OYO !

The Hood - Sketches

2012-02-10T20:39:00.005+11:00

What a pleasant surprise to see so many more people have joined this blog :) Thanks for the love everyone. Been a bit under the radar since I left Singapore. Sorry bout that :) First month in Berlin has been really uberbusy, inspiring and productive. I love it. Here are 2 sketches published yesterday on SMV website. There s a lot more coming so stay tuned !!

Plagued village and new job at sixmorevodka !

2011-11-29T02:37:00.001+11:00

It is now official , I will be moving to Berlin and joining Sixmorevodka studio in January !!! Raaaa !! 2011 has been the most amazing and life changing of all years. I'm so proud and stocked to join such an amazing pool of talented crazy human beings and to collaborate with them on amazing projects like the Hood. I love my life.

Waterbed

2011-11-09T18:17:00.001+11:00

Tanhauser Gates

2011-11-08T12:51:00.000+11:00

Its been a long time since I have been hooked to a game like that... Dark souls is so good, with 1.5 millions copies sold, I hope they make 2 or 3 sequels as good as this one.

Digital Plein air - Pulau Ubin - Malaysia

2011-10-30T22:30:00.000+11:00

Mount Sophia Park - Singapore

2011-10-23T22:37:00.002+11:00

Digital plein air painting ~2hrs

Italy Road Trip sketches

2011-10-21T15:06:00.001+11:00

I just got back from a super epic 2 weeks painting trip around North Italy with 4 awesome artists and friends. I totally forgot how amazing Europe is. Everyday the food and vistas were more mindblowing than the day before. Here are a few sketches from Milan, Cinqueterre, Toscani and Venice.

Seasick on drylands

2011-09-30T19:46:00.000+10:00

listening to B-Quartet atm, so inspiring...

Scifi Interlude

2011-09-20T18:59:00.002+10:00

Got really inspired by mandryk's latest post this morning, so I quickly got sketching to use that energy before it dissapeared...

The Cigarette - Wip 2

2011-09-15T12:52:00.002+10:00

Morning sketch - The cigarette- WIP

2011-09-13T14:22:00.000+10:00

Let see where that takes us... :)

Spookalicious sketch to relax

2011-09-10T18:45:00.001+10:00

Machina

2011-08-30T19:01:00.002+10:00

Been so damn busy at work ! But today's public holiday so here's a quick sketch after playing few hours on Deux Ex. More finished stuff soon hopefully...

Metroid 25th Anniversary Fanart - sketch and gestures

2011-08-22T12:18:00.003+10:00

Something something Xenobot

2011-08-17T11:43:00.003+10:00

This was meant to be all about more robot design practice, but I spent more time on the environment and the storytelling, as usual... Oh well ! :)

Something something something triforce

2011-08-11T13:25:00.003+10:00

Here is a sketch I did this morning, in response to Bjorn's post on Gorilla Artfare. I set myself to a one hour time limit and unlimited tricks to get the job done, to balance the all hand painted previous one. All photos used are from my trip in cambodia last month. Thanks bjorn for the inspiration. It's been a long time I wanted to do a Zelda tribute !

Something something something robot.

2011-08-10T19:31:00.002+10:00

More from Angkor !

2011-08-06T15:45:00.001+10:00

Sunday Life Drawing #2

2011-08-01T11:47:00.002+10:00

~90min

Sunday Life Drawing

2011-07-25T12:21:00.003+10:00

~90 minutes

Sketching the legendary city of Angkor.

2011-07-18T14:08:00.003+10:00

Hi folks. Here are 2 first sketches straight from the cambodian jungles. Sketching there was nothing less than epic. Not only because of the setting itself which just blows your mind at every corner but also thanks to the terrible heat and humidity, the dozens of insects crawling on you, the short burst of rain taking you by surprise, the curious monkeys passing by trying to steal your stuff, all the langage of Babel spoken around you by tourists , the local kids playing around with their rusty squeaky bikes… Best sketchin experience ever. ~ 2hrs for each sketch. More soon...

