work in progress

Revised Demon (sketch)

Here's a demon i drew awhile ago, i thought i was gonna submit to a magazine or some sort of contest but things didn't work out. Anyway this is NOT the version i was gonna submit, but here i'm just messing around with marker and trying to figure out the contours from my messy lines. Check back later for the Cleaned Up version.

Quick Value Study

This is a quick value study for my final painting for this semester.
Nothing special pencil on paper

Detective Stories #

Here's a scripted project that i did from Batman Detective Stories # 726

DETECTIVE 726
"HELL BELOW ZERO"

STORY, CHUCK DIXON
PENCILS, GRAHAM NOLAN

PAGE FOUR

PANEL ONE
LARGEST PANEL
NIGHT
A shot of an old cemetary. It's on hilly ground and the headstones and masoleums are crowded close together like the graveyards out in Brooklyn. There's a couple of guys digging up a grave on a hilltop under a gnarled tree. This would be right out of James Whale but there's the skyline of Gotham in the background. A pall of vapor rises from the grave.
CAPTION: "HE'S A PROBLEM FOR THE CITY NOW.
ROBBER 1: HOLD THE LIGHT HIGHER. I HIT THE VAULT.
ROBBER 2: I HATE THESE CONCRETE BOXES.

PANEL TWO
The robbers are in leather and wear ghastly face paint like voodoo priests. They work with shovels in the grave. A mist rises from the grave. One smiles at the other. The other makes a "yuck" face.
ROBBER 1: SEE THAT FOG? THIS ONE'S FRESH.
ROBBER 2; SO I SMELT. LET'S POP THE TOP AND GET THIS OVER WITH.

PANEL THREE

Low angle shot from the floor of the grave. Robber 1 shovels and Robber 2 looks up in alarm. We can see a great bat shape moving above them.

ROBBER 1: THIS ONE WAS AN ARCHBISHOP. ALL I CAN SMELL IS GOLD.
ROBBER 2: YOU HEAR SOMETHING?
ROBBER 1: YEAH. THE FOLDING MONEY THOSE JERKS ARE GONNA PAY US.

PAGE FIVE
PANEL ONE
Robber 1 turns to see Robber 2 being hauled out of the grave with a jerk. Clods of mud spray from Robber 2's kicking feet.
ROBBER 2: (OFF PANEL, ABOVE) urrrk!
ROBBER 1: GLEN!

PANEL TWO
Robber 1 has pulled a handgun from his waistband and holds it meaningfully. He also has a cel phone in the other hand.
ROBBER 1: SHAME TO WASTE A FRESH GRAVE, WHOEVER YOU ARE!
ROBBER 1: BRING THE VAN OVER, MAX! PRONTO!

PANEL THREE
Robber 1 is levering himself from the grave with pistol in hand and fires at a bat silhouette projected against the lights of a van pulling over the bumpy ground.
ROBBER 1: THERE MAX! I SEE 'IM! I SEE 'IM!
SFX: BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

PANEL FOUR
A batarang wings out of the dark to take Robber 1 in the forehead. Hard.
ROBBER 1: uh!

PANEL FIVE
Downshot of Robber 1 lying unconscious atop the partly uncovered concrete slab in the grave.


PAGE SIX

PANEL ONE
Batman is crouched as the van comes ripping toward him, knokcing over headstones as it bumps toward him, Raising a cloud of dst behind it. Headlights throw Batman into stark relief.

PANEL TWO
From behind Batman comes a column of flame that washes over the van spectacularly,
Batman crouches even lower.
FROM SOURCE OF FLAME: BATMAN!
FROM SOURCE OF FLAME: DOWN!

PANEL THREE
The driver leaps from the burning van looking terrified. He's dressed like the other two. He has a gun in his fist.
DRIVER: HELP!

PANEL FOUR
The driver slips and crashes headlong into a gravemarker with painful effect. His gun goes flying.
DRIVER: uk!

In Class Paintings

Suppose to spend 2 weeks on this painting during class, so bout 12 hrs in total but i skipped the 2nd week. So here is what i have for bout 6 hrs.




Oil on Canvas
12 X 16









This lady is the worst model ever! She kept on moving around, falling asleep during the 20 mins poses! Man i wanted to strangle her by the end of the day! Anyway 2 weeks pose.




Oil on Canvas
12 X 16

My Lil sister Jojo

So here's a portrait painting of my little sister, Jojo. Spent NOT ENOUGH time on it. Can be better, she looks kinda sad in the painting but from the photo reference she looks happier in comparison! hahahah!


Oil on Canvas
12 X 16

My Buddy Manar

Here's a portrait painting of my buddy Manar, monochromatic pallette. Spent bout 30 hrs in the progress of painting. He gave me a hard time to paint!



