Cerebral Things

_ Cerebral Things. These are the 2D images that my subconsiousness forces my hand to draw.

_ Daily photos aren't daily photos but, eventually, they will be!

A Retro Proposal for a Dinner and Dance

_ Aparently, "retro" is only Bananarama to them. How shallow.

Flowers Growing From The Wrong Places

_ Model: Felicia Fan
_ Born a purple hippo, however, she is a human now.

_ Model: Clarence Danmarc Ceniza
_ Thinks he is a Spaniard.

_ Photographs taken at Kampong Glam with a D70. Graphics created with Illustrator and post-processed with Photoshop.

_ Special thanks to my two fantastic looking models, friends and classmates!

It's Been A While Since My Last Devils Haircut

_ Where It's At was with the company great friends.

_ My Adobe skills has been improving too. Clap Hands! It has been real Peaches and Cream.

_ Think I'm In Love with a Girl but I could be chasing a Lost Cause. Well, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes. Even though, when It's All In Your Mind, it feels like Hot Wax pouring all over your body. Strange Apparation, indeed.

_ Guess I am doing fine... End of the Day, No Complaints.

_ Emergency Exit.

VW Beetle Vectorised

_ I have been putting this off for a long time now. By "this" I meant vectorising daily objects such as the vintage VW Beetle. By vectorising I meant tracing it in Adobe Illustrator or other such vector softwares.

_ Today, I did just that. Below is the step by step illustrated show and tell of what I went through for the past gruelling 12 hours.

_ First hour:


_ Doing the easiest shapes first. Here's the next three hours:


_ I was tired of just doing shapes so I did some shading as well. First to the headlights then the door handle and I added colour so it wasn't so boring to look at. Of course, after sometime I grew tired and was too lazy to save all the steps. So, here is the final product:


_ Although not shown in the above images, I had the 50% reduced opacity photo of the Beetle underneath my artwork all the time.

_ Here are some close up details of the vectorised Beetle:





_ Basically, this is just a small part of a bigger series of self-training sessions I am putting myself through for the next two years. Hopefully, I will be good enough in the end even my beloved government wants me to do some of their work!

Hokusai Ripoff

_ Me ripping-offing Hokusai's infamous Mt. Fuji painting using Illustrator.

_ Original here: