Ben Lo's creation

Lute

2012-02-11T02:34:00.001-08:00

I hate Lute. He's the worst character in Saga Frontier. I hate his wussy clothings and his lute. I have no idea what his story is about. He's also one of the weakest character in game. #$(^*$

T260g

2012-02-10T00:25:00.002-08:00

T260g is the only Robot character you could choose as main in Saga Frontier. I personally love the Robots (I used a full Robot team for my Red) in the game, one reason was how awesomely strong they can get at mid game. Give em 2 full set armor and you get maxed out defense. Plus they're immune to all of those crappy negative effects like flashes and charms.

Riki

2012-02-09T01:23:00.001-08:00

This is Riki from Saga Frontier. Even though I hated the monster characters in Saga Frontier, Riki's story line is among the best of them all. (also hardest, hated the part with 8 challenges)

Asellus

2012-02-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

After Red the Alkaiser, Asellus is my 2nd favourite character in Saga Frontier

Red

2012-02-07T00:05:00.001-08:00

This is Red from one of my favourite RPG back in my PS1 days. 10 points to the one who can guess the game (most likely no one will cause I don't think it was as well known as others like Legend of Mana, FF's, and Chrono series)

Erza the Titania

2012-01-25T18:37:00.000-08:00

Erza is one of the character from the anime Fairy Tail. She is one of the strongest mage in the guild, strong in both will and physique. She does fall down from time to time, but be ready. Cause she will always get right back up.

Night lights

2012-01-24T00:45:00.000-08:00

Scooter

2012-01-22T23:15:00.000-08:00

Scooters were one of the most common thing on my trip to Taiwan during this past Christmas. I just love how convenient they are. Cheap, easily accessible, and they dont take up much space. Going down to the supermarket 10-15 minute away would be such a joy ride on a nice summer day. It's really unfortunate they aren't that winter friendly, especially a winter in our motherland, Canada...

YUI

2012-01-22T02:01:00.001-08:00

YUI is among one of my favourite singer because she not only write and compose her own songs (not sure if its all, but most of them), she also did wrote the opening and ending songs for Bleach and FMA, which were really awesome. I started following her way back when she was doing her "Goodbye Days" in Taiyou no Uta. The movie wasn't that great, but all her songs made up for it. Even though I don't really know what they're about, the nicely composed melody really gets me, and fall right into my alley.

YUI- Goodbye Days - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJy-StrjBc

Really awesome fan remix of YUI's Tokyo + Avril Lavigne's Compicated -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78VW8jaHBtE

Bam

2012-01-21T01:08:00.000-08:00

Retake

2012-01-19T23:42:00.000-08:00

SG-1

2012-01-19T23:22:00.000-08:00

I finished watching SG-1 tonight!!! It was just pure awesome, I loved the ending to it!

I actually never watched any of it until some time in mid 2011. I was introduced to Star Gate Universe at first. I thought that was alright, felt kinda like Battle Star Galactica (but not as good). So I took my friend's advice on watching it from the very beginning. Star Gate the movie, then into SG-1. It felt very cheesy at first, cause it's dated in the early 90's (during the Buffy days). And then it just got better and better, grew on me more and more as the seasons just blazes by.

I highly recommend anyone who have a thing for Sci-fi to watch it through. A 10-season serie is a bit much to watch. The planet explorations, alien technologies, light comedy jokes here and the chemistry the actors had were just something that can't be found on any other shows.

Anyway, I'm not going to blab on too much now. Gonna have to get my hands onto the 2 other SG movies, and SGA to continue on my adventure through the Star Gate world )

Mongol Girl 3

2011-12-05T23:09:00.000-08:00

Here is a piece I did recently. I wanted to do something simple and see how far can I push it. I'm really happy how this one turned out. I can probably go further and detail alot of the other things. But I don't want to end up noodling around the same spot over and over. So I'd call this a finished one for now and move on to the next.

