James Jean's Sketch

Drawn by James Jean

I was so glad that I went to Comicon today. James Jean did a sketch of elenphant boy on my sketch book. I couldn't believe that he really spent time to do a decent sketch for the people on the line waiting for his drawing.

The first time saw his work was in " Swallow" art book. I like his surreal style and I was really inspired how he can freely paint what he loves.

Today,I bought his art prints "Fables 54 - The Witchhunter Wears Hermès" and "Flip".













The Illustration for "flip" was to tell the reader to turn the magazine "Complex" upside down to read the 2nd half of the issue. For the painting "Fables 54 - The Witchhunter Wears Hermès", I think it is just his personal work. I went to his blog and I was totally fell for it. It is just beautiful and tragic like Kent Williams' .

I wanted to buy his art book, but the last one was sold to the person who was lining right in front of me. Funny thing was that he was animating Wubbsy at Bardel.

Had really good falafel plater for lunch today... pretty happy. ^^

Max, Gate Keeper

Sketch, Sketchbook, 8 x 11 (inche)

Still Life

Ah... It's been a while since the last post. I miss life drawing so much that I even had a dream about it!

One thing I like to take bus is that I can actually practise drawing still life and try to fill up my sketch book ...

...I really miss the time when my classmates did caricature of one another. It was fun.

Painting Practise

I wondered if I change the painting to a night scene,it would work better for the evil magician's appearance. Thanks to Sean's suggestion on the painting. I toned down the background and resized the rides to give it a better composition and contrast.

After 3 hours of coloring on the painting, I felt like I distored the painting. Too much details and the light source is confused. I spent too much time on it. Finally, I had to stop this nonsence process and moved to work my build project for work.

My work has been going well so far. I really enjoy posing and building characters for Chaotic. I have had a lot fun with pushing the facial expression and posing in extreme angle. Although the design of the characters are not my favourite, but to learn the style of the show is a luxury to me.

Anyway, after doing research on playland on the Internet, I just want to redo my entire painting and redesign the rides. Ahhhhhhhhhh!

Have to go back to work... Any more suddestions on the painting ?