Irony

It just occured to me:

It's funny that in a place like Singapore, where freedom of speech technically is not a right and creativity is the pursuit of the young, infirm and not-quite-right-in-the-head, there are comparatively speaking many more advertising, graphic design and web design studios than in many other cities.

I mean, if everyone wants to pay pennies for creatives services (since, as we all know, creativity is a simple matter of hitting a couple of buttons in Photoshop), how is it we can support so many small design studios?

I get it... and I don't get it.

Perhaps it's just the odd myth of suffering for your art coupled with the 'designer' need to be hip or something...

Cowgirl

Been busy with work. And been sick. Quick doodle. Tired. Need sleep.

Match

For Illustration Friday.

I was thinking about what to draw for 'match'. Then today I thought about the story of the Little Match Girl. Man that was a sad story. So anyway I thought she was kinda like a match herself, all burnt out by the end. So this is her. Rather badly done in Painter, but I'm really tired...

More cardboard doodles

Regina

Regina is a naughty girl with a chopper. I think I've been staring at Sonny's stuff for too long...

Fairy

Do you think she's fat?

Not Lovin' It

Drew this yesterday before bed. I suddenly felt melancholy so I drew the girl, then drew the table and the food.

Then I started thinking about how kids these days really have it pretty good and that they mope too much. Then I started thinking I was getting old.

Then I thought about McDonald's and it's blasted 'I'm lovin' it' campaign. I figure that someone on their marketing team is either a psychological genius, or else is completely blind to the Emo/Goth fad that is all the rage with teens now.

So somehow it makes sense in my head, but it probably doesn't to anyone else. That's why I draw instead of write...

Quickie

20min exercise before hopping out for dinner.

Painter 9, ref from Maxim.

By the by, this is how I colored it:

Demon boy

Just a warmup sketch. All digital.

Gimme Shelter

This is fo the Gimme Shelter exhibition. Hopefully someone will buy it and feed some homeless somewhere.

Doodley woodley

Stuff I drew today while I was at the MAAD market.

Incidently, I drew the girl first, then the demons, and then somehow subconciously combined the two and came up with the tentacle-headed girl.

Play

For Illustration Friday's 'Play' theme.

Was at a club yesterday night. I must be getting old, spent most of the time thinking 'this is stupid'. Anyway, I suppose it influenced the pic.

Tiger girl

Capture

Quick stuff done for Illustration Friday's theme of the week. I suppose it's very vaguely derived from Morrissey's 'First of the gang to die', with the whole 'stole all hearts away' line...

MAAD Sunday 1

Some pictures from the MAAD market yesterday. It was ok, but most of the people there were bargain hunters and the plain ol' curious. So no buyers yet, but we're hoping to change that!



The table we got. It's pretty small so we may get another one next week.




The crowd.



Some buttons Kristal made.




Kristal's awesome tee. I really like it. She hand-pulls all the shirts, and I think she's going too good a job of it because people keep thinking they're bulk printed in Thailand or something...

Paintings for sale

Cardboard is fun

Painting on cardboard is fun.

Mon Ami broad marker, Zebra fine marker, Zig marker, white gouache on cardboard.

Opposites

From a previous Illustration Friday theme.

Paintings

A couple of paintings I did that I hope to sell at the MAAD market next week. Or not, since I quite like them....

P.S These were scanned in. The scan is awful - I need to learn how to take photos of my paintings so they look better online.

Opposites

I thought that this was the theme on Illustration Friday, so I drew this before I realized it had changed to 'Clean'. Anyway, inked it with a brush and Zebra nib, with some Badger opaque airbrush ink because I don't have any Black Magic. No one sells it here. No one uses it here. Sad.

Colors later.