Oil on Canvas
12 X 16

Fate Hunters

For Class, we had to do an adaptation from literature so i had no idea what to pick, well i have been reading this Taiwanese novel called The Fate Hunters. It's awesome if you like vampires and stuff. anyway i just decided to choose to illustrate a small section, 4-5 pages and here are 2 of the 5.

Bison

Just for fun, did a doodle of Bison (from Street Fighter) in class. So i took the sketch and drew it over again on Bristol paper and Inked it!













11 x 14
Ink on Bristol

Portrait Painting wk 1-4

These are oil paintings done in my Portrait painting class, about 6 hrs average.

Monk vs Demons: Layouts

Here are some layouts from my original story, hopefully these won't give a way too much of the story!

Inoue Takeheiko Last Manga Exhibition

I visited Tokyo over summer and i managed to catch a glimpse of my favourite manga artist, Inoue Takeheiko exhibition! It was very inspiring, after seeing his original pages, with the pencil drafts, inks, and his gianormous Sumi Ink paintings! I was totally blown away!!! It made me realise i have a very long way to go as a comic book artist!

Chinese Storm Poster

Chinese Storm, photoshop

Central Hong Kong

Here is a digital painting, based on Central in Hong Kong. This is kinda my first digital painting, everything is a lil on the soft, too airbrushy.

Photoshop
Spring 2008

Old Master's Copy: Rembrandt: Girl at the Window

Here's my final project for my head drawing class, we were told to copy a Rembrandt painting. I picked this painting because the other portraits that he painted were dress with the clown ruffles stuff, and i also wanted to challenge myself with painting children. The facial structure of children are not as defined as adults. I spent about 30 to 40 hours on this painting.


Oil on Canvas
20 X 24
Spring 2008



Here is the original version by Rembrandt.

Portrait Paintings

Hey guys, sorry about the quality of the pictures, since it's hard to photograph oil paintings since there's a shine to the paint, but you'll get an vague idea.



Week 11






Oil on Canvas
11 X 14
Spring 2008



Week 12






Oil on Canvas
11 X 14
Spring 2008




Week 13






Oil on Canvas
11 X 14
Spring 2008




Week 14






Oil on Canvas
11 X 14
Spring 2008




Week 15






Oil on Canvas
11 X 14
Spring 2008

羅剎島 Last Page

Well here we are this is the last page of the story, when we find out the women are actually demons.


Pencil on Comic Board
Spring 2008





Here's the inked version




Ink on Cardstock
Spring 2008




Digitally Painted version




Corel Painter, Photoshop
Spring 2008

羅剎島 pg. 8

Here is the 2nd to the last page of the story






Pencil on Comic Board
Spring 2008




This is the inked version.







Ink on Cardstock
Spring 2008



Digitally painted version






Corel Painter, Photoshop
Spring 2008

The Raksasa Island 羅剎島

Here's a story that i picked up to illustrate in comics, i read this story in a Chinese book on mystical creatures and legends. So here is a background story and a rough translation of the story.

A Rakshasa is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. They are also called man-eaters or cannibals.

The appearance of these demons can vary, long arms, fearful shapes, some were fat, and other was thin, drafts, exceedingly tall. Some had one eye and one ear. Some had the heads of donkey; some had head of horses and elephants. They appear black as soot, with hair yellow as lightning, looking like a thundercloud. Formidable tusks, flaming hair and insatiable hunger. Usually live in forests, catching animals and eating them.

A female Rakshasa is called a rakshasi, and they can disguise as beautiful woman. Both male and females are shape shifters, illusionists, and magicians.

So the story goes, there were 500 merchants went to sea, they encountered a huge storm and their ship sank to the bottom of the sea. All of the 500 merchants swam to an island near by. And that island is actually Rakshasi lived, those demons disguised as beautiful women, who wore beautiful clothes and jewelry, they bathed in scented water. Once the demons found out that there were visitors, they all rushed to the shore and greeted the 500 surviving merchants. With their sweet words, seduction, and even requested to marry the merchants and have family with them. The merchants couldn’t resist the offer and seduction the rakshasi brought them into their city of coz the merchant doesn’t know what kind of stuff are they getting into.

The city was filled with beautiful architectures, lots of amazing scenery. But the women told the men not to approach the south of the island and apparently that area is cursed. A curious merchant begins to question. So he took off to the south in the middle of the night, when his demon wife was asleep. On his way to the south he heard moaning and screams, he followed the sound and came upon another city surrounded by high walls. So the merchant climbed onto a tree, which was near the high walls. He saw the city was filled corpses, and the stench of decomposing flesh got to him. Some of the corpses were not complete, some only had the top half of the body, and some were still alive. One of the men noticed the merchant on the tree and warned him about the women were actually demons. And that is their doing, the dying men explained what happened to them and told the merchant to go back and warn the others and about how to escape from the island.

