Illustration for NDRun 2012 T-shirts

An illustration for Adam 1ArmRunner, to be printed on the NDRun 2012 T-shirts.

digital portrait illustration for SPH Magazines

Chinese dragon digital illustration for Singapore Zoo

I was requested by my friend Ivan to do up a dragon illustration for booths in Singapore Zoo for the Chinese New Year festival.

I did the inking on an A2 size marker paper, as I need to blow it up to about 6 feet wide for printing and sticking on the booths.


I scanned it into digital copy and started editing it. Timeframe given was too short for me to draw everything digitally.


Adding in colours to the lines - dragon and clouds.


Added in the background colours and decorative motifs.
This illustration will be flipped for the other side of the booth.

Illustration of Knight in simple stroke

Client's brief:-
"Jit,
I have set up a new company and am looking for a company logo. Like this attached pic very much but it is simply too complicated to put into print on name cards and letter heads.
Will you be able to simplify it for me. Reduce the details and give it nice clean lines, black and white in a good size which I can get the printers to resize easily?"

Illustration of Marina Bay Sands (MBS) for children colouring

Client's brief:-
"Dear Jit,
Please help to quote for black and white sketch for children to fill in the coloring.
The dimension will be 14” x 11.5”
I’m looking at fun angle of the Marina Bay Sands property....."


Another Marina Bay Sands illustration, but in a slightly different style. 

Singapore skyline illustration

Client's brief:-
"Hi there!
......I chanced upon your beautiful illustration of the Singapore city scape while googling for a graphic to use as a backdrop for my new local website. I was wondering if you actually sell the rights for the usage of this particular drawing?


The website will be basically an online concierge service site, which is currently in the midst of the design phase. The main idea is to make it a bright and fun site for young working Singaporeans to surf in. I am thinking your drawing will be a perfect fit for the backdrop, where it will be used on the bottom of every page, plus it also adds some local flavor to the entire site.


Do let me know if its fine for us to apply your wonderful drawing as our site’s background?....."


To protect my clients' interest, I don't resell the commissioned artworks I did for them, to third party, even though I still own the copyrights.
The above illustration was redrawn and reposition from scratch. It is watermarked to protect this client's interest too.:)

digital poster illustrations for Changi Air Base

This is a tough job, as the subject is something which I am not familiar - aircraft!
So much different from portraits and caricatures.

This is a farewell gift for their boss.
Usually, my clients will request a caricature or portrait of the subject, with aircrafts in the background.
In this case, this is different.
They need a F-16, F-15 and a helicopter above the sea, which means the focus is on them. Details are important to them here.
I proposed to have it illustrated digitally, so that any changes can be done (easier when compared to traditional medium), if there is a need.

The first draft.


Revised draft.


Starting linework on the most important aircraft - the F-15.

Colour-in.


There are still many changes made to F-15 here (images above and below). They could be so minor that you may not notice at this scale. The client is very particular with the details.

The more obvious will be the sea and the whirlpool below the helicopter.

Printed out in A2 size (59.4cm x 42cm) with frame.

Singapore skyline illustration

Client's brief:-
"Hi,
As already spoken on the phone, I would like to know if its possible to create something very similar using the Spore buildings (120cm X 60cm)?....
actually I found your homepage because of that beautiful Illustration (VW).
I will like to have something unique! and I like very much that new York style (black and white and the red "heart butterfly"), very simple drawing but with a lot of expression!


The main Focus should be Marina Sands Hotel but I would also like to see the Singapore flyer, Merlion, Esplanade, Swiss Hotel and some of the Bank towers in Raffles place!"

This illustration style is simple linework, but it is not a simple job, due to its scale. (I seldom draw at this scale for traditional medium.)
This is not digital drawing as the previous job for Volkswagen, but actual drawing on the illustration board of AO size. The challenge here is to get everything in, properly layout, not too much lines and to be done at one go. No undo, as this is the only board I have bought.:D

To give you an idea of the scale.

Client's feedback:-
"Thank you very much! Very nice!"

cartoon illustration for Singapore Art Museum postcards

A cartoon illustration with pile of birthday cards, in simple lines, but not a simple job.
I took hours and hours of drawing these cards (don't ask me how many), visualizing how they would appear when they are piled up to look like a giant birthday cake.

The designer sent me some visuals she has done up.

These are birthday invitation cards which will be sent out to the public, for them to express their creativity and well-wishes for Singapore (coming National Day), on the other side of card.

These cards will be featured on the Istana Art Event on 7 Aug 2011, into a giant art installation in the lush grounds of the Istana. Outstanding entries will be awarded a prize which will be given by President S R Nathan.




I am looking forward to see the actual product. I will update on this blog, if I ever happen to see the end product. High chance!

Singapore Skyline backdrop digital illustration for Pico Art & Volkswagen

This was the mock-up the client sent me, based on my template illustrations for the caricatures.

The client prefers the above skyline illustration, since the venue of the Volkswagen event
(第九届大众进口汽车销售有限公司全国经销商大会
The 9th Dealer Conference of Volkswagen Import (China) Co., Ltd.)
will be held at Marina Bay Sands (MBS).
However, they wanted to include the Merlion (see below)

The backdrop is 6 meters by 3 meters.
The client initially requested to blow the caricature template, which was only 20cm in width.
The lines will look awful if it is blown up 20 times.
I have to illustrate it in vector file format.
The resolution would not be compromised, in this case.

I realized that there is a huge difference between illustrating a small size (like 50 cm) vs a 5 meters, on a 12' Cintiq. The line could appear straight when zoom out, but looks really crooked when zoom in at actual size. Thank goodness that I started with the canvas at the largest size possible in Macromedia Freehand of 5 meters in width. If not, I will have to re-drawn the whole illustration.

Unfortunately, I have left too much space on the top part. Once the car is place in front of the backdrop. most of the skylines were blocked.

Thus, I have to pull them up, by enlarging and reshuffling the landmarks.
This took quite a long time, as I have to add in the white background for some of the landmarks like MBS. Thus, when the Changi Airport Control Tower was placed behind it, the MBS won't look transparent.


Some snapshots of the backdrop illustration being printed out and installed on site, sent to me by my client.

Illustrations for Hot Tomato @ NEX

I happened to see two of my illustrations for Hot Tomato framed and hanged up at one of their outlets in NEX, Serangoon Central.

digital watercolour illustration for Republic of Singapore Navy

Digital illustrations for Hot Tomato

Some illustrations for a restaurant - Hot Tomato for their posters to be hanged up on wall.
50x70cm each.





Update on 18th December 2010:-


Two of the illustrations being framed and hanged up at their NEX outlet.....

another illustration sold.....

Client's brief:-
"I am interested in buying the attached caricature as an image suitable for a one off slide presentation; I would need a jpeg image of approx 1 MB in size.
http://www.caricature.com.sg/2009/08/illustration-sold-online.html"


Similar piece sold again, but to British Petroleum (United Kingdom) this time.

"Know Your Monuments" postcards

Just received these postcards which I have illustrated (for rubber stamps) 2 months ago.