Dunstan Baby Language

Self-settling

Disclaimer: I was only trying it out that night. Some experts encourage it while others think it's a bad idea. I'm not sure myself.

Namiki-Maki pen reground to an XF by Greg Minuskin + photoshop

Castle

A random sketch of a view of a strange castle on a hill. I'd just finished reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Perhaps that's where the idea sprang from. Good story, by the way. Parallel pen, colour pencils + photoshop

Night at a coffeeshop for dinner

Coffeeshop at Lor 7 Blk 21 Toa Payoh. Went to eat the fish 'n' chips at Cafe Wok Inn. It was very good. Drawn in my mini sketchbook with yellow paper. Pentel GFW50E brush pen + gouache + photoshop.

style experiment

After watching some episode of Ping Pong the animation, I decided to figure out how their backgrounds were painted. Apparently, it is part digital, part natural media. And involves creating a custom brush in photoshop using real paint strokes. I think this picture came about because I've been changing lots of baby diapers recently.

Parallel pen + gouache + photoshop

Scribbles

Had some paper I decided to just test my pens on and just scribble random things in between work. Was testing out Ackerman's new G-nib "fountain pen" which I think is more of a shaker pen. It doesn't have a proper fountain pen feed and you have to sometimes shake the ink out. At first, it didn't work at all. But after some adjustments, it began to work pretty alright. Not perfectly, but decently enough. It's a pretty experimental pen and more for tinkerers. It can be a fun pen if you don't mind a little mess and inky fingers. But it's not for people who want a reliable fountain pen they can carry around. I seems like it is called the Junior Pump Pen now.

Parallel pen with japanese ink. Ackerman fountain pen.

Parallel pen with japanese ink. Ackerman fountain pen + watercolour

Ackerman fountain pen + watercolour + photoshop

brush pen / parallel pen + photoshop

The past week

Capturing recent small events before I forget them. I do these quickly without any planning, which explains why the artwork is so sketchy.

 

From the end June - July sketchbook

Platinum KDP3000A 

Modified Platinum preppy/Tachikawa maru dip nib + photoshop

Baby carrier

I have so many pens, I forgot which pen I used for this one.

Living Abroad as told by 4 singaporeans

My comic about Singaporeans living abroad. It was done for the Singapore Memory Project. All stories were drawn by me but each story was written by a different person recounting their own experiences. Mine is the last story. Text is a little small so you might need a desktop screen to read it comfortably. Read here:http://issuu.com/iremembersg/docs/living_abroad

Pooping

Carrying Ollie

Wahl Eversharp Symphony XXF + photoshop

Illustrations for Young Parents Magazine from the last few months

These are some of the illustrations I do for the magazine by SPH. Their designer communicates their concept via email and it is my job to make it look the best I can. All done using photoshop.

house along canal

Muji 0.25 hexagonal gel pen + graphite wash

3 weeks

Lyra graphite pencil + watercolours + white overlay in photoshop

Olivia

Mechanical pencils (various sizes) + watercolour

Jetstream 1.0 + watercolour

Tyler rolling around, buying curry, and sketching at Ghim Moh

Michell nib in Ackerman pump pen + photoshop

Jetstream 1.0 rollerball + watercolour + photoshop

Walh Eversharp Symphony + watercolours + photoshop

prankster

I found this old random pencil sketch drawing in a sketchbook and decided to treat it and colour it in photoshop. I think it was one of those late night drawing where I was too sleepy to think clearly about what I was drawing. Pencil + photoshop.

Copies of Monster's, Miracles and Mayonnaise in Santa Barbara

I left some copies of Monster's, Miracles and Mayonnaise in the US when I visited last year. While stopping over at Santa Barbara I found a nice bookstore that had a good selection of graphic novels. It's called Chaucer's Bookstore (http://www.chaucersbooks.com/). So if you are around the area and you want to check out my first graphic novel (in which one of the stories has an Eisner nomination for "best short story"), you'll find it there. But I've only left a handful of copies.

At the post office

KDP-3000A + photoshop

The birth of Olivia Tan

KDP-3000A + watercolours

"Ollie" is the nickname for Olivia.