moombaduo- Andy Wong's Blog

Building sketch

2011-03-20T21:24:00.002Z

I worked up a sketch of a building, again experimenting with a water colour style in hopes of speeding up my colouring process. Let loose so it was pretty fun to do^-^

Pig Town - water colour style

2011-03-20T21:20:00.002Z

Pig Town image, dabbled in using a water colour style for this one. I'll probally do another version of this in my normal colouring style at some point.

speed paint background

2011-03-20T21:18:00.001Z

Playing around with custom brushes and worked this up

Mouse pad coloured crocodile:D

2011-03-14T00:56:00.004Z

Some crocodile sketches, this one coloured quickly (20mins) using the laptop mousepad:P can't reach my actual mouse or tablet at the moment...^.^;;

Space man sprite sheets

2011-03-09T16:33:00.005Z

Noir fanart coloured

2011-03-04T15:27:00.002Z

space man sprite

2011-02-17T00:17:00.002Z

This is will be used as a sprite for the project I'm helping with. I've removed the rockets from the initial design in this version.

Gundam UC speed sketch

2011-02-14T00:29:00.003Z

Happy Valentines Day!

Audrey and Banagher from Gundam UC came to mind so figured do a quick 15 min sketch on Flash^-^

Space man design sheet

2011-02-13T23:50:00.002Z

Practice design sheet, initial design of a space man for project I'm working on

Astronaut sketch

2011-02-13T01:50:00.003Z

Barn-o-saur

2011-02-10T02:08:00.002Z

Another quick sketch

Sapp kick!

2011-02-09T02:13:00.003Z

More Flash animation, this time of Sapp The Sapling doing some 'Thunder Kicks'

I made this experimenting with one image and cutting and pasting the arms and body seperate in order to animate them individually. Enjoy!:D

flying pigs

2011-02-09T00:32:00.001Z

Test animation of my 'Flying Pigs' image.

Inflatable sketch

2011-02-08T22:54:00.001Z

Haven't drawn this guy in a while.

Speed sketch on Flash CS3

'Earthbound' & 'Flying Pigs' Diaries

2010-12-17T16:44:00.005Z

I made some dust jackets for some Year Diaries :D

Front

back

'Flying Pig' Planner

'Earthbound' Planner

Flying Pigs

2010-12-16T15:51:00.001Z

Ness & Mr Saturn

2010-12-16T12:58:00.003Z

A Drawing for a friend of mine, back in the day we both loved playing Earthbound on the SNES:D

More Work in Progress- 'Piggy Town'

2010-12-16T02:49:00.001Z

More WIP, a picture for a friend:D

Work in Progress - Line art

2010-12-15T03:11:00.003Z

Here's some line art of some images I'm currently working on, some are fanart for fun, some for friends^-^ Enjoy!

Noir Fanart

Gilgamesh from Final Fantasy V

Some flying pigs

Ness and some Mr Saturns from Earthbound / Mother 2

Big Boss / Naked Snake

'Autumn' Commissioned Piece

2010-12-14T14:52:00.004Z

A 'Autumn' themed commission piece for client, just in time for Christmas^o^

Scarecrow who couldn't scare page 1

2010-12-07T01:43:00.003Z

First of the series of images based on the 'Scarecrow who couldn't scare'

Scarecrow who didn't scare

2010-11-17T14:44:00.006Z

Currently doing a personal project trying my hand at illustrating existing Children's books.

This image is my interpretation from a scene from Neil Griffiths' 'Scarecrow Who Didn't Scare'.

Here's a version with an extract from the text

Aesop's Fables - The Fox with a swollen Stomach

2010-10-19T18:22:00.002+01:00

Trying my hand at illustrating short stories, this one is based upon Aesop's 'Fox with a Swollen Stomach' fable

In the Libary with Libary-Anne

2010-10-18T11:52:00.005+01:00

If you need a book that need's finding, she's your woman.

