Skeletor!!! Arch-nemesis of He-Man. The more I think back about the series, the more I realize perhaps He-Man was gay. The pink tunic is a dead give-away.

This was done in Illustrator, a software that is strangely enough, seldom used for Illustration (bt students). I was trying to go for a really contrasting background to clash with Skeletor’s sickly blue. I always imagine Skeletor as a wierdo shaman but wikipedia tells me that he’s the brother of some king and was formerly a man named Keldor.

A Goblin and his pie.

Stealing a lady’s fresh pork pie,
Could only be done by someone sly,
Someone nimble and fingers fleet,
Someone cunning and quite discreet,
So enjoy your bounty my filching shrew,
For if you don’t tell, then I won’t too.

I’m wondering if a scanned line-art would work better than something draw directly on-screen using a tablet. Or does it not matter? An australian colleague commented on the flow of lines being different but I think that’s for another time.

Fixed the nose somewhat, the earlier line-art looked a little too much like he was digging his nostrils. Had fun doing the pie though. Maybe I should have cut out a slice to reveal was within. A hot steaming pork pie.
I personally feel I should have added in some steam rising from the pie.

I’m not on a rhyming kick, it is just that I happen to post them in batches.

T’was a dwarf with a beard,
Who dissed a bright wizard,
They started to fight,
Got his beard set alight,
He was short but brilliantly bright.

The Mamak Man

Thosai thosai on the pan,
Where oh where is the mamak man?
It’s been hours since I last told,
the mamak man, my food is cold.

There’s a fly in my dhal,
It’s simmering there,
And if I’m not mistaken,
It is perched on a hair.

My teh ais is watery and my kopi is weak,
And my roti was probably from sometime last week,
So mamak man bring me my thosai please,
For I did not order this naan with cheese.

lash CS4 is out,… well the whole suite is out anyways and it is looking incredible! This is from a Flash animator’s point of view. Bones with Inverse kinematics, 3D tools, upgraded path animation tool are amongst the few fabulous things that are available in the new suite. Move over After Effects!,…

Abstract

For the first time, my class was empty today. Not one, nada, zilch. The students were either busy with other assignments, gormless or didn’t give a darn about it. I was feeling listless and a little abstract so I created this. It calms me somewhat and is a good form of practice in shadows and lighting.

Yein’s reaction to my asking her what this was ,”Aaargh I don’t wanna think!”

Exactly the feeling.

Looking back at my artwork, though plentiful, I realize that I don’t really have a STRONG identity or better known as style. It’s more or less a mix-match of anything I can create utilizing specific software. I think I have a too broad a style when I should really be developing an individual technique which is mine and mine alone.

Will have to look into that.