Sketch-A-Day: See you Soon

 
This piece comes out, inspired by Pascal Campion, a man who does so many delightful pieces of illustrations, since i cannot concentrate on my project at the moment. 
Keeping it loose and focus on getting the pose, shapes, composition and the expressions. Will do some more from time to time to keep my brain working. 

Pascal Campion's blog: http://pascalcampion.blogspot.sg/ <- Check him out if you haven't 

The Watch: Comic progress

The Watch is an on-going thesis project, a comic of a NEET called Xian, who finally steps out of his room to work as a Night Guard. But the Building he guards has something more installed for him. 

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Currently in the midst of doing the pages and there are challenges faced in every single page. OTL But, it is an enlightening experience. One thing I always have to remind myself, not to let colors overwhelm the storytelling and its readability.

 To keep myself motivated, i listen to Pascal Campion's interview in Vimeo *laugh*. His philosophy of life and art is one that resonates within me. Here is his interview: http://vimeo.com/13387502  

Well, i will not be posting anything more of this project til after the final submission, but til then, I will post sketches and assignments done in the year whenever possible. :)

Til the next update, Happy March!

The Watch: Comic Process

The Watch is an on-going thesis project, a comic of a NEET called Xian, who finally steps out of his room to work as a Night Guard. But the Building he guards has something more installed for him. 

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These are some of the process/page layouts made for the comic.

I did around 4 drafts to reach to the draft approved by my mentor, Hannes before heading over to color roughs, since i be doing in color (which is something I have not had the courage to tackle until now.) Under Hans Bacher in his Illustration for Designer and through this project, I have come to appreciate and enjoy Color. 

Nowadays, I am taking notice of the colors that i am facing in my own life and hope to put them in my future works to come :)

Some of the version to confirmed drafts

The process of the comic

 The color script of the entire comic- A guide

Examples: Some of the Color Rough and Page layout

Style exploration

Inspired by various artists in colors and illustrations. Particularly Pascal Campion, Lou Romano and Tadahiro Uesugi's philosophies and techniques. 

Thought about black and white/inking, but decided that the mood is best felt with colors.

Singing Drowning and the Disappearing city~

More Animation posting!

Well, been looking at my past works and these two i find are still funny to look at time to time. I hope to animate and post here in my free time after i graduate, slowly from little exercises to stories :)

Hogan singing Drowning

Disappearing City - my personal view of urbanization.

The Watch: Preproduction

The Watch is an on-going thesis project, a comic of a NEET called Xian, who finally steps out of his room to work as a Night Guard. But the Building he guards has something more installed for him. 

This is going to a super long post of some pre-production concepts and sketches done.

And now, introducing the characters involved:

Xian: The main character, the 25 year old NEET who has a cynic view of the world and life. He is a man who just gives up easily and unsure of what to do with his life, thus seeking comfort/satisfaction in the gaming world (especially MMORPG) in his room. It is until a drastic event overturn his entire world that leads him outside his room to become a Night guard.

 Character Turnaround

Xian's Development

Chen: The senior elderly night guard, who becomes Xian's supervisor. Xian does not like the old man the first time he meets him, somehow, the smiles on that elderly man just irritates him. Taking things at his stride, the smiling elderly oversees the security of the entire corporation building by himself for many years. Which to Xian, entirely suspicious.

Character Turnabout

 Chen's Development

Some of the Props used

The Others: The nightly inhabitants that 'haunts' the corporation building Xian is guarding for the first time. At day, they disappear. But at night, by some mysterious force, they materialize to a semi physical body inside the building. Consists of strong fears from the hearts of people, legends and myths (eg boogeymen, 'gods) and the spirits of the land the building is on.

Others: Some concepts

Interior Concept: 

some sketches of the locations seen in the comic

Next post: Of comic process

The Unlikely Interaction

I had fun doing this in advanced 2D module where i have to come up with characters and the expressions and movements for the duo to interact. It is a good practice on dialogue and mouth movements.

The most unlikely breakup in the zoo *laugh*

Life Sketching 00: March 2013

Do more good ones and post more!

Knight Ret and the Catgon: Prologue Storyboard

Knight Ret and the Catgon: Cont'd

Storyboard of Prologue

This is a simple yet heroic tale of a Rat who is an outcast knight who seeks the evil creature Catgon, who held his kingdom's beloved Princess Elephia captive when there is no hope in sight. It is all for his beloved princess...

I did the script of the entire story, but as this is just roughly a 3 week assignment given by my lecturer, i did the concepts and storyboards of the prologue. An animatic was done for it with sounds but sadly, i lost the animatics OTL Still, it is a fun project while it last and learn what i can do and what i can improve in my skills in the future.

I really do enjoy storyboarding and comic, and there is so much i have to learn from compositions to action scenes to dramatic car scenes to love scenes to pacing. Let everyday be a learning day for the things i love and enjoy. 

 

Knight Ret and the Catgon: Concept 2

Knight Ret and the Catgon: Cont'd

Character Turns + Props + Location + Prologue

This is a simple yet heroic tale of a Rat who is an outcast knight who seeks the evil creature Catgon, who held his kingdom's beloved Princess Elephia captive when there is no hope in sight. It is all for his beloved princess...

Character Turnabouts

Props - some sketches on the props used in the beginning.

 Location

The Mouse Kingdom

The throne room 

 Catgon's Lair - where the battle shall take place

Prologue Tapestry: 

Which will be shown as the animated opening to the tale.