Happy *lazyass* Hollidays!!

Hi Everyone! Thanks for looking and your comments! ^0^ Sorry for the lack of updates... you can blame the lazy holidays!

Sorry, for real, because i have another round of Thunderdome comin, i won't be updating till after Jan 20 or so. but stay tuned! i am gonna start doing the comic book pages preview every month after that. it's roughly going to be 35 pages, i should get it ready by end of May, so that's 2.2 pages per week....! @____@

Have a great New Year!
sw

a swift change of gear

i just started this weekend, excited by an idea of my friend, to work on a comicbook(!) for Comic Con. i am super hyped, so u will be seen some roughs on this blog in the coming days to July! ^0^ i am basing my story on Oscar Wilde's children story "The Young King", but the twist being it takes place in a fantacy land, with Chinese and Arabic influences.
Best of luck to moi! (very lazy so i need it :()

sw

Homage to Mead Schaeffer

Inspired by my favorite illustrator. in progress... i am a very slow painter. :(

Fooling around with artrage... fun program! kinda hard to control the edges tho.

The Great Discovery

Finally! LMS 3rd round announced! hope u like this piece....

Honey,

U left me in the garden last night and locked the door. around midnight it started raining, and gnomes came out and hide in my hair. we discuss soils and clouds and good weather. So this is how u found me this morning. u said, "how fun was it?"



Just Kidding. :) it's just a self portrait, more fantasy then from any photos. i wish it rains more in San Diego.

Nerd Fest

Me and a lot of friends are booking up a whold role at "The Bridge"'s IMAX theatre next Sunday to enjoy "Open Season". We heard it's an awesome experience! ^_____^ yeah... we are such nerds.
i am going to stop posting till about Nov 7, because of the LMS competition. i am just gonna work on my piece in secrecy this time around, so it will be more fun when it's revealed! i am sad i wouldn't be able to share the steps with u bloggers... oh well.

smell u later~~
sw

update~
the results for the calendar are gonna be posted in the FF section oct 6 for all your CAers that check my blog. ^______^ there will be an anonymous voting. so anyone who seen this piece on my blog, please don't tell anyone or say it on the site to be fair to the other players. thank you!

Calendar update

This piece dragged on for so long, and i didn't work on it at all... *____* but oct 6 is the deadline, so i need to remind myself to squeeze some changes in:
1. the old man's face and body need definition;
2. the girls' bodies and faces need changes;
3. clean up the trees and background shapes;
4. pull in photoshop to do edges at the end.

hopefully i fit all this in! ^_______^

Hi Guys,
Sorry i have been absent and with no work to show, but i have just been hanging out with mom last month. it was quite a good break, and i promise i will step up and do some work now! have some ideas, gonna try them out. ^_______^
the near finish version of the pic. i might clean it up a bit to send for the society of illustrators competition.

not done yet again.... lazy lazy lazy ^____^

In case anyone's wondering, the deadline for the calendar is extended again to Sep 30! so i have all my time dedicated to the TD piece. ^____^

the ladies starting to show their true colors...

Watched "Illusionist". Great movie. Philip Glass' score was impeccable. ^____^

By the way: the thing that the man is holding is a cage. hence the escaped bird. hence the title "Escape". Very unclear right now. Hope that gets better with time. ;-)

Thunderdome 2

Ummmm... who ever is my direct opponent in this round of LMS2, please don't look! i am gonna update my thunderdome images here... this is the first draft.



different color variation:

Not done! but i am quite burned... going out for a movie and some pancake i think will help... ^___^

Pinup Calendar entry for CA.org

Guess what season this is?



still need to color it. :)

Comic Con!

All right... havn't been working that much on personal stuff... but want to drop a line here about how wonderful this heaven called "San Diego Comic Con" is....... GOD!!! all my heros walking up and down the eisles, smiling at us mortals.... unreal!!!! some of the amazing artists i met for the first time:
Mike Mignola! Ragnar! Craig Elliot! Jon Foster! Ashley Wood! Phil Hale! Sean Galloway! Bernie Wrightson! Peter Deseve! George Pratt! Bill Sienkiewicz! James Jean!

yep. it's unbelivable. i know! god i wish i could buy an Ashley Wood original.... they are F**king awesome in person... almost shocking, i had to go sit down... damn... anyways, i am so inspired i really should stop talking and start working now. See u guys!

