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Related posts: Book Cover Designs 1st Scoop-inspired artworks BFFL Book Cover Designs After the second visit to Scoop to buy more things, I looked around at a few more of their cute stuff and indulge my eyes in them, hoping to spark more inspiration. Predictably, it happened and so I painted two pictures on my sketch block.   They don't really look as good in computers as they look in real life though. So why not digitize them? :D I swear, the second one, compared to the digitized final version, the traditionally painted version looked like a hot mess, especially the geometric shapes and lines.

Thought I might do something doodlish and whimsical again. And obviously this is inspired by Foster The People's "Supermodel" album art but since this is traditional art I can't really do a perfectly crisp one. Plus, without a scanner, this is a pretty good shot that I had of it. First, it was just an excuse to waste this orange/brown marker. And it's starting to look pretty good but after a while I figured out the lineart needs to be thickened again, this time with the help of a red inky pen. Upon coloring, I thought I could use just the orange-brown marker to doodle the background lineart, but instead it ended up too dark so I decided to color the background first with an orange color pencil and THEN draw the shapes with the marker. Sadly this way the marker will run out of ink and that's when I decided to just use a stronger brown color pencil instead. Drawn before the bright orange color pencil splashes into the bg. Initially I wanted to use ...

[ Part 1 ] Came across more sketches of impromptu logo designs I made with classmates due to our assignments needing groups. Ok, the last one might need more color schemes and altered bits tested on them. But they all have possibilities.

Back. With more notebook designs (just like how I made notebook cover designs too precisely last year ). I'm still inspired by Scoop and all the notebook covers they sold in that store, so this time I'm trying to draw my characters from BFFL in a different style. This oughtta be fun. First, the lineart. And then I colored the patterns first with watercolor just to test out if the patterns would look nice as how I planned. I wanted to create that effect which makes it look like the drawings are cut-outs from different pieces of paper pasted on pre-painted surfaces. I love the texture but too bad I don’t have a scanner right now, so the writings look unclear.   And finally, I took back the lineart pieces and colored them digitally based on the watercolored ones. The result? Not bad. I   also fixed the writings (and a bit of the lineart) and made them pop. Although I still wished I put textures on the patterns but this is good enough. But this time, the chara...

So why not try a new art style for the new year? My family were buying stuff at Scoop to give to our friends and I was totally inspired by the artworks of the stuff sold there. There's a lot of stickers, notepads, diaries, drawing books, envelopes, color pencils and more. Practically recycled eco-friendly indie artsy stuff. Started with this one. Here's another version done in the color I feel matching with the other color. And there's this one. With newspapers instead (credits to the stock images in the deviantART description) Another book cover design. The pattern is probably overused already, but there’s a reason why. Also, alternating leaves with the same color as the stems just for fun. First I started with black and red cuz that's all the pens I have. Then, I did them in a few other versions. There's gonna be more and I'll be doing them throughout New Year.

Having no laptop around here's a few of what I doodled when my family was on a road trip to Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Macau. They're basically based on what our tour guides tell us (regarding the history of the places we're in) and stuff we experience ourselves. Btw I also uploaded some photos of the road trip . They're not much, and I was supposed to compile everything my family and I shot along the way so it's alright.

Indulging in your own envy. It's wrong and poisonous, but the hell with it. Because there's no wifi in the house anymore, I kinda felt too lazy to use my laptop to draw, so here's another watercolor painting. Like I said previously, I wanna do something like this piece I did in 2008 with oil pastels Begrudged …but we don't have oil pastels anymore, and I felt like wasting my watercolor pencils. The concept was inspired by my hidden envy towards some of my good friends (cuz they are my good friends after all) and some internet friends I made this year which went to concerts I couldn't go to.