Khon Dance

These new series of work was created because I wanted to explore more into Thai culture, particularly the beautiful traditional Thai dancing called ‘Khon’ that narrate the epic story of ‘Ramakien’ from Thai literature. This kind of dance consist of elegant hand and body movement and the dancer wears brightly colourful elaborate headdress, masks and costumes which I have attempted to capture in these series of illustrations.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Final design that I submitted for the Penguin design award 2012 for Puffin’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. I was very happy with the final outcome although I didn’t get shortlisted. I experimented with hand rendered typography combining it with my illustration and using dark purple for the dark stormy night sky that often depicts the mood of some of the stories in the book.

sweet success

YAYY!! I got in with the top 500 out of 5000 plus entries into the pictoplasma missing link research project ( draw a yeti). my entry will be part of the main section of the exhibition with 499 others in a massive wall in the central exhibition as unique digital prints. If anyone is around Paris between December 7 - 31 go have a look at the new museum la Gaîté Lyrique! :)
also every thursday till the the end of december they are showing some of the entry on their website, click here to have a look at some of the other 499 fellow entries.

I have entered the Burnt Sugar competition to design a borough market bag and would love it if you could follow the link and look at my work. if you like what you see then please support me by clicking the ‘like’ button. :)

click here to get to my entry.

Is time to draw a yeti!

                                          

I feel ashamed as to my lack of posting this summer.. my bad excuse is I have been busy working full time at a retail store , was in thailand for a month and went to Glastonbury festival. I'm now entering my last year of university ( noooo , will miss this lifestyle) and will hopefully be posting more of my progress.

Enter the Yeti! I have decided to enter a lot more competition this year so to start of I looked into 'The missing link research project' organise by Pictoplasma production.

Character design is not really my cup of tea ,as in I have not yet enter into this area much as an illustrator. So I decided to see what I can come up with as this competition seems rather fun and spontaneous! I have tried many drawings that just end up looking like a weird ape so just decided to go with the unknown by paining first with just brush and water then drop some ink onto the area and moved the paper about, then with a scanner and some colour adjustment on photoshop.. Tadah!.. I have a shape that looks like it could be any large man beast thing. Then of course i draw some eyes,nose, hand and feet n that was the creation of my version of a yeti,big foot or abominal snowman.. how ever you want to call it. I must say I really like my creation to be real just so that he could live in my garden :)

still from my animation and shots of my characters

These are the still from my 'HARAJUKU' Japanese street fashion stop motion animation and photographs of my favourite characters from my animation.

stop motion animation for my university project.

music by Magnetic Man Track : flying into tokyo

voice over narration by Amy Fry

credit to japanesestreets.com/​
for information on the subject and photographs of the stunningly creative street fashion. ( which is use as reference for my paper dolls illustration in the animation)

Nautical Nonsense submission

This is my piece for the 'Nautical Nonsense' exhibition at 60 million postcard. Finger cross that my work get printed and exhibit on the night =D