Warhammer Fanart WIP sketch

A fanart up that I am currently working on. Still in the process of adding more I.G troops into the battlefield and maybe a few orks corpses too.

Althought I didn't play the tabletop game, I still do read up on the stories of the Warhammer world (both fantasy and 40k) and I always managed to find something new and interesting about the world that I didn't know beforehand.

For this piece I wanted to put in Cadian troops because they are such a badass group of soldier but after doing a bit of research on the war that I am basing this piece on, I find the Steel Legion troops to be a better fit for this. (And by the way, they are equally as cool as the Cadians, think gas mask and trenchcoats :p )

Another little Preview

A little preview of the piece of work that I be doing as life demo during STGCC this friday :D

Getting into Character?

Sometimes I really wonder is it good to get into character with designing one for a story?

Over years I had always loved to imagine myself to be in the shoes of the character, attempting to think like them and act like them. Sometimes I will forget about it and brought those characters outside into the real world, I am now wondering how serious had all this getting into the character sessions had been causing to my own personality or is my current personality the real person or just a mask that I had unwittingly created upon myself.

History History History!!!

Wahahaha by now, most friends might have know I am avid history reader, meaning I read history records like reading novels/comic/manga. And I watch documentries like watching movies/tv series/anime.

Someone actually asked me why i loved history so much, and how does it helped in my job as an artist, well~ I see myself more of a story teller sharing my stories with the world, and human history is the best inspirations for stories.

Ever wonder why, when u read a book and in ur mind you will go "yes, this part of the story sound real, that part of the story sound so fake?". Well normally to make a story feel real, there must be alot of elements to support it, and what are these elements? History! like the history behind the characters, the world and the objects. And why, is this related to actual history? Simple, we can easily find similar incidents in history to relate to those situation in our own works.

Example, the story about two men who paths once cross in battle, one lose but the other spared him, unfortunately the loser ended becoming the most dangerous villain the world had ever seen and the winner regret to not killing him in the first place, etc etc and u can continue the story from here. So where in history does this took place? Well it is in the trenches of world war I when the highly decorated british soldier Henry Tandey let off a certain injured german soldier because Henry doesn't believe in shooting an injured person whether is he an enemy or not. Well guess what, the German soldier turn up to be a certain Adolf Hitler.

Also when designing things and the world, history provided a guideline to how things and technology evolved, example again, when u are designing a tank series for a sci-fi game, u can relate to how the major powers in WWII designs theirs, Germany felt that heavy armor+heavy guns+state of the art technology outweight numbers thus their tanks evolved to be bigger and more technolgical advanced, the allies thinks otherwise, and put pricing and mass production as a more important factor, and thus their tanks reflected that, new cheap mass produced tanks with inferior firepower compared to the new heavy german tanks.

See, interesting bits of informantions were recorded in the history text, and what makes them interesting is that, you know for certain, it is quite true, and it sometimes affect the world we live in now.

So next time when going through a library or bookstall, hop by the history section and flip through a few pages that might interest you. You might gain alot of knowledge and insight about the workings of the world, and maybe inspired some new arts

Fort Canning sketchcrawling

Went to Fort Canning a while ago to do some sketching, tried doing some on the spot watercolouring, but fail quite badly. The rest of the sketches I did there can't show up properly after scanning :(

This is the actually the first pieces i did, standing under the shade of a tree and in a area full of passerbys walking past behind me to the nearby churches. Next time I will remind myself not to end up in an area like that, especially not on a hot day and without a place to sit at

Plane Studies 001 A20 Havoc

Some plane studies, the A20 Havoc. Trying to understand teh various details on planes.

"Mail for E21!"

Originally designed as high speed commence raiders, their crew soon realised that the lack ofarmor make them easy prey to fast firing light weapons of the very ships that they are supposedto hunt. But unfortunately many had already been completed before the flaw was discovered.

In order to make up for the mistake, the military decided to make use of the countless obsoletetanks by taking their guns and armors to improve the fight capablities the boats. In order tofool the enemy intelligence, all the refitted boats were called "Panzerschiffe" or armored ships.

Despite being fitted with more armor and a heavier new gun, the boats were still very capable of performing their role well, easily outrunning any ships thats more powerful then it is, but ismore than capable of taking on any ships that can catch up to it.

While performing very well in their early year, the enemy managed to counter it with better weapons being mounted on their merchant ships, and many ships were sunk as a result. Soonthe surviving ships were mostly taken off their raiding missions and many left to rust indocks.

The E21 is one such boat which had been left to rust in the docks while her crew waited fortheir next mission