Lionel Designs

Human Head

2012-02-11T22:43:00.003+08:00

Human Muscle Anatomy

2012-02-10T22:39:00.003+08:00

Figures referenced from posemaniacs

Quickie

2012-02-07T12:40:00.000+08:00

Bang bang bang

2012-02-07T02:17:00.001+08:00

Spaceship

2012-02-06T22:57:00.000+08:00

Master Designer Workshop 2012

2012-02-06T07:10:00.001+08:00

~~Below are recordings from the master designer workshop in presentation order. I apologize about the quality (and some chatterings) but they are captured using my mobile phone...~~ Sorry I need to take them down... Dun think I have the rights to distribute them...

P.S. Kekai is really a funny guy....

Structura 2: The Art of Sparth

2012-02-03T10:24:00.000+08:00

Look what came in the mail this morning... Structura 2: The Art of Sparth!

I think Structura 2 offers more of Sparth's works than his previous one: Structura, including a few works of Halo and some brief 'tutorials' as shown above.

You can see more images from Parka's Blog and wait for his review (soon... I think). Alternatively, you may purchase it from Amazon.

Turt

2012-02-03T00:12:00.002+08:00

If I were BATMAN...

2012-02-01T22:20:00.001+08:00

2012-01-27T13:39:00.002+08:00

Painting

2012-01-20T21:45:00.001+08:00

Away - NS ATECH 2

2012-01-19T06:13:00.002+08:00

I have been away for my 2-week-in-camp training for ATECH 2. What the acronym means I have absolutely no idea, but it's sort of like an exam for a National Service unit.

Finally, it's over although it's really tough. My battalion got a good recon 2A! Hope that I can get back to do more stuff after Chinese New Year, but just wonder if the other guys are doing any work?

And lastly, happy Chinese New Year to all of you!

Ships

2012-01-07T14:57:00.001+08:00

Dragon

2012-01-05T13:56:00.002+08:00

Cave

2012-01-04T21:09:00.002+08:00

Soldier + Walker

2012-01-01T22:43:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year to everyone!

Recap of 2011

2011-12-31T20:53:00.001+08:00

Selected work in 2011. Hope I can get much much better in the new year!

Color Paintings

2011-12-30T00:46:00.000+08:00

Faces are hard as usual...

Fispider

2011-12-28T21:19:00.000+08:00

Value - Animals, Bugs

2011-12-26T17:03:00.000+08:00

Value Practice

2011-12-25T21:36:00.001+08:00

Snowy Mountains

2011-12-21T00:58:00.003+08:00

Practice

2011-12-20T21:50:00.002+08:00

Mecha: Ungua

2011-12-20T00:18:00.002+08:00

Challenge at The7Guys

Value Studies

2011-12-15T16:38:00.004+08:00

Movie Screenshots: Outlander 2008

2011-12-14T00:16:00.003+08:00

Value Studies 45min

2011-12-12T15:15:00.001+08:00

45min studies with different brush, might go for 30min ones next time

Value Study: Horse & Jockey

2011-12-11T21:40:00.001+08:00

Movie Screenshots: 星を追う子ども

2011-12-11T17:44:00.001+08:00

(Huge file size, takes a while to load...)

Very nice colors

Movie Screenshots: Assassin's Creed: Lineage

2011-12-10T21:02:00.001+08:00

Movie Screenshots: Apocalypto

2011-12-10T21:00:00.001+08:00

Animal Value Studies

2011-12-10T00:59:00.001+08:00

Low contrast ones are hard to paint...

Included a WIP video for the frog/ toad study:

Question: Smart Learning...How?

2011-12-09T00:24:00.001+08:00

I do not know why I drew all these as well...

My first post not to post some work and actually ask a question: How to learn things the smart way? This is not a post to list the different ways of learning things, but to ask you what & how do you define learning things smartly. I have been told learning smartly is to learn with the objectives in mind... but how? Any examples? Or that the smartest way to learn is to practice more?

I would hope to get some input thru the post comments (If you have read up to this sentence, please make a point to leave a comment on this topic, thanks), be it personal opinion or that you feel this post is ridiculously retarded...

I guess that you might see this post first on the posts listings, take up to a minute to think first, then leave your comments.

Value Studies

2011-12-07T21:36:00.001+08:00

Probably looks better when it's smaller scale... tortoise's shell leveled too bright...

Hand Studies

2011-12-02T22:50:00.001+08:00

Value Practice - Another Face

2011-12-01T15:16:00.001+08:00

Ship

2011-12-01T10:57:00.001+08:00

Drawing practice

In my head

2011-11-30T16:01:00.001+08:00

Hue Test

2011-11-30T13:04:00.001+08:00

The Munsel Hue Test
Try out this hue test, quite hard... got a score of 35. Hope can improve the score later on!

Value Practice

2011-11-29T21:35:00.001+08:00

Random Practice

2011-11-28T22:22:00.001+08:00

Playing with custom brushes

Faces in value [100th post!]

