this is my entry into pergh.com character redesign competition (refer here). the brief requires designers/artists to redesign or reimagine bujang lapok (i dont have to explain who they are, do i?). done using pencils, ink, photoshop and coreldraw. spent about 2 hours.

my latest piece - influenced by masamune shirow's ghost in the shell character motoko kusanagi, battle angel alita and my very own character "matrigal".

pencils, painter + photoshop. 12 hours.

original pencils:



This post has been edited by azarimy: Sep 15 2007, 06:21 AM

unfortunately, i've almost zero skill in illustrator.

maybe sometime in the future heheheh...

kill jill...



basically taking kill bill's "the bride" (uma thurman) and mix it with ur typical next door school girl. the result? ahem...

first, i achieve this method using painter. basically it's a combination of oil glaze brush and the blender tool. i didnt keep the step by step, but i'll share with u the layers that i did in painter to achieve it. i'm sure u could more or less achieve the same thing with photoshop .



^ this is the base layer consisting of outlines. there's a layer properties in painter called "gel" which is almost similar to photoshop's "multiply", but it adds on the colour, not multiply. so the best way to use this layer is to put it ontop of the layer stack rather than at the bottom.



^ in this layer i laid out the grayscale of the painting. no colours on this layer.



^ this is the final layer which consists of the oil glaze and blender. the oil glaze brush gives the soft colour "glow" especially when u lay it ontop of another layer set in gel mode. i mixed the base colours for the skin before touching up with a dash of pink. then using the blender tool i soften up the skin colours. there's no equivalent tool in photoshop for blender, which is one of the reason why i use painter. however u could achieve similar effect by using smudge tool (although it doesnt blend as well), or using a low opacity brush (which tend to take longer and more tedious).



^ this is the outline layer and the skin layer without the grayscale layer. here u can see the actual skin colour that i used. feel free to refer to it .

i'm a lecturing architect... kih kih kih...

animated gif ala street fighter.
the character is based on my friend's comic character "sabariah tukang sihir", technically a 15 year old hi-school student possessing powers a mixture of charm witches and buffy the vampire slayer.

done using macromedia fireworks 2004.

sabariah vs bakar

This post has been edited by azarimy: Nov 9 2007, 08:11 PM

oh, i know mai very well. we used to date

some of my friends are gonna turn this into a simple flash fighting game, so i'm incharge of the gif sprites. just for fun, nothing much. but there will be another character that oughta poke ur hormons. sabariah's teacher .

gah! my latest piece:




the 3d model was done in sketchup, basically throwing stuff around without really making any sense. i tried to get a feel of chaos, something of a post-war feel. then i exported it in grayscale, and painted over in painter 9.5. added the red ghost there as well. this is the first time ever that i've used the pallette knife tool. pretty nifty. later transferred into photoshop for after effects like highlights, colour dodge etc. finally i went into coreldraw to add some letterings to break the monotone.

seriously, i thought it was claire forlani too.

pencils + painter + photoshop = 6hours.

this is a work i did for a small art-competition organized by pergh.com. if any of u are interested in taking part, join pergh or go directly to the topics. u can view a blog showcasing past competitions here.

no arguments here .

her hair was originally flowing to the right side, parallel to the creature's hair. in that empty space was supposed to be the masthead (title of the comic). but i decided to have a standalone piece...



here's a considerably newer piece.



painter 9.5, painted over the cover of empire's january issue. the masthead and lettering were done in coreldraw, and finally some touch-up in photoshop. the theme is actually to reimagine jiraiya (from naruto). i had this idea to combine the joker (batman) with jiraiya to produce JOKERAIYA... hahahhaa.





This post has been edited by azarimy: Jan 31 2008, 08:01 AM

takde outline. it was traced directly hehehe. below is the original cover:

another one just for fun:



"when splinter meets ham-hams"

(teenage mutant ninja turtles meet hamtaro)