St.Lucifer's Academy

St.Lucifer's Academy Cover/ Information page/ Title page/ Back cover

Ink + watercolor + photoshop

This is the very last project of this semester+_+

St.Lucifer's Academy is a story i made up several months ago.

The characters were already designed last summer during my reading pop culture class.

i'm still trying to bring things more solid. 

I'm hoping that this really goes somewhere...

Since i'm not a good writer... i'm not sure if i should make it into a book,

I'm not sure about graphic novel either... maybe i'll do that idk

i was thinking maybe i can do webtoon kind of thing but ~_~ i suck at digital painting so..

for now nothing's certain;

I'm not really much of a narrative art(?) person.......

But yeah these are just for my school projects :)

if i had to do a real book cover... 

then i would not start working on it the night before. lol

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Earth Day Teddy Bear Poster...

Teddy needs love! (earth day poster illustration)

10"x20", gouache on illustration board

This is an illustration for earth day poster.

At first my prof didn't approve of my teddy bear idea 

but i managed to persuade him ;).

He said during the critique that i totally sold the idea to him lol

and he liked my work at the and and gave me an A  

I really enjoyed working on this too.

The concept is simple : Embrace nature like we embrace teddy bears!

I really tried hard to think of something unconventional for an earth day poster 

but still maintain some traditional nature elements.

So i painted this giant teddy bear made of plant. lol

this is my first gouache piece in like 2 years or so but i realized again how awesome medium it is...

This became one of my favorites ;D

Galaxy Express 999 Vignette Illustrations...

Galaxy Express 999 Vignette Illustrations +_+!

 

Tetsuro & his mommy +_+

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Count Mecha ~_~

(I actually really like this one +_+)

Ink & Gouache Resistance technique on watercolour paper

i'm not sure what sizes they are...

Anyway, I did 3 vignettes, 2 of them are shown above, and the other one isn't.

It's because i hate it lol

This was the very first time for me to do vignettes, so there were many things 

that i had to keep in mind unlike a full page illustration...

And just like before, editing this on computer was pain in my ass....

Being this my first time doing a vignette, i kind of screwed up on the whole layout :x

I had to pre plan things more before i start painting the actually vignettes;

because later on one of them (which i didn't post) did not fit, so i had to scale it down 

and it looks absolutely horrible....

but i am glad i screwed up 

because i struggled so much with this that i actually learned something new...

doodle

done on photoshop...

Cirque Du Freak Double Page Spread Illustration

"Cirque Du Freak Double Page Spread Illustration"

11x17 

Watercolour and Gauche on watercolour paper & Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop

Another Book Illustration project...

To be honest, i didn't put as much effort as the last one 

because I had tons of other stuff to deal with T_T

I would like to call this piece a 'failure'.....

There are tons of flaws i could point out even when i was working on it,

but i didn't bother fixing those problems because i was too stressed out;

I am unhappy with the colours, 

this is completely different from what i initially planned out...

Plus i regret not giving enough depth to this illustration.

and the right side of this illustration looks just WRONG

I tried making shadows and yellow spotlights but it was too much so i ended up covering the whole background with black gauche lol

It was okay until i worked on the curtain, the textbox and Larten Crepsley (the guy with a flute)

but starting from the twisting twins, things went completely out of control!!!

at least i had more fun working on this project than other boring digital assignments......

My attitude probably seems really unprofessional

but i think Enjoying what i do is the most important thing for me right now.

because this damn school is making me hate art more and more every day lol

Dr.Bluebeard

'Dr.Bluebeard'

11x15 (not exact)

Watercolour, Guache and Ink

This is a piece I did for my Book Illustration class :)

There is another page with some of the story written,

and the layout looks pretty cool but there are too many typos 

since I couldn't revise it due to my stupid headache... 

That's why I hate working digitally lol

However the artwork is 100% traditionally painted.

I will not post the other page until i am done fixing all the typos x_x...

My Ito Junji Collection

I am a HUGE fan of Ito Junji 

so I decided to purchase some of his books over the summer +_+

I really wanted to buy 'Gyo', but couldn't find it anywhere...

so I just got the Entire Volume of 'Ito Junji's Museum of Terror' 

which is a collection of many of his works 

Plus 'Black Paradox', 'Uzumaki', 'Ito Junji's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu', 'Hellstar Remina', 'Mimino Kaidan' and 'Yami no Koe'.

