Caricature live sketching for The Institute of Internal Auditors Singapore Gala Dinner

This event is held in Grand Copthorne Hotel this evening. Peter from Sonic Productions, the event company told me that it starts from 6:30pm – 7:30pm, few weeks ago. I reached at 6:15pm, and he told me that he lost my namecard, and can’t call me. The event started at 6pm. Hence, as soon as he showed me the place to sketch, I started sketching. The queue list is really long for this event – 28 people queuing. I managed to sketch 11 of them in an hour, with the last one being a special request from the client.
Some photos taken at the event here.

The lady managed to be the first to have her caricatures drawn.

Special request from the client to have the caricature drawn the special guest.

I would think this is the best caricature I have sketched for this evening.

Caricature theme – travel

Just done!
This caricature is a gift to the lady in the artwork, who loves travel, with camera and map in her hands, Colosseum in the background.

Caricatures of my cousin and uncle

These caricatures are done in marker and digitally hand painted in Photoshop, using tablet.
My uncle, on the right of the caricatures (of course) asked me to do it for him.
Her daughter gave him a caricature done of both of them by an artist in Orchard Road, Singapore.
He felt that it’s not good. Hence, he approaches me.
I have this printout out and laminated for him as the final artwork.

Caricatures in pencil – IBM

I just happened to see this artwork done for IBM last December, deep hidden in one of the folder in my PC.
It is not on my website yet.
This is a farewell gift for the caucasian boss, with a ‘zai jian’ (goodbye) in the centre.
These 34 caricatures are done in pencil.

Caricature theme – Boss of the Year

This client is from Purple Sage Creative Catering in Singapore.
This caricature is meant to be a surprise gift for their boss.
This is a really urgent job, as they need it in a few hours’ time.

DI for Citibank

This job is done on 12th Sep.
Just get the confirmation from the client that this DI is fine.
It’s been sent for printing.

This is the original image they bought for use as the page divider.

They need to change the signs to USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and NZD, in sequence.
As the wordings need to be embossed on the sign panels, I use 3dsmax to do this, trying to get as close to the image above as possible.

Just doodling……

Doodled this small sketch some time back. I quite like it. and don’t know where to post on my website.
Think this is a better place to post it.

Balthasar mobile stand

This is the illustration printout as mobile stand which I have mentioned earlier, for THOS SB , Raffles the Plaza.
It was done this May.
However, the client later decides to make some changes to the burger size and amended the illustration.
This is the photo I managed to take on site – Raffles City, Singapore, in front of a retail shop.
Now, they have four of them printed out, waiting for the other 2 illustrations to be printed out, and displayed all of them in different location of Raffles City, to direct the crowd to THOS SB on level 3 of the shopping mall.

Caricature theme -An Evening in Paris

This is a movie produced by Bollywood long ago.
The client likes it so much that he decides to use it
as the theme for his and his wife caricatures.

Sleek acrylic frame

This is the printout of the scanned-in caricatures of IPM-Asia framed in an acrylic frame.
Feel really sleek when I got it just now.
I think the photos taken don’t do justice to this frame, though I shoot it against different background.
It looks a lot better when you really see the actual frame.

Taken against the black wall in my gallery.

View from the left.

Taken against a white mounting board.

Caricature on on ink stamp

This is an orderplaced by the client of IPM-Asia. She wants to have her caricature to be made into an ink stamp, with an additional red ink refill (on the right of the photo).
This image is ripped from the group caricatures of IPM-Asia I have drawn few days ago.
Isn’t this cute?
To my surprise, I placed the order at noon time yesterday, and the supplier managed to deliver it by evening time, on the same day. Really efficient!!! Thanks, Jeff and Lisa.

Tammy and Tabitha finally rendered

This is the final piece of the 6 life-size illustrations for THOS SB of Raffles the Plaza. I finally managed to get them done last night. Hopefully the client is fine with it, and we can send the Busy Ben and this illustrations for printout as mobile stands, for the client to put in different corners of Raffles City, Singapore. And I am ready to collect my $$$. Hahaha…….. This is the longest project I have done so far. 9 months!!! Unbelievable…………..

Caricatures of IPM-Asia scanned in.

This image didn’t managed to squeezed into previous post.
Hence, I have to repost it here.

Couple Caricatures in Toyota RAV 4

Just finished this last night.
This is a convertible RAV 4.
Hahaha…. Didn’t see before?
This is the client’s request, in order to see both of their faces.
Noticed that I play on the style of drawing of the car too?
This is what I used to do about 8 years back.
However, they are a few clients ‘complains’ why I draw the wheels like that.
Hence, I stopped doing this.
I use this style again in this caricatures.
Hopefully, after these years, people can accept this kind of car carictures.
It looks more fun, isn’t it?

Caricatures of IPM-Asia

Finally finished this, after 6 working days, from sketch to final. I think this is the longest recently, as I am drawing this on and off, due to different tasks on hand to handle concurrently recently.

Pencil sketches.

Inking process……

Inking done.

Colouring…..

Still colouring……

This is a farewell gift to the boss who is leaving the company, going back to Japan.

The staff has no idea on the concept initially.

They just want to have all of them to be drawn in a group caricatures for him.
After taken down their hobbies individually, I show them a rough draft on the spot at my gallery, showing their positions and postures in the caricatures.

The Suntec City, Singapore (the Fountain of Wealth and the towers in the background) is where their office is located. The company logo – IPM-Asia, initially is to be put at the bottom left of the drawing. However, they change to have it on the sail after seeing the sketch.

