Bubble girl +fish

This image is part of a larger composition I was going to do for a Threadless T-shirt competition. Originally there were meant to be tons of kids running around and making giant bubble and balloon creatures.  It never got out of the sketching phase unfortunately.  The main obstacle in my image's path was an 8 colour restriction for a t-shirt print.  In the end I decided to forgo the competition and just make the image the way I wanted to. 

(I also ran out of time after mucking about with other projects and making the same sketch over and over trying to visualize it with only 8 colours.) 

This little girl is a bit of a colour test, so I'd love to hear any feedback.

After spending an hour circling through the five different blue's in the bubble fish

changing the opacity ever so slightly,

erasing something and then undoing 

and then re-doing and then deciding to try dodge it instead

I decided that she had to get off my desktop 

otherwise I would never get to any of the work I am meant to be doing today.

I found Santa!

I assume he was making a list and checking it twice
And I have to say, this beard + hair combo is real!
no exaggerations at all

Conversations

If anyone has been paying attention they will know of my love affair with the biro.
My favourite sketching medium. However recently I've been having colour pangs, especially after looking at the sketchbooks and prints of joseph Lambert. But now I can have my cake and eat it too, I have discovered and purchased coloured biro's!

In the super friendly colours of green, pink and purple they are wonderfully cheap and still act like biro's should.
I unfortunately bought a crappy purple pen so purple won't be showing up anytime soon.
But pink has been acting on its best behaviour!
And has been everywhere from my uni notes to my sketchbook.

Im pretty happy with this image, I've always had a thing for speech bubbles.
I find it great when utterly non-tangible things, like speech, gets solidified in comics.
And I love comics.
Ahhh comics and biro's ... never leave me!

Coffee Bean, Holland Village, Singapore

 

Starbucks at Wheelock, Singapore

Almost everyone I drew moved to a different seat or left.  Forcing me to sit strangers next to each other and composing new people by combining different limbs, heads, clothing and hair.  But I suppose this is what you get when you set up at a coffee shop.  No one can sit still any longer than a few seconds when on caffeine.  

My friend Nicky also sketched at the same spot,

check out her version here.

Starbucks: Location Singapore, Orchard Rd, near wheelock

It feels wonderful to get back to sketching, and good to get back to a familiar spot you know won't close till the early AM. One of the things I dearly miss about singapore when I go to sydney is operating hours. However I can get a damn good coffee in sydney, which is very very rare in singapore. Instead we have kopi, which is the asian version, as well as ice kopi, which is the original ice-blended coffee! Take that Starbucks!

But I always come crawling back to these big coffee franchises, its the plush chairs and the fact that I don't get kicked out after ordering the cheapest thing on the menu and staying for 1-3 hours chilling out and drawing.