Allston LD update 7

2011-10-18T21:07:00.000-07:00

LD's from the recent sessions, the one on top is from QAA, they're having a same long pose session for the 4 weeks of Oct, this one is done from a different angle, rest are the short 3, 6, 9 min ones from Allston

LD painting2

2011-10-04T21:53:00.000-07:00

This is from the QAA session this week, haven't done this since the last time, had alot of fun trying things out

Allston LD update 6

2011-10-02T19:56:00.000-07:00

its more of a drawing update than a rendering update on this one, and I particularly like the middle one. The middle one is for you Gman.

Enslaved - Monkey and Trip

2011-09-26T23:33:00.000-07:00

A little fanart made to tribute Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I finished it just a few days ago and really enjoyed the game. To me, it was really underrated for a game with this quality to not get more attention. The Environment was awesome, the Story was great, and the little cut scene FMV's were very enjoyable. The only down side was the gameplay which was very easy. It was just a basic hack and slash, but it did coup well with the other stuffs you do inbetween. Things like swinging and climbing around, the nimbus cloud water surfings, and the boss fights were very fun. Anyway, do give it a try if you haven't played it yet.

Allston LD 5

2011-09-22T01:06:00.000-07:00

QAA-male LD

2011-09-20T19:52:00.001-07:00

haven't done male model for quite a long while, but the poses were rather simple, so I had time to figure out and remember the structures and play around with the light and dark contrasts

Allston LD update

2011-09-18T19:35:00.001-07:00

Got quite a few that I really liked from this session, I loved how the top one turned out. I've also included the longer one (last) from QAA, don't really like it, probably because of the Huge dark eyebrow i gave her, but theres stuffs here and there that I liked, so i'm posting it to look back later

This is for you, B

2011-09-11T22:56:00.000-07:00

KIKOKEN IN YO FACE!!! wahahahahah!

LD @ Allston, MA

2011-09-11T17:38:00.000-07:00

Went to a new figure drawing place near Boston University this week. It a bit of a travel from Quincy, but they offer nice shorter poses which is awesome

LD Sept 6

2011-09-06T20:02:00.000-07:00

LD update

2011-08-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

I quite like how this one turned out )

Late Afty

2011-08-30T00:51:00.000-07:00

Earthquake!!

2011-08-23T20:30:00.000-07:00

There was an Earthquake on the east coast today, anyone felt it? Some of my coworkers felt the swaying, but some didnt, it was kind of half and half. I personally didn't feel anything.

more Aug LD's

2011-08-16T20:07:00.001-07:00

two from Dr sketchy Boston, one from QAA figure drawing session

LD Aug

2011-08-09T18:29:00.000-07:00

LD update for this week. I did the same pose same angle twice, one with more accurate proportions, and the other more pushed. Usually I would just pose the pushed ones cause they tend to look nicer. But I do like the feel of this one so I'm including it in this post

Captin America

2011-07-26T00:44:00.000-07:00

Watched Captain America over the weekend, and really enjoyed it. So here is a little fanart I did for it )

Two

2011-07-23T00:34:00.001-07:00

Robi

2011-07-21T23:16:00.000-07:00

This is for you, Gman

Dr. Sketchy Boston July session

2011-07-10T17:20:00.000-07:00

Haven't done short poses for a long time. So I'm just posting two of the more successful ones, cause the rest of them were disasters.

The times are two's, a five, and 2x 20's

It happens on the second Sunday of every month in Boston. It gets crowded most of the time, but suprisingly it was alright this week. We had a very nice pin-up model in for this session, which is what made this session exceptionally awesome.

doo dee doo dee doo )

2011-06-29T22:51:00.000-07:00

Purple sky

Traditional zbrush

2011-06-22T19:25:00.000-07:00

I had an awesome time over the past few weeks. One of our coworker's dad Glades Davis came in to the studio to teach us some techniques on sculpting. So I grabbed some screen shots of Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite) from one of our character modeler Adam Bolton. This is actually the first sculpture that I've ever done, aside from the little tea pot we get to make when I was in my elementry school. I can't imagine the amount of fun I had doing this, hopefully I will have time to do more in the future.

