Schools out for now... feels good man...
Some of the more recent decent stuff. Frequent updates from now on i think
Close crop of a Hellboy piece i started in school. Unfinished, and probably staying that way :(

Speedpaint from a month back. Pretty happy with the amount of visual information i managed to put in within that 1+ hour.

Based on the last levelinfinity theme. Inspired by a particular jeffsimpson piece.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Feels good man
Posted by
mkl
at
Sunday, August 31, 2008
0
comments
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Fishy thang
So i got myself into this weekly art thing. Figured its about time i start doing something after an exceedingly long lapse in artistic endeavours.

It starts from here.
Posted by
mkl
at
Thursday, May 08, 2008
0
comments
Friday, March 14, 2008
Pirate-Zombie-Ninjaaa!
Mehh... so my friend suggested that i draw some muscles and
stuff for a change. Sound advice considering my past 10 works have all been just pretty womanz and not much else really.
Sketch
Sure as hell wasn't counting on spending nearly a week to finish this piece but i guess i did have my share of fun. In any case im just happy it isnt that much of a suckfest as it once was.


Its funny how my shortcomings are starting to become glaringly obvious. They say you've improved when you can tell how much you suck. So i guess YAY?
...NOT
Posted by
mkl
at
Friday, March 14, 2008
0
comments
Monday, March 3, 2008
Pepper Project: Pepper Dawn
My submissions for the Pepper Project!
Took me a record amount of time to finish this one, majority of which was spent tweaking the face and the various graphic elements. Windows took a surprisingly short time to do since i was working with custom brushes courtesy of M@ of ConceptArt.
My fav piece of work so far, though it's no where near as good as i'd like it to be :<

Posted by
mkl
at
Monday, March 03, 2008
0
comments
Pepper Project: Pepper Breezy
2nd piece for the Pepper Project. Another goddam troublesome piece that just took too many short meaningless sittings to get done. Managed to pull off the colors in just half a day after stalling on the b/w rendering for weeks.
Painted in grayscale as usual before overlaying colors and applying the halftone filter (hax).
Background's reffed from a book.

Posted by
mkl
at
Monday, March 03, 2008
1 comments
Saturday, December 22, 2007
5 0 5
Been bogged down by overwork lately (work that holds nary any appeal for me).
Shitty sketch is shitty. Shoes were shooped on.
Inspiration from street styles as usual
This took too many intense sessions in photoshop to get right. Nevertheless, I still quite like this piece for what i managed to get out of the initial (shitty) sketch.

Posted by
mkl
at
Saturday, December 22, 2007
0
comments
Monday, November 12, 2007
Bijin
Somewhat inspired by a particular bijinga i saw in this ukiyo-e book i borrowed recently. Fantastic stuff.
I feel the need to try something new soon. When i have time that is.

Posted by
mkl
at
Monday, November 12, 2007
0
comments
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Animashunz
Not particularly enjoyable but it's what im going to have to do for the next few years so i might as well try for it :(
Pendulum Cycle
Seaweed Cycle
Posted by
mkl
at
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
0
comments
Sunday, October 21, 2007
WallFlowa
A quick piece done mainly to test out the colors on my new monitor and to try out some new techniques.
First duplicated the painting twice. Upped contrast and brightness for the base paint and extracted the lines from the other. Layer setting for linework is then changed to multiply before flattening. Adjustment layers used to reintroduce colors.
Flowers drawn with pencil on paper. Quite lacking the patience to draw it decently as usual.

The paint. Like the effect that i got here, though something tells me that if had bothered to draw the flowers properly, the piece would have turned out much better :(
Posted by
mkl
at
Sunday, October 21, 2007
0
comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Pin-up Pepper
Fanart of the lovely pepper. A tribute to Stanley Lau (Artgerm).
No sketch this time :D (Because it isnt even quarter decent)

Helmet details were a joy to paint. I like the face, so here's another closeup.
The plane's based on a P-51 Mustang. Figured only a plane with lines as graceful as a mustang would be a fitting mount for pepper.
Posted by
mkl
at
Thursday, October 11, 2007
0
comments
Saturday, October 6, 2007
GRAFFETI-ISSH
Hah another strange idea that's been running through my brain after i saw some of INSA's work. The whole graffiti + erotic art thing seems to work quite well (i think)
The sketch. Quite pointless to draw it half decent since i always end up changing alot of things and painting over the lines.
The paint and closeups.

Inky Octopus Carpaint!
Posted by
mkl
at
Saturday, October 06, 2007
0
comments