Crab Cap'n sowing

2010-10-06T02:19:00.001+01:00

A quiet moment of sowing^-^

into the pot

2010-10-03T20:14:00.002+01:00

This picture will be part of the 'Crab Cap'n' series of images. Hope to do some more images based around it and hopefully make it into a story at some point ^-^

Mother 3 Fanart

2010-10-02T00:16:00.006+01:00

A piece I did as birthday gift for a friend of mine:D Happy Birthday!

Mother 3 (or Earthbound 2) is a great game, definetely worth a sneaky play If you can find it^-^

EDIT:- changed Kumatora's face:P

Toy Designs

2010-08-30T15:06:00.005+01:00

Hello everyone!

my apologies as it's been awhile since I last updated,

Last July I went to the USA for the first time with my friends Mark, Dave and Tunney and went to the San Diego Comic Con! which was very very fun^-^ lots of things to see and many talented artists there - very inspiring

These are some toy designs of some of my existing characters that I recently submitted to theThree A+ Productions label

Peteff the Treeman

and the obnoxious 'Emperor' :D

there is also some other stuff I'm working on at the moment so keep an eye on this spot.

For now though, enjoy!

The Emperor

2010-07-18T11:46:00.002+01:00

This image was inspired by a friend's story upon his travels to San Diego. Also this was the first time I've drawn an image digitally, I enjoyed it and may apply the method in later work.

Film Noir Femme Fatale

2010-04-22T02:18:00.003+01:00

A B & W version of the Femme Fatale image, which is definitely more fitting considering its Film Noir inspired:D

Femme Fatale

2010-03-31T02:16:00.004+01:00

I've always loved Film Noir for it's the visual aesthetic and everything that goes with it, such as hard boiled detective characters and even deadlier femme fatales, which is what inspired me to draw this image:D

Enjoy! ^-^

Young Crab Captain in the Storage room

2010-03-23T19:07:00.003Z

Got back from China a few weeks ago:D Shall put up pics at a later date (possibly:P)

This image is a prequel image of sorts to the Crab Captain, in his younger days working as a apprentice Chef on board a subamarine.

It is here that he first meets his faithful crab companions:D

Off to China!

2010-02-08T02:40:00.011Z

Heyo just a quick update to show what I've been up to these days, will do another more detailed post with more pics at a later date:D

The Patch Together competition and various advice inspired me to make my own prototypes so this was a sneak preview of sorts for now^-^

A big shout out and thanks to Pete Fowler, Mark, Dave and Kate for supplying the inspiration, fimo, advice and modelling tips^-^

A big thank you for everyone who voted for my Patch Together entry.

It made me happy that so many people voted, so once again for your support, it is very much appreciated.

I'm off to China tomorrow for Chinese New Year for 2 weeks and a bit so shall see you all soon!

Happy Chinese New Year 2010 everyone!

(comic panel image from Eiichiro Oda's One Piece -
which is amazing and most definately worth reading!)

Patch Together Contest - please vote!

2010-01-06T17:24:00.004Z

Sapp the Sapling returns! ^o^

One of my personal goals was to one day see my characters being made into Vinyl toys.

As a result I found myself entering Sapp the Sapling into this ongoing contest on Patchtogether.com

In this contest, people can vote on a submitted design and after a certain number of votes are made;

it then gets moved into the online store where after to be pre-ordered and made into a viynl toy on a limted run^-^

If you have a second, a sneaky gander or vote would be appreciated:D

VOTE HERE:- http://www.patchtogether.com/designs/designs/view/id/2640

Details here :- http://www.patchtogether.com/

The Sand Swimmer Appears!!!

2010-01-05T01:36:00.002Z

'...also known as the elusive sand mole...' ^o^

Crab Cap'n

2009-12-07T22:51:00.003Z

Crab Cap'n with his family of crabs on top of his robot crab, but what is he doing there? hopefully we'll find out...

Robo Pope VS Giant Mole

2009-10-08T00:56:00.003+01:00

An image based upon a song by a band whom some of my friend's are members.
The song is based around a giant robotic Pope fighting a giant mole (hence the image^-^)

Enjoy!

Web site is up! Hooray!

