Soloist Blog

Chess design was featured

2012-03-31T23:29:00.003+08:00

I just noticed that my chess design was featured in thingiverse.com. Happy~
I've modified the models, as I realized that I have to group the parts that supposed to be a same piece in thinkercad, otherwise you might have problem printing them.

The crown of the king will sure have problem printing but for visual purposes I'm not going to change it, haha

If you got a 3D printer do download and print it out~

Chess Design 3D rendering

2012-03-31T21:10:00.001+08:00

Visual for my chess design using the model I did in Tinkercad, render with Kerkythea for sketchup.

Cornetto Love Machine Illustration

2012-03-26T02:46:00.000+08:00

Did the Cornetto Love Machine illustration, it's up in the facebook app, if you happen to play with it, do a snapshot and send it to me~

My Android Nation city design turn into animation

2011-12-07T01:38:00.003+08:00

Visited Ivan recently, he shown me a TVC of SingTel Android Nation, the background was design by me for the Android Nation website, the animation result turn out very nice.

Like it.

for the illustration see here.

SingTel Android site

2011-08-25T14:14:00.003+08:00

This site has been up for sometime, the background were done by me. Suddenly the illustration came alive after Ivan added the animated objects.

Check out the website at:

http://info.singtel.com/android/

Abang Jimat win an Effie award

2011-07-26T16:06:00.003+08:00

I've been working on this project since last year, and getting closer to AJ family although I'm not seeing them very often. I'm quite happy to know this campaign win an Effie awards.

Congratulates to everyone who is involved in this campaign!

Bronze:

CATEGORY: TELECOM SERVICES

Campaign Title: Abang Jimat & Family

Brand: SingTel

Advertiser: SingTel Mobile Singapore

Agencies: BBDO Proximity/MEC

Our Paper Monsters

2011-07-26T15:53:00.003+08:00

Last year Roomism was work in a project of create 2 paper monster for a book.

Like the cover said that you can make your very own amazing papertoys, I can said all of the paper toy in the book are really simple to make, just follow the numbering and stick them together.

I'm not sure whether it sold in any local book shop, you can try to search around.

Or you can order Papertoy Monsters: Make Your Very Own Amazing Papertoys! from amazon.com.

Monster in the circle are our creations. I know you can't see it.

Click the image to order from amazon.com:

Blogger Dynamic Views

2011-04-21T12:55:00.005+08:00

Blogger introduce a new feature call Dynamic Views, personally I quite like it.

It's been a while since I did my last post, not sure when is this cool function was introduced. It let the reader who is more visual lead can enjoy your blog (if your blog got many images) by putting all your images into a Polaroid photo frame, let the image speak for themselves.

Check out the new view of my blog:

http://soloistblog.blogspot.com/view/snapshot

For the setting please see the article below:

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1227173

Singtel Abang Jimat site

2011-04-21T12:05:00.005+08:00

Singtel Abang Jimat site is up, the illustrations were done by me.

I've been working on this project since last year, most of the drawing are black and white in local Malay newspaper, now they are online and in colour.

No all illustrations in this project were done by me, some other illustrators also involve in this, so you might feel that the character seems not consistent in different media, even so all of us are working very hard in a rush timeline giving our best to make it happen. It's my honor to work with so many great people in this project.

I'm looking forward to get myself busier on this project this year.

You can check out the site at the link below:

http://info.singtel.com/personal/communication/AJ

Some screen shots from the site

OIC Portrait Day April 2011

2011-03-29T23:44:00.001+08:00

See you all at OIC Portrait Day April 2011.

OIC Portrait Day March 2011

2011-03-05T23:09:00.002+08:00

Some drawing I did at the OIC Portrait Day March 2011. Try a non-waterproof pen to draw, I'm satisfy with the ink smudge after applying the water colour, it just blend the ink with the colour.

Portrait of Nana

2011-03-02T20:35:00.005+08:00

Just realized that I haven't post anything to this blog for so long. Recently to busy at work, and you know, most of the work can't be posted too soon after it was done.

So this is something that I did for fun, a portrait of Nana. Hope you'll like it.