Castle Rock

2011-05-31T13:48:00.000+10:00

Urbansketchers Singapore - Holland Village

2011-05-30T12:02:00.002+10:00

Great gathering of artists from all horizons last saturday in Holland village. Met so many cool people and great artists. I managed this little sketch of a back alley. Interesting and challenging subject with lots of planes and intricate overlapping. I started on the right page and ended on the left, you can tell... my value pattern is much clearer and efficient on the left once i was warmed up.

Dark Tower

2011-05-27T18:40:00.000+10:00

So I set myself on reading the Dark Tower books but Mr King’s 2 first descriptions struck such powerful images in my head that i had to stop at page 3 and sketch something. I got obssessed with finishing this painting ever since and didnt pick up the book again yet. The power of written words man…..

Dragon on a shore

2011-05-18T12:07:00.001+10:00

Another little experiment...

2011-05-05T22:46:00.001+10:00

that turn out to become a full artwork.

2011-05-03T12:58:00.001+10:00

Today the jungle is shaking! Our first artbook is officially released!

As you may know, we teamed up with CFSL Ink to bring this wonderful collection of images to your bookshelf or coffee table : Gorilla Artbook Vol 1! It’s an amazing melting pot of art, with many different styles but constant quality, by talents from over 15 different countries.

The book is hardcover, sized 24×28 cm (9.4×11 inches approximately) and it holds more than 250 pages of stunning images by more than 70 of our artists! They covered several themes such as romance, adventure, horror… but you can also find some work in progress and a collection of unpublished fake movie posters, done just for you, everything with a clean layout and beautiful full pages!
The cover is illustrated by Clo, Devin Platts & Thomas Scholes, and the book is designed by Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti. Mockup by Nicolab.

A huge thank you to CFSL ink : Kness Nicolab & Made and to everyone who made this possible <3
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And check out the traileeeeer!! (Thanks Nico!)

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LINKS to buy the book :

Amazon (France)

Keep time for experimentation

2011-04-19T19:10:00.001+10:00

Life Drawing Session One

2011-04-18T12:28:00.003+10:00

First life drawing session at the Goodman Art Center. Good crowd. Beautiful asian model with dreadlocks and apple.

Sketchin in Singapore is a bliss.

2011-04-12T14:45:00.002+10:00

The Search

2011-04-09T18:02:00.002+10:00

Winter falls

2011-02-25T13:42:00.000+11:00

Started as custom shapes and brush experiment greatly inspired by Maciej, Eytan, Mandryk’s latest works, to name a few. Need to do a lot more of these… :)

My Dear Don Quixote

2011-01-23T21:04:00.000+11:00

Here s a cursed image in which I sinked countless hours, redoing things over and over thanks to PS crashing while saving, a power outage in the studio, and several classic blue screens of doom…

Red Dawn Rising

2011-01-19T13:03:00.004+11:00

More stuff from last year. Done while listening to the track by those awesome french djs, Birdy Nam Nam.

About time...

2011-01-18T12:56:00.006+11:00

Almost a year without update or even looking at this blog...Damn time flies. China censors blogspot.com which made it impossible at the beginning then i got reallly busy with work and life.... Anyway I just found out that a lot more people have subscribe to my blog since last year. Thanks for watching guys, really appreciate the support. I ll try to be more diligent with the updates ^^ Meanwhile I opened a new portfolio at www://oyocarbonmade.com filled with a lot of new artworks.

5 feet tall and rising ...

2010-02-20T23:03:00.003+11:00

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Happy New Tiger Year !!

2010-02-18T22:23:00.004+11:00

Everyone should celebrate new year in China once in a lifetime, the fireworks madness going on everywhere in the streets of Shanghai since a week is simply one of the most stunning sensorial experience I've had in my life. It's ending tonight and it's gonna be one hell of a grande finale ! All the best to all my friends and family ! Miss you all !

Made in China

2010-01-20T10:22:00.018+11:00

...impulse.scan.resize.save.attach.send.share.impulse...

Life in China

2010-01-07T21:32:00.003+11:00

Anticipate
Nictitate
Negate (my) negate
Delineate
Opiate

Latest works.

2009-11-25T19:35:00.002+11:00

Celestial Musicology of Ancient Mythologies.

2009-11-13T00:14:00.007+11:00

It's been too long...Been busy... Here is a little fix of my latest pixelmix.

