It's 3AM AND I'M STILL AWAKE AND USING CAPSLOCK

Being a bit of a perfectionist, I cannot go to sleep until I know I have finished everything even though I can still wrap it up later. Thus I have been spending the last four hours coding HTML, slicing images, finding image co-ordinates, and searching for an ad-less, banner-less webhost for my 404 site. So, it is currently 3AM, my eyes are starting to develop that crusty stuff and I am listening to The Dickies in the hope that their energy will somehow rub off onto me.

I was discussing ideas with my friend in Singapore, Vanessa, and she suggested to me how the disruption of flights because of the volcano eruption in Iceland was similar to a 404 error. Should we suppose that flights are website links and airports are websites (situated worldwide, just like the internet), cancelled flights would thus be 'broken' or 'forbidden' links, and thus a 404 error.

I developed my idea as a pseudo-point and click adventure, although the only real interactive element in it is that...um, it has mouseovers, and that the structure of your journey is not totally linear (but not by much). The only outcome available is that your flight, being cancelled, proves your trip to the airport fruitless. Sigh.

Click here to view! The option 'with' sound seems to work only half the time, though.

Prapim's Life As Dictated By The Recession.

This is for the competition they posted on Blackboard. I thought I may as well add more to my portfolio and try to fill up more of my time. Stupid Flickr resized my image to something super-tiny and therefore illegible, so I had to submit this by email (which seems relatively unreliable compared to the other method of submitting) so I really really hope they actually receive my entry. Otherwise...time, wasted, Prapim, fail, again. You'll know by 30th April (the deadline for submission) because I'll probably be writing another blog entry, subject: "FUUUUUUUUUUUUC--"

"To be perfectly honest, I saw very little change in my life that I could directly attribute to the recession. Other than a few minor incidents here and there, my life (luckily?) was mostly unchanged. I wanted to illustrate how, despite the fact that the recession impacted the world on a huge scale, on a personal level all it really boiled down to was realizing my parents are a little bit sneakier than I thought. "

I Like Curvy Girls!

Trying out a new painting technique - I admire all you illustrators who have so much patience!

I also have a slight obsession with pin-up girls! I obviously have much to improve on. The paper texture covers up a lot of laziness XD

Also: please tell me whether I should place the circle somewhere else, or remove it altogether. I didn't want the composition to look too plain, but I feel it might actually be detrimental to the composition. So I would like to hear some feedback!

Hail Curviness!

Prapim's New 'Haircut'.

I may consider actually naming the series of autobiographical comics Proof of How Prapim Fails At Life. Or maybe The Chronicles of Prapim's (lack of) Adventures. Which one has the better ring...?

I pay the price of being too cheap to go to a hairstylist and being impatient. It honestly did seem like a good idea at the time! The sadder thing is, I was totally sober at the time.

On a positive note, it may please you to know that my fringe has since grown a bit longer and thus not so awful, and although one of my friends could tell I cut it myself (it being that uneven, sadly) most of my friends didn't really seem to notice. So...yay!

(Sorry the text is so small! D:)

Easter Break + A Knife In The Hand Is Worth...

Well, it's Easter! Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! (It was just an excuse to eat chocolate for me. Actually, most things are just an excuse to eat chocolate for me.) I've been feeling a bit sick lately. Not sick enough to stay at home all day and have chicken noodle soup, but sick enough that being out for too long makes my head throb. Then again, that may have also been because I watched Clash of the Titans. Hm. Anyway, my throat feels itchy. I've been drinking lots of water but perhaps I just need sleep.

This was supposed to be an entry into the design brief competition for the launch of 'The Left Hand of God', but it turns out the last day for submission was today! It seems I have just barely missed the deadline :( I fail hard. >.<

I used Jeong Juno's Tekken 5 (clenched fist) as reference for this, which I would link but cannot find online. Check him out! He's awesome.

Black Frog and the Infatuated Tree

Well, this took forever to upload (considering the original file is a whopping 891MB, having been saved in the best possible quality and resolution) which involved me keeping my computer on for about two days. Seriously.

Done as a group animation (working together with Suhui and Max) as part of a moving image brief, 'Secret'. We were given 'black', 'frog', 'infatuated' and 'tree' as our keywords to work around. Well, we kind of dropped the 'infatuated' and instead actually made the frogs the spawn of the tree.

After many days of agonizing, compromising and not sleeping adequately - who knew it would take four hours to animate three seconds? - as with most animations, watching the product is very satisfying. And look, mama! I drew the tree branches!

Dr. Facilier - The