Red Bull Stereopticon

Red Bull Stereopticon is an art competition held by Red Bull and Sideroom Magazine in Auckland, New Zealand.

There are 3 winners and they will be doing live painting in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The piece I submitted was fortunately selected as one of the winning piece : )

The paintings we create next month will be enlarged and displayed on the buildings in those 3 New Zealand Major cities.

Macbook Pro is down

My beloved Macbook Pro is sick in the hospital.
Now I have switched to my old PC for mails and checking websites.
At this moment I'm using my friend Stevie's iMac in the studio while he's away on holiday.

Talitha postcard illustration

This illustration was created for a postcard for a charter boat 'Talitha'. They like the works I did for Tiger Beer and wanted the similar old, vintage Japanese wood print feel on this illustration. This is the first commission I have received with no drawing of people in it. So it's challenging in a way also not. Because people is always interesting to draw but the most difficult subject as well.

The designers put a mock up and some reference of how
the client wanted the boat to look like on the postcard.

Some famous ukiyoe reference.























This is the initial sketch. Client's feedback was the wave was too strong. And they would like to have the banner on the right removed. Also they wanted to see a few sea birds.
























After the second sketch, the client wanted to have some city scape at the background. And have the wave strong on the right hand side going calm to the left.























In order to bring the sketch more alive, I added black tones in photoshop. This time the client wanted to see the canvas turn to landscape instead of portrait.


















Final sketch. Proved!
Thanks Simon Butterfield from 3 Men & a Suit in Southampton for this gig.

Dennis

Starting blog

I have been really slack for the last 6 or 8 months regarding updating my website and blog. I have got my updated artwork on other promotion site such as theispot, AOI and the site of my agent www.illustrationweb.com; plus I have been busy with many projects since the beginning of this year... But it's a bad habbit, I admit. Not to update a site and blog is worse than having one. It isolates me from the community and network. So from today, I will try to keep this blog up to date at least.