The Twelve Maidens

This is a 12 piece series of watercolour art that I created. I experimented mostly on cool tone colours to give a sense of gracefulness and mysterious looking. 

  

For my final semester in my foundation in design, I had to come up with a calendar design. I wanted to be more original and fortunately I remembered this art work of mine. Coincidentally I created 12 piece, perfect for a calender. So I decided to incorporate my art into my design to create my own calender. 

These are the samples of my finished design for 2015 calendar. 

Aztec Pattern

Aztec pattern is one of my favourite patterns to play with. Its quirky psychedelic patterns can use in so many ways in design such as in clothing, as a decorative pattern in pots or pencil case and even in accessories. 

I achieved this pattern based on simple shapes and lines. I like the idea of drawing things in details. These are some of my art work I did as an experiment to play with the lines and dots. 

I purposely designed this as a price tag for clothing line. Just something I had in mind. 

This was inspired by the alien crop circles. Again, I just wanted to experiment on the lines and shapes. I had fun exploring and playing with patterns.

Diwali Gift Card Idea

This Diwali( Festival of Lights) card idea is one of the great gifts for your friends and family who celebrates Diwali. It's not that easy to do but it takes a lot of your time. I just had the inspiration to do for one of my good friend. The materials I used is inexpensive. here are the list of materials I used:

• 0.1& 0.3 art line pen (fabercastle)
• scissors 
• mechanical compass
• water colour- red, blue, purple and black
• pencil
• Pen knife/ paper cutter
• water colour paper

Firstly, I cut out roughly an A5 size paper (it's all up to you how big or small you want your card to be) with a scissor and sketched out the shape of a peacock(it's also up to you what simple shape you desire to draw), then I used the cutter to cut out my peacock outline enabling the pattern inside the card to show through.

Next I drew a circle within a circle using a mechanical compass, there are no specific measurement to how much the distance of the gap between to circles. It's better to use pencil first for everything you do from the circles to the patterns. Then I just drew repetitive patterns in the gaps using 0.1 art line pen and to make your pattern bold, use 0.3 art line pen. You can Google to find a template of your desired pattern( just type Aztec pattern). This is optional, I finished it off by painting the empty spaces or background black using water colour or acrylic. 

After I've completed the inside of the card, I just slab some water colour on the cover of the card. And that's all to it.

The Beauty of Fantasy Art

I'm always fond of the concept of fantasy art. It would never failed to lure me to pick up my paint brush and produce a peaceful dark mystical art. Fantasy art has no boundaries, it can have many characters, style, behavior and features. I've always enjoy with so much pleasure to create something that only exist in the mind. Every fantasy art are produce from the character you create from the mind.

I didn't need to put too much thought in this painting. Whenever I place my brush on the canvas, I immediately have an idea of how is it going to appear. This is a water colour painting of a woman with deformed fingers attached to her head( meaning that her choices in life are attached to what she thinks rather than what she truly feels).

This is another of my fantasy art using art line pen. When you fold the page, it creates a different image. I wanted to incorporate animal along with humans. As you can see both artworks are fantasy like, but both have their own style and character.