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Hi everyone! 2010’s been pretty good so far.. still practicing painting with my DS..  2 of my favourites out of the last two months.  I spent more time on these than the earlier ones, still keeping them in the sketch realm tho. The lighting of the fur was pretty tricky, I guess I made it harder on myself by deviating from the reference. Still, I like how it turned out in the end.

On the 3d side of things, I’ve been doing quite a bit of low poly stuff at work lately. Finding it pretty fun, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to try so many different styles. Would like to do some cute low poly stuff in my spare time, well we’ll see.. anyways, 2009 was a pretty good start to life in the industry.  2010’s gonna be the year everything gets set in motion. Just gotta keep working hard, and have fun doing it..

Random DS sketches.. moving back to pencil for a bit now.. want to do some nice detailed rendering that’ll help me greatly when it comes to zbrush..

1st 2 done in the morning on the way to work, the rest was done on the homeward stretch. Still very sketchy, working on injecting more life and gesture into these first. Detail will follow naturally. I’ll also be trying to simplify things where I can and have more contrast. Well, it’s only Monday, that’s not a bad start at all..

Painted over 2 bus journeys home. What was initially two gigantic weapons mounted on this guy’s back evolved into just part of a giant mech stomping through the forest. Will try and use colour more boldly next time, this one’s still pretty muted. My perception of travel time has shifted thanks to daily painting, waiting for the bus is a good thing now cause it means more time to paint, haha.

Got my first corrupted save while painting this, so now I’ll be more careful when it comes to saving stuff. I made the mistake of closing the DS halfway during a save as I was getting on a bus, and when I opened it up again the save was stuck at 50%. Thankfully I lost only about 10 minutes of work. Ah well, moving on..

I now have a Nintendo DS on loan to practice digital painting on the go, courtesy of my jet-setting cousin. I’m finding Colors DS pretty intuitive to use as far as picking colours and navigating goes. As for actual painting technique, I’m hoping I’ll be able to improve with practice on my daily commute. Thanks Joy!

It’s pretty much a mixed bag so far these past two weeks. Did some spaceships, some facial studies focusing on painting skin tones. I even did some sketches with it along the Southern Ridges yesterday during the OIC Sketch Walk(where I fed more mosquitoes than I sketched pictures, need to learn to simplify and not claw in every detail like I’m trying and failing to there).  Even so, it was good to catch up with old friends as well as meet new ones.

For those who say there isn’t much to do in Singapore, the trick is probably in finding like minded people. In that case, it’s possible to get deluged with more events than you can handle (Portrait Day / Life Drawing / Sketch Walks / Dr. Sketchy’s / Sketch-On-The-Beach-Day – OK.. so I made the last one up.. I think it might be a good idea tho..) and that’s just on the art side! I haven’t had the time to go and participate in music related stuff like the Songcraft Writing Circle, and the only time I serendipitously stumbled upon the Open Mic Night at the Singapore Art Cafe it just happened to be the very last night before they stopped having it.

On the work side, things have been good. Going further down the rabbit hole, gotta work harder but it’s getting increasingly rewarding. They do know how to play hard too which is great, I’m enjoying the company culture (not to mention levelling up at pool) Anyways, as my work stuff is largely confidential, it looks like I’ll be posting much more 2d stuff like this, as well as my personal projects and collaborations that I’m kicking back into motion soon.