i was staring at the ikea curtain too long i thought of a creature idea based on this graphic printed on the ikea patterns. this was supposed to be some kind of flower/plant i think :)  trying creature design.

I’m also attaching the painting timelapse exported from Procreate.

Hi, i’m back!

The MerMay challenge was started by Tom Bancroft in May 2016 when he posted this on his Instagram. He basically invited artists to post a Mermaid drawing every day in the month of May… I think the purpose is still same as that of Inktober (to develop the habit); which I fully subscribe to. my drawing habit has really improved since doing these daily sketch/paint challenges so I participated in Mermay 2018. plus I haven’t drawn any mermaids before so I thought this is another challenge that it’s not in my comfort zone.

Here’s what I thought before starting this challenge:
Possibly I can do this during my lunch breaks at work. they will probably be just sketches but maybe will have nicer output on weekends let’s see how it turns out. however, I fear I will easily run out of new ideas as I could only think of a few mermaid concepts. (surprisingly I ended up with a big variety of mermaid/merfolk concepts)

I did this year’s MerMay challenge following the prompt list provided by Procreate (#ProcreateMerMay)

Most of the entries I made are done in under an hour (sketch during lunch and finished before bedtime). Some were well-thought of, others were top-of-my-head concepts; on some days I had the luxury of a few hours to really paint in details;

Oh, and there are also some that got featured in the Procreate weekly top picks! something to be really happy about!

Here’s my Space mermaid in Week1 along with works of other Procreate artists!

and my Venom Merman for Week3

you can definitely see in my output how much available time I had for that certain day. there are some done in a few minutes only (i had a busy busy day)…

Day 13: Cyborg

Day 24: Office

Day 12: Ghost

while others were fully colored and rendered

Day 11: Retired

Day 11: Retired (Details)

Day 5: Swamp

Day 5: Swamp (Details)

In every entry, I try to come up with something new (explore other fish/sea creatures to combine with human features). I enjoyed making especially those with fun concepts. I got to explore different styles as well.

here’s the full set

Day 1: Space

Day 2: Steampunk

Day 3: Medieval

Day 4: Rebel/Imperial “Happy May the 4th everyone! “

Day 5: Swamp

Day 5: Swamp (Details)

Day 6: Deap Sea

Day 7: Arctic “Beluga mermaid”

Day 8: Artist

Day 9: Prehistoric

Day 10: Student

Day 11: Retired

Day 11: Retired (Details)

Day 12: Ghost

Day 13: Cyborg

Day 14: Rave “ Tugs! Tugs! Tugs”

Day 15: Reverse “REVERSE how many can you see?”

Day 16: Superhero “Sea Lion-o”

Day 17: Villain

Day 18: MerMad Scientist

Day 19: Hipster “Hipster Triton”

Day 20: Goth

Day 21: Gamer

Day 22: Hippy “Flower Power ”

Day 23: Pocket

Day 24: Office

Day 25: Ninja

Day 26: Pirate “Pirate figurehead, for a change.”

Day 27: Zombie

Day 28: Vikings

Day 29: Wizard/Witch “Went for a Voodoo witch dictor concept”

Day 30: Sports “A day in the life of Sari the Goalkeeper”

Day 31: Futuristic “Who needs feet? She’s got gadgets and gizmos a plenty.”

hope you enjoy viewing this and share what you think Any favorites?

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cross over cross universe

Darna and Wonder Woman.

DARNA (anagram name of her mortal name, “Narda”) is of Mars Ravelo’s creations. (Filipino comicbooks)
Diana Prince (Wonder Woman of DC Comics)

sketched this crossover concept during coffee break at work sometime in January 2017.

used my phone to take photo of my sketch and import it to procreate, on my ipad.
Now slowly painting over the sketch 

trying some tones and subtle colors. at the time, I was still basing darna on Angel Locsin (one of the recent actresses to portray the role on TV)

April 11 2017

worked more on May 2017.

Finally finished on June 27.2017
Media: Pencil and paper, to digital painting with ipadpro + procreate.

So that was 6 months of on and off painting. iv been quite busy at work that when i reached my place i jst wanted to sleep right away.  even weekends i needed to do support work ( I work in the semiconductor industry as a systems analyst haha). so yah, only had more time and eventually finish this during the hari raya season. we had a 3 day holiday here in Singapore.  

Let me know what you think, and comment below. Feel free to share

you may also follow me on instagram. I post regularly there if you’d like to see more of my sketches and drawings

Just want to start something. I dont know what to do with this yet. Will keep dumping character ideas and concepts here.
One of my goals in the future is to have my own graphic novel , or comics maybe. But that’s still further down the road so i will do what i can for now. Need to start at some point so might as well do something now, right? Lots of character sketches, hopefully will cone up with more ideas soon. Will just keep updating them whenever woohoo! Cmon 2017! :

Might be random sketches for now

character 001

Character 010

Personal project: Baul

New sketches! (june 2017)

more sketches

baul_char_03  enjoyed making this character.

Let Loose Let Live

358/1000 Let Loose Let Live

You will encounter so many rules and different challenges while studying and improving your art.All of these might put so much pressure on you, make you feel constipated haha. but it’s part of the game. you jst need to let your brain rest sometimes. release.
so here’s me doing what I missed doing.. letting my mind afloat while sketching, not overthinking about it. let loose. let the fart come out. let live. and repeat.

Will probably use this blog more often now. Will continue doing my 1000 drawings personal challenge here.  This would by my 358th so far. the rest can be found on my instagram: @tuntundizon.art

Decided to start using this blog again, will share quick and fun sketches here.

Too many things to do, too many obligations and chores that takeprecedenceover you. I wIll always find time to do sketching that’s for sure.  Im doing operation  support today tho.  How’s your weekend going?