So ..These were pretty much everything i read over the summer break lol

Out of all the Ito Junji's stories, I really really really loved 'Lovesick Dead' which was featured in the 10th volume of Museum of Terror.

I couldn't sleep properly after i read this x_x

It's a story based on Japanese urban legend, 'Crossroad oracle(?)' 

(sorry about my bad translation..)

On a foggy day, a person stand at a corner of a crossroad, and ask a question about the future (relationship/career or whatever it is) to a random pedestrian that walks by.

The person's fate is decided upon the pedestrian's answer.

I'm hoping to purchase a individual edition of this one day +_+

Anyway, probably a lot of people already know of Ito Junji,

but if you're into horror manga and don't know about him, please check him out!!!

Such a weird thinker with amazing skill :)

<I have no idea how to translate his name(?)...>

'Swing' featured in Cadmium September Issue :)

My work has made it into September issue of Cadmium (OCADU's Student magazine) +_+

I kind of wish it wasn't black and white though... 

But i was actually really surprised that they printed it to be so big (bigger than the original artwork).

Anyway..

It's not really a huge thing to brag about

still it's the first time that my work was ever mass produced(?).

This really boasted my motivation which i think is the most important.

I'm considering entering some competitions from this year.

Hope everything works out well!!

Wish me luck :)

An Illustration I did almost 3 years ago...

'Identity Bear'

16x20

Guache on Illustration Board

This was one of the many portforlio artworks for OCADU's entrance interview :)

I'm going into 3rd year already so this piece is about 2 years old,

but it's one of my favorite illustration of all time (lol)

plus, this piece of illustration earned me $1000 entrance scholarship.

The professors at the interview absolutely adored this piece

Funny how OCADU initially didn't even let me apply because i didn't have a high school diploma...

(I dropped out of high school to go to an overseas exchange program then ended up getting GED instead of  going back to school which seemed so useless)

I'll be posting more of my older works soon :)

doodling on photoshop

A small drawing done on photoshop...

I still don't know anything about photoshop 

except for a bit about layers and how to draw with brushes..T_T

i'll probably start watching online tutorials or whatever 

because it seems like i won't be able to get a decent job without knowing how to work digitally x_x

A Small illustration for my friend :)

"Leo"

6x6 Acrylic on Paper

This is a small illustration for my friend

She asked me to draw something for her 

so I drew this weird lion looking monster (she's a leo)

I think this one looks a bit too overworked,

It almost looks chaotic lol

but whatever

I'll do a better one tomorrow :)

finger stretching 2

'Swing'

9x9 

Acrylic on Scrap Board

a mini painting i did today :)

first painting in..... 3 months?

disregarding the result, I really enjoyed doing this

Just ignore the  stupid title lol

I couldn't think of anything else...

finger stretching....

This is the first doodle in...... like 3 weeks -_-

I can't believe i haven't been drawing for so long..

Anyway,

This is a little character I came up with this summer

while i was taking 'Reading Popular Culture' at OCADU :)

Fun and simple way to get started +_+

Excuse all the crooked lines

I did this on photoshop and I'm still not familiar with my Wacom Intuos 4 tablet T_T

Hopefully i'll get better at it 

But from next time i'll probably just scan the original and edit it on photoshop or something x_x

+ although this seems like nothing

I signed it (LOL)

so copyright guys!!

All rights reserved!!!!!!

New Blog :)

I decided to open a blog today :)

I’m probably going to be posting many of my artworks/sketches here from now on.

I haven’t been doing much art lately, well i haven’t really been enjoying art ever since i started going to school again in 2009, (not really because of school but because of gaming..) BUT I’m all over with game addiction and i finally started thinking about my future again and blah blah so yeah.. I’m going to start drawing again! yey +_+

I’m going to do my best to upload something new as soon as possible, 

I have this feeling that this blog is going to be filled up with my stupid little comic strips but I’ll do my best to do some decent works as well. lol

Anyway this will all start from tomorrow(today) because it’s 12:21 am already

and this time I MEAN IT!!!!!!!!

so good night everyone i’m going to bed lol