L'happeau "Et si ?" nait pas d'une langue motte.

2009-09-18T05:45:00.010+10:00

La lame d'un mot m'emeut mais moud aussi
ma moindre melodieuse manie
en mer d' "Et si?", mi-rage, mi-robot lent.
Mimant la molle migration du moment,
je gauffres les mots-laitue. Marre ! J'inhale !
Alors est mien le sou-rire du Firmament.

THE WEIRD NATURALIST ILLUSTRATED - ONE

2009-09-15T15:58:00.007+10:00

Here are some creature designs I did for a personal IP I'm developing... for fun... More soon...

CO::LAB GIUS + OYO !

2009-09-07T21:06:00.004+10:00

My first collab in years : between me and my friend, illustrator and colorist, Guiseppe Severino from France. I started out with his sketch of that awesome cyborg and went nuts on the props and the rendering :) Hope you guys dig it !

Preview - ImagineFX cover contest entry

2009-09-01T22:30:00.007+10:00

Twenty six years of age as of today...

2009-08-27T23:14:00.004+10:00

... so I indulged myself with an hour of self contemplation between the gorgeous meals cooked by my dad and the red wines...

Lost Worlds - Concept Sketches

2009-08-21T17:11:00.006+10:00

Rediscovered Charles Simonds recently through his very rare artbook I had the chance to purchase at his exhibition in France 5 years ago... Mind blowing sculptor...Been playing around with some ideas inspired by his strange dwellings...

A quick form study...

2009-08-13T19:46:00.005+10:00

... just spent a couple of hours playing around with this little sketch I did in my last moleskine... in between work stuff...

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here is the original tiny scribble

Eye Candy - 2 more steps

2009-08-12T15:20:00.001+10:00

New layout !

2009-08-11T22:29:00.006+10:00

I feel more earthy and green at the moment. Hence the new colors and layout. It probably doesn't make any sense to you but it does to me :) Hope you guys enjoy this new freshness !

Eye Candy

2009-08-11T15:11:00.006+10:00

A relaxing illustration I've been working on since 2 days. I first did a watercolour turquoise pencil sketch than added a first layer of white digitally to work out the form... Then 2nd stage is bringing up a first layer of values using big shapes ...Tomorrow I'll start adding colors...

La vie est belle !

2009-07-26T21:32:00.009+10:00

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Bonjour tout le monde !

It's been a while since my last update...Well I'm still on the road... and still productive !! I've been approached 3 weeks ago by the very cool Australian art director and writer Louise Park and we are just starting to collaborate on a very exciting new project : a children book series !! My first one ! 24 books in total over 2 years to be published by Scholastic Australia. First six to hit the shelves in January then six more in June, etc.

Meanwhile, my collaboration with the french studio Feerik on the game Eredan is well underway. I can't show anything for now except those personal research sketches above which are not under NDA. Hope you like them ! The ink on the one in the middle has been done by my friend PJ during the Like Minds collective night. This guy knows how to handle the bristles. Thanks buddy !

Ti Gouya is finally done on my part. Epsilon is now taking care of the layouts. The book will be printed in China in September and released in France in November. More infos about all this as I get them...

On the road..

2009-06-27T11:44:00.006+10:00

I'm currently traveling through Bali in Indonesia with my sketchbooks and my house on my back :) I'm still working on different projects at the same time, between the fruit cocktails and the incredible ceremonies and vistas. So here's one of the concepts I've recently finished for a french project. It's the only one I can show for now. More infos about this project and more artworks soon... (click on the picture for hi-rez)

Lighting exploration

2009-05-25T00:58:00.004+10:00

Here are some color studies for the Coriolis Conspiracy, one of the projects I'm developing on my free time.

Ti Gouya Almost Done !!

2009-05-18T22:46:00.006+10:00

A few more finished ones. This project is almost coming to an end. I feel happy and exhausted like I just gave birth to a baby mammoth or something...

Quelques illustrations finies de plus. Ca sent la fin. Jme sens heureux et fatigue comme si je venais d'accoucher d'un pti mammouth ou un truc dans le genre... avec plein de poil...

