Gorilla Artfare

30-01-2008

Well it's finally here...
after many months of..ermm talking and loitering abouts.. GA blog is up and running.. :D check it out!

Gorilla Artfare

ChOW #100!

04-12-2007

Character Of The Week at conceptart.org is on its big 100th. The brief will be out on the 9th of Dec and go for a month, due 6th of Jan.

more info soon..
discussion here
ChOW #100

Last Man Standing #3!!!

09-11-2007

It's on again!!

"LMS3 brings with it this cycle a massive field of 320 contenders over 4 rounds, pitted against each other in a randomly matched bracketed tournament. Pros and novices alike are invited to participate, but keep in mind you'll be going up against some of the best and brightest in the industry. Bring anything but your best and I guaranteed you'll be ridden like a dirty alpaca all over the place.

"Each round you'll be paired up by my Super Deluxe Excel Randomizer with no less than 3 other contenders per round..."

- Cody Tilson (strych9ine)

More infos can be found here

official website!
lastmanart.com

conceptart.org discussion thread
click here

More sketchbooks from CA

10-10-2007

some more inspiration from sketchbook section at conceptart.org! my sb can be found here.

Tom scholes AKA idiot apathy
Robogabo
Prometheus|ANJ
Mathias Verhasselt AKA m@
openanewworld
george&guo
Lukias
zanzan
Fellah
Andrew Ley
Emily Gordon
shao shao
KOPPA
Magic Man
Trevor
Bluefooted
Icon
Mr grumble
Liam.C
Voodoochile
chuck,mate

2DArtist Magazine

01-08-2007

I've been included in August issue of 2DArtist Magazine, :) it's 6 pages in sketchbook section of the magazine, mostly ChOW entries.

(LINK BACK ON! and permanent!)
click here to download


www.2dartistmag.com

:D

In Memoriam GANGUS

23-07-2007

Glen Angus, aka Gangus recently died from aneurysm. A well respected member of CA and cgtalk. I didn't know him in person but have seen his outstanding work all over the cg art communities. A tragic really, only in his 30s, inpiration to many....

RIP and best wishes for his family.

link to his thread in CA

and ChOW dedicated to him

Soul Collector Painting Steps

27-05-2007

Another painting steps for ChOW at conceptart.org, took a slightly different appraoch to usual b&w.

Soul Collector #73

Painting Steps for ChOWs

13-05-2007

Progressive shots for Character Of The Week at conceptart.org
it's quite brief, but it sort of goes over some painting techniques and my thoughts, it's not all that exciting, but if it helps someone out there, all the better! It's just linked to sketchbook post at conceptart.org.

Death's Horse #69


Fallen Valkyrie #71

Semi Permanent & David Kassan Workshop

14-02-2007

Semi Permanent is in 30th & 31st of March in Sydney! so excited about it!

James Jean is one of the speakers!
for details here go here

semi permanent

Also attending David Kassan workshop in Byron Bay!! for a week. Link to his sketchbook in conceptart.org here.

Kassan Sketchbook

Oh, happy valentine's day!

:D

"Collab" section

05-01-2007

HAPPY 2007!!!

New section added, Tom Scholes (idiot apathy), my dear friend has kindly been adding amazing colours to bring life to my sketches. Thanks Tom! This section will also host more collabs in future. :D

cheers, Min

Merry Xmas :D yay~

24-12-2006

:D

SKETCHES

23-12-2006

added new "sketches" section! :D

Future Plans

14-12-2006

Well I have been thinking about upgrading my website for sometime now.. I think a whole new look will probably be a waste of time and energy.

Instead, I will be adding "RESOURCES" section back in as I intended.. (you can sort of make out the scribbled bit in the menu thingie). This section will also have my PS brushes sets plus various step by steps & and of course some of my favourite resources and books. :D

Also will be adding a "LINE ART" section in Sketches. I seem to have done a few of sketches consisting of lines mostly but haven't been able to find a nice home for them. So WATCH OUT! for them little things. :D

2006!

13-12-2006

I can't believe 2006 is already reaching its end. It is kind of crazy how quickly time flies, right before your EYES!!