Finally it's here

So, um... yeah.

this is it.
i don't like it. mainly because it shows how i overwork and go too far into details that i would not do traditionally. u all got to slap me next time i start zooming in.

I Freaking PROMISED myself i will stop doing this. sooner the better.

best,
sw

Holding off All updates on this till after the first round pics are posted..... ^____^

what??? i am not getting lazy!!!!.... not yet at least....

working from back to front, just tightening everything up... man the end of competition is coming up fast...

I want to thank everyone who has helped & commented on this piece. ^__^ i have a clearer idea of what i want to do now, and i hope u guys like how it's going as well.

thank you.

too little changes, too little time

yeah for monday

did anyone else have a fabulous Memorial holiday? Good! ^O^! i did a little bit of painting, but now it's off with "Dreamfall"! reunited with my homegirl, April Ryan! Damn i love her. <3
hope u all diggin' this. ignore the weird things the textures are doing... i will fix it sometime next week. hopefully.

it's like pulling teeth, huh?

little by little

still trying to find the vibe of the piece. slowly shifting my original idea. gotta give the monster what it wants, don't we?

rented "Eros" today. shockingly good for a wang kai wei film. two thumbs way up.

refined a little

Hopefully this will get some love this weekend... i seriously need to work on this really really hard. it's not doing what i wanted at all.




can't help but did a little update.

sucky sketches anyone?

today there was a severe sunset. intense. which reminds me how little i have seen them recently. i mean, i am almost 25, and there are only two sunsets that i remember vividly. makes me want to move to where King Hong lives. i bet they have great sunsets there all the time. sunsets so beautiful i might drive off the cliff without realizing. Be careful, David! @_____@

a little bit of update ...

;)

still on the way!

damn! i thought i could finish it today! and now i look at it....


give me a couple more weeks.

i just realize today, i been drawing all these years and i always thought i am only "mildly" into art, that i could one day just say "that's it" and walk away and do something else, like be a food critic or a savage or sth. but noooooo. i am so addicted and i will probably die thinking about my "next painting". *____* a sad realization, but i gotta stick to it.

don't judge me, it's not done yet. ;-)

here they are, in the order of as i did them on the train to LA.

E3 was fun, at least for me, since it's my first time there. cool games previews, didn't get too much freebies(sad), and the longest line i waited in was at starbuck's. hope u all had fun as well. ^___^

e3 tomorrow!!!!!!! ^0^

in case you can't tell,

i am super excited.

not so good

well, not very good... i really slack the quality to get one done every night. hopefully they get better with time.

DUDE!!! can't believe i fall off the wagon already!!!!!!! !___! i had to play chauffeur for a couple of friends without cars today... just got in the door! i want to apologize to everyone that checks this blog(and myself) for making a promise of posting and breaking it the very next day..... sorry! TOMORROW!

!_____!

Great Weekend!

i finished The Hobbit(great), I brought Dreamfall longest journey 2(praise target!), and i watched Black Narcissus(bought it right away) and Secret and Lies(old favorite) on TV! hahahahahaha. even get one colorkey done for the dream book(FINALLY!!!!!) hopefully i will be able to finish one every night from now on! ^____^

Hope you feel better! ^0^

silly little witch i did today...

done or NOT done.... ?

i had the part I of my perfect dream.

i was working on a pirate ship as an archeologist. it's the grandest ship i have ever seen, everybit as cool as the one in Disneyland, and ten times more masts and yards, and each one had a pirate guarding it.
i was in my cabin looking through a telescope, scouting locations for our treasure hiding purposes. this port suddently came into view, with beautiful houses that look like the buildings from atop the fancy cookie jars. i remember feeling bumped out because i didn't have my digital camera with me. we went abroad, looked around, and enter this cave. it was dark and dangerous. however, we were able to evade most of the unknown dangerous creatures by swinging our torches at the darkness, and forming a circle. i saw a big empty entry way slightly to the left, and went towards it absentmindedly. "LOOK OUT! THAT'S A TRAP!" the old captain yelled behind me. it was too late. these black flying creatures started to shoot out of the ground like little canyon balls, and they drag on to me as hard as they can. another young pirate who was caught in the same entry way as me, put me on his shoulders and started to run as fast as he can across this bat field. i opened my parasol and try to fend them off with it. when we finally reach the other side, he put me down, and dropped to the ground. his blouse was darkened by blood. i cried out:"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!......"

and i woke up.

the darkest moment is just before dawn...