The Siamese Twins - Concept art

2009-05-16T10:30:00.004+10:00

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Another character concept for my personal project The Chase. Hylwys !

Drole d'Oiseau

2009-05-14T15:41:00.004+10:00

I realize I've never posted the final stage of this illustration here. You can find the work in progress in previous posts below.

Je viens de me rendre compte que je n'ai jamais poste la version finale de cette illustration dont j'avais montre les differentes etapes sur ce blog il y a quelques mois. C'est maintenant chose faite.

Star Truc

2009-05-10T23:26:00.004+10:00

Just saw Star Trek. Amazing ! It doesn't stop from beginning to end. So I just ran home with the urge to paint sci fi stuffs. This speedpainting is directly inspired from one scene. It's not the most spectacular at all but the contrast and sense of scale was really striking and had a lot of impact. Anyway, live long and prosper...

Je sors juste de Star Trek... Fantastique film ! Ca arretes pas du debut a la fin. Je suis rentre direct au studio apres le film avec un grosse envie de peindre de la SF. Le speedpaint ci dessus est directement inspire d'une des scenes du film. Ce n'est pas la plus spectaculaire du tout pourtant c'est celle qui m'a le plus frappee par son contraste, son atmosphere et la sensation d'immensite de la structure en arriere plan...

Thoughts

2009-05-09T20:14:00.011+10:00

Here a few of my latest sketchbook wanderings :

Hylwys

Ti GOUYA - Day 41 - Creative bliss

2009-05-09T15:33:00.005+10:00

I'm getting more excited than a flea on a dirty puddle's back ! Here are 3 of the finale illustrations. I'm almost done with 6 other ones. Should be there by Monday. I have to start thinking about the cover now... I listened to the first part Adam Hughes's interview on Sidebar today and fortunately he was full of insights about that matter. He's also a really funny guy... Thanks AH !

OYO in CFSL ARTBOOK 3 !

2009-05-07T16:05:00.009+10:00

190 auteurs et 573 images images seront publiées cette année.
190 authors, 573 images will be published this year !

Merci à toute l'équipe CFSL de permettre a autant d'artistes d'etre regroupes sous la meme banniere et dans un ouvrage de cette qualite!
Les selectionnes cette annee ici.

Thanks to the CFSL team for their efforts to put this book together again and to allow young artists like me to be published in such great quality. The list of selected artists this year is here.

Couverture Remi-F (http://www.remifarjaud.fr)
Quatrième de couverture Clo (http://clochette.ultra-book.com)

OYO !!!

Ti GOUYA - Day 39 - Meaaaat !

2009-05-06T19:53:00.001+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 37 - Pushing through

2009-05-05T17:24:00.008+10:00

This is the best part of the project. It's all about refining, testing, experimenting, adding, removing, making everything consistant, just really cool to explore and explore again. In between brushstrokes, I've spend my day looking at Marmotte, Kekai and Tentacle Eye . Awesome inspiration. Thank you! you sexy people with your sexy brains and skills .

Ti GOUYA - Day 37 - Sunset burns

2009-05-04T19:12:00.006+10:00

A new take on the illustration 12, opening the perspective to something more epic...

Ti GOUYA - Day 35 - In the land of the Burned One

2009-04-30T17:53:00.007+10:00

Today's painting... Couldn't help not thinking about the Lord of the Rings, again so much fun pulling out that scene and try painting a convincing stylized volcanic eruption from a lizard point of view.
One illustration left until starting the refining stage and putting the icing on all these illustrations I've been doing since 3 weeks !

Ti GOUYA - Day 34 - The invisible riddler

2009-04-29T17:40:00.005+10:00

Back on colors at last !!! The last few days without painting felt like eternity. I had so much fun on this one ! As I was saying yesterday, because I was already satisfied with my drawing and composition, today I could only focus on the colors and how to use them to make that drawing and composition even better.

I ve got a big dilemma with the clouds here. It's more graphic and solid way to draw, it also useful cause you can put a lot of nice solid curves in there which can be used to lead the eye too. But on previous illustrations in the book, they're more soft and gaseous, more realistic which I like too. And it was relevant to the situation as the clouds were only there in the background for "decoration" or filling space, giving depth...

