The Devoted Friend

Another painting by P.J. Lynch that I'd copied.

The Selfish Giant

This is a copy of P.J. Lynch's painting for a story titled "The Selfish Giant". As I have been a big fan of the illustrator for a long time, I recently decided to start making copy of his paintings. So I went to the library and borrowed a bunch of children's books he illustrated. After going through the books I couldn't help but to go to the internet to read more about him and his work. To my surprise, I actually found his blog. I am very impressed by the work he put up on his blog and the fact that he has time to blog despite the time and energy he put into his work.

His paintings are so well thought out and detail that making this copy made me understand true artist really go the extra miles.

Mel's Birthday

I found this in an old book...nah...I did it for Mel's birthday. I started out skecthing Misty, Mel's cat, in brown color pencil and later black pen. After that I thought it would be nice if I could just do some paint dripping on the image and then I went on to do more stuff on it with paints, sometimes just to cover up the part that I don't like. It was fun, more like exploring with different mediums. In the end I really hate myself for adding the paragraph at the bottom. I think it steals the mood of the image. Other than that, it was a good experiment for me.

Portrait of a man, standing.

This is another Rembrandt's painting that I had copied in late July.

Jo's Birthday!

This is for my best friend whose best friend is Ernie. Happy birthday!

Jack's story follow up

My god, it has been so long after my last post! Here are some small paintings I did before I was busied with my latest project. I decided to do small paintings base on the sketches I did for the story "HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE". I love the composition I had in the dog pic.

How Jack Went To Seek His Fortune

In April I promised my sister, Joey, that I would draw something for my niece to color. I heard she likes drawing and messing with colors a lot so I thought I do should something to encourage her wonderful talent despite the fact that she shows great interest in singing and dancing as well. Anyway, I didn't start on doing the drawings until late June. I found an interesting English Fairy Tales titled "HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE" and I thought it would be a good material for a children's book. My niece and her parents just had a trip to an Australia's farm house early this year and I am hoping the story would remind her of the animals she met there.

I had fun doing the drawings although I didn't spend a lot of time on them. One of the reasons was because I wanted to keep it simple and the other was that I needed to get them done as soon as possible. I drew 10 drawings for the story initially, thinking that the last part of the story was too complicated to draw but my second sis, Kim's asked me to draw the part and so I came out with another 5. Turn out I had more fun doing the last part!