Due to the need to rush all my school work during this period of time (another 4 weeks more to go), I’ve a lot less time for studies. I guess I probably can only spend 1 full day per week doing studies instead of the usual daily studies. In a way, that is actually a good thing!
Just as humans tend to get immuned to things that they do daily, I get immune to the mistakes I made during my daily studies. Doing studies only once per week allows me to look at my drawings with fresh eyes and a lot of mistakes become apparent.
One of these issues is line sensitivity, something which I’m currently thinking of ways to fix and improve; the other is a little bit too much over-construction when drawing from life.
Drawings from the past 6+ weeks, from oldest to newest:












Head is way off in above drawing, so I re-draw the thing again, which is below:




Head in right drawing below is too close to clavicle and too pudgy:






Below are a series of work I did for my final year project. Did mostly illustrations last semester so I thought I wanna balance things out with some character designs. These are done in cel-shading style, something I always wanted to try. Should have paid more attention to the line sensitivity instead of using all-consistent lines, but well….
The story is about a retired general who rides on dinosaurs around the cities and other places, using all kinds of weapons to bomb the buildings and loot the money. While he’s at it, he faces similar rivals who also ride dinos, and also has to fend off the military who is sent in to stop him from carrying out his crimes. The dinosaurs are genetically modified dinos, and I deliberately stylize their proportions quite a bit. I tried to design the whole thing around a military theme and make the characters look goofy and wacky.
This is the main character, Nutcase (yes, that’s his name). Has deformed lower body due to excessive alcohol drinking and his legs spread out at 45 degree angle from pelvis. His default weapon is throwing molotov cocktails.


The pink fireworks that’s splurting out from the bottle is a “mechanized” version of the molotov cocktail. More powerful, of course. The words say “Violent Janet” (since some cocktail names are named after ladies, like Bloody Mary and Shady Lady etc).

The first dinosaur. Lots of changes were made before arriving at this shit. This is the Giraffatitan (not Brachiosaurus), the same species of dinosaur that is on display at the Humboldt Museum in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde). Each dinosaur is designed and inspired based on military vehicles. In this case, this guy functions as a mobile missile launcher.
Originally, I wanted to do several more species of dinos, but there just wasn’t enough time. However, I’ll be working on those after graduation. In fact, Dromiceiomimus (military scout) and Spinosaurus (heavy artillery) are currently in the works.

Below is Madame X, the wife of the main character. Still thinking of how to fix the background:

And below is the modified jeep with tank treads that Madame X rides on during her robberies with Nutcase. Still need to work on this one a bit more and re-design the 4 panes at the back:

Another 4 more weeks to go, and I have one last final illustration (“The River to Paradise”) to do before this chapter of my life closes. Will post that when school finishes, which is 16 May 2012, and hopefully, I can finish that shit!
And beyond that fateful day, I will be bravely going back to a 9-6 office job, staring at countless spreadsheets everyday, all day, but the spirit of art lives on!
Good day!
Xeon


























































































































































































































































































































