mujiri : illustrated thoughts

Love Grows ... day by day

2006-11-05T22:40:00.000+08:00

This was something I did for my love on her birthday. My first official print all nicely framed and all. The color is a little bit weird here 'cause actually its calibrated more for printing.

ipod nano skin: white christmas

2006-10-21T17:01:00.000+08:00

Been a while since I have updated this place. Currently in the midst of planning a proper personal/portfolio site for myself. Meanwhile here is a something that I did recently for the ipod skin series, enjoy!

design is ... eureka!

2006-09-22T15:38:00.000+08:00

recently there has been a meme going around for designers of all shapes and sizes. so decided to jump on the bandwagon and make my own one. here it is voila.

do check out shauninman 's version and veerle 's. cheerios

teh tarik man

2006-09-12T10:36:00.000+08:00

i just realized i have never posted up my entry for Majulah Stickpaura here before. so in the light of the dearth in entries recently, here is the teh tarik man illustration standing in for now :)

gimmershelter

2006-08-20T21:43:00.001+08:00

recently i found out about this art project/movement Gimmeshelter in the US to promote awareness of the homeless and so decided to do some work and help out a bit.

The concept was to do up relevant work on cardboard which is a fitting medium considering it being the most common material for shelters for the homeless.

here's a short explanation of my piece (not as fully complete as i would like tho):
above // beneath. actually when i finished it i realize it bears a semblance to neil gaiman's neverwhere, where the homeless and rejects are unseen beneath the facade of the city.

So the two pieces actually suppose to represent the normal world where we are so used to being plugged into ourselves and the world of the homeless and voiceless. And the two pieces joined together over each other to form a cityscape of sort. voila. lol i sucked at description essay, jsut enjoy my stuffs la.

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after "shong yonging" from me, wanzi did a version of the project herself, an actual slipper, pretty cool ar!

hepikied

2006-08-03T00:19:00.000+08:00

if you guys have time do check out Adrian Bulboaca , a really talented photographer from romania (his only 18!). got to know him from deviantart and was struck by the beauty and story within his picture.

my fave:)
an aching arise from the heart here.

wurrh!

2006-07-29T21:36:00.000+08:00

presenting the all new wurrh-bot.
designed to bring joy, happiness and all round larkness into your life!

come equipped with cough syrup, good music, flowers and bad spelling to drive away all your blues.

*while stock lasts!

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for someone blue.

[ wallpaper version 1280 x 1024 ]

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edit:
"why wurrh?"
"because it is a good sound"

... and the world is at peace again.

magic mushroom

2006-07-26T01:04:00.000+08:00

overheard from a friend:
"did you know that elephants cant jump?!"

wow.
so what the heck made Ollie did it?

i don't know but that sentence just make me laugh everytime

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trying out some new coloring style. pretty simple and light.

Entry for Converse Shoe Design Competition

2006-07-13T00:04:00.000+08:00

tagged.

2006-07-09T23:06:00.000+08:00

after much heckling from ash, i have finally relent and put up this meme on my weird habits despite my policy on putting only my artwork here. oh alas, the things i do for my friends...

1. sometimes when im walking,i stop and look around, i find the world so beautiful that it hurts
2. i like to count in multiples of 5... in everything i do. so i would be taking 5 steps and another 5 steps and another 5...
3. once while i was watching the national parade, i teared one drop because i felt patriotic
4. i think of people in terms of color, imagery and totally unrelated words. e.g. how someone can feel like the sky to me and is all yellow and orange. (that sounds too much like a tiger, lol)
5. i dance when no one or everyone is watching :P

Digital Design '06 Submission

2006-07-02T22:27:00.000+08:00

Voila, one of the fastest work I've ever done in my life, 2 hrs in all and sent to the organizer 15mins before deadline, phew! This a ipod nano skin design submission for Digital Design '06. Much thanks to jarsofrum else I would not have known about the competition , and do check out her own beautiful entry for the competition.

Hmm, looking back at the design, wished I had more time to polish it, feels a bit unbalanced in place but still rather satisfied with it. Lol maybe I can do some commercial designs and sells them.

Take a leap...

2006-06-25T21:03:00.000+08:00

Made this piece a while back along with Gone Wandering when I was experimenting with that particular type of style. Felt that this was a better and more finished piece, although all my friends really like Gone Wandering.

esentya.

2006-06-14T00:54:00.000+08:00

Was bumbling around on the internet when I came across this very old site of mine from my days in NUS which I've forgotten about. Brought back a lot of nice memories of sweats and late nights with a great bunch of friend from back then. I also came across some old photos of mine from the year when I was the chief designer for my hall's rag team.

Presenting the float.

My proudest achievement from the competition. Felt like I was doing up a costume for some wearable art competition. For your info, the costume is entirely made up of recycled plastic lunch boxes and some wire gauze. :)

Sigh, really miss my team from back then. Lol feeling all emotional and wanting to hug them now.

http://www.angelfire.com/blog/strange_places

killer robots peace

2006-06-13T00:40:00.000+08:00

peace.

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spent quite quite a fair bit of time doing this up. Lines in marker and colored in photoshop

Majulah Stickapura Series//3

2006-06-12T22:35:00.000+08:00

Woot!
My sticker design got selected in this year Stickapura. It's the one with the teh tarik man spilling out our stars and crescent.

The stickers are bundled together in a special packs and sold at the following location, Basheer, Asylum, Homespun and InQbox, do get them while they last and let me know if you paste it somewhere in Singapore:P. Lol, I wonder if we get a free pack for ourself, kinda shy to ask it from them tho.