Ti GOUYA - Day 33 - New sketches

2009-04-28T21:58:00.006+10:00

I recently listen to an great interview of Jason Shawn Alexander who made me realize how composition and drawing are the most important part of telling a story.

Then I've been studying lots of Disney / Pixar / Dreamworks movie recently especially the compositions. I usually pause and take a screenshot or digg concept arts on internet... and I've learn a lot doing this ! One of the many lessons learned was to take stronger decisions/ commitments with my compositions, another one is to use every single object to lead the eye toward the focal point ( I knew that concept already but I really realize how far it can be pushed by studying Seth Engstrom's concept for Sinbad and Spirit and Michael Spooner's on Lilo and Stich and of course KungFu Panda, Ratatouille, etc.)

So for the last 3 illustrations left in the book, I decided to focus way more energy on those points Which means go back to thumbnailing and trying to work out better composition and drawing for each, here is where I'm with these so far...

Works published in Happenstance Magazine

2009-04-26T20:47:00.010+10:00

Last Friday saw the launch of Flood Studio's new design magazine :

HAPPENSTANCE , a locally-produced and designed read that celebrates a range of cultural pursuits including bikes, art galleries, morgues and sex shops. Some of my traditional illustration works (below) are featured in the Rough Pages section alongside amazing artists such as bohemian concept artist Adam Paquette, elegant Gemma O'brien and fontgenius Dave Foster. The magazine also features works from my friend James Jirat whose striking imagery never stop to inspires me.

Thanks again to Dittmar and Aaron and to their combined efforts to bring this beautiful project to life, it's a great honor to be part of this new exciting journey.

Long live Happenstance !

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Ti GOUYA - Day 31 - Never trust an Italian crab

2009-04-23T19:02:00.003+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 30 - Wasps !

2009-04-22T17:32:00.006+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 28 - Par monts et vallons

2009-04-21T10:26:00.005+10:00

Another illustration in progress...

Ti GOUYA - Day 26 - No lizard's land

2009-04-18T18:37:00.006+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 25 - Going for a ride !

2009-04-16T18:12:00.003+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 24 - Stroll in the Vacoas Forest

2009-04-15T18:00:00.004+10:00

Here is today's painting. Ti Gouya taking a peaceful stroll down the Vacoas Forest down South... Nothing much to say about it except that I really enjoyed it because it brought back memories of week-ends spent chilling out with my girlfriend, fishing, rock climbing when I was living on La Reunion island almost 3 years ago...good times... It really helps to have experienced with your 5 senses the environment/atmosphere you're trying to depict. Something a photo can't give you... That was the first reason why I started travelling 5 years ago... And why I will do it again as soon as possible... :)

Morning view - Study

2009-04-15T11:11:00.001+10:00

Ti GOUYA - Day 23 - Gran Diab !!!

2009-04-14T22:29:00.005+10:00

I'm quite satisfied with today's painting, the mood is right where I wanted it, now I have to render and give a nice form to everything so it doesnt look that flat... thanks Adam and Jannica for their precious comments and critics...

Zen Approach

2009-04-14T09:37:00.005+10:00

A little 35 min study... Even if this kind of exercise is purely about working out color and values muscles, I also always try to build up a little story within so it's less boring to watch... at least for me :)

Une petite etude de photo faites en ~35 minutes... Meme si ce genre d'exercise a seulement pour but de faire travailler les petits muscles visuel de reconnaissance de couleur et de valeur, j'essais toujours de rajouter une petite histoire par dessus, un peu de mystere et di sonsasionnellleee !... ca rends la chose moins chiante a regarder... au moins pour moi... :)

The title "Zen Approach" is also track from Dj Krush and like my favorite tune of all time I think, it's worth listening to...if you ask me :)

Ti GOUYA - Day 22 - 3 more color sketches

2009-04-13T19:18:00.005+10:00

Quite a productive monday ! I think I've nailed the style i was looking for...

A lundi bien productif ma foi ! Je pense enfin avoir mis le doigt et le pinceau sur le style que je voulais pour ce livre... et j'en suis ravi ! C'est ma tournee !!

