Starbucks Napkin Life Sketching - Timelapse

A good catch up session with my ex-students led to an impromptu life napkin sketching at Le Bread Days Cafe! ( I also tried Korean variety show style editing at the beginning. hahaha! )

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https://youtu.be/GPqGTLrdtXk

Drawing a Comic Style Birthday Card - Timelapse

Check out the time lapse of a digital illustration birthday card I just did, drawing Lillian Wong who is like a daughter to me! Happy birthday!!🌞
Medium: Photoshop CS3
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Printcious - ALICE MUG & SAO FENG T-shirt

Present to you the ALICE MUG and SAO FENG T-SHIRT

Won 1st Place in Printcious Digital Art Competition

Yay! Won 1st Place for the PRINTCIOUS Digital Art Competition!

The highlight of the event was receiving the prize with Nathan in my arm!

Thank you so much to all my friends and students who voted for my painting.... I really appreciate it :)

This digital painting "ALICE" was something that started off as doodle and later become something unexpected. A big thank you to Joanne for being my model.

Experimental Watercolor Tutorial - Painting David Bowie!

Some quick tips on how to get started on Watercolor. This video was a spur of the moment thing and unscripted!

Special thanks to my student Kanda Sridhi Raj for the videography and edit!

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https://youtu.be/phmIFcJcSrc

The water color Tiger Painting

The Tiger Painting with the mountain and waterfall background as per requested by the client.

 The progress of the painting using water color

 The final Masterpiece

Blood Reunion- book cover digital illustration

I was commissioned again by MPH Publishing to paint this sequel to The Bomoh's Apprentice.^^













In my opinion, I prefer this version. The painting was finished in my mind but the editor wanted to include (at the last possible minute) the pontianak character.

The end result is somewhat cluttered.. *see the next pic* .......




see what i mean?



The finished cover!

*I deliberately pushed up the brightness because printers always get the final printed book darker than i intended.*

The Rooster Painting

'The Bomoh's Apprentice' digital painting

MPH commisioned me to paint this cover for an upcoming novel by Geoffrey S. Walker~ i got to read his script firsthand..it was fun to bring the character of Katak Hitam to life!
Took me more than a week to paint this using photoshop.

Water Color Painting of a Garden Wedding...

A cartoon farewell gift for shirley's colleagues

Drawn with a Wacom in Photoshop.

'Sao Feng' Digital Painting.

This is my first attempt at digital painting using a wacom tablet with Photoshop and Painter. Took me a little over a week to complete this, working only at nights=D

For a larger view, visit:
http://johnhoys.deviantart.com/gallery/

Painting of Ezekiel's Vision.

Ezekiel 1

¹Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

²In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

³The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

⁴And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

⁵Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

⁶And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

⁷And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

⁸And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

⁹Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

¹⁰As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

¹¹Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

¹²And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

¹³As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

¹⁴And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

¹⁵Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

¹⁷When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

¹⁸As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

¹⁹And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

²⁰Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

²¹When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

²²And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

²³And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

²⁴And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

²⁵And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

²⁶And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

²⁷And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

²⁸As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Tribute to Michael Jackson.

Wonder of wonders, I've never painted MJ before so when there was a request I jumped at the chance. Not many people may remember this MJ look from his Thriller days. This is the definitive MJ in my mind. In terms of satisfaction, I was really doing this for myself so it's sad that I'm going to have to say goodbye to it in a few days. But it was a blast creating it!

Another Family Caricature - Football theme

Family Caricature

The Finish Product ^_^

Art Whiz's style Caricature - The Star Trek Couple

Paintings @ home

Two of my paintings are currently residing in a beautiful house located in Damansara Lagenda. :)
I normally loathe departing with my paintings (seeing how I feel I’ve put a part of me into it!). But in this case, I’m very pleased that my fatty Mona Lisa has found a good home!

It was also touching to see the baby daughter of my client reaching out affectionately for the Mickey Mouse painting I did for her baby room. Lol..