2009-09-17T20:32:00.004+01:00

After many hours of reading, Dreamweaver trial and error and lots of faffling about...
I'm pleased to announce as of today www.andywongillustration is online!^-^ Hooray!
Please check it out!

Monkey battles Dragon King

2009-08-25T00:32:00.002+01:00

This image was inspired by 'Journey To the West' (or 'Monkey') a statue of which I saw during my holiday in Xian a few months back.
Mainly an experiment with colours and table once again, fairly happy with how the colours turned out- may add more details at some point.

Travis Touchdown

2009-08-13T02:43:00.003+01:00

Practising with the tablet
Can't wait for No More Heroes 2! ^0^

Bake-a-Bread Creature

2009-07-19T22:00:00.003+01:00

This image was coloured using a tablet, it was my first time using it so i'll have to keep practising with it until I figure out a consistent working method with it:D

Squid Attack!

2009-04-03T21:10:00.003+01:00

My first comission of sorts:D

Flu and beyond...

2009-02-25T02:24:00.004Z

Yup back from the dead:P Luckily I had that spare 1-up mushroom from that block i hit my head on the otherday^0^
Its been a while since I've been on and updated my appologies, i'm currently residing up in Manchester all the time now juggling between 2 jobs without internet access, plus had the flu not too long ago aswell so been out of action for a week or so:(
Anyhows I have some internet now so I'll update with a few bits I done since being on my quest to regain those lost drawing skills( I had to fight various metaphorical beasts for get them back...)

this is the first in a series of three sequential images I'm doing from customer from the shop
(details when they all up:D)

This is a piece based upon a piece of poetry by an aquintance I met before Xmas upon my return to Preston awhile back, I would've done it alot sooner but lots of things to juggle with new job so my appologies to that person^-^

So that's all some of the stuff that isn't doodles i've been doing in my sketchbook,
Currently working on a way to draw people in a way that'll go better with my creatures so I can hopefully draw more things I've been planning in my head... that aren't in trees or forests like i always do...*cough*:P

complete(for now)

2008-09-11T06:06:00.000+01:00

still may need some tweaks here and there but this version is complete,
just hope the recpients likes it:D

Finally...Colour! 2/3 comlpete

2008-09-09T03:36:00.005+01:00

(2/3 complete)

This image was a personal request from a friend who is moving into new house and is going to be eventually put on her wall (& is the 4th attempt at a working colour pallette)
Its been a rough and tumble process trying to get this image coloured,
When i first started colouring this i was optimistic i would get it done in a reasonable amount of time, but due to unforseen cicumstances I didnt realise how working full-time would effect my working method (and has led me to question my own abilities & professionalism)

I ended trying to colour the original image after long long hours of working so i'd be very tired whilst colouring and ended up maing very sloppy mistakes and colour choices.
I eventually decided to scrap that verison and start again from scratch as i didn't think it was fair of me to give a half-hearted piece to my freind and so when I've had adequete time to myself I've re-coloured this image and this is the current result & all the flatcolours are done now:D

I'm alot more hapier with the colours in this version so now just the details...

on a happier note: on the 27th August it was my 21st birthday (2 weeks ago) just worked on the day though:( - quite fitting way entering the world of adulthood

work in progress

2008-08-14T02:52:00.003+01:00

Hopefully get this done tonight...O.O;; currently in middle of adding colour.
This is the lineart of a pic for a personal job I've been asked to do

front and back cover

2008-05-22T02:47:00.002+01:00

Sapp takes Flight

2008-05-14T16:47:00.003+01:00

Sapp takes flight!
this is the last spread in the book so this is goodbye to these guys in regards to this story
its been fun:D

Back to the beginning again...

2008-05-12T03:02:00.003+01:00

To Ratty's house...

...and then off they go!

Goodbye to Peteff

2008-05-10T16:57:00.001+01:00

Ratty, Chappy & Sapp say goodbye to Peteff and the other passengers

Title Page

2008-05-09T20:59:00.002+01:00

title page:D

Chappy meets Sapp

2008-05-09T18:15:00.002+01:00

The first page appears! Chappy meets Sapp whilst enjoying a cup of his favourite tea:D

Hooray! Sapp appears!