Ti GOUYA - Day 21 - First showable color sketch

2009-04-11T19:42:00.003+10:00

Finally ! Here is the sketch for the first page, I ve started all the 16 illustrations but so far this one is the most satisfying attempt to create the mood I have in mind for that book... The journey begins !

Ti GOUYA - Day 8 - Planning/ sketches complete

2009-03-29T20:26:00.002+11:00

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So eerrrr... daily update fail. I tried very hard but it was too much hassle to scan everything evernight, I chose to sleep instead... Anyway, here are the final sketches for the pages. I ve done almost the triple of this researching and trying every single angle and idea I could approach the action from... I'm quite happy where this is all going. I'm trying to visualize the final result as much as I can at this stage in term of color atmosphere. This is a new approach am trying after studying the process of Shaun Tan, Greg Manchess and Jeffrey Jones. I'm really curious to see in which way this will improve my work ( or not).

The feminine mystique

2009-03-25T23:51:00.003+11:00

A quick portrait, trying out few stuff about values I just read from Jeffrey Jones Artbook.

Caniche Wars !

2009-03-23T16:19:00.005+11:00

In the middle of a page surrounded by smily happy nice animals for Ti Gouya appeared this lovely creature... I couldn't resist to give him more love and life thourgh colors :) back to the rainbow stuff now...

Au milieu de toutes ces creatures mignonnes et souriantes a vomir que je dessine depuis 3 jours, est apparue cet etrange et affecteux petit etre, expression de mon amour et admiration pour cette perfection genetique, preuve vivante de l'existence de Dieu : le caniche.

Day 2-3 / Thumbnails and Character development

2009-03-22T16:27:00.002+11:00

First of all : the synopsis :

So Ti gouya's story takes place on La Reunion Island and is the story of a little lizard called Ti Gouya who lives in the mountains and never saw the sea. He's dying to discover the world all those tourists are talking about when they stop at the backpackers where he lives. One day, after his mother told him to go to school and he refuses, he decide to leave the nest and jump into a backpacker's bag heading down to the sea...

Donc Ti Gouya, ca se passe a la Reunion et c'est l'histoire d'un pti margouillat nomme Ti Gouya vivant dans les montagnes et qui n'a jamais vu la mer. Il reve de decouvrir le monde dont parlent tous ces randonneurs de passage quand ils s'arretent dans le gite ou il habite. Un jour, apres que sa mere lui ordonne d'aller a l'ecole, il decide de s'en aller et saute dans un des sacs poses sur le sol par un randonneur, direction : la mer !

Nothing to show on day 2, spent my time at the cafe next door analysing the script and extracting thumbnails and ideas about the general direction of the book. I came up with 4 or 5 thumbnails for each pages and hundred of notes. I will probably scanned them when done or completely filled.

For now, I ve started doodling on characters and differents elements, trying to familiarize my brain with the style i d like to develop and laying down some of the most charismatic characters I remember from my years on the Island... Ideas often come from random little sketches in sketchbooks which have no sense or interest in the first place. It strikes you randomly, most of the time when you dont pay attention... Here are some of them :

Voici des recherches et gribouillages de personnages et autres elements, j'essayes ici de me famialiariser avec le style et de poser sur le papier les souvenirs les plus marquants que j'ai de mes annees passees a la Reunion. De nombreuses idees peuvent emergees de ce genre de ptits croquis sans but premier que de s'amuser. Ces idees frappent souvent quand on s'y attend le moins apres plusieurs jours quand on reviens sur ces pages et que le cerveau commence a associer les dessins entre eux et a y trouver un sens particulier...

Ti GOUYA - Day 1 - Character Design

2009-03-20T09:39:00.005+11:00

Today is day 1 of the production of my new children book "Ti Gouya". The deadlines is in 8 weeks with 16 full color illustrations + cover. Can't wait to be there !
I'll post work in progress for you to check out on a daily basis. As a starter, above is the style test illustration I've done few months ago which got me the gig and here is the first character style sheet on our hero :

Aujourd'hui est officiellement le premier jour de production de mon nouveau livre pour enfant " Ti' Gouya". La deadline est pour dans 8 semaines avec un total de 16 illustrations couleur plus la couverture et tout les ptits trucs lies a la production d'un livre. Il me tarde d'avoir fait tout ca !
Je posterais tous les jours l'avancee des travaux afin que vous puissiez partager avec moi cette experience et me donner votre avis, echanger, discuter. Et donc, pour commencer, voici la premiere illustration test que j'ai realise il y a quelques mois et qui m'as permis d'etre engage sur ce projet ainsi que ci-dessous la premiere planche de recherche sur notre petit heros :

Narcotic Moment of Creative Bliss - Solo Show 18 th March at the Wall !

