details of the picture. This is what everyone should have for the 1st step. Just a flat color image without much details.

After adding shadows & tones on the image, you will be able to create a more realistic & lively picture. Now, background such as sky or grass can be added. I have add on a gradient blue sky rather than just a flat blue color sky.

Tool(s) Used: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Hope to be able to produce a better quality & complex illustration soon.

p/s: Special thanks to Jennifer Duong for her tutorial...

Illustration using Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3

I have been wondering how to draw nice illustration using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. I have been searching online tutorial for so many days. God knows how many days...The first tutorial was found in YouTube. However, it doesn't really help. The video showing the tutorial in fast mode. Can't actually followed the steps. The song played in the video was very nice indeed. I posted a comment asking the author how did he able to make such a smooth line in the illustration as weel as the name of the song. Sadly, there is not reply from him. I'm lucky enough to have someone who actually told me the name of the song.... XD



After a few days of hard work, I finally found out how to do a smooth line actually a nice tone line. Not just in a solid black line but a line that have different tone. hehe. I'm so happyyyyy...

Did some experiment on 1 of the linearts that I got from this site(http://mechanical-bunnies.com/tutorials/pstutorial.html).

Image from: http://mechanical-bunnies.com/tutorials/pstutorial.html

This is what i have done using the pen tool...

Tool(s) Used: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Nice ah? :) By the way, this tracing back the line of a picture is called lineart. Normally, we will be drawing the line of a scanned picture before we starting to color it.

p/s: Special thanks to Jennifer Duong for her tutorial & image. :P

Happy Anniversary

My first comic illustration...the background i got it from internet. I have combined a few background with my illustration. Both the boy & gal i did it on my own.

Before I started on the illustration, I sketched the drawing on a paper. Then, the outline of the sketches was retraced & color using Adobe Illustrator.

Software(s) Used: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Material(s) Used: paper,pencil

Haloween Day

I know what I did this Haloween. This is my poster for Haloween...:P. As you can see at the pic below, me & my POSTER (my sketches)..

Haloween deco...illustrations, skull, bats, spiders, BLACK cat

My collegues...swee ling & michelle transforming me into MUMMY....

Software(s) Used: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Other Material(s): pencil, paper

Haloween Story...

Haloween....31 Oct. Below is the story & illustration that I have created for Haloween. Special thanks to Yogi for editting & grammar checking....JD for his support.

Software(s) used: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3
Other Material(s): paper, pencil

The illustrations above are drawn using pencil before it was editted using Adobe Photoshop. To make the font clearer, Adobe Illustrator was used.

The 3rd Wacom Holiday Season Contest 2009

Sounds cool from the title. Found it this morning...The prizes also absolutely fabulous & cool...Wanted to have a graphic tablet for so long..(quite expensive actually). Thought of giving it a try..According to the requirements...we can either submit it in jpeg,png,gif, gif animation as well as swf (which means flash).



Media: jpg, png, gif, gif animation, swf
Resolution / size: 72dpi / Max 1MB
Dimension: 800x600 pixels (portrait or landscape)
Submission Deadline: Jan 9, 2009


chia yo to me!!

Web 2.0 Christmas Email Design cont

The contest holder don't really like the design....:( anyone please advise....What's email template actually? What's the size & what's the suitable content that we can include? No idea.....

Web 2.0 Christmas Email Design

This is the contest that I'm currently working on. This is 1 of the contests in www.99designs.com. My very first time in designing email template. Didn't actuaaly know what it was at first however the word 'Christmas' make me joined it. For your info, I love Christmas. Maybe because of the white snow, the friendly Santa or maybe the cute snowman. haha. I don't really know why.

Found some reference from the web about email template. Just submitted 1 design so far using the Santa that I have created earlier (reusable component). haha. Take a look at it & please comment....



Wish me luck...Lots & lots of them.....

Srinath's Farewell the Movie cont.

This is all the files that are used for the Flash creation.....:P

Sketches are being done using pencil & paper. Then, scanned and redrawn using Adobe Illustrator.

This are some of the images used in the flash movie.

Hope to do more flash movies in the future....bye2 ;)

Srinath's Farewell the Movie

This is the flash movie that I have created for my dept's head. He is transfer back to India. So, this is a token of remembrance for him. This is the 1st time after 4 years I use Flash for the 1st time....hehe :P.


The graphics & storyboard used were created solely by me....For the animation part, I got some advises & help from my friend, JD. Hope you guys will enjoy it.





Software(s) Used: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Macromedia Flash 8
Tool(s): GeoVid Flash to Video Encoder
Other Material(s): Pencil, paper

p/s: Special thanks & appreciation to JD