Sylvia

latest update

2010-09-14T23:18:00.000-07:00

Haven't been updating for a while since I've been busy these days. So far this is just one of the latest work I've done so far. Might take a while to finish though.

Practice artwork

2010-07-05T02:57:00.000-07:00

Trying to practice more on colouring digitally especially on the face and hair. And tried playing more with texture in photoshop as well.

Done in Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop CS4 and Wacom Bamboo.

Cinderella

2010-06-19T12:54:00.001-07:00

I made 2 versions of Cinderella. I'm not sure which one looks better though. The only difference is the time.

Original version :

Edited version:

Random drawing.

more updates :)

2010-06-08T00:39:00.000-07:00

Zodiac : Cancer

If you like to see more series on the Zodiacs, feel free to check them out HERE

Random drawings about small eyes, chest and beauty mark.

K-ON: Mio

2010-06-04T13:20:00.001-07:00

Fan art.

Daily update

2010-06-04T10:18:00.001-07:00

Alice in Wonderland Artwork progress

2010-06-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

Work progress of Alice in Wonderland.

Sketched out the main character first since originally I had no idea how I planned to start the overall. For me it's always good to start off with something (anything) and take it from there.

Started to get the overall idea slowly and do some quick rough sketch on how I plan to place my character in the artwork.

Start to form my characters in place.

Originally I had not thought of putting a dormouse in the scene however my friend had been asking me to put it in so there it is next to the white rabbit.

Start to do some cross hatching on the artwork.

Fix certain parts that I didn't like. Particularly Alice's face as she doesn't seem appealing after a bit of makeover.

Scanned the artwork and adjust the brightness/contrast/level.

Edited in photoshop together with some old paper texture that I've found on Google. Do a bit of colour changes in different layer and finally came out with the final results.

I'm not sure how informative are these but I hope you enjoyed reading and seeing the visual images. Thanks and enjoy!

Drawings of the week

2010-06-02T02:11:00.000-07:00

Alice in Wonderland.

Random drawing.

Work in progress

2010-05-29T17:22:00.000-07:00

Working for the alice in wonderland contest. Current progress.

Updates

2010-05-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

Commission work for Vylla.

Other works.

3rd kiriban prize for CottonCandyStar

2nd Kiriban Prize

2010-05-24T20:08:00.001-07:00

A drawing for arna who caught 2nd place in my kiriban pageviews on Deviantart.

Feel free to visit my site HERE

An experiment with design

2010-05-24T00:51:00.000-07:00

An artwork I drew experimenting different type of design and flow.

A drawing for Kimir-Ra who caught my kiriban pageviews on Deviantart.

Feel free to visit my deviantart site HERE.

Art Request - Cynthia

2010-05-19T00:54:00.001-07:00

Art request for someone.

Name Card

2010-05-18T06:05:00.000-07:00

Trying to make my own name card since my old one many years ago wasn't really good.
Not sure if this is good but it's better compared to my old name card version. Might print this and send it together with my artwork to Drawgasmic tomorrow.

Random artwork for today

2010-05-13T23:27:00.000-07:00

Supposed to be based on "Beauty and the Beast". However I don't think it looks that way though.

2010-04-30T01:18:00.000-07:00

Few weeks back I've been invited to participate in a exhibition and book project by Drawgasmic.

It took me a few days to think about it before I decided to join the exhibition. I've drew a few versions and thumbnails of works that I wanted to draw for the exhibition however I settle to draw something without planning anything at all.

This is the results and probably the work that I might be publishing for the exhibition.

I'm still deciding on some parts and might edit it a bit more before I print and send it to them. You can check out the few versions that I did on my DeviantArt site here :
http://shirua.deviantart.com/

More traditional artworks :)

2010-04-22T05:43:00.001-07:00

More traditional artworks using a mechanical pencil 0.5 . Enjoy :)

Through the Looking Glass

2010-04-07T18:02:00.001-07:00

This was coloured based on the book title "Through the Looking Glass". It's not really an Alice in Wonderland thing but the theme is somewhat related to it.

I came up with a few colour version of this however this is the final one which I liked the most. Hope you guys like it as much as I did :) Thanks.

Sketch

2010-04-04T07:46:00.001-07:00

Just a sketch of something I had in mind when I heard the title "Through the Looking Glass". I have yet to read the book though however this is what I thought of when I heard the title.

Enjoy~~! :)

2010-04-01T23:28:00.000-07:00

These are my commission works that I've done for someone one or two months ago.

Here are the rest of my works which I've done for the past two months. Did some experimental with colours and texturing.

Rough concept sketches for interior and exterior for my group final project.

More Traditional Media updates

2010-02-22T01:42:00.000-08:00

Works that I've done for the past month using a mechanical pencil and 2b pencil.