Time spent was about 4-5 days of class time.

Bioshock Infinite ITP piece - Market Fire

2011-05-25T22:52:00.000-07:00

Today was the announcement for the winners of Into the Pixels of 2011, and I'm glad to say that one of my piece that I did for Bioshock Infinite was selected!! I'm not going to say too much about it, please do go take a look if you're going to E3 this year )

Check out the official link at:
http://www.intothepixel.com/

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/712930/into-the-pixel-2011-winners-announced-check-out-the-artwork/

*edit- and here's my little moment of glory at E3 2011

April LD

2011-04-20T00:03:00.001-07:00

Bald

2011-04-14T23:19:00.000-07:00

Started working on the piece i started earlier

Gally

2011-04-13T20:35:00.000-07:00

another one for Gally

a little sketch

2011-04-02T13:23:00.000-07:00

March

2011-03-16T22:54:00.001-07:00

D20

2011-02-06T20:06:00.000-08:00

didnt have time to do anything, so heres a filler

D19

2011-02-05T21:53:00.000-08:00

here's a little more progress on the sketch i did yesterday, won't have much time to do much these few days, I'll try and upload as much as I can to keep it up

D18

2011-02-04T22:51:00.000-08:00

an idea for a more finished piece with my 3 characters, the gun girl, sword guy, and the mage tank

D17

2011-02-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

d16

2011-02-02T21:21:00.001-08:00

D15

2011-02-01T20:45:00.000-08:00

D14

2011-01-31T20:23:00.000-08:00

D13

2011-01-30T21:38:00.000-08:00

Dooms day part 2, this is supposed to be a continuation shot from the neo armstrong cannons piece (D9)

D12

2011-01-29T22:38:00.001-08:00

Mr. M.P.O

- which stands for Mage Pwnage Ownage, thanks for the name, pretty much fit this tanking mage

D11

2011-01-28T22:40:00.001-08:00

sword guy to go with the gun girl!

bd thumbs

2011-01-27T21:47:00.000-08:00

got some really great ideas for a piece, going to work on it on the side to get it from start to finish, I will resume dailies tomorrow

D10

2011-01-26T22:27:00.000-08:00

D7, D8 and D9 (from bottom up)

2011-01-25T07:16:00.001-08:00

D6

2011-01-22T00:49:00.000-08:00

continued on with D5

*edit: though I liked the grayscale version better

D5

2011-01-20T22:36:00.000-08:00

distracted big time, thanks

D4

2011-01-19T21:59:00.000-08:00

remember, don't tell anyone

D3

2011-01-18T22:42:00.000-08:00

Ask, and you shall receive. Here is your hot sexy girl, Gman. My original theme was Night before Battle, so i just gave it a hot sexy mix. Really like how this piece turned out )

D2

2011-01-17T19:05:00.001-08:00

you wanted farm boy? Here's your farm boy

D1

2011-01-17T00:25:00.000-08:00

Water village that lives right by the side of huge wooden built water dams

starting dailies again, feel so out of practice some doing this as this took way too long

Cheap shot

2011-01-11T20:34:00.000-08:00

Anyone from sheridan or anyone who've done a life drawing of a model with a hat knows how easy it really is to make it look awesome. All you need is just to strengthen the cast shadow from the hat onto the face and voila, a cool looking piece. So here it is, my cheap shot of 2011

last LD of 2010

2010-12-28T19:47:00.001-08:00

LD Oct 2010

2010-10-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

Life drawing started back up again in September, here is some of the ones I've done recently.

Bioshock Infinite Gameplay

2010-09-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

Our first gameplay footage is now officially up on the main site, please go check it out if you haven't seen it.

Click here then click on the Gameplay Video button on the right hand side.

Bioshock Infinite

2010-08-12T21:11:00.000-07:00

The trailer is up!

http://www.bioshockinfinite.com/main.php

huuaaahhhh....