2011-11-28T16:04:00.001+08:00

Needa train my value...

Male Face [Updated]

2011-11-28T01:15:00.001+08:00

Updated with some minor changes, more practice needed!

Screenshots: Tekken Blood Vengeance (2011)

2011-11-27T22:53:00.001+08:00

Quite surprised with the rather fluid animations. Nice, recommend to watch, though I don;t play Tekken and don't understand why they can transform...

[Screenshots are huge, needa wait to load...]

Some character designs, luv the soldier design.

Prop & Environment designs

Forgot to add this girl in hot action~!!

Female Face

2011-11-27T17:03:00.001+08:00

Followed a tutorial, almost vomited blood... a few hours' work, not perfect yet...

Screenshots: Skyrim

2011-11-26T23:46:00.001+08:00

Been adventuring in Skyrim for the past few days... Got a few screenshots of some of the designs ( unclear, taken with my handphone, ran on the crappy laptop), well... who plays game w/o looking at the cool designs :)
[Images are big in size, wait a while to load]

[1] Paarthurnax [2-3] Typical Dragon [4-5] Dragon 'Shrines' [6] Sky Haven Temple [7-8] Markarth City

[9] Dragon Bone Bridge

[All] Dwarven dungeon in Mzult, I like it!

[1-4] Mzult Environment [5] Enemy dispenser [6] Lighting [7] Chest

Overall the game more or less still follows the 'formula' from Oblivion, but less repetitive and much more interesting. However, I like the designs in Skyrim, would love to get my hands on the art book, but it's kinda expensive... Anyone deciding to sell the art book may contact me :)

Halo Space Viking

2011-11-25T02:23:00.001+08:00

Missed the deadline...

Practice

2011-11-21T14:02:00.001+08:00

DK Animal is back

2011-11-18T13:20:00.001+08:00

Just discovered an updated edition has been published in September:

Product page from DK | Amazon

1 Hour Practice

2011-11-16T14:09:00.001+08:00

Color didn't went well, so changed to monotone

Steampunk Lingerie

2011-11-16T10:04:00.001+08:00

Mini project at the7guys :)

Screenshots: 暗黑骑士铠传 KIBA

2011-11-08T23:39:00.000+08:00

Some screenshots of some nice character silhouettes and designs

Screenshots from Conan: The Barbarian (2011)

2011-11-06T12:05:00.000+08:00

Big images to load, ~500KB per image:

Automaton Arena

2011-11-01T17:22:00.003+08:00

Arena fighting action! Somehow has the 'Big Daddy' feel..

Robot

2011-10-31T00:14:00.002+08:00

Robot inspired by Ben's theme: Fighting Automatron... but from Italy~!

Practice from reading "The New Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain"

2011-10-24T23:44:00.001+08:00

Found my old practice drawings while reading Betty Edward's "The New Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain"... Some are pretty funny while some are nice, esp. portraits of myself (ahem :D)... Wonder how I can do that 2 years back, don't think I can do that now...

Book list

2011-10-24T23:38:00.001+08:00

It has been less than 2 years and my shelf is stuffed with reference books and art books... Before my days at FZD, I dun really have much books, max 10... but now, 1 shelf is occupied, onward!

Building Pixel Art

2011-10-24T22:46:00.000+08:00

Thumbnail Stage

Final Version

Recent Artbooks

2011-10-22T00:19:00.000+08:00

Read 2 art books that I bought recently:

The Art of Alice: Madness Returns - A bit disappointed... with most of the environmental concept being really 'conceptual'... not much stuff to see, although a few nice pieces... Surprisingly that most of the designers are chinese where I originally thought all are ang mohs...

Valkyria Chronicles Design Archive - at least 10x more worth than Alice art book. Nice character & vehicle design. Worth to buy (IMO).

Imperial Ship

2011-10-21T23:59:00.000+08:00

Long time since I use textures, but the china building really giving me a hard time... then might as well use some more. These are referenced from my previous designs...the airship looks kinda.... weird???

Claw Mk V + Scout

2011-10-19T20:52:00.000+08:00

Beach + Explorer

2011-10-17T16:03:00.000+08:00

Much much more space for improvement

Paint from Photos

2011-10-14T20:44:00.003+08:00

Just do more practice (-_-!)

Recent Books/movies

2011-10-13T21:56:00.003+08:00

A list of what I have been reading/ watching:

From left:

[Book] Color and Light by James Gurney - Great book from a great artist
[Book] Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - Presents some statistics about being success...
[Movie] Soylent Green, 1973 - Movie whereby resources are depleting by the 2022, there's even a scene where they just load people in rubbish truck-like trucks... probably used for anti-riots.
[Book] Getting Things Done by David Allen - haven't read past the 1st page...

Troll Movie inspired Value Quickie

2011-10-12T23:50:00.001+08:00

The creature needs more work...

