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A Witchdoctor's Lair - Gloria is a witchdoctor, heavily misunderstood by the public. She has a golden heart with an angelic soul. To avoid attacks and snide comments from people, she retreated into a cove, and built herself a clinic for the marine creatures from an abandoned ship stranded at the tidepool. Gloria tends to sick and wounded creatures, especially the babies. She has a operating theatre in the ship, and one out in the tidepool.  -

/ Sketching for Entertainment with Khang Le / Summer 2014, ACCD

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Art Deco buildings.  / Arch 1 / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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I find that Chinese architecture is always a challenging one to organize details. Then again, looking at the poetic chinese ink paintings, I am inspired by the rhythm and flow, use of negative space, and efficient brush indications. I am still working on all these, especially actively using negative spaces. (by the way, taking type classes helped me a lot with this) / Arch 1  / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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A Toymaker's apprentice - Sam is a sugar glider who roams the streets of Paris in a toy pop-up store with his partner, Dr.Yamamoto, a toymaker. Sam makes clothes and little accessories for the toys that Dr. Yamamoto makes. He gets to glide around on specially built hanging platforms on the cart, and has his own studio in the roof of the pop-up cart. Sam has a sweet tooth, and loves pastries from the Parisian bakeries. 

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/ Sketching for Entertainment with Khang Le / Summer 2014, ACCD

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Candy architecture inspired by Antonio Gaudi. In this fantasy world of Cotton Candy, the Royal family and higher rank officials live up in the skies, while the commoners live in the shadows of these seemingly innocent and fun architecture. The rich travels by skyships, overlooking the vast landscape full of crops attended by the commoners. 

/ Arch 1  / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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Mike's Fort - Mike is an teenage orphan who ran away from the evil orphanage, into the woods of Oregon, and found an old Locomotive to take shelter from. Mike cleverly built himself a cosy fort out of found objects.  -

This is from Sketching for Entertainment class, with Khang Le (currently a supervisor at Titmouse). He was really generous to let me sit in his class and learn. I've been liking his work since he was in school. He's a great instructor, if you have chance, take his class, you won't regret it. ;)

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Anjali — the baby roommate Here's two 8"x8" oil paintings of my roommate's daughter, Anjali when she was 6 months old. She's now 13 months old, still adorable, and much louder hahaa / Portraiture with Sean Cheetham / Oil on 8"x8" Clayboard panel (a little too smooth for me) / Spring 2014 / ACCD

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/ Arch 1 with Gary Meyer / 12 x 18 / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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Inspired by Mayan architecture. Of course that huge bird head cave is all made up, not part of the ancient Mayan architecture. Looking back at it now, I could have done a better job in the grouping of details and wireframing. 

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A couple of friends wanted a quick demo on how I paint in my sketchbook, so I did one in front of Castle Green in Pasadena. 

my tools / Cotman watercolor field box / waterbrushes / Masking fluid / Moleskine sketchbook / pencil / *totally optional* coffee

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I had tons of fun in the grand staircase piece :D Highly inspired by the Grand Opera in Paris. (Hopefully one day I get to visit in person!) The other two pieces are from the same class too, leaning more towards fantasy worlds. / Arch 1 with Gary Meyer / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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Immigrants in the jungles of Amazon - A group of aliens landed on Earth for exploration centuries ago, ran out of fuel and could not return to their homeland. Upon understanding the evil nature of human beings on Earth, the whole colony retreated into the deep jungles of the Amazon, and built themselves a cosy world woven out of roots.

/ Advanced Perspective with Thomas Bertling / Fall 2013, ACCD

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A quick career map for Business101 class. I had waaaaaaay too much fun with the graphics hahaa. The idea is to map out your goals in life at a certain age. Some of the goals are real, some are made up ;p

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Long Beach, right outside the Aquarium of the Pacific. So nice to just breath in the salty air :) I did this while waiting for a class to come. 

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Treehouse for the kids (and cats) - Jonas and June are siblings born to a family of anthropologists. They grew up curious about everything, and would collect everything to study. They spend most of their time hunting out in the woods behind the house, and coming back sorting out things in their treehouse. Their mother would always need to come out and drag them back into their house for meals.  -

I had so much fun dressing this piece with stuffs everywhere! Oh, look for the cats, they are everywhere too ;)

/ Advanced Perspective with Thomas Bertling / Fall 2013, ACCD

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/ Arch 1 with Gary Meyer / Pencil on marker paper + watercolor overlay / Fall 2013 / ACCD

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some watercolor plein air paintings from The Grove, Los Angeles. 

/ Cotman watercolor on Moleskine Watercolor sketchbook.