Updates :D

2010-02-04T21:53:00.001-08:00

Here are my recent work updates.

Alice In Wonderland Fan Art

2010-01-24T09:14:00.000-08:00

Just drew an Alice in Wonderland artwork for a competition on DeviantArt.
I had a few ideas but I settle down for this one. However if I have time I might draw my other ideas out.

First to Recent works.

2010-01-22T19:48:00.000-08:00

Recently I've been trying to colour using Paint Tool SAI which so far I think was good however due to my abilities in colouring I sort of like didn't get the make the best out of it. However I've been learning and practicing on it since the day I got it (even though it's still a trial version). Paint Tool SAI has some features which are good and different compared to Photoshop however there are still a lot more for me to discover about this new programme.

Here are some works that I've done so far using Paint Tool SAI.
Some works might not seem appealing as I am practicing though. Works that are shown here is starting from the first day until my recent work.

My very first attempt on Paint Tool SAI. No planning no sketch no nothing. Just colour and see where things takes me.

After that, here comes all my other test and practice on the program.

Last but not least, here is my most recent work which I had just finished yesterday.

Final COLOURED version.

Thanks and hope you enjoyed it!

2010-01-08T02:06:00.000-08:00

My latest lineart drawings using Saimain's OC characters, Semiyar and Diana. Please visit her site and check out her works as well.

2010-01-06T23:15:00.000-08:00

Originally I coloured the wings as white. However the original artist, Saimain pointed out to me that the wings was supposed to be gold colour. Therefore I changed it. However I still personally like it as white though. Posted up both version.

Original version:

Latest version:

2010-01-05T12:28:00.000-08:00

Character design by Saimain.

2010-01-03T09:05:00.000-08:00

More artworks done. Character design by Saimain.

Sick.

2009-12-26T08:37:00.000-08:00

Just got back from my family trip and kinda feeling a bit sick. Will be resting in a bit however, here's one of my latest work called "Genie". Will colour it later on though. Enjoy :)

Recent works

2009-12-23T01:32:00.001-08:00

Sorry I haven't been updating much.
Recently I've gotten myself a wacom and had been playing around with it. It's been a long time since I actually used a wacom however I've been practicing to get use to it.

Most of my recent works are submitted HERE so do check it out as well.

Anyways here are my latest works which I had done for the past two weeks. Enjoy :)

Out of all drawings, I've been experimenting with colours and designs. I like both of these drawings so far even though it took be many hours or even almost a whole day to complete it. These two drawings are mostly influence by a great Malaysian artist, KidChan. Do visit her site as well.
Anyways, I hope you will like both of these drawings as much as I did. Thanks!

More Wacom test

2009-11-12T07:20:00.000-08:00

More test and practice using the wacom tablet. Here's a black and white first approach.

And a clean up version after that...

Was planning to do some colouring on the character but will probably do that when I have the time. Will be flying back to Malaysia next week so I might not get the chance to do more test on the wacom. However I will update more of my works during my 3 months break :)

Testing on wacoms

2009-11-06T09:22:00.000-08:00

Here's my long composition work. Took me almost 2 days to complete it. Used a 2b graffite pencil and A2 size paper to draw on it. Sorry for the low quality as I took it with my camera.

Been trying and testing out drawing on wacom tablets. It's hard however I find that it is quite fun and interesting to play around with. Tried drawing some anime characters for fun to test out the line and colouring in photoshop.

Live Drawing -Animals

2009-10-17T20:17:00.001-07:00

Some live drawing of animals that I've done in class at the musuem. Drawn using biro pen. Each picture took at least about 15 minutes - 30 minutes.

Life Drawing sketches

2009-08-27T05:49:00.000-07:00

Here are some life drawing works that I had done during my classes. Shall post up more drawings that I've done on my sketchbook later on.

Week 1:

Week 2 (mainly focused on gestures.)
less than 1 minute drawing):

about 10 minutes drawings

Week 3

Week4 :

approximately 1 hour sketch

about 10 - 15 minutes sketch

Week5 :
1-2 hours drawing

tattoo inspiration

2009-08-17T00:48:00.000-07:00

Was interested coming up with some tattoo look-a-like designs for my works. I had a few designs however I will post up more of them in the future.

Recently I had been trying to come up with some ideas for my Visual Story. I had some ideas however most of it were inspired by this animation short film, done by Jorge Garcia from Ringling College of Art and Design. I hope I get to come up with a simple yet cute and funny idea soon. Enjoy the video.

Concept Designs

2009-08-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

Last semester I had done some concept designs for one of the game course and the story that me and my teammate (Brooks) chose was an old japanese horror tale.

