It’s Party Time!

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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a blessed 2012 ahead. This year Shermayne and Xavier are also inviting their friends to our house for a mini X’mas party. So as usual, I will have to do the invitation card for them. Before I even started doing this invitation, Shermayne has already done hers and she showed it to me and said she wants her ‘invitation card’ to ‘appear’ in my illustration, just like last year. I’m so happy to know that she actually enjoy doing the artwork with me:)

Season's Greetings

Below is a close-up on Shermayne’s ‘invitation card’.

Plant and Flower illustrations Part 1.

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Did some plant and flower illustrations for Singapore Zoo few months back. Plant and flowers are usually not my drawing or painting subject as I’m more of a comic/cartoon guy, and I did not expect this project can be so challenging. Especially when it is for educational purposes and need to be done as close and as details to the actual species of plant. However, after I started drawing the first few, I began to enjoy it.:)

Bird's Nest Fern

Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium

Butterfly Ginger

Scientific name: Bauhinia purpurea

Butterfly Tree

Scientific name: Orthosiphon aristatus

Cat's Whiskers

Scientific name: Alocasia macrorrhiza

Elephant's Ear

Scientific name: Dillenia indica

Elephant Apple

Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta

Elephant Fern

Scientific name: Caryota mitis

Fishtail-Palm

Signage for Penguin Wonderland.

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Beside doing the individual penguin illustration for the Penguin Wonderland Exhibit, I was also given the opportunity to work on some illustrations for the signage.

Below is how those illustrations look with the text layout. I not sure how the actual signage will look like as I’m not the one doing the layout, just have to make sure there is enough space for the designer to lay the text.

Kow’s Farm.

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Commissioned by a friend of mine to do a family painting for his new house. His idea for the painting is to have them as cowboys and girl and the background will be on a grassland with cows. My initial concept and idea was to paint something more action packed and fun. So I did a quick sketch shown below.

But on second thought, I decided not to use this idea. There are a few reasons for not using or further developing this idea. This idea might seem energetic and lot of fun in it, but my friend (who is the owner of the house) might eventually looks ‘small’ in the final painting due to it’s composition. Also the wife and son riding on the cow with him chasing behind might seem like they are ‘running away’ from him. Hahaha…. So I decided to trash this idea.

Then I begin to work along on something more peaceful and relaxing as I find it to be more appropriate for something hanging on the living hall’s wall. Finally the below sketch was the one that I emailed to my friend for approval.

Upon approval, I began working on it and here is the final painting to be printed out in 100cm x 70cm.

Penguin Wonderland Part 1

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Did some penguin illustrations for Jurong Bird Park for their “Penguin Wonderland” last December. Before taking up this project, I have little knowledge about penguin and do not know there are so many different species of penguin. These illustrations of penguin were all done individually as it is to be printed out in ‘life-size’. Even though this project was done last year, I have yet to see the ‘finished product’ myself. This is also the reason why it took me 6 months to upload these illustrations, as my initial plan was to take some pictures of the ‘finished product’ at Jurong Bird Park and upload it together with these illustrations. Hope I will have the time to do that soon. Meanwhile, I will just uplaod the illustrations first. First batch…