2008-05-09T03:47:00.004+01:00

'Suddenly! With a loud “Hurray!” the plant jumped out of the ground! This gave Chappy a most dreadful fright!

Once Chappy caught his breath back the plant apologised for scaring him and they talked over a cup of refreshing tea'

Back to the beginning of the book, in order this would be the second spread:D

Sapp all grown up

2008-05-06T02:20:00.004+01:00

Sapp all grown up and helping other lost saplings get to higher places of sunlight^-^ ah its strange after drawing him small for so long to draw him all grown up

here's the flipped version for the double page spread, both work in their own way I suppose, this ahs an extra bit that needs a bit adding to it:D

Sapp grows

2008-05-03T01:35:00.004+01:00

Double page spread for when Sapp's plant starts to grow

Spreads

2008-04-28T04:07:00.003+01:00

Double-page spread versions of some of the images to be converted into a story book:D

New challenger approaches...

2008-04-23T00:41:00.003+01:00

Gamesdesign Pete now has a blog:

Peter's new blog

check it out for some unique and original games design ideas and concepts:D

EDIT: - Just found Neil's blog too!
Neil's blog

p.s. this is the pete I named the Treeman after

Intermission - Jay Taylor set Brief

2008-04-18T03:00:00.000+01:00

Illustrate your opinion on a article of your choice... The article I picked was 'Illustration Renaissance- A new Golden age of Illustration' :D

"We made it guys!"

2008-04-17T04:32:00.002+01:00

...Young Sapling and his frineds reach the top with the help of the Treeman (I've decided to name the Treeman- Petef:D) and so young sapling's plant finally grows^-^

This image was fun to draw and colour this is the 4th in the series, when I drew this image I accidently drew Petef's left hand wheras when I checked the previous image he was using his right to lift Sapling & co :p so I flipped it the image to correct this:D

enjoy!

there will be one more of Sapling's future adventures after this one and maybe a few to show the start of the journey

Treeman's foot- a quiet break interupted

2008-04-11T03:28:00.002+01:00

The adventure continues for young Sapling and his friends Ratty Mapp and Chap. Y. Tache, as they search to find a higher place to allow the plant on his head to grow.
Their break is cut short as they're interupted as by a large wooden foot crashing down...

Took me while to colour this but happy how it turned out as I got the colours I wanted eventually:D

enjoy!

Meeting in the Rat's Den

2008-04-05T21:29:00.005+01:00

Thinking of doing a series of images based upon the 'Treeman' image. This pic features the characters from that image gathering in the rat's home (as he's capable of reading maps) searching for high places to allow the young Sapling (the red one) to find sunlight and allow his plant to grow in better sunlight:D

enjoy!^-^

Treeman COMPLETE

2008-03-27T02:10:00.010Z

Hurrah! finally done and (fairly) happy with how it turned out:D I tried to take into account shadows and lighting in this piece and kept changing it as a result but this is the best I could manage hopefully it shall suffice^-^

Enjoy!

Ste The Sailor ver.1

2008-03-16T23:43:00.003Z

Continuing with the pipe smoking theme: the natural progression from Mr Ben Roberts would be Mr Ste Kerrigan smoking a pipe. Again trying to experiment with the new colouring style and messing about trying to make a more complete image with backgroundy stuff are two verions of the same, although not too sure which to use if (I am going to use them that is:P)

conisdering the cabin fever and uminspered spells of frustration I've had this week a bit of 'Eye of the Tiger' from Rocky really gets you pumping to finish stuff!:D A Good remedy, I highly reccommend it!

Ben The Chap

2008-03-06T02:19:00.003Z

Image for the the honours project, this was onece again experimenting a new style of colouring applying elements of the colouring used on the previous creature pieces. I may use this, I'm not sure yet...

Namazu (Beasts entry)

2008-02-29T04:13:00.003Z

My second entry for the Beast Book Vol 2: 'The Namazu'

Mythical Giant catfish which lives in the mud beneath the earth whose trashing causes violent earthquakes. The Japanese God Kashima is supposed to guard it and hold it in place with a stone and when his guard drops the namabozu thrashes about.

