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Happy New Year 2009

admin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:57:31 +0000

Here is the little card I sent this year …

The happy panda that plant seeds for the future

Weekend watercolor (part 2)

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:34:24 +0000

Water is a very cool medium when you can master it … Unfortunately I don’t … Still, it is quite enjoyable … Even at my level …

How to draw manga ... Head wind

Weekend watercolor (part 1)

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:00:25 +0000

Here is a new water colour painting … The base is from the book “how to draw manga”…

head-wind ... how to draw manga p50

Weekend water colour 2

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:07:36 +0000

For this second water colour piece, I tried again using masking fluid … And once again it was an utter failure … As I was applying the fluid, I could see the ink smudging … I even didn’t start the water colour and just pealed off the fluid already applied … The poor paper was peeling away as I was rubbing it … I am guessing the paper quality of my sketchpad isn’t good enough … Plus the fact my ink isn’t 100% waterproof … Gosh !!!

Water colour with manga characters

The characters above are based on the popular book: How To Draw Manga – Volume 1, p43.

Weekend water colour

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:00:02 +0000

For today’s water colour, I bought some masking fluid. It was a first for me and it went quite wrong. First my (old) brush is completely useless now. I guess there must be some solvent to take off the masking fluid so I will look for a solution to this problem tomorrow … The second nasty point was when I peeled the masking fluid … Some of the paper peeled away with it … I was too scared to use anymore water colour on the paper so I left the characters without any colour … In Photoshop, I added some darker surfaces for the characters’ hair and light shaddows …

Manga characters when the masking fluid experience goes wrong

I will do one more water colour painting tomorrow … But I think I will pass on the masking fluid for now !!!

Water Colour Sunday !!!

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:26:58 +0000

I hope this blog will force me to draw, paint, etc …

Making some water colour every weekend would be nice and with a bit of luck I will keep going … We shall see …

My cousin gave me the link of “The big picture, News stories from photographs. The following photos are from the Beijing Olympics:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/beijing_2008_its_a_wrap.html
I created this water colour painting based on some of the photos … You can try to guess which ones I used … If you have nothing else to do that is !!!

Water colour painting based on Beijing Olympics athletes

Tomorrow I will continue to post sketches from my beloved sketchbook.