This post is long overdued.

I first posted this series of artwork created to coincide with the Lunar New Year (which took place early February this year) on my Instagram page but I didn't find the time to do a proper post here on the blog. So here it is, in its full glory:

Like many artists, I was super inspired after watching Spiderverse late last year. I really love the art direction of the movie and the way each shot is composed and set. While not a huge fan of chromatic aberration in general (the effect was used awfully in Netflix's Sabrina in my opinion), I appreciated the application in Spiderverse. The effect seemed appropriate for the frame-by-frame visual eye-candy overdose that the filmmakers were going for.

In creating the above fanart, I set to emulate the film's art style. Coincidentally, it aligned with the style I am currently exploring in my art as well (using blocks of solid hues with little to no blending). In preparation for the above piece, I also did simple sketches and paintings. I have never painted black people before and I took this opportunity to learn more about achieving that particular skin tone.

In this exercise, I tried to use the Transpose tool for the first time. It was surprisingly intuitive and easy to pick up!

Did this LOL fanart as part of a in-class demo.

Rexxar rings in the festive cheer.

It's been awhile but I have been working on the Schoolism assignment. As it turns out, I kinda misinterpreted the previous assignment and went off course. Regardless, I will be taking whatever I learned from the lesson and using that knowledge to apply to whatever I intend to do moving forward. Here's my second "assignment" where I include Substance Painter into the workflow.

Created a tribute piece for Stan Lee. I emphasized on the lineart to mimic the comic book illustration style.

Some progress / close-up shots:

Artwork created for a local "Battle for Azeroth" launch party fanart contest. I got second place!

Art trade with my student. He likes to design magazine / movie posters with his furry characters so I did a parody of Singapore's very own military magazine PIONEER with his OC. Here's a version without text:

First time trying out grayscale to gradient map workflow. Seems like a pretty time efficient method!

Doing quick sketches from the upcoming Infinity War movie. Spent about 3h on this. Which hero should I sketch next?