Well, Merry Christmas & Happy spanking New Year!

let's all hope 2007 we get more drawings and ever get more closer to our dream goals.

cheers, Min

Sketchbooks at CA

16-08-2006

The best place to get yourself inspired is probably at conceptart.org.. it's an amazing community with some serious talents. The best section to get a daily dosage of inspiration is the "sketchbooks" section as well as "members exculsive sketchbooks". My sketchbook and some of my favourite ones!

idiot apathy - loves colours and teaches me heaps too! my mentor!

cotron - his line works are top quality!

loomer - he's too original.. my inspiration!

teigrob - she's got that disney style, does absolute wonders with animals and expressions.

poise - love her work, damn

codaromek - wackiest stuff in there and heaps of cute(?) stuff too

magic man - An aussie! he's talent is top quality too!

hurricane - monster.. can't believe he draws so much..

fellah - he's probably the biggest machine.. and draws absolute crazy stuff!

liam.c - another machine..never stops, do these guys have more than 24 hrs a day?

mindcandyman - a long journey, scarey progress.

garbotage - does just about everything and updates everyday, top quality stuff, very inspiring.

mr.blonde - loves to work with colours

m@ - awsome speed painter, he's colours are absolutely stunning!

main loop - brilliant figures.. brilliant

mentler - anatomy master

sinix - very creative one, really hit me when I first saw his work.

wes burt ,
older one - do I need to say more?

salary man - top qaulity stuff

Looking for resources

16-11-2005

I do get asked once in a while about what to study, or how to go on about studying figures from friends. Often it's just about pointing them to the right direction. I am also a student, studying nature and figures so it's kind of funny in a way. But here are some websites that's helped me greatly in the past few months.

Andrew Loomis, famous, highly skilled and respected. His books are availble free online, so why not use them. They are very good, detailed and inspirational. He's published 6 books so far and all can be accessed through www.saveloomis.org. It's a start, great resource a must have. Hogarth and Bridgman are other two figure masters with few of the book titles, and you can easily pick them up just about anywhere. Online book store that's cheaper than most for australians is www.less10.com. So have a look, I have bought some books in the past, delivery time is a little long but it's cheaper and reliable.

www.cgtalk.com, probably one of the biggest online community for CG artists, they have huge amounts of resources, also now they have anatomy section where figures are discussed daily with free online anatomy workshops.

www.conceptart.org, I love this place, it's very drawing orientated community focusing on concept art, as the name suggests. Especially the sketchbook section, it's not all glossy there but it's very interesting to see other artists doing the roughs and quick sketches. They also have 4 weekly activities which is becoming very very popular and competitive.

That should keep most people busy for a very long time. :) But most importantly it's about patience and dedication, draw draw draw, there simply just isn't any short cut. It's a direct reflection of how much time and effort you put into it.

COW?EOW?ChOW?

25-10-2005

Creature Of the Week, Environment Of the Week and Character Of the Week. these activities are being run at conceptart.org. It's very competitive, well conceptart.org is full of amazing artist that gives you the sense of urgency to work on your skills. Really.

Basically there's a new topic posted each week, like a brief and some rules and guidelines. Then you just go nuts and come up with something wacky, twisted yet interesting concept. Unlike Daily Sketch Group being run at cgtalk.com or conceptart.org these require a bit completion towards work submitted.

It's also very fun and challenging..

A new Website

23-10-2005

After much beating around the bush and frustration, I have come to accept that this will become my new website for the next few months or maybe even for few years. *fingers crossed*

The main reason behind a website was simply to create a place where I can frequently upload some of my scribbles without the hassle. So simplicity was the main drive, but also wanted it to suggest that this website frequent of illustration activities.

I tried avoiding fancy coding or the look, like I said after much frustration, I told myself "meh, this will do". Big thanks to my friend Marsha for coding the entire website in PHP, in fact it's a custom CMS, thanks to her I will be able to easily update my website without resorting to pulling html/css apart and tables. oh and her contact is listed on the left, if you ever need a coder.

So enjoy, check out some of the so called "scribbles" I enjoy doing.