2009-03-11T17:15:00.005+11:00

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Fresh new works
Champagne
Good dj's !
18th of March
World Bar
Sydney

Pimp my tide !

2009-03-03T13:32:00.011+11:00

I recently had the chance to flex my design muscles with the new identity of Innersoul Australia. (FYI a trendy jewelery Australian surf brand.) I worked in their Mortdale's studio for 3 days and had complete freedom on the art direction. Their studio being equipped with a photolab, I experimented a lot with the mountains of rings and pendants and such available in the warehouse. I had a great time working with the AD Erez Beker, who happens to be a very cool guy and a really good sandwiches cook. I ended up producing the new catalogue covers and layouts, several posters, a dozen stickers designs and the new website layout which will come up online very soon. Below is one of the posters (my favourite). Just for, this is my new layers record : 112 for a 1.2gb 300 dpi PSD file.
Gentlemen start your tricycle engines !

Morning Sketches

2009-02-28T09:49:00.003+11:00

One study a day keeps the stress away

2009-02-27T21:46:00.004+11:00

No need for introduction.Very interesting to study, I wish I could find more high rez of masterpieces like that... like the Laocoon or the Hell's gate.

Bon Annif Lolo !!

2009-02-27T09:29:00.003+11:00

Bientot dans ta boite aux lettres... :) J'espere que la vie est toujours belle pour toi mon pote !

Values, values, values, values ...

2009-02-27T00:49:00.008+11:00

Started as a brush test, ended up as a 1h speed painting of a dinosaur under a burning sun with Maya ruins (so yea... rocks) on its back and a stupid samurai dude who thinks he can take it down on his own with a single sword and his ninja ballz...

The Chase - sketch

2009-02-26T17:02:00.002+11:00

Today's sketch for the Chase project : road babe ( finally), rocket launcher and desert mammoths... Blackadee !

The Chase - Sketch

2009-02-25T19:15:00.005+11:00

Quite a productive afternoon... here is a concept for a post ap illustration featuring Bakfat, a vigilante character I ve been working on for a while...

The 7 Samurai Bastards - Sketch

2009-02-25T16:44:00.004+11:00

This is an early stage of a group character design for a personal project...
Back to my first love with a samurai story ! Au menu : Lost honor ! Outrageous battles ! Sexy geishas ! Woohoo !

Would Icarus be a parkour master ?

2009-02-25T15:42:00.003+11:00

A little study from a photo with a bit of parkour inside. Et la caravane passe...

Hylwys

2009-02-16T23:49:00.005+11:00

So I was listening to an interview of Celia Calle and scribbling at the same time. This girl is just so much fun and her works looks so fresh and impulsive to me...great inspiration... so yea.. you know... get high !

Eye Candy

2009-02-08T22:40:00.004+11:00

Self-portrait by the sea

2009-02-07T12:08:00.005+11:00

Taken by my friend Rei at Bondi beach at sunrise a week ago while a dawn chorus was performed just behind by the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Fantastic sensorial experience .

Allligatoooo NinjaRei ! Hug !

hylwys

Sometimes you just can't wait ...

2009-02-07T11:02:00.004+11:00

A quick sketch done yesterday night at 4am just after coming back from a great party with some great friends at the Hibernian House. Woohoo !

Sneak Peak

2009-01-27T09:59:00.002+11:00

A little snapshot of my desktop.I ve been working completely out of my comfort zone lately, I like it... more soon ! Stay tuned !

Hunger - .. .

2009-01-17T17:53:00.003+11:00

yesterday late night speed painting after CJ and after the Courthy and after an outdoor graffiti session with a bunch of crazy chimps ... hylwys...