2010-08-08T14:21:00.000-07:00

Hopefully you can tell where this is from. This was done for the sketchoholic.com contest - interview with Dice Tsutsumi. The topic was childhood anime. So Totoro was the first thing that came to my mind. My Neighbor Totoro was the first and one of the best movie that really influenced me. Not only did it let me know the importance of family, it is also the reason that I got into art. I still have a dream of meeting legendary Miyazaki some day, face to face, and hopefully being able to hold that hand that created all the miyazaki master pieces! Anyway, it was unfortunate that it didnt win anything, but I'm really glad that I've done this. This is one of my favourite piece that I've done recently. Probably because of the warm fuzzy feeling it gives to me inside.

Thanks to Dice and Bobby for this great interview!

Mei from My Neighbor Totoro
done on photoshop, an hour or so

Red Dead Redemption fanart

2010-05-24T23:24:00.000-07:00

IMO, Red Dead Redemption is by far one of the best looking game. The world, lighting, and atmosphere is just absolutely gorgeous. You'll see what i mean when you play it.

Frank Frazetta 1928 - 2010

2010-05-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

The man and the legend had passed away on Monday May 10, 2010.

LD CG

2010-04-19T20:55:00.001-07:00

this is my first Life drawing done on a computer from life, it was really fun doing it!

LD April 2010

2010-04-08T22:26:00.001-07:00

Gally

2010-03-13T01:40:00.001-08:00

Fan art for Battle Angel Alita - Gunnm, a manga i used to read growing up. Heard James Cameron is going to do live action movie adaptation on it , its going to be awesome )

imdb page about it )
[link]

hmmm

2010-03-10T22:11:00.000-08:00

same thing... got a new monitor yesterday ) testing the color out, just trying to do similliar to what i did on the mongolian girl painting

Mongolian girl and Viking

2010-03-03T17:24:00.001-08:00

Theme: Portrait - Mongolian Girl

Theme: Viking (an example of what not to do)

Mongolian girl took a bit over 45min, and for the Viking, I gave up at the 45min

Epic Landscape

2010-02-26T17:25:00.000-08:00

Theme: Epic Landscape

roughly 30min

Supermannie

2010-02-25T18:20:00.000-08:00

Theme: Fravourite Super Hero's tattoo

Uh.. Yea... hahaha

Flying Pet, Tank, Mexican Luchador

2010-02-24T18:50:00.000-08:00

Theme: Flying Pet

Theme: Tank

Theme: Mexican Luchador

Catching up on the dailies, each of these took a bit over 45min

Animal Armour

2010-02-18T21:41:00.000-08:00

Theme: Animal Armour

new dailies

2010-02-17T16:49:00.000-08:00

Theme : Final Fight

Theme : Raise from your Grave

dailies at work is starting up again
roughly 30min each

Life Painting Feb 9th

2010-02-10T06:57:00.000-08:00

yep, same thing

Watercolor

2010-01-27T01:07:00.000-08:00

Here is another watercolor life drawing, one of my personal fravourite ) It was a 2 hour pose, took a little bit more time after to give it more of a finish look.

New year update (finally, yes)

2010-01-22T22:47:00.000-08:00

A lot happened in the year 2009, both the happiest and the saddest time of my life. Since it has passed, so I'm not going to talk about it. It's much more important to look forward to the future )

So now, here is some of the stuffs that I had done recently, these are daily (well supposed to be) paintings that me and my coworkers have been doing at work, they are 20-45min speedies done on the day on a specific theme. You can view the rest of my coworker's work here.

