Charlene Chua, illustration news

princess

Finally colored her up over the weekend. Brush pen with colors in Photoshop.

Interesting story behind the piece, originally she had a face but while I was inking her I realized that the piece had a lot more meaning for me if I removed it. The idea of ‘princess’ is floating around in my head and I may or may not do something with it – depends if and when I get the time to work on anything of my own again. Alas, these days I’m lucky to be able to do an ink drawing or two before I have to get back to work-work.

This is another brush image I’m working on for myself. I have an on-again, off again motif of girls with swords going through them, and this is the latest incarnation of that. Final colors to come, depending on when I get the time.

inked sketch on tabke

Another view of table

Closeup with pencil. You can see the original brushwork is not complete black.

Finshed inks, scanned and cleaned in Photoshop.

Animals of the Chinese zodiac. Click the pic for a much larger (and nicer) view.

Sure hope it looks like them. Personal work, reffed off a piece in a magazine, pity the photographer recently passed on, he had some great portraits of rock stars.

Color variant. Originally the background was meant to be blue. But it had too much of a indie comic feel. Or so I felt.

Ink test painting on Stonehenge paper, with Photoshop color tweaks afterwards.

Illustration of a boy and his fawn. He’s very fond of it. Hahahaa.

Sorry. Bad pun.

Tired from working on vectors all day. So a non vector piece. The gallery show yesterday was great; the bunnies are kinda from a piece I saw there. Bunnies are fun. And headless deer. And Chirstina’s work is awesome; if you don’t like it then you should…urm… swallow leeches. Or something. I dunno I’m tired…

I was sketching in my other style, the one that is simpler and more stylized, and wondering if I should develop more work in this style.

Was playing with negative space and definition of shape with color verus line. It evolved into a Cinderella picture, with some rather hot ugly step-sister and step mother.

Now and then I try to draw fashion models and fall flat on my face. I simply hate drawing pencil thin girls, they have no figure. Then I go back to drawing bikini models and it feels better. It’s funny, fashion illustration; half the time I think fashion designers don’t actually want people to wear their clothes, their model sketches look like well-heeled aliens. I also found it kind of funny that someone accused me of being part of the ‘teens dying from anorexia’ problem. Urm. For the record none of my girls are anorexic. If they were, I would be getting jobs from every fashion magazine in town. Tsk – The things we say to be politically correct online.