Photo Diary – Dubai

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Been in Dubai already more than six months, just get my new camera Fujifilm X100 from SG, so I took some photos from the Dubai Marina & JLT, to test how good the camera is. Still figuring out how to use the most of camera, but from the photo you can tell, it’s extreme sharp and good color quality. Most of the photos are take early morning or evening. Some time, Dubai can be very foggy. There’s one time I jogging at 5:30am, the view is really awesome in marina walk but unfortunately I didn’t bring my camera with me. Wish can meet another foggy morning next time.

Digital Painting – Dubai 01

This is my second week arrive in Dubai, I start new career in this exotic country. Everything looks great so far, it take me a while to get use to hot weather here. I found breath hardly with the hot air when touch the ground. Here’s my first digital painting from my seat in office to outside landscape.

Traditional Media

Some paintings done during my college time. After graduate, work in CG industry for years and busy pick up different skill and do a lot of digital work. I’m sure I don’t have patient to produce such detail painting in traditional media again.

Predator

Predator design for another internal project in my previous company – ST Digital Media. As a concept designer in Asia, people will expect you able to draw “everything” from environment, character design, monster, vehicle…etc. And from cartoon style to realistic. So the challenge has become how fast you can clone a style, pick a subject matter you never touch before and come out something to impress your boss. And trust me, the timeline can be really short.

Figure Drawing 07

It’s been a while, I try to wrap all the sketches from few weeks back.

Speedpainting 01

Recently busy on production to meet a milestone in June, mainly texture job so not much chances to paint in company. Try to do some practice during free time and these are what I get. Before I start, I read some guideline written by Goro Fujita. It’s very well written tutorial to identify the purpose of speed painting. All these painting done with photo reference aside, but paint it without using Eyedroper tool. The objective is to explore wider color key range, mood study and pick up the technique of speed painting. I try not to use too many customize brush and limit myself to paint them in one hour time each. Within an hour, you have to be fully concentrate to capture as much as you can and transfer it into your painting. I tried a few times before but failed by not constrain myself stick to time limitation. These few are getting better as it get the touch of speed paint. Would like to see how far could go.

3D.01 ’07-’08

One of the freelance I did back to year 2007-2008, it was a campaign of Sony Erricson. Initially the the intension is create twenty five 3D caricatures models for pop singer and music performers. As usual when the ambition hit legal issue, I tweaked all my design become neither fish nor fowl. The task was create 25 characters in 3D models within three weeks time, include design process. The final output was 10 pieces of rendering image in 5000X5000 pixel poster. I manage to deliver it on time with another four talented modelers. After that, it come with series of others Miscellaneous job: Poster, model for web…etc.

These two are which I like the most among others. They original not done by me, but I do some modification when posing and rendering them. Post it here just to commemorate it as one of the most exciting & profitable freelance I ever had.

Figure Drawing 06

I try to be more serious about drawing class, so I bring my own newsprint paper and bought some new charcoal pencil (Previously just use some office printing paper). And also set a small goal to achieve: Don’t draw everything in, learn to fade out certain part of body. Other than that, when we drew half way, one of the Digipen people came in and turn on their new set up spotlights, it took 5 minutes to warm up, when that time, magic appear! The model’s silhouette, main light, bounce light suddenly become so clear and make the drawing process become more enjoyable. At that time I really wish to re-draw all the model back, my colleague also have the same thought as mine.

I did last week drawing class as well, the model is really awesome but I feel myself not really catch the charm of her. Wish could have her as model again in near future.

Figure Drawing 05

Another figure drawing session. This time we try longer pose (five and thirty mins) and one hour portrait. This is first time I draw senior caucasian, he have very long legs and hands and when he started new pose, it keep taking me second time to fit him into A3 size paper. Glad to see the stoke apply steady in portraits, but need to practice more to get sharper silhouette. I wasn’t attend a class two week ago and found my sketch last week become weak. Keep reminding myself to attend consistently, now is like rowing upstream, can’t afford to miss out one week of class. I keep tell the student in Digipen, keep practicing by using magazine reference or bring your sketch book around and draw until you hand get familiar with human proportion and pose, then your stroke will flow naturally and know where to stop. Obviously, I haven’t reach that kind of level too.

Figure Drawing 04

This is the first model we use at the beginning of year. The top drawing I purposely crop out the head, it is time to look for others book and see how people approach the figure drawing. I tend to draw the whole figure out, I know some time it’s good to make certain area loose and fake out. Other than that, I also found Conte pencil are great match with news print paper, although it’s only 2D but the line it draws very dark. And news print paper make the stoke don’t go too fast and I could draw and shade the model with one pencil.