Odin Sphere Fan Art: Gwendolyn

2011-10-12T21:41:00.004+08:00

Trying out to do a fan art

Creatures from movie

2011-10-12T00:55:00.001+08:00

Following screenshots were taken from a japanese movie: 牙狼～RED REQUIEM～ ( Garo the Movie: Red Requiem ). It's not a nice movie, but just looking out for the design aspect... Click to enlarge.

Interesting design with a executioner's chopping board at the front

More of a typical Japanese evil monster design

Lion Head Graphic

2011-10-10T16:54:00.003+08:00

Lion head for fren

Dragon + Summoner

2011-10-10T16:53:00.002+08:00

Need more practice...

Steve Jobs & Apple

2011-10-06T22:41:00.002+08:00

Steve Jobs,
Nice of you to bring about so many great products. Hope I could be someone like you. This caricature is for you.

Thank you & bye~.

Steve Jobs is gone and my iMac is going too, while my 6 yr-old ipod nano is still going strong... I'll probably never get an iMac again...

Apple products are great but recently I feel they are getting worse... Anyway, in time we'll see.

Giant Mecha Value Quickie

2011-10-06T21:01:00.000+08:00

Value Quickie

Dragon + Knight

2011-10-03T17:12:00.001+08:00

Edited dragon's eyes

Fly fly fly... [Updated video]

2011-09-29T01:20:00.004+08:00

Included a painting progress video ~30mins (no audio), right after the sketch is done:

Painting veterans PLZ give suggestions!

Bird bird

2011-09-28T13:26:00.001+08:00

[Updated] Add more fur and contrast to bird bird

Portfolio Website

2011-09-24T20:54:00.004+08:00

I've set up another site for my portfolio (spent quite some time): http://lioneldesigns.xtreemhost.com to get rid of the old one. Xtreemhost's slow in loading but well... it's free.

Open to comments & suggestion, esp the pieces I've chosen.

Delivery [Updated]

2011-09-20T00:32:00.000+08:00

Walker + Soldier [Update w/ more trash]

2011-09-18T02:35:00.003+08:00

Updated with more trash lying around

Walker + Flame Soldier [Updated]

2011-09-17T23:09:00.000+08:00

Walkers with flame soldiers

Random painting

2011-09-17T16:53:00.000+08:00

Emo Doodle: Gals

2011-09-15T00:51:00.004+08:00

Studies from Photos

2011-09-14T14:34:00.000+08:00

Yellow Ship

2011-09-13T00:14:00.001+08:00

Probably a bit too saturated?

Samurai vs Cyclops

2011-09-12T00:06:00.003+08:00

Value Painting: Boxy Ship

2011-09-10T23:38:00.003+08:00

Sandworms?

2011-09-10T00:53:00.003+08:00

Mecha Design

2011-09-09T00:52:00.000+08:00

Walker + RPG Soldier

2011-09-08T16:46:00.000+08:00

... just need more practice... and design...

Starting with Sketchup

2011-09-06T23:30:00.000+08:00

Getting started with Google Sketchup, day 1... LOL, just facets..

Painting Human from Photos

2011-09-05T19:27:00.000+08:00

[Referenced] Seriously need more practice...

Playing with custom brushes

2011-09-03T01:00:00.002+08:00

Playing around w/ custom brushes & painting random characters

Design practice: Tank

2011-08-29T23:16:00.004+08:00

Probably something triggered this idea to design a tank. Went through some tanks models as references , because I know nothing about tanks...

Silhouettes stage

Not sure the direction I want to proceed with...

Draft 1 w/ some details

Final w/ callout

Comments anyone?

Life Painting from Photos

2011-08-28T00:05:00.000+08:00

Painting with reference

Value Painting

2011-08-25T23:20:00.002+08:00

Paint from Photos

2011-08-25T21:00:00.000+08:00

Caricatures: FZD-02 aka the7guys

2011-08-24T17:18:00.001+08:00

My FZD buddies (the7guys)!

Behold... the 7 guys!

Had a good time drawing but a headache deciding their outfit. Like it?!

Caricatures: Ex-colleagues

2011-08-24T17:14:00.000+08:00

Some of my ex-colleagues

Glider Design

2011-08-21T21:55:00.003+08:00

Glider Design from previous practice:

Painting suits

2011-08-20T21:44:00.000+08:00

7Guys Weekly Theme - Mount for Undead Sword Saint

2011-08-18T11:25:00.003+08:00

Another continuation for Undead Sword Saint character at the7guys: Mount

Initial ideas include mechanical vehicles etc...but still decide on a creature mount.

Green dots denotes selected ideas for further considerations


Lineart for 'Dragnought' + orthographic views

Painting, but seems not up to standard yet... Haiz ...

More to come (maybe)...

Air Glider

2011-08-12T00:09:00.000+08:00

Just painting prac.... Did not plan much... Haiz.

Just wanna piss someone off...LOL