TWISSTII IS BACK

MY FAVOURITE MOLESKINE TOUR IN SINGAPORE

My Favourite Moleskine exhibition is back, after their kick start in Hong Kong. This time, it will begin its second leg of the exhibition in Singapore in Page One in Vivo City from 5th January til 28th Feburary. My moleskine will be featured in the exhibition *blush* . Hope to see you guys there!

RAIN!!!

Long time no post, due to distraction from various awe inspiring books. Thanks Flee, Im enlightened! Heavy rains threaten to flood our pea sized island, driving me indoors with no excuses to go out but to sketch lots at home. Drowsy pets in dreamland are really nice subjects to start, filling page after page of my sketchbook. Hope this makes up for my lack of blog activity :D

Cat Sketch

Cat sketch done in the earlier part of this year, forgotten until now. Done during a boring work day in the workplace :)

MR JUMBO, EARL AND MISS PORKY

Sketched on Paper
Vectors in Freehand
Textures in Photoshop CS

More updates on character designs, all experimenting with using textures. More to come in the pipeline, as I get the hang of it.

Bananas

Sketched pencil on paper
Vectors in Freehand
Texturized in Photoshop CS

Itchy Update

Photoshop CS

Itchy Sketchy

Sketching is great, especially if there are no themes to follow and especially fun in the dead of the night. I can't seem to concentrate in the day, what with the distraction from everywhere. A cup of tea to accompany would be nice too......

Tuxedo Lion

Sketched on paper
Vectors in Freehand,
Textured in Photoshop CS



Been dabbling with the idea of textures recently, after seeing how the use of them can create so many possibilities. Whimsical drawings are a good way to start I figured.

I LOVE CATS!

Canon Powershot A620

I love cats of all shapes and sizes, be it tabby, tri-coloured, blue, black, calico, fat, skinny, furry, strays or domesticated ones. I really can't resist nor explain the invisible magnetic force that draws me to these aloof and tempermental creatures, which domesticated, tend to cause alot of fuss and irritation erasing all the reasons of why they ever look so appealling in the first place. But nonetheless, I love them all.

MY FAVOURITE MOLESKINE MILK MAGAZINE COVERAGE

Twisstii is honoured to be part of MY FAVOURITE MOLSKINE exhibition in Hong Kong. This is part of the much anticipated media coverage in Milk magazine issue no. 269. Featured are various artists from all over Asia, many whom are virtually newbies in the design scene. The exhibition is still on going, stopping at places like Times Square, Harbour City and New Town Plaza. Do drop by if any of you are lucky enough to be there!

Its Raining... Snakes!

Cats these days...they all seem to be outdoing each other with the quality of "gifts" they place on our doorsteps each day. After Pelican complained of having found 2 fat and juicy lizards in her bags from her cats the other day, I got the shock of my life when my cat Twistee came home with a tree snake of some kind in her mouth! She had insisted several times to place it in my Father's room which needless to say her plans were thoroughly ruined!



As they seem to even weirder,my other cat Twiggy insisted on attaching herself like glue to me during an inspirationless sunny afternoon sketch in the garden, thinking that its good to get a tan at the same time. (*0*II)

Room With a View

My room is not as neat as this though...

UPDATES PART 3

Sketchbook Updates Part 2

UPDATES!!!

Its been awhile since I update this space. Here's a sneek peek at what goes on in my sketch book.

New Doodles

Doodles from recently.. I wanted to achieve a whimsical and all so simple look to my illustration away from complicated vectors. Its quite fun to do these actually, once the kick starts ideas begin to surface very quickly. How do they look?

The Cement Garden

For readers into black comedy and coming of age novels, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan could probably satisfy your tastebuds. Published in 1978 by award winning writer of books such as Amsterdam, which won the Booker Prize in 1998, The Comfort of Strangers, The Daydreamer, Saturday, amongst the many. The Cement Garden was also made into a movie, which premiered in 1993 directed by Andrew Birkin. Revolving around the events of four children whose parents died unexpectedly one summer, they were thrown into a world of isolation and darkness to fend for themselves. The decision to keep mum about their mother's death from the outside world so as to keep the family together leads to a chain of events, narrated through the thoughts of Jack, second of four children. It depicts the yearn for adulthood which they now finally have as well as the bittersweet longing for what they can't have. It's easy to finish the book in a single sitting, leaving you with a longing for more.

Random

To vectorise or not vectorise? That was the thought that was going through my mind whenever I create a piece of work. To vectorize meant having crisp and clean lines but all the raw touches in the sketches will be lost. What gives?

Pontiki Fun!

Who would have thought these little humble plastic toy could provide hours of fun on a boring day off from work. Just mindless combinations of silly parts was so much fun. Pontikis are plastics of geometrical shapes with various mini parts that serve as features that one can express creativity that does not even need to make sense. Trading your pontiki parts with friends brings more crazy possibilities! Fun!