from random sketches on loose paper

G-nib + photoshop

Educational picture books for the Ministry of Education in Singapore

Some of the picture book projects I've been working on in the past couple years. The challenging part of educational picture books is that I couldn't go too wild with the art style and composition. The art couldn't be abstract or too arty. Everything needed to be very clear and simple because they targeted at pre-school kids. Also, every book needed to have a different art style. So I had to cook up a different mix of mediums for each book. The books were made into big sized books and were meant to be held and read by a teacher in front of a class of children. These here are the handy-sized ones. You will only find them in Singapore schools as they aren't for sale at the bookstores. Had fun doing this and learned a lot along the way.

Photos displayed with permission from the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

  

From the End of Feb to mid March 2015 sketchbook

Various pens

Zig Calligraphy marker + watercolours

Zig Calligraphy marker + Derwent drawing pencils

Custom 742 regrind (by Greg Minuskin) + Derwent drawing pencils

Ballpoint + Derwent drawing pencils

G-nib

Parallel pen + Duke Confucius + photoshop

Duke Confucius + photoshop

Various pens

Custom 742 regrind

Custom 742 regrind + brush pen

Various pens

Lost power

So smelly

(Ollie is still breastfeeding,)

Vintage Wahl Eversharp Skyline + photoshop

the february sketchbook

These are the nicer sketches from February. They were done with a few art tools - Zig Calligraphy Marker, brush, Custom 742, Vintage Wahl Eversharp Skyline, Parallel Pen, G-nib, Duke Confucius, watercolours, colour pencils and photoshop. I think I've used so many that I lost track of which pen I used for each picture! Well, enjoy!

some sketches from february

Been too busy to update recently. But here are a few scanned pages from the February sketchbook

Parallel Pen

Wahl Eversharp Skyline + brush pen


Various pens

Parallel Pen + watercolour