Test post from my iPhone

2010-11-27T03:07:00.003+08:00

Just found out an app to post from my iPhone. Testing it now. I can even post a photo with it. Nice!
The only thing i don't like is the image I post will be in centerised format, I have to manually edit it with my MBP, not sure whether there is anyway to change it.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Visual

2010-11-14T23:19:00.001+08:00

Some visual done in June.

JJ Visual

2010-11-14T14:04:00.003+08:00

A JJ Acuvue visual I did at June 2010, the girl is sweet~

Black and white illustration

2010-10-23T17:53:00.005+08:00

Rencent work, black and white illustration. They are for a calendar 2010. The result turn out quite nice when putting them on an old paper texture.

Some 3D test rendering

2010-10-23T17:33:00.005+08:00

This is some simple 3D rendering I did few months ago before I bought my MBP. They supposed to be the background of a story that in my mind, a fantasy kind of story. Hope that I'll have time to continue working on them.

OIC 4th anniversary portrait drawing

2010-10-15T00:42:00.004+08:00

Some drawings done during OIC 4th anniversary at The National Art Gallery. I personally quite enjoy, the crowd is very different from the usual Maad OIC Portrait day. Change another drawing pad, texture of the paper is smoother, paper is thinner and more absorbent to water.

Was planning to draw everybody who are posing for us, due to some reason I didn't manage to draw some of the poser. So sorry~

There is a little girl sitting beside him to calm this little boy but i didn't manage to draw her

OIC Portrait Day 02 Oct 2010

2010-10-03T21:54:00.003+08:00

Was late at this portrait drawing section, these are the only 2 drawings I managed to shoot.

Comic Project for BBDO - Abang Jimat

2010-08-31T23:59:00.005+08:00

These are some of the comic I did for BBDO it's about the story of this character call Abang Jimat and his family. Every project is a new to me as I could try different drawing style, so do this one, it's interesting.

Basically the they're main for Malay market so all the dialog are all in Malay. You may see it around Paya Lebar area. Some illustration in some media are not done by me so you might realised there's a bit difference between each media.

Hari Raya period will have more ads in Malay newspaper. Below are just some ads from the art director. Some of them I don't post here as i don't get the layout files from them.

Add in another 2 ads.

OIC Portrait Day at August 2010

2010-08-15T03:01:00.004+08:00

Some sketches that i did at the OIC Portrait Day this August.

This time I tried doing sepia colour on the over all sketch only giving a little saturated colour on some part of the drawing such as one of their t-shirt, only at the later part of the day I did in more colourful way. And also this time I given a thicker outline on the people that actually made them more out standing and more focused.

Some frames from different board

2010-08-03T00:24:00.003+08:00

A very interesting project. Like the craziness.

Old visual

2010-08-03T00:17:00.002+08:00

Some visual I did sometimes ago.

2010 FIFA First Scorer Tshabalala

2010-06-12T02:52:00.004+08:00

The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa first scorer Tshabalala.
I drawn the first scorer of last World Cup Lahm Philipp (see here), so same for this time.

Reference from http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/photo/photolist.html

OIC Portrait Day at June 2010

2010-06-10T01:38:00.005+08:00

This is the 2nd times I using my water colour this year. The first time was at the Portrait Day at March. After the March portrait day I went to buy a brown ink pen until June I finally got a chance to use it. haha~

Now a days I usually do digital drawing as clients often require a digital files and many changes as many of you knew it. When too use to the Undo function, I'm scared of drawing on a paper with ink but I used to draw with ballpoint pen many years ago.

So that's the reason of joining the portrait day is to force myself drawing on paper and draw in a limited time. This remind me when I was still in high school, we used to do sketching on the street, rushing home work like water colour painting or oil painting etc. It require very sharp observation and also good skill.

Too much rubbish~ here are the only 2 sketches that I managed to shoot on that day.

The little man above was hard to draw~ I've tried 2 times but failed end up I change my position and do a quite sketch of him, a bit rough but I quite like it.

This one was the very last drawing on that day, probably because of I've done so many sketches, my hands are warmed up, lines are fine, water colour also in control.