Loucille plushie

Loucille was one of the challenging I've crochet. I used the illustration of her as a model and tried several fish patterns I could fine. I tweaked several times with her fins and tail. Instead of using felt I decided to just crochet and stitch her eyes to keep it that soft volume appearance.

beware.... of Hammoid!

just in time for halloween....

well i made some time to finally finish one of my character illustration piece. I have been putting this character aside too long.. and i was like well i'm sick of doing school projects... it's time to give myself some time on honing down my illustration skills. thanx to computer arts project magazine, i was able to get inspired to go a bit crazy on the background. i need to work on environment scenes but i think creating patterns is a good start since i have a huge fascination with colors and patterns.


This is hammoid by the way here's his story:

Hammoid was once a happy hamster.. who enjoy eating his favorite blueberry treat... until one day his life was cut short... the next time he wake up he was turned into a robot.

It's that time again...

well grad school is in session... i am overly filling my plate this semester. Studio, research on thesis topic, rhino class, library job, and freelance illustrator job. I am glad I prepared myself this whole summer just honing down on my sketch skills and learning about digital fabrication. Also, 3D computer might me one of my other niche in design too. Because I just love to play around in rhino. Here's some stuff we have done...

bunny chairs




well this is my character I drew way back in high school. He is revived in colorful scheme and even has his own dance scene. I had fun making his dj table and the dance light floor. I still need to work on the rendering and even naming him!

HappyApathy Character!

well i decided to cartoonized myself and created the character.. HappyApathy... she's my internal creativity where she loves to sketch characters all day long!! i use this for the about site. yeah i may make her into like a paper doll and maybe add more outfits and my ever changing hair styles. I also had fun creating some retro patterns for her shirt! she too loves colors like i do and geometric patterns.

Dandy Thief

This is the kleptomaniac character that's been urging to come out... he's quite shy so it took him a while to come about the world and stealing my stuff sigh.... he's name is Toby by the way...

he may look paranoid but be warned.... he will steal any of your small stuff as seen here.. good thing he doesn't always come with a nice strong bag...


hehe... just a fun story i had.. well i wanted him to be a toy that comes with an accessory like the Munny I had. Maybe people can paint the accessory that he stole to be painted maybe that's what he want people to do for him!

Introducing Vipin the pimptastical Water Sprite and new friends!

well well... just alot of things just came up in my personal side sigh... well i was shopping in Atlanta and stumbled upon some vinyl toys at Urban Outfitters.

I got like three: Munny, Tokidoki cactus pup, and I'm French Dunny.


I like that it's a surprise that you don't know what you're getting until you open them.


the tokidoki pup has been a long time favorite of mine, this is my first tokidoki toy that inspired alot of my cute character designs. although these designers bring some sexiness to their clothing! if you guess they're japanese you're wrong!! lol they're actually Italian designers. I love how now european copies asian style like Japan and that japanese copied the europeans lol. it's like a cycle that doesn't end. well speaking of europeans:





this purple dunny is part of the I'm french series done by several french artists. I love the splattered detail of this dunny. he looks so pissed off haha!

and finally....... my first munny! i got the white one and it gave him a hat as my mystery accessory!



it took me like a day just to paint him. painting him help me ease my anxiety over what happen this weekend... painting him makes me go back to my childhood days and just enjoy the spontaneous of how the paint flows and how i manage to fix his mouth gah! I named him Vipin since it sounds like pimpin haha! The hat just suits him so well. although he's a water sprite i think he's enjoying being on land for now especially wondering around my apartment.

R.I.P Mau... :(

well i meant to post this earlier. i was making mau out of sculpty. The gray one i used was really easy to shape but the white one i had for his legs was horrible! it was so hard to shape it smoothly. the sad this is i burnt mau's head and broke some of his arm. i think because i was using my toaster oven. i'll try to used my real oven later when i get more sculpty. but here's some pic that glorify the days of mau's short lived life in this world.

Kiss moi?

alright well since it's near V-day.... i just finish this new character design. This character just hit me after i was watching Amelie which i highly recommend to watch. It's a feel good movie with elements of artistic scheme and very colorful!!

the idea for this character is that she only can stand when she's leaning (while kissing position) against an object or if you get the fire mage she's kissing hehe.... hmm.. any name suggestions?

well she's related to maggie the mage as you have seen in my previous post and this kiss has a forbidden element oh... solve this mysterious love and why she's risking to do so!!

Vote!

hey guys please please go this link now! I demand you! well... just vote on my mau character. here's the link:

http://www.patchtogether.com/?Designs_Details&Id=42

Vote and make Mau happy!

I'm not dead

well... i decided to enter into a character design/vinyl toy concept contest. These are the two characters so far that i have been rendering. well since my computer is being stupid about illustrator i decided to just go ahead and render it by hand. i may thicken the lines on these characters or not. I just wanted to see how they are in colors.

the first one is Cragon. you may have seen him in the previous post. Cragon is part cat and part dragon. he may be cuddly but he possibly have hard exterior. he breathes fire when he's uberly happy. he has a little alligator as his pet. well... you'll see him later hehe...


the next one is Maggie the Mage. She may seem harmless but watch out with just a wave of her arms she will hover you over her head!! It seems she's lost these day i think she's trying to find her true self by using her powers to find about her past and how she got that bandage?

Dental Floss

Well this is what design methods has been pounding us with. We've been designing new dental floss based on using the methods we learned in class. I wish i had more time to do this design but oh well....

oh the power of tablet....

yay thanx to Wu-Tang i finally used my tablet to render Niku and her friends!! this one of my old drawings from high school that i dug out from my computer. She looks so real i hope i can make a model of her one day gosh i'm so ecstatic!! i can't wait to render more of my characters and maybe more of Niko!!! ^_^

Kitty Gesture and New Character!

hmm.. this some kitty gesture i drew of oliver hehe.... and today i got bored and drew this semi cat/dragon/monster character not sure what his name is... oh and guess who's that chick that's usually falling asleep hmmm.....

Fuu!!

here is Fuu, the lion doll that niko carries around and usually sowing his eyes. I think he's been niko's doll for quite some time but yeah he does come alive in niko's imagination or even if you imagine him too!! :)

Introducing Niko!!

The time has come for me to finally make my niko character come alive hopefully when i make time for her sigh... well this is niko she's the character i had kept under my old sketches from my high school and finally emerge in her color rendered state! enjoy! i will try to color her lion doll that she carries around.

first entry

yay day one: post this is the beginning of new creative ideas to flourish from my mind. Wait till you see some characters i cooked up!! :)

This is Mia and Moby some characters i cooked up in one of my studio class i guess i was thinking about the weird pixel character video from the band, architecture in helsinki.