Many Thankies to Kate for the list of creatures from which I got the ideas, Debbie for feedin me
and Yen and Mark for keepin me company whilst doin the image^-^

80's Alex

2008-02-25T13:21:00.002Z

Thought I'd try a flat colour scheme experiment, I used it mostly for the creatures but I thought I'd try and intergrate it into the more realistic drawings and take it seems to be working quite well so may try and do it more often.

Refreshing

2008-02-25T01:10:00.003Z

Not too sure on the colours on this so may change the colour scheme later on

under the sea...in a Lampshade!

2008-02-24T21:53:00.005Z

I was talking to my tutor Steve the otherday and he told me about this hotel where theroom walls were drawn on by Illustrators, including some lamps.
This inspired me to draw an image on a lampshade to sell for the upcoming degreeshow raffle, so went out today and brought two lampshades and did this:-

Postive Future- Amelia's Magazine Brief

2008-02-19T07:38:00.005Z

This image is for a live brief for Amelia's Magazine with the theme of a Postive future in a utopian environment.
Inflatable city- enjoy! :D

sleep...

EDIT. added more to the sea to make it look more like water and added highlights to some of the buildings.

Baku

2008-02-15T00:08:00.003Z

Baku - a mythical creature with the trunk of a elephant, paws of a tiger and tails of an ox, the shy creature is said to reside near
towns and feed off the negative energy emitted from the people.

This image was origanally planned to be my entry for the new 'Beasts' Book for the Beasts volume 2 competition

...That is until stupid ol' me didn't read the list of creatures properly first time thus only to find that the Baku had already been taken >.< doh!
ah well bit gutted didn't get to use this image for the comp but going to use it for portfolio piece at the very least:D

p.s. Beasts comp also has a blog here Beasts blog

creatures- the attack continues

2008-02-03T04:00:00.000Z

Inflatable parade!

2008-02-02T06:01:00.001Z

Happy Chinese New year!^-^

A large image incorporating the inflatables holding a parade for the cretures:D
Woot finally completed! Had fun doing it despite it taking a long time to finish

Julian Cope

2008-01-29T01:50:00.000Z

Last Friday, Me, Mark and Dave went to the opening night of 'Blake's Shadow' Exhibition held at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. Our tutor Sally asked us to draw people attending the exhibition one of which was Julian Cope, who we were allowed to draw during an interview:D

Julian Cope giving a speech on William Blake and his influence on himself as a person and an artist, it was a very interesting to listen to which was helped by Cope himself whom was very charsmatic.

People at the gallery

Introducing The Inflatables!

2008-01-25T01:56:00.000Z

Its been a while since I did some creature characters, so for the upcoming Animex festival I thought I'd draw some pieces, one such drawing was the intial sketch for these creatures. After talking to Ali and others (thanks again guys:D)for help forming a brief/narative to place them in, I pushed the inflatable idea and come up with these guys:D

Boy they sure love gambling^-^

Here's a flat colour version, I quite enjoy using both styles of colouring but this style is faster

ENJOY!:D

Hiromi Final

2008-01-21T18:36:00.001Z

Editorial brief final image:D

New Blog profile- 'Hat & Pipe'

2008-01-18T00:18:00.000Z

My tutor Ali gave me some old copier paper to try drawing on the other day. I found the paper to be pretty soft and easy to draw on plus had a nice weathered colour to it too:D
I decided to use it to draw my new profile pic on:D my appologies as tis a bit vain of me -_-;

A big 'Thank you' to Ali for the paper:D

Guybrush Threepwood

2008-01-10T00:11:00.000Z

This pic is Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island games
Ah I love the good ol' fashioned point and click adventure games:D
I've found myself thinking about them alot recently in anticipation for the next Pheonix Wright game.
I'll colour it at some point in the future...after this damn essay^-^

IT'S A GUNDAM!

2008-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Happy New year everyone! thought I'd start this new year off with a ink and coffee pic of The ol' RX-78 Gundam gettin up:D

Exihibition

2007-12-17T18:05:00.000Z

phew! managed to put up the work for the exhibiton^-^ joy! just hope all the late nights have payed off...

