I want you

Tachikawa tank nib + brush + photoshop

Ollie's new bed

She sleeps in odd parts of the bed. Gouache + monoprint

Poster colors in my sketchbook

Sketching people at Toastbox while drinking coffee.

Style test. Pencil + color pencil + poster color.

Black and white

Sketching from my car.

A random comic.

The things I encounter throughout the day.

Mornings

Ballpoint + photoshop

Jacob Ballas Garden

Ollie is the one on the right. She liked playing in the sand and sliding down from the treehouse, but only using the lower slide. There is a new section added to the garden. There, she likes jumping on the trampoline and then balancing on the logs. We got there around 10am plus and it was already getting hot. Good thing there was enough tree cover. The Food for Tots cafe there was rather too pricey. So we ate OK Peranakan food at Ivims instead. Poster colour + conte.

Clementi mall

Drew this while having breakfast at the newly revamped Toastbox at Clementi Mall. I looked out the large window while munching on a ham and cheese toast which I occasionally dipped into a bowl of soft-boiled eggs. I'd also sip my cup of coffee+evaporated milk+no sugar. Outside, people were busy walking past. A train would stop at the station every few minutes. Behind me, two men were chatting about their kids and work. I was glad no one was looking over my shoulders while I drew. FW acrylic ink marker + watercolours.

Walker

Parker 51 stub, dip pen, watercolors, posca white marker

Playing with posca markers and acrylic ink

Since I only had 4 markers, I was forced to use a limited colour palette. The brown and skin tone orange were warm colours so I balanced it with a blue. White marker for highlights and FW acrylic ink in a home-made marker for the black. Later on, I got the FW marker to put the FW acrylic ink in and that flowed a lot better.

Picturebook style test

Acrylic ink on brown paper

duck race

A quick painting in my sketchbook. Not perfect, but fun! Acrylic inks.

Back in Singapore

 

I drew myself in these urban sketches. Pilot signature pen + photoshop.

Drawn during SUTD urban sketching class at Eunos. Pilot signature pen + ink brush

Whisper

Chinese ink + photoshop

Pages drawn in Taipei

Recently came back from Taipei, a city with nice weather. Didn't get to draw much. Just a few pages.

Uniball Impact 1.0 + watercolor

A couple more Ollie moments with Ollie

For a complete collection of Ollie comics before Aug 2017, check out the book here: http://www.drewscape.net/theolliecomics.html

sit

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