Another Sketch

Material (s) Used: Paper,pencil

Another Handmade Card

Here is another handmade card for my friend, Aunty Matilda.


Material (s) Used: Paper, pencil, Copic marker, handmade crafts, double sided tape,color papers,glue
Tool (s) Used: Lumix camera

Valentine's Handmade Card

Here is a handmade Valentine's card that I did today. Before starting to get myself dirty with glue & stuffs, I prepared all the things that I need to do the card (lots of color papers, images, handmade craft) The images that I used in this card was drawn using pencil which later on was outlined using Pilot pen. After that, I used Copic markers to color them. Then, the process of cutting the images took place.

Below are a few snapshots of the card:

A girl, a boy & a cat

A monkey

A rabbit & chicks

Handmade craft

A puppy

In this card, I used the concept of a photo frame. 12 heart shapes were sticked on the border of the card. Here is the completed card...

Handmade Valentine's Card

Material (s) Used: Pencil, paper, Copic marker, pilot G1 pen, color papers, images, hearts

My Old Sketch

Hi all...It has been quite a while since I last blog. I was having chicken pox since last Sunday...huhu. Now, my whole face is full of pock marks. It is extremely ugly...

This sketch I did long time back, 2 years back...I was digging to see what I can show here & I found this...Hope you guys will like it. This was a gift to JD.

As what you guys can see down here, a girl & a boy is tied together in a garden. Tied by fate...hehe



Material (s) Used: Paper, pencil, crayon
Tool (s) Used: Lumix camera

Handmade 'Take Care' Card for Swee Ling

Part 1- The Card
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Hi all. Here is the handmade 'Take Care' Card for Swee Ling. This time I have used a mailbox shape as a card. First of all, I cut out 3 rectangulars from the card. Then, I glued the darker red paper on the card as well as the purple color tag. After that, I glued the owl & a girl on it. Finally, some touch up on the card by drawing some flowers on the darker red paper.

The front view of the Card

Upclose of the owl & girl image

Below here are the inside of the card. Some sketch of a bus stop served as the background of the girl that will make the girl stands out more.

Upclose of the girl & bus stop sketches

Part 2 - The Moment
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Now is the card giving ceremony. Wow..sounds tremendously rocks. I got to hand over my handmade card to her. I guessed I'm more happy than her is something like Christmas giving spirit I have here...hehe :P

Swee Ling, me & her Card

Material (s) Used: Pencil, paper, Copic markers, color pencils, Pilot G-1 pen, ribbons, lots of color papers
Tool (s) Used: Lumix Camera

Handmade 'Take Care' Card for Abi & Yogi

Part 1 - Idea's Generation ***********************************************************************************
My friends, Yogi & Abi will be going to Bangalore this Sat. I feel very sad. I won't have anyone to chat & disturb for 3 months..what a torture. I have made these cards for both of them. I spent approximately 1 day doing it.

These cards are easy to make. What you need is get a couple of ideas & send them running. I have drew a few images that I wanted to use in my cards. Then, starts get crazy sticking & gluing things on the card. Not to forget, choose the color of the cards that you want to work on.
No limits, no boundaries just do what you feel like doing until you have expressed on the ideas you have in your mind. Get some ribbons & gold dust if you want to put them in as well.

Part 2 - Gluing, Pasting & Have Fun
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This is Yogi's card. I have made a heart shape card. First of all, before I get started, I have been searching high & low for blade. Don't have 1 that time. I poke a few rectangular holes on the card so that I can put in the ribbon (a gold ribbon actually :P) After that, I paste some paper that I have cut using my newly bought pattern scissors. Notice I have pasted some hearts on the card. Lastly, paste the girl & the 'Sending some love' tag on the left hand corner. Tada..there you have it a beautiful handmade card for your friend. Don't forget to drop a few words in the card for them...



This is the card for Abi. This card I have made it as into an envelope. First of all, I have folded the card. Then, I have pasted 2 ribbons on the card. After that, I have pasted the paper that I have cut using the pattern scissors on it. On top of the paper, I have glued a fake ribbon. Lastly, I glued the girl & flowers (made by myself) plus doodle some flowers on the card. Not to mention, scribbled a few words in the card.


Part 3 - Happy Moments
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This is my friends reaction when they received the cards...happy I guess. Actually is not a guess, they were actually happy. You can see it on their face. Me too were happy. Sometimes, when you give something that you have spent so much time making it to the people tat you planned to give, you will a lso feel that happiness surrounding you. :p

Yogi

Abi
(she posed a few times taking this photo after I told her that I will be uploading this here..)

Here are the picture of Yogi, Abi & I with their cards...Gonna miss them especially Abi coz I got to tease her. hahaha...

Material (s) Used: Pencil, paper, Copic markers, color pencils, Pilot G-1 pen, ribbons, lots of color papers
Tool (s) Used: Samsung camera (Abi's)

Handmade Christmas Card cont

This is the 2nd handmade Christmas card I did. Just a slight differences between both of the cards.

DIY Flowers

The Snowman

The Card

Inside this card, I have done something very different in this card. All the image below are color using Copic markers & the snowman was drawn using color pencil.








Material (s) Used: Pencil, paper, pilot G-1 pen, Copic markers, color pencils
Tool (s) Used: Lumix camera

Another Sketch

Hi everyone. Here is my another sketch that was made for Yogi's friend birthday...She asked me to draw just the word 'Happy Birthday' but I ended up drawing more than that. Hehehe....I asked her whether I can draw some more...so I continued to draw till it filled almost 90% of the white space. I love to draw. Once I start, is difficult for me to stop. As what you can see on the previous post, 'What I Did when I'm Bored', I actually started on a teddy bear (bought from Jusco). Then, I ended up adding gifts on the right & candy cane on the left. Then, I added shadows to the picture. And then, I added the word 'Merry Christmas' and a flower thingy (don't exactly know what it is called). Tada....there you have it, a Merry Christmas wish with lots of love from me....:P




Material(s) Used: Pencil, Sony Ericsson hp

Cheer Up

This is an image I draw few days ago for my friend, Swee Ling. Just to cheer her up....The image is quite blurry here. This picture was taken using my hp. Guess is not a good one to take picture...It is actually a rough sketch before I actually redraw the lines with Pilot G-1 pen. By the way, is my first try on my new Copic markers so the quality is not that good. Not really get use to it yet.

Material(s) Used: Pencil, paper, Pilot G-1 pen, Copic markers, Sony Ericsson hp

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