Make-Up 4 AbZ

My friend asked me if I could add some spice to her photos, and here they are:

Original Picture

Removed Blemishes

After Some Extra Spice & Everything Nice

Another original photo:

This is Abz after some Scotch, Brandy and other hard boozes:

Pony Mock-up

I find this worth posting because it's the first time I ever tried using my Photoshop skills to do some "prototyping", and the outcome was pretty GOOD!

Moondancer is a unicorn pony, and a childhood favourite of mine. Sadly her actual toy looks kind of deformed, and there existed other poses from the later era that are more eye-candy. The above pony was what I created in Photoshop from the two source images below.

 

I've actually done this as a quick mock-up to ask for a pony commission, just so people know what I am talking about. I was surprised I found someone who was willing to take on the job! Anyway, the actual product came out pretty close, and I really like the new Moondancer.

This is part of the process where I'm pointing out to the lady about the symbol design that the moon is tilting at a wrong angle and it's overly curved. The colour wasn't exactly satisfactory either. In sum, I needed her to change. lol "Change" is always a scary word for people doing the production, but hey I paid the money, so I had to be pleased!

This is the final product - TADA! Of course the lady couldn't replicate exactly what I wanted on picture because this is handicraft, and she's limited in a sense that there's no engineer or whomsoever to solve her problems, but she definitely did well!  I would say the likeness to what I wanted is 99%! She also tied a nice bow on the mane of the pony, which was a bonus, since I didn't ask for it. The little baby pony beside is an official release, so in fact, the custom pony looks quite "factory".

Rebel Girl: Drubble

 Alt Colour

After Photoshop

Original

Another photo-retouch, except this is due for assignment. Blended out most of her freckle, give her face slightly more pink, and well....crazy colours for hair and lips. I like how she looks kind of emo, so I named her the Drubble the Rebel Girl.

Photo-Retouch A+++ *****

Photoshop lessons have to my favourite! I'd give it an A+++ ***. It was definitely pure fun. Above is the pic of a normal lady turned ....psychedelic. She may have liked staying the way she looked, but I prefer her like this. Isn't purple skin gorgeous? I like her lips especially.

Added a pic of her with normal skin tone with blue hair and lips, and purple eyes.

Whizzer the Pegasus Pony

There's a reason why I love digital painting! I get to colour all the things I love! This assignment involves colouring a character I like. Being a die-hard pony collector, a pony seems like a natural choice. After browsing on the web for ages looking for the perfect outline, I gave up and took up an outline of Whizzer the Pegasus Pony. I think she looks the best by far. I'm extremely pleased with how her hair turned out, albeit maybe a tad too shiny, but I LOVE SHINY! I don't think she was originally that shiny. I forgot what I did and the the light and contrast went a little beserk, and there was too many layers to trudge through to correct the mistake. The different is slight anyway - between SHINY or not so shiny. This outline is probably used to death in many My Little Pony comics, merch and storybook illustrations, but the colouring are always flat, so I took the real toy of her as a reference and tried to give this attempt some sense of volume, yet I didn't want to make her too realistic. I wanted to imitate how the old generation 1 ponies were presented on their packaging. It was a fusion between semi-realistic and pastel 2D water colour-eque drawings, and I really wished I could draw and colour like how they were done on the packaging! It was actually what really got me into collecting, I simply LOVED how they were drawn - that particular style. I gave the pony's body a slight shine to give it a plasticky vinyl quality. The only part I am not too pleased is Whizzer's eyes. They're supposed to be jewels, but I don't think they look shiny enough. The background is completely done by me. It's not hard to make a blue backdrop and painting a rainbow and smudge some clouds on, but I still like to take credits for it. lol There's nothing wrong about being shameless.

Apples & Fruit Basket

Don't you just love painting apples? They have to be my favourite fruit over bananas, orange, and oh definitely mangoes, guava, strawberries....you get the picture. The apples on the left are my references, and the ones on the right with my little "Chai" signature beside them are drawn by me! These are blended with a size 3 hardbrush and then an overall quick smudge at the end with a size 45 softbrush.

 

Another fruit themed assignment that I enjoyed painting. I was intending to paint an entire basket of fruit, but having been away for a month has piled on quite mountain heap of assignments from other subjects that I need to restraint myself.

Figure Drawing

All thanks to my army reservice (thanks and no thanks by the way), I missed many of my figure drawing lessons. I was hard-pressed for finding decent looking drawings to come up with a best 15. I only had 2 classes before this had to be summited. Good thing I chocked up enough sketch to cough out something.

Hairspray: Edna Turnblad

Can you tell who this is? I was wondering who to draw for my last portrait, and I decided I would do something I love. I was watching Hairspray on repeat countless times in a week, so I guess you can classify that as a Hairspray addiction. After much deliberation, I've narrowed my choices to just Edna Turnblad, cleverly acted out in full scale character by none other than the talented John Travolta. Here's my tribute to him. He was SO hilarious in the movie. The hair and the sequins on the dress took me forever, but it was worth it!

Man, Dog, Tree

This is probably the most terrible of all my assignments. This is before I learn to digital paint of course. Alright, so I need to find excuses to explain away why my colouring skills are the equivalent of a primary school kid. I'll be honest, I am not the most artistically inclined person and I lack patience...and skillZ... I was basically adding whatever I could from any opinion that any passerby could provide. I didn't know what blending was when I was doing this assignment. I was colouring to the best of my ability, which I know, is rather lacklustre. No need to cry.

This work still deserves a bump though, for all the effort I've put in.

Three Lil' Pigs

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An illustration assignment where we were asked to draw WITH PERSPECTIVE in mind based on the theme of either the Lil' Red Ridinghood or the Three Little Pigs. Okay, so most of my drafts didn't make it through the approval stage, but this one was lucky to barely make it. It was wayyyyy more complicated at the beginning but the random explosions were cluttering up the view, so I got rid of them. I had colour balancing issues with this picture because I swear it was much lighter and brighter when I was colouring it on my laptop but the pigs looked roasted when I brought them onto the screen at school, and I never was able to get the same "right" tones even after tuning the lightness and contrast. I ended up choosing vividness over the other elements. Definitely not my best piece, but I think it's decent enough to show it publically on the web.

Fat Phoenix

Colour Study/Character Design

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Our class' first colour study exercise. We were asked to create a simple character using simple shapes, and I came out with a bird using a circle. Decided to make it extra special by attaching tails to it and make it a fat phoenix - HEHE. It'll be nice if it implodes on impact as well (haha literally a fire bird), so no hugging the bird please... for your personal safety.