The method to escape is on every April 15, a huge flying horse will fly above the island, and the merchants took the dying men’s advice and left the island.

「羅剎」是佛教傳入中國後才廣為人知的，最早在《梨俱吠陀》這本書裏就提到了。《梨俱吠陀》寫於佛祖誕生約五百年前，是古印度經典之一，裏面提到的羅剎，梵名是 raksasa，又可譯為羅剎娑，意思就是可畏、速疾鬼、護者。另外還有羅剎女，梵名 raksasi。傳說中羅剎長得很難看，膚色很黑，還紅髮綠眼，相反的羅剎女就美得不得了，還有魅人的魔力。

《佛本行集經》和《出曜經》都提到一個故事，說以前有五百商人出海，遇到風暴，船被吹到羅剎國，地點是楞伽國，亦即今日的錫蘭島。那裏全是美麗動人的羅剎 女，引誘商人結為夫婦，不過卻特別叮嚀不可到城南方去，一個商人起疑，偷偷去看，發現那裏是一座鐵城，城中污穢不湛，遍地死屍，有的被吃了一半，也有被吃 了一半還沒斷氣的，還有瘦得快死的活人。那些活人告訴商人，他們也是因船難而來到此地的商人，和羅剎女生兒育女後，羅剎女就開始吃他們，甚至吃自己的子 女。

Here's the first page of the story i have about 9 pages in total but i'm still working on the pages in the middle.

Pencil on Comic Board

Spring 2008

Ink on Paper

Spring 2008

Monkey King 孫悟空

Here is a value study for a digital painting, some of you might not know this character, he's the Monkey King 孫悟空 from the Journey to the West 西遊記.
This design is for a comic book cover.




Pencil on Paper
Spring 2008

And here is a colored version. I painted this on Corel Painter and a little bit of Photoshop. This took me awhile maybe about 3 weeks in total on and off.






Corel Painter, Photoshop
Spring 2008

Here is the pencil sketch of the interior page from the story. The story goes on the journey to the west, the flaming mountain is blocking their path. Therefore Monkey King went to borrow the Iron Fan from the Iron Fan Princess, but there were some drama between the two, so basically she refuses.


Pencil on Paper
Spring 2008

Here is the digitally painted version. It's not great, wish i had more time with the coloring! And the inking isn't great coz i inked with Painter, actually i prefer inking by hand.




Corel Painter, Photoshop
Spring 2008

Here is the inking which i did by hand, which i was going to overlay on top of the digitally painted version, but it wouldn't line up right! even i messed around with the layer on photoshop, anyway you may notice there are more details and the line weight is better controlled on this one.



Ink on Tracing Paper
Spring 2008

Ryuk from Death Note

This is Ryuk, he's a death god from Death Note the manga. pretty cool character design, it has some Japanese demons characteristics mixed with some Western monterish-ness!








This is a huge pain, this whole image is painted with Dots, lots and lots of freaking Dots! This is called optic mix, all of these colors used is straight out of the tube. They're place right next to each other, so from a distance your eye automatically mix the two colors together! This is called Optic Mix. This painting took me about 30 hours plus!!!



Gouache on illustration board
2" X 4"


This is the value study.







Pencil on Paper
4" X 6"

Children of the Damned

This is one of my favourite drawing, we were given a passage to illustrate we had 2 choices, one is Snow White and second one is Zombie Kids. And of coz i chose the zombie kids. So the sotry goes there was a car accident, a teacher was on a school bus after the crash she got off the bus, and while she was still dizzy and stuff she avoid a decaying thing, then she saw her students' corpses were scattered around lying lifelessly, and the next moment, they all got up and started walking towards her. So I chose to illustrate party when the students are walking towards her, without the school bus.

Everything here is in perspective, shadows, reflections, the characters and so on.

Pencil on paper
16 X 20
Fall 2007

CAPAS mural

Here is something older, i did this mural in college for a student organization called Center for Asian Pacific American Students, aka CAPAS
The dragons actually spells CAPAS! There are some philosophy behind it, about elements and the quality of the 2 elements here! But i kinda forgot what it's all about! I was also inspired by the Japanese Woodblock print by Hokusai, hence the waves. This was the first time for me to work so big, and i wish i had more time to get more detail in but hey! S*it happens

This mural took me about a month and a half! with about 2 weeks of rain!

Acrylic on Bricks
Spring 2005

Verses

Here is a Hip Hop show flyer i designed, i did the graffiti design!

Self Portrait

Meh! Just a lame selfportrait that i did for class.
Actually i spent hours sitting in the bathroom with a desk lamp in my face doing this drawing, coz i only have a mirror in the bathroom!


Charcoal, White Conte on Toned paper
18 X 24
Spring 2007