Feb 4 of Blessed

Hello world! I have awesome news! And it'll sound like I'm boasting about it, but... okay, I'm definitely boasting about it cause I am so extremely happy right now. 

So I blogged about the Top 10 awards thing a few post earlier, and I was nominated for 'Best Sketching' and 'Best in Illustration with Comic'. 

So I didn't get the title for 'best sketching' (well duh, have you seen leow lie qi's work? Awesome to the max, and obviously he won.) and to be honest, I didn't expect to get anything at all. I was pretty happy being nominated already. But you know, deep down inside, that feeling of 'wanting' to win so badly, wanting to prove myself that I've tried my best too, and I can say I'm quite competitive so that feeling grew a lot stronger at that time when they started announcing who had gotten the title and I was praying and hoping so bad, that I might actually win this. It's like during lucky draws when you hope you will win, but you know you won't win the prize, but still hoping you'll win anyways, you get it? Cause winning and luck is not a thing I always have in competitions. And it's hard to believe that I have earned the title for 'Best in Illustration with Comics'. Which I am now overwhelmed with joy. Praise the Lord!!!!!! 

I know some of you might be thinking: 'Wth is wrong with you peiyen, it's just a little award thing in your college, why are you making it a big fuss about it?!' Well, because this is the 1st time EVER that I've EVER EVER WON SOMETHING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE TIL NOW SINCE I WAS YOUNG. No matter what competition, what lucky draw, whatever contest, I have never won anything, so this is super special to me!!! And I've bumped into a rough road in my education life last year and I've disappointed my dearest friends and family and my lecturers so I was pretty sad with myself as I said in the previous post. So I really wanna redeem myself and try my hardest to gain back that trust from everyone. And today, it gave me a warm tingling feeling in my heart, that I've finally proven a part of myself. And it doesn't mean that I'm the best though, really, cause each and everyone of us is different and one might be good at digital, another might be good in traditional, or some might be good in colours and I am not. I don't know how the lecturers judge to pick the winners so I cannot say anything about it but feel super happy that they picked me!

*Feeling and thought how I look when I am receiving the cert*

* How I actually look - retarded*

 I'm really SUPER DUPER THANKFUL to the lecturers that chose me, to all my friends, and my family for supporting me all these times. <3 Also I wanna thank Mr Leong for guiding me and giving me advices all these times! And most importantly I wanna THANK GOD!!! Glory be to God! Without Him, I wouldn't have come this far. <3 <3THANKS EVERYONEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!


Ah Mok won Best Leadership!!!!! <3


Here's the birthday girl of the day! :D Jolie Tan!


And I wanna take this opportunity to congratulate each and everyone of the nominees and winners!
woohooo! Congratulations! (Macam dah graduated je. hahaha)


Thank you mummy for everything <3

So now I need to get back to work, Currently I'm working on this.

I hope I can finish it on time. X(!!!

God bless! <3

Jan 20 of Progress So Far (Year2)

I've decided to share about my progress so far in the creative field. *ooh cat* Just to keep track of myself. LOL.

I wanna make it straightforward, short and sweet so there goes!

I hadn't taken any painting or drawing classes since I was a toddler not even in high school except for the SENI subject which is compulsory which I've only learned how to say colours and painting techniques in Bahasa Melayu, so I have a blank canvas on arts, so I believe this is why I can pick up easier of what my lecturers have been teaching me in The One Academy Penang since I don't have a habit and concept of how art should be executed in my brain so I just absorb what they are teaching me and apply it cause that's the only way I know.

High School Works

Some covers I've designed for the school mag. So basically just to make it easy, it's Very simple trust me. It's just basic stuff like lines, patterns, fonts, brushes done in photoshop. I hated traditional mediums, hate as in I try to avoid using watercolour in seni exams or anything at all that needs me to draw on paper cause I am really bad at it since I don't know how to use it.  The only thing I draw is ELMO hahaha.


Design Works in College

More recent ones I have worked on. These were done after a long time absence in designing in photoshop because The One Academy foundation year sorta focuses more on basic foundation drawing skills so only a few subject has designing on it. So I sorta forgot how to do the styles I've tried in high school and went for a more vector art style which I quite fancy. and I think vector art is sho cute!

Digital Painting



These are also more recent ones. I actually prefer traditional mediums that digital now. I dont know why but my view and thought might change after some time but currently yea, I'm not that familiar with digital still.

Cartoon character design

Some extra stuff to share. These are the only traditional pencil drawings I scanned, the rest I'm too lazy to scan and take photos and some are not even with me now. So yea maybe next time!

Okay since I major in Illustration I wanna share a bit more detail on painting itself, and now I've learned til acrylic so far so yeah. Just to show ya'll some progress.

My first portrait painting. LMAO. Look how bad is it. XD!!! Sorry Pavarotti! 

1st object painting, which I think is way better than the Pavarotti one. That Pavarotti macam hantu.

2nd portrait painting. You can see folded lines and scraped off bits because I was so frustrated with myself I wanted to just chuck it away. By that time I should have known how to paint human skin but I still failed at it. *The shirt part looks awesome right? That's because Mr Leong the Principal painted it! Awesome awesome awesome took him like 10 mins*


Final project. We had to find different references and make a composition out of it. So I chose Harry Potter since they have a lot of high resolution photos of the characters!!! :D *Click to enlarge for details*

Hermoine Close up

Snape close up

Buildings on fire close up

Illustration 2

 Portrait painting again! But this time on Gesso! Gesso's the texture created you see on the canvas. So this was the 1st few layers of base colour.

 Touch up layer beginning stage


Finished! I ruined the painting with those dark patches. Sigh. Peiyen Y U SO DUMB!
Gotta brush up some skills and art sense!

BTW, HUGH LAURIE I LOVE YOU!<3 LOL. I sound like some stalker maniac. T_T

 Close ups~

 So yea that's all I wanna share for now! I hope I can do better next time! I'm still practicing and it takes time to improve. I still can't believe I came this far!! I definitely see myself improving after I have put my feet down and decided to work a little harder. :) So yea, everyone's that's stuck or struggling, believe me, once you have pass that stage, things will get easier, but obviously, harder obstacles will come along, just overcome it and you'll excel!!

Sooo.. Blessed Chinese New Years everyone! I'm having a week's holiday next week :) That's why I can blog now. HAHA! ANG PAO come come! :D

Oh yeah, One more thing...

 I've been nominated for TOP10 Awards in my college! I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO VERYYYYYYYYYYY Extremelyyyyyyy excited and happy and excited and HONORED! All sorts of happy thoughts floating in my head when I received the news! Cause it's like, all the hardwork and been paid off! The lecturers actually like what they see T___T I mean, the things I draw lah. :D THANKS AWESOME LECTURERS Woooohooooo.

BTW, I totally edited this photo. My face looks like a fat mama chipmunk in the ori one. Gosh, why can't the fats go down to my BOOBS. hahaha! I'm kidding :) I just don't see myself that chubby in real life (RIGHT???? hahaha. I was hoping for a right...) but apparently studio lighting always take fat photos of my face. :(

God bless!!