Calvin, a good friend and not-so-great teacher

Like I said before; my friend Calvin is a designer. So, because he's such a nice guy, he offered to teach me a bit about adobe illustrator.

We ended up eating lychees and watching Regular Show and I forgot most of what he taught me that day.

(it wasn't all my fault that the 'lesson'  didn't go that well! it just fitted best in the comic to only show me being distracted)

now I am trying to learn Illustrator and while working in it, I consult Calvin, which works pretty well, so everything turned out great! :) no worries.

(speaking of, haven't done anything in illustrator for over a week.. I should do something again...)

oh! and I now have a facebook page which is still kinda empty with only some comics, but I'll fill it up soon! so if you've got facebook, please like my page! 

https://www.facebook.com/lae178

grandma's birthday

Yesterday my grandma celebrated her birthday. My present to her was this painting:

it's my cousins and brother and me during a skiing vacation.

(I know it looks like I am not wearing any pants but I actually was. I had rolled up my trousers' legs.)

My grandma actually told me to make her a painting. I would probably have made her something anyway, but she did act a bit pushy. haha.

It started when she saw what I'd given my mum for her birthday....

(sorry, do those party guest look kinda creepy? I was just trying to make them into a background...)

okay, this last one's false, she did not mail me about it too. But hey! it's Lychee again!

(and a sneak preview of an upcoming comic! because.. the paper in this sketch book is thin and I only realised that ..now.)

some of the many faces of Evan

A while ago, I sent my friend in America a letter, and also.. a drawing.

While the portrait (the one one the left for us) I made of him before resembles him too, this shows his true being more, in my opinion.

Lae178 presents some of the many faces of EVAN (멋있게!)

My friend Calvin helped me by advising me about the handwritten fonts and suggesting names to assign to Evan's beautiful beautiful faces. (which is great, because he knows that kind of stuff, seeing as he's a designer at Pavlov Visuals!)

This is kind of what Calvin looks like by the way, except I might have made him look a bit chubbier and more like a hobbit. (his words, the hobbit part.)

introducing Lae

So my friend Robert, the composer, took me to a party and he was really nice, praising me like that but.. I mean come on! We were talking with Lukaz Guzman and he was wearing this ring he made himself and it was so amazing (I would say pretty but that seems kinda odd for an animal skull iron ring) and he had facial hair and looked like an artist and well, I'm just some kid that draws.

Besides, I truthfully do not really know WHAT I'm doing. But one day I might find. Or not, life's a mystery!

a happy birthday to my mother!

Today it is.. my mother's birthday!

For reference; this below is my mother. (drawn for Christmas last year, she said I'd made her hair too dark black, making her look younger and prettier. hihi. she totally looks like this though, ask anyone.. except her.)

As a present I prepared this ..drawing/painting.. work! I prepared this work for her, it depicts my brother and me when we were younger (obviously). I based it on a photograph, did change a bit to simplify the whole composition.

Because I was doing this, I had been browsing through our old photo albums, quite fun. (this would explain for my facebookfriends and instagram followers (android178) why there's been pictures of young babyfaced me popping up.)

My mother liked it a lot, as did my grandmother, who immediately suggested I make her something like this too for her upcoming birthday. So there might come even more kiddie pictures on my social media.

I only made a scan after finishing the figures, but if you want to see how this quite plain background came to be.. click on 'read more'! ;)

Godiva

I present to you my good friend Godiva.

Ali Javaid, fashion expert

Ali's portrait in my ONE SHOT series, this was one of the first portraits I did

Let me tell you about one of my best friends: Ali.

...I don't even know how to start! I could write a long description of our friendship and how important he's been in my life.. but that might bore you or keep you from reading this post. So I won't.

I WILL tell you that Ali has a passion.

That is fashion, this guy is always busy with fashion. Not only is he an expert on designers and models, he also designs and makes clothing himself!

And now he is participating in a fashion designing competition in Amsterdam!

This competition is looking to advance diversity in the world of fashion, with young designers with European, Asian, African and Arabic roots. They will present their perspective on fashion.

I am sure he will do great, because this is what he does and he is confident in what he makes.

Curious?

Let me help you in getting to know our Ali:

click here!!!> A video about Ali (in Dutch) <click here!!

here's his tumblr

his instagram

and here is the website of the fashion competition:

http://www.mafb.nl/

event page on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/198409960343886/