Fishergate new version

2007-12-13T03:50:00.000Z

new colour style for this one too:D

5 a day new colours

2007-12-13T01:47:00.000Z

after this i'll bid the turnips adieu, so long guys! thanks for the all the help.

Timpson shoe maker

2007-12-13T01:10:00.000Z

Going back to old images recolouring them in new method, what do you think? better or worse?

I wish...I could land a good punch

2007-12-11T23:10:00.000Z

'KAPOW!'

I wish... I could Dance

2007-12-11T01:34:00.001Z

Waltz.

I wish...I had more interesting stories to tell

2007-12-10T17:15:00.000Z

2nd version oh yeah...

I wish...I could play piano

2007-12-09T23:23:00.001Z

I'm not 100% on this image as of yet, so may go back and draw it again as got another idea along the lines of this:-

I wish...I could sing

2007-12-08T22:25:00.000Z

Sing with ol' Frank here^-^

I wish...handle the cold better?

2007-12-08T18:51:00.000Z

march with penguins?

I wish...I could do science

2007-12-08T02:36:00.000Z

Another in the series of images for the 'Paul Davis' book project:D

Market lady Final

2007-12-08T00:23:00.000Z

Changed the colour scheme of the image to make the drawn image stand out more:D

I wish...

2007-12-05T22:39:00.000Z

For the external brief this semester I chose the 'Paul Davis' Book project. The project aims are to produce a 16 page A3 hardback book about yourself.
After various advice, ideas, head scratching and a few pokes here and there, I decided to base the book upon observational drawing. Each image is going to be based around a ' I wish I could...' situation, here are two of the images:

"I wish..."

"I wish I had more interesting stories to tell..."

with 2 down 14 more to go and the clock is ticking... beep beep beep beep "where's my daughter!?!" - Jack Bauer

Market lady returns!

2007-11-29T22:19:00.000Z

The market lady returns! now showing in technicolour:D (what?^-^)

the market

2007-11-28T17:37:00.001Z

The Preston market: the lastest unfortunate victim of my colour experiments:P
^-^

Adelphi again

2007-11-27T23:56:00.001Z

The Adelphi! now comes in red colours while stocks last:D (erm...what?^-^)

Colour experiments

2007-11-26T01:41:00.000Z

Talking to many people in regards to colouring images, I realised my colouring skills needed dire improvement:s So after listening to various advice, reading a book, doing some random watercolour studies and applying some tips I've been trying to work on a colouring style to compliment the line work a bit more in the drawings.

Here's a sneaky sample:-

A special shout out to Noel for her tips regarding colouring:D

Mr Mark, Mr Dave and Ms Kate

2007-11-19T18:36:00.001Z

Went to Sketch City event in manchester with Dave, Mark, Kate and Joe yesterday(shall put pics up at a later date) Whilst we're sitting in Night & Day i realise that I'd left my sketchbook at my folks place-_-; meh foolish of me. However it was about time I got a new one, so I picked up one with these colour pages in them.
Here's some sketches of Dave, Mark and Kate on them whilst at Sketch City.

The penguins strike back

2007-11-15T20:30:00.001Z

Its been a while since I drew these guys:D I thought It would make a nice wallpaper.

5 a day...

2007-11-15T18:00:00.002Z

Some tasty tasty turnips for the ol' project:D Not quite finished yet, been trying to figure out a colouring style which would best compliment the lineart these past couple of days. It's getting thare somewhat but nothing ever quite feels finished or professional to me but ah well part of the old learning curve I guess^-^;;

Fishergate Preston

2007-11-15T17:52:00.000Z

A colour version of a sketch of one of the main streets in Preston's busy busy town centre.~ The colour scheme was based upon an image I'd seen in Dave's Grafitti magazine.

A shoutout to Dave for his help whilst making this image:D

Meat

2007-11-15T17:45:00.000Z

Some images from a drawing I did of a butchers shop for the reporatage brief I'm doing at the moment:-