I actually came across this pic on the 1819supermovement blog a while back but I didn't look closely at it, if not I would have seen my teeny teh tarik man in it. Lol.

gone wandering

2006-06-01T01:02:00.000+08:00

sometimes, when the world is quiet
and life seems to be holding its breath,
my mind would say goodbye
and go wandering

to the castles in the rain
to the candles in the night...

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Traveling has always been in my blood. The call of exotic places, the texture of foreign air, they all managed to stir up my innermost self. But not all journeys are geographical. Some times the most exotic place and beautiful places are somewhat more unconventional ...

A first official attempt at a very very different art style. After 2 nights of staring into my LCD screen and endless fiddling in photoshop, finally managed to pull this off. Quite happy with the result and all, hope to find time to explore this art style more in the future.

Made For Walking

2006-05-28T23:28:00.000+08:00

Finally, a decent work for the weekend. Was getting kinda depressed with the last two pieces I turned out. The concept for this one came to me when I wrote in an earlier post about how my drawing of curves seem to be a path of some sort and then the image of dorothy and her shoes popped into my head.

The idea of a journey has always attracted me greatly, but a journey not necessary has to mean a change in geography, it could be something more sublime like the growing of your soul. Looking back, it seemed to me I have gone a loong way to where I am today and I'm glad that particular journey had taught me plenty of stuffs.

Be.Loved: Fishing for Love

2006-05-28T17:29:00.000+08:00

Some times, the wait for true love to come along can be a really long and boring wait.

Note: An accidental result while I was fiddling with the line works in photoshop. Kinda quirky effect though. Although not too satisfied with this piece too. I guess I shall end the series here with thsi piece.

Be.Loved: Isabella

2006-05-28T13:40:00.000+08:00

Another piece from the Be.Loved Monster series.

Life is pretty ordinary for Robert, who works as an accountant in the city. That is until he died. All he wanted was a second glimpse, but some times life just get complicated.

Note: Slightly disappointed with how this piece turned out. The coloring was kinda off and after an entire day of fiddling I still couldn't get it right. Sigh.

Angel

2006-05-25T23:31:00.000+08:00

One of the perks of my job is that I get to do what I love during office hours. Was researching on different art styles for an up-coming game project for the Singapore Police Force and doodled this after a very very long and eye-popping period of research on many many talented people. And of course there was the usual diversion into the curves which resulted in those whitish flame thingees.

For those who don't know, it was my first game project with the police which fired me up to become a really good illustrator. You can catch a glimpse of my first foray into illustration at the completed game here, although looking back now I cringed when I go through my works then:P.

Start. Love Begins

2006-05-24T01:01:00.000+08:00

I've always love to draw curves. Endless lines that meandered around physic equations, elaborate shapes that ran unfrettered across my books. Over the years, after being exposed to so many mediums and genres of art, I've always gone back to my curves and pencil, an automatic action that seems detached from my brain's orders. Perhaps I'm thinking the lines might lead to some far away place and I can go on a wild adventure of sort to the ends of the world. my very own little red shoes

Note. Was doodling away during breakfast and came up with this sketch. Feels a pretty unfinished to me but I couldn't bear to throw it away because as ash would put it "it's so me". Did some light photoshop to it, looked around for a nice background and voila.

Introducing Mr Smokey

2006-05-20T21:32:00.000+08:00

Don't you hate it when after tolerating some annoying behavior (lol train doors rushing aunties, sloooow waitresses, the list goes on) for a long while, just when you decide to square up and comfront the irritant (:P) he or she stops doing whatever he is doing that is irritating you and you are left hanging in the middle of your sentence, an idiot without a cause.

Introducing Mr Smokey. Hopefully, I can develope an entire story around him. Started out as an experiment on on drawing faces and ended up as a full-blown coloring experiment.

Be.Loved: Waffles

2006-05-18T00:46:00.000+08:00

Its not everyday you find yourself face-to-face with a genuine wolf-boy, let alone an albino one. But look past the snarling lips and very big claws, you will find that Waffles is just like everyone else, looking for that one person to understand him.

Note: Tried my hand at some proper coloring of the my lines work. Although still much to improve on, am feeling rather happy on how this turned out.

Be.Loved: Andres Finds Love

2006-05-16T01:42:00.000+08:00

This is actually the first drawing that I've completed for the Be.Loved Monster series.

Andres the Octopus is your typical sensitive misunderstood creature of the night. And all he wish for is some love for the looong cold nights below the waves.

Polka Dots

2006-05-14T11:51:00.000+08:00

My first "foray" into alien abduction (the non invasive kind of course:P).
Say hello to Jim, the traveling toothbrush salesman who has a really really bad case of fashion faux pox. ( is it me or does or bad things happen to salesman only:P)

And Ivan the Alien makes a debut appearance albeit through his teleporter beam.
And meet the pioneer of vocal camouflage:P

Be.Loved : Meet Ivan

2006-05-13T22:27:00.000+08:00

Meet Ivan the Alien! =)
One of the "monster" which I did for my Be.Loved Monster series (Everyone just want to be loved)

In addition, meet Moosoo the Cow. A frequent target for non-invasive abduction (mostly its just a cup of grass shake and some lengthy questionnaires on love), he has recently taken up a course on vocal camouflage to preserve his quiet lifestyle. Although ..... :P

disco heaven

2005-10-29T11:13:00.000+08:00

Disco heaven.
So we are dreaming light.
It’s past the sleeping time. The windows are slightly open.
And outside across the silhouette city, a firework of blazing trails is playing.
Perhaps to the crazy tune of some dj mix.
I wonder if it’s a 24-hr party way up there.