 

One of the goals for challenges like this (even in photography they have the 365 photos a year) is for the artist to produce a positive habit. And I should say that it did its work well. I haven’t stopped the habit, i couldn’t end the day without a simple sketch or a work-in-progress digital painting so once the inktober 2016 arrived I passed my ipad to my gf for her to use the whole month while I got me my first sketchbook. It wasn’t easy at first because it’s literally been a year since i drew anything traditionally, but the excitement really kicked in and I finished the 31 day challenge with 51 drawings! haha. I did most of the drawings at work during tea and lunchbreaks and at home, esp during weekends. I couldn’t stop with just one drawing. i did not follow the prompt list they suggested this year as I just wanted to draw what i felt like drawing for the day. most of the entries are portraits since i’ve been working hard trying to improve my understanding on portraiture, some are basically what caught my attention while drawing: tv show characters, an interesting quite street with nice architecture, po frm kungfu panda, my girlfriend, could be a photo that popped up on the timehop app, and so on. i really enjoyed drawing on my sketchbook, in fact I now carry 2 small sketchbooks with me all the time, one in my pocket and another in my bag. some of these sketches I hope to do repaint digitally in the coming days so Hope you guys stay tuned and enjoy ^^

btw my instagram @tuntunduduls account is always updated  with my latest sketch or drawings so you can follow me there  if you like pls feel free to leave comments here or there, say hi or ask anything about my artworks, i’d be happy to talk and share

“Qarla”
inktober23.
referenced from a photo i took in 2014 of our volunteer model for a fun shoot at the botanic garden. haha late upload ^^

“Stand Out”
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photo used for reference and other photos of this photowalk can be found on my photography account :@tuntun365photos
.. caption of this photo i took in june 2015 :
“Saw a number of elders gathered at an area in Chinatown last Sunday,

“Hairdo 90s kids paborito”

hehe may class picture dn ba kayo na lahat halos ng lalaki hati sa gitna buhok. malamang sa malamang si Trunks dn idol nlang hairdo nuon mapa-long hair o ung orig haha.

day 25

was supposed to be a Toguro sketch haha.
day 27

Lunchsketch and ink.
random character idea.
day 27

dinnerbreak.
day 29

Batmannnn Tenenenennen.
day 30 of #inktober2016.

teptep by the beach that’s it!! day 31 of #inktober2016! i finished it! fun month!

day 28 busy day at the office, rushed sketch #Supergirl over teabreak

“Skye, Quake”

here’s #inktober22, still prefer Skye instead of Daisy ^^ sounds cooler haha. . .

quick face sketches during lunchbreak.
still at Day11

 “rbf”

inked my pencil sketch earlier during lunchbreak day 21

inktober 11 is Speedy ^^
Thea Queen

Traffy for Day 20 of #inktober2016.

that “Don’t BS me” look haha.

“Clara”

day10 of #inktober2016 and im still doing mini portrait sketches. here’s one of clarabeninmusic done during lunchbreak

inked over my sketches earlier. still messy haha.
. day 19

mini portraits!#inktober10

inktober 18 more portrait sketches ^^ haha im wasting ink, aren’t i.

 ketching randomly tonight #inktober #inktober9

“pencil and ink”
bfore and aftr i messed it up haha. doinh more portrait sketches tonight. #inktober17

im sleeping this lunchbreak off ^^ quick sketch for #inktober13. dnt know what to draw maybe later.

 “you humans are such sad and weak, foolish creatures”.

FMA’s Lust for Day17 1

“looks like a job for the both of us, cuz”

jst saw the season premiere of #Supergirl ^^
here’s #inktober13!

“Ding, batooo!” hehe just a fun sketch of #Darna ^^ day 16

“Jess”

another for day12

“manananggal” #inktober#inktober15

siyempre inktober 12 is teptep day ^^

Lunchbreak sketch for #inktober14

red ink

 “A girl”

still at day11 of #inktober2016. sketched @maisie_williams

“Murdock”
day 13

urban sketch, spiral stairs at lorong 1 changi road.
day 9 of #inktober2016

“nikki’s”
Finished i may have used textile paint inside old fabric markers, but im including this in this year’s inktober ^^

 “Weekend”

inktober 8
played with the remaining ink dilluted with water

inktober 7
“Teekh-teekh”
another idea for our pokemon x Philmythicreatures art jam at #metalpen

“look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?” was asked to design the parents’ shirts for their kid’s 1st bday. haha im counting this as my #inktober7 starter

“look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?” was asked to design the parents’ shirts for their kid’s 1st bday. haha im counting this as my #inktober7 starter

morning sketch during teabreak for inktober 6.. boy batuta

“After all this time?”.
another for #inktober6.

nightsketch #inktober6.

it has begunnn

#inktober1: Lord Vaderrrr

when you have a sketchbook but afraid to do your first sketch on it.

#inktober1

here’s to the weekend.

#inktober2

 inspired by that spot-on cosplay. trending recently.

#inktober2

 #inktober2 continues.

yesterday at the burger joint with le teptep ^^

guess who’s having too much of the #inktober psyche!

#inktober2 isnt stopping anytime soon
here’s a sketch of Natalie
found some of my copic markers from last year’s inktober!

hubbabobba chill day. my favourite illustration so far!

bobba statue by the bay. with weird turtle back guy fishing. and ooh an old friend of bobba’s Inktober4

weird show.

still at #inktober2. it’s been a long day. haha

 aguy aguy

inktober 4

 watching Kungfu Panda with little cousins ^^ still for #inktober2. that’s it. last for the day i hope

“El” still at day 4 of #inktober2016.

#StrangerThings

Two recent character sketches i did during lunch break at work. What do you guys think?