Film Noir

Beware of dog

Devil's Daughter

Undiscovered Underwater Dweller

Masquerade

Epic Castle

Battle Goblin

Ships

Robot

DUDE! WHERE'S MY RIDE

Swamp

Desert Planet

Snow Monster

And of course, some recent life drawings, I've started using some watercolor,

And finally, these are the 2 CGhub 2D jam pieces that I haven't yet posted on my blog, so here it is:

Jedi Family: The Nelsons
And this is for the western Cowboy theme
I am working on something new, I'll post it when I finish it )

more LD's for now

2009-12-01T18:43:00.001-08:00

30's as usual now

LD

2009-10-14T18:16:00.001-07:00

nothing much to be said )

edit: fan service

Tornado Cloud

2009-10-09T21:20:00.001-07:00

alright, i'll start posting stuffs more often now

PS CS4

Thieflord

2009-10-02T21:59:00.000-07:00

this is a paint over one of Jinhee's drawings )
really liked how this turned out :D

PS CS4

some more LD

2009-09-29T20:16:00.000-07:00

nothing other than these to show for now )
top one is a little over 30, didnt keep track of the time

LD in boston )

2009-09-15T20:11:00.000-07:00

Started going to life drawing again last week with some of my coworkers. It was alot of fun, slowly getting back into it )

poses were extremely long, about 30 minute each, and yea the proportion are a bit off, i'll work on it )

Mount Mist

2009-09-01T20:09:00.000-07:00

Watched a anime series called Mushishi recently. It was recommended by a great friend of mine )
I just loved the mountain scenery in it. Every one of them made me feel like taking a nice deep breath of fresh air.

PS CS4

Tsang style

2009-08-11T19:43:00.000-07:00

yep, I call this block in the Arnold Tsang style, wahahaha

PS CS4

and this is done for the Vampirate drawing jam on cghub

PS CS4

Roku house

2009-08-08T19:04:00.000-07:00

I was supposed to go out and have my little tour around the neighborhood, but I sat down and and just worked away, it was too late to go out when I check the time again,... =/

And work has finally started, its so much fun working there. Probably cause they actually gave me a 21'' cintique to work at my work station ) man, i feel so spoiled already

PS CS4
today

Resting

2009-08-02T19:20:00.000-07:00

just done moving and settled, so bored at home today =_=

PS CS4

Star Craft vs Warcraft

2009-07-31T16:15:00.000-07:00

"Thrall leading his massive army invading Sakuras through the dark portal. Zeratul gathered the best he can to defend Orc's invasion." - idea by my friend FDK

This is fanart done for the blizzcon contest, unfortunately I couldn't finish it on time and submited what I had. (thought it was due 12AM, but it was actually 12PM in the afternoon) But oh well, I really liked it so I carried on to finish.

PS CS4
2days

Subway girl again )

2009-07-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

Some pretty girl I saw on subway today :D

this was done on my new laptop, glad the color change from normal LCD mon to this new laptop's LED mon wast that big

PS CS4
2hours

LD2

2009-07-24T11:53:00.001-07:00

more LDing before I leave for work ) thank you Ken Tam and BRam for coming with me :D, that is what true friends are all about!

poses are 1's, 10's and 15's

LD

2009-07-17T10:06:00.001-07:00

Went to lifedrawing session at TSA yesterday, its been a while since I've done it. I had so much fun there. Sucks to the bastards who wouldn't go with me, you know who you are!

poses are 1's and 10's

After Storm

2009-07-12T01:10:00.000-07:00

havent painted for a while )

Q. Bee

2009-06-24T17:46:00.000-07:00

fanart I did earlier this year for Udon's Darkstalker Tribute artbook )

PS CS2

Solid and Liquid

2009-06-13T19:00:00.000-07:00

fanart for MGS4
highly recommend playing it if you haven't played it)

WOOT

2009-06-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

B. A. G.

sketches

2009-06-07T22:17:00.000-07:00

random sketch and small fanart of old Snake from MGS4, I'll post a real one in a bit

PS CS2

first summer update

2009-05-22T00:22:00.000-07:00

yep, first one this summer, been very busy helping out with family's business, didnt have time at all to do anything.

The clothings are highly influenced by L2 designs ) really like how this piece turned out,

PS CS2
1 day