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Hoichi the Earless

The story was about a blind man name Hoichi, who stays at the temple with his priest and monk friends. Even though Hoichi was blind he has a great talent at playing the biwa. His performance was said to be so wonderful that even ghost or goblins couldn't refrain from tears. One night when the blind man was all alone in the temple, he heard someone calling for his name and was approached by a samurai. The samurai demanded Hoichi to play his biwa for his lord and guided him to his lord's home. Hoichi was told to perform The Tale of Heike and received praises for his performance. After performing, the samurai lead Hoichi back home and warned him not to tell anyone about his performance to his lord. The following night, the samurai returned and lead Hoichi back to his lord.

However Hoichi's absents was discovered by his priest friend. The priest was suspicious with Hoichi's outings and asked his fellow monks to follow Hoichi one night. The monks followed Hoichi and only to find him playing his biwa furiously at the cemetery. The priest then realize that Hoichi has been bewitched by ghost and promised to save Hoichi from them. He instructed his monks to write sutras all over Hoichi's body and told Hoichi to remain silent and motionless when he hears the samurai.

That evening the samurai returns and called for Hoichi however there was no response. The samurai was angered and went to look for Hoichi however he couldn't see anything but Hoichi's ears. The sutras written on Hoichi's body had made him invisible however the monks forgot to write the sutras on his ears. Attempt to fulfill his lord's orders, the samurai ripped off Hoichi's ears as proof to show that it was the only part of Hoichi that was available. The samurai left, leaving Hoichi shocked and covered in blood.

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The story that I read from the book was simple but yet interesting and scary at the same time. Hoichi the Earless is actually part of the Kwaidan, meaning japanese horror stories and they too made a movie of it as well which was alright. Do feel free to download the movie even though the movie was made back in 1964, however it's still a great movie to enjoy.

Here are some of the construction drawings for the character and props.

Some composition and background thumbnails.

Black and White Concept Design (finalized drawing)

Coloured Concept Design (final). Tried changing the colour mood and time to see how it would look like as well.

Coloured Props Designs

3D Modeling

2009-08-14T04:05:00.000-07:00

After working in the industry, I realize that I was interested in modeling environment. I had tried modeling characters as well however I'm still learning to improve myself in modeling, texturing and rigging the characters. Here are some modeling works that I had done during my free time and some are done for projects.

All models here are modeled and textured (using library reference to do some adjustment on photoshop) from scratch.

Characters from Azumanga Daioh and Pokemon.

Character model that I had created meant for one of my assignments however in the end I didn't use it. Used this character to do some test for the hair. Please feel free to check my DeviantArt site here

Wii Controller, my first model used for a game trailer.

A drawbridge. Part of a project.

One of my ex-colleague back in Malaysia had done a Mitsubishi Advertisement for their company VHQ which I thought was pretty impressive and cute. Please feel free to check their info on CGTalk here! It's a Mitsubishi -Prison Break 30 second animation clip with 3 vegetable characters (Bak Choy, Carrot and Tomato).

Here's the video that I would like to share with everyone today. Enjoy!

Follow Up

2009-08-13T01:05:00.000-07:00

Hey there. As I promised, here's a follow up from my previous entry. Enjoy!

Character Design

This art work was done collab with Chan Kelsie.

Circus character designs.

Dragon designs

Fairy Designs

Monsters Designs

Finally, the character designs and composition with the theme : Circus.
I had used a few types of tone stickers and ink pen for this art work.

A concept art on the usage of a stapler. Medium used are marker and ink pen.

Concept Design (mainly focused on composition and theme)

Theme : Hospital

Theme : fantasy
done this using paint.

And finally, my first 3D modeling work.

Interior

Fruits

Back then I had tried some colour testing on Photoshop using one of my works for fun. Here are some works that I did.

Tried practicing using ink pen to do outlines.

Howl's Moving Castle concept artwork.
Characters design credits to Miyazaki.

Shall upload more recent works in the future.

Hi and welcome.

2009-08-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Sylvia Chin, was born and raised in Malaysia. I studied and graduated with a Diploma in Animation from The One Academy of Communication Design. After graduating with my Diploma, I had worked in the animation industry, SilverAnt Sdn Bhd for almost 2 years before I decided to pursue for my degree in Australia. I am currently an animation student, doing my Bachelor of Animation at Queensland College or Art, Griffith University.

Being away from home is a new thing to me however I have learn to be more independent and mature in some way. I will be here in Australia until end of next year and I am looking forward to gaining more knowledge and improve myself as well as exposing myself to know the culture in Australia and making new friends.

As today is my first entry, let me show you a few of my old works that I had done back in Malaysia.

Live Drawing class (potraits)

Live Drawing (real life model)

I drew them using 2B pencil, 8B pencil, and charcoal. As for 3 of my live drawing (real life models), I had been focusing more on the composition side.

That's it for today. I will post up more of my other works on my next entry. Thanks!