5 Pages of Heads

Drew some head design for class.

Most are build from geometric shapes, some are inspired by other artists and some are based on people i saw on my way to school.

Cheers.

Drawing Aspirations 1

Inoue Takehiko

Inoue Takehiko is a Japanese Manga artist most famous for works like SlamDunk and Vagabond.

He is an excellent painter, and a masterful storyteller. His stories often captures the human emotions and experiences. And often then not the great pacing brings you into the story itself, the passion and adrenaline pumping up, just like when reading SlamDunk you will feel that you are playing in the game as well.

In his stylistic approach, he draws with very loose strokes that makes his works looks like paintings. His drawings are so detailed and dynamic. He is really good in capturing the correct expressions for the characters, and even planting the characters with sweat all over their faces does not look awkward at all.

The all time most popular Manga- SlamDunk

Vagabond

Vagabond

Art work for RPG game Lost Odyssey

This is the trailer of a his DVD titled 'DRAW'

If you want to watch the dvd or other clips of him drawing, i don't think you can find them on youtube, but i found some on dailymotion.

Some commercials he did  where he show his capabilities in drawing large drawings.

Pray for Japan

This is actually the point of this entire post.

Takehiko recently released an ongoing collection of drawings titled 'Smile' on his twitter account to provide encouragement to the crisis in Japan.

These beautiful drawings are drawn on the iPad using a application call Zen Brush.

You can check out the rest at his twitter.

It's currently at image #108 as I'm posting. Lets us now all pray for Japan. :)

Recommendation:

Real

Real is one of my favourite manga and god its so awesome. The story revolves around wheelchair basketball, which is quite a unique choice in sports genre manga. As oppose to the much popular SlamDunk, Real has a more serious plot and deeper character development in a very realistic setting. And it is aimed at a more mature audience as well. It takes around 1 year for each volume to be released, but if you start reading then you should be able to know why. Each panel and frame is like a piece of art on each own. It's amazing how much details he puts on each drawing. I heard some people don't really like it for it's slow pace and much emphasis on characters then on basketball. So it is only recommended if you like to read stuffs more on story then just actions. If not you can always go back to SlamDunk, which has everything and still so awesome.

Note: All images belongs to Inoue Takehiko.

Stop Motion Test Animation 01

I'm taking Stop Motion class under the great animator Ishu Patel this semester so I'll be spending alot of time under the camera working on different techniques.

Here's one test animation i did with plasticine, its pretty short. 42 frames, time taken around 2-3 hours.

Red Dwarf

Daily Inspiration #3

More Vids.

1. Sometimes the Stars is a really beautiful piece of animation. Very good 2D animation and Effects. Excellent Music as well.

2. One Minute Puberty is a very creative and crazy animation. Full of energy despite just simple line drawings and without colors.

3. 30 motion test in 30s will be something i will like to do as well. The artist is good at pushing himself to get something done. 

4,5. The last 2 are stunning visual effect pieces. I'm starting to learn VFX, so I pay extra attention to these excellent works.

Sometimes the Stars from The Audreys on Vimeo.

One Minute Puberty from bitteschön.tv on Vimeo.

30 motion tests in 30 seconds from Steffen K on Vimeo.

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

SOUNDWAYS from Laurens Groven on Vimeo.

Obsession

I love to write and design my name on all my stuffs. 

They can be found on my notebooks, textbooks and many of my stationary. 

It's a pity I don't own a camera or a scanner during my early school days. Hence I can't keep a picture of these stuffs. 

Despite all these names and titles, I'm never really into typography and visual design.  But its really fun to play with!

I'll try and see if i still can dig out anything from my old cupboards and shelves.

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Recently I'm learning Visual Effects and I started to play with Maya particles.

Here's one quick test i did. And yes, it has my name on it!

Title Animation Test from Kenneth Chen on Vimeo.

And to round up this post, I'll show some of the stuffs at home where my name can be found. :)

< And yes, this is a calculator.that accompanied me through my Secondary School and my O levels!

Daily Inspiration #2

Some vids i came across these 2 days.

The first one is a creative music video using the flip book idea. I believe everyone of us tried it at least once during our childhood on a dictionary or your textbook, its animation!

The second one is a Levi's stop-motion advertisement.

And last but not least is a cool experimental visual effect piece. Something i would like to try out one day.

Cheers.

Kraak & Smaak from WEAREWILL on Vimeo.

LEVI'S WATERLESS from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

Expand your limits from aturtur on Vimeo.

Daily Inspiration #1

Football and Animation.

2 of my favourite things combined together and you get a beautiful piece of art.

Created by artist Richard Swarbrick, this piece of animation relives Tottenham Hotspur star Gareth Bale's memorable Champions League performances against Inter Milan last year.

Not that I am a Bale fan, but his performance that day was truly stunning and world class.

The artist rotoscoped all the players with loosely strokes using just white and blue. Simple and beautiful.

Well, football is also Art.

D-Day

Hi everyone. Welcome to my New Blog.

This blog is setup to share my new works and any other interesting and inspiring works i come across.

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I’ve closed down all my other sites and blogs so this is kinda a new start for me.

Hope i will keep this blog active and entertaining!

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If you want to find any of my older works, you can visit my deviantArt account where i will upload almost all my completed drawings, or my Newgrounds account, to see my old and ugly flash movies. Or you can check out my Behance account where i only featured selected works on.

Cheers.