Usually for a farewell gift to someone who’s leaving Singapore, the client will request to have the Singapore landmarks like Merlion. As Singapore is an island, to bring all of them together under a common setting, it is hard for me to get out of the island and sea setting. I must try to get out of this, else too much of this composition is killing me, and bored the clients to death, sooner or later. Hahaha…..

Caricatures with theme in pencil

A potential client just gave me a ring, requesting to have a group caricatures done in pencil with theme.
(In fact these few samples were done few months ago, but no time to put on my website.)
Hence, I put up these caricatures for that client to take a look.
All these artworks are taken with digital camera and touch-up in Photoshop.
In fact, the actual artwork is more greyish, given that it is done with a 8B pencil.

This is done for Cambridge Associates – a law firm.
It is meant as a farewell gift.
Only the main character is done with theme, the rest without theme, due to limited budget.

This is done partially live at a private dinner in UBS at XiYan, Duxton Plain, Singapore, on 9th May 2006.
Live sketching is the client initial intention.
However, later when the guest wants to chat and have their dinner, they decided to sketch from photos.
Luckil,y I have a digital camera and laptop standby in my car.
The initial concept was given by the client. I gave the client my suggestion in the layout of the caricatures.

This is done at another UBS dinner in CHIJMES Singapore on 26th May 2006, after the success and popularity of the previous concept – caricatures done at a dinner.
The client wants a Billboard (with TITAN on it) concept, as they manage to get a Billboard contract in China.
This is the draft I have shown them.
This time all drawn from photos, at the dinner.
Photos of the guests were taken at the dinner.

This is the final artwork done.
The tall guy, Rambo, James Bond, and the VIP lady from Singapore Press Holdings with a knife etc are the client’s ideas, and I composed them into these caricatures.

Withdrawal of ‘latest updates’ category???

I am thinking of whether to take out this category of ‘latest updates’ on my website, as I already have a blog which I update it everyday. It seems like a repetition to me. In fact, this is added in before I started this blog.
Crossing my fingers……

New category on www.portraitworkshop.com

I have finally managed to get the new category up on my webiste – other talents.
I have spent 2 days in doing this and working live(unbelievable), with minimal knowledge of php, in fact, none. Hahaha……
This category introduces the other talents like 3d designers/perspectivists, landscape and animal painters, and caricaturists etc, who are working closely with Portrait Workshop. This gives the client a wider choice of style and illustrations (as well as talents) to choose from, besides my style. These talents also help me to cope with the jobs which are piling up, and sometimes beyond what I can cope with.
This page is to be further developed, as I have a few talents like Roy from United Kingdom to be included.
Sorry, Roy. Please give me some time. You will see your works up soon.

Salsa dance-themed caricatures printed on cushion

Just got this caricature artwork printed on the cushion yesterday.
Isn’t it sweet?

Caricature live sketching for Land Transport Authority, Singapore 11th Dinner & Dance 2006

This event is held this evening at Swissotel Singapore, Raffles Ballroom. It is supposed to start from 6pm – 7pm. However, the client told me to stop at 6:45pm, as the Guest-of-Honour is coming. Those people who are still in the queue were ‘forced’ to go in reluctantly.
Some photos here:-

Caricature sketching for National Library, Singapore Annual Dinner & Dance 2006

Just sketched for National Library, Singapore Annual Dinner & Dance 2006 this evening. Their theme is A City of Masks. It is held in Orchard Hotel, Grand ballroom. Remember the caricatures I have done for their invitation cards to be sent through email? The same event company, Vision Event Management asked me to sketch for their D&D too. They require 2 caricaturists for this event. hence, I get Reggie to come along.
Some photos taken at the event.

Caricature of a Motor Mechanic

Just done last night.
This caricature is to be used for printing on a T-shirt for this guy in the caricature.
He’s a mechanic for motorbike.

Caricature for OCBC Singapore

Another farewell gift done last night, for this boss from OCBC retiring. He loves golf.

Caricature for ABN-AMRO

Busy Ben rendered

This is the coloured version of Busy Ben for THOS SB, Raffles the Plaza. All hand-drawn on computer, using Photoshop.
The original size is about 1gb in size. Scary?

Caricature theme – Wallace and Gromic

Just finished this yesterday, and sent for framing.
The client just like the Wallace and Gromic.
So she uses this as the theme.
This caricature is used for their wedding photo!

Caricature theme – Salsa Dance

This guy – Alvin Wang was drawn by me in Michael Page International 10th Anniversary D&D on 7th Sep 2006. The next day, he decided to have a couple caricature drawn of him and his girlfriend. The above artwork is to be printed on a pink cushion. I will upload the photo when the cushion is done this Sunday.

Caricature theme – Mr & Mrs Smith

I have done a couple of caricatures with such theme.
This theme is getting popular among couples who are getting married, in replace the normal wedding gown.
The clients especially like the surname on the caricatures.

Caricatures for Singapore MunichRe

This caricature is a farewell gift for their boss who is leaving Singapore.
The background is those landmarks and buildings which can be seen from their office in Raffles Place.
This boss likes soccer and the uniform is the jersey of a particular team – not familiar with soccer… Hahaha…… Can’t remember too as these caricatures are done few months ago.
The reason I am putting this one up on my blog is to show my potential and future clients that at least a big smile and exaggerated expression will help in the outcome of the caricatures, just like the previous post of the caricatures of Lasalle Investment Management.
In fact, they came down to my gallery to discuss, before taking the photos.
I gave them a rough draft, the angle they should be facing, and the expressions they should have.
I proposed to have their company logo on the soccer, rather than having it at the usual spot of one corner.

Caricatures of Lasalle Investment Management artwork scan-in

See the difference in quality of the image?