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Watercolors + photoshop

vacuum

While my car was being vacuumed after a car wash at the Caltex petrol station at Clementi. 

Uniball Impact.

Smile

A new Ollie comic. In this one, I use a kind of "jedi mind trick" that my brothers and I would use on each other when we were younger. Try it out and see if it works. It only works on Ollie, now and then - usually when she is just a little annoyed. For a complete collection of Ollie comics before Aug 2017, check out the book here: http://www.drewscape.net/theolliecomics.html

Uniball Air + photoshop.

i got muji vouchers

Yep, I got Muji vouchers from my mom. Watercolors, marker, glue, different papers + photoshop.

Search

Homemade folded dip pen + watercolors + photoshop clean-up/layout. 

#foldedpen #watercolors

From Holland Village Park

A sketch after lunch with a cup of take-away coffee beside me. Across the road is a church and a petrol station. Used mainly red and green. Signo DX 0.38mm + watercolors/waterbrush.

Spaceman + demo

Steadtler pigment liner 0.5 + chinese ink brush + photoshop. 

Watch the video demo on how this was created:

P.S. The Chinese brush pen in this video is this cheap one HERE. The cap looks different in the video because I made a new cap for it.

Black and white

These couple weeks, I've been carrying around a dip pen, black ink in a small squeeze bottle and a portable Chinese brush. So I'm liking just black and white for now. And I love the satisfying feel of drawing with a dip pen. Not as convenient as a fountain pen, but there is something really enjoyable about using a dip nib.

The weird caped person pic was done with a Twsbi fountain pen with blacks added in using the Chinese brush. 

Daler-Rowney Synthetic flat brush with Chinese ink. 

Friday night Ikea

 Modified muji highlighter

From the september sketchbook

Some drawings from my imagination and some urban sketching.

Fountain pen + brush pen

Parker 51 + photoshop collage

Syle test

I like experimenting and trying out new styles. This is one I saw in a picture book today and I was figuring it out here. (Not exactly. But close.) Pencil + cut outs + watercolour. The girl on the left is wearing a shirt with Ollie's (my daughter's) handwriting on it. They are gibberish letters.

greendot dinner

Marker + watercolours. The Mayo yoghurt soya burger there was delicious.

Bag

I remember drawing this at a UCC coffee counter inside Isetan at Westgate mall. Drawn with a pencil and painted with poster colour that I brought around in small Muji airtight containers.

An interview by Parka from Parkablogs

The Ollie Comics can be purchased online HERE.

Images created for a book by the Singapore Zoo

Not all the pictures were finally used for the book Wild We Can. But these were the ones I liked most. Brush and ink. Put together in photoshop

Tanglin Halt

Pencil + poster colour

Where to find The Ollie Comics in Singapore

In Singapore, The Ollie Comics are available at Woods in the Books, Books Kinokuniya, and Basheer Graphic Books.

The Ollie Comics: Diary of a first-time dad

My new graphic novel is finally completed and now available online. Read more about it HERE.

Hide and seek

Quick painting done while waiting for Ollie to finish her bath in her bathtub. Acrylic inks.

truck

maru dip pen + ecoline inks + food colouring. 

walk

Sailor fountain pen + watercolours + photoshop colour adjustment

Monoprints

Ollie watching Peppa Pig in the living room.

Oliver and Ollie at Tiong Bahru.

Sketching at the mall

Sailor Zoom nib + watercolours.

Experiments

Chinese ink and charcoal. It doesn't bleed through thinner paper.

Style test

Poster colours and ink on brown paper

After returning from Japan

Signo broad + watercolours

Adventure

I really just wanted to play with watercolours here. Sometimes, I just do pen and ink drawings too often and it's a nice change to do pencil and watercolours again. using wet on wet and wet on dry techniques. And just layering it on. My sketchbook paper isn't great watercolour paper. But it's just for practice.

Illustrations for Young Parents May 2017 Issue

Markers and photoshop

©Young Parents, SPH Magazines Pte Ltd. Reproduced with permission.

playground

Stand on the platform, it will push you up and into the hole. And then you slide out the other end.

Poster Colours.

Ears

Poster colours

Holland Village sketch walk with the Urban Sketchers Singapore group

Pen lines first. Then water colours after.

Watercolours first. Then pen and pencil lines after.

Home-made G-nib fountain pen with Platinum carbon black + watercolours + black ink brush + pencil

Fountain pens and acrylics

Watermans 12 + acrylic

Mabie Todd Swan 4, G-nib fountain pen + Watermans 12 + acrylic.

Tiger

Body by me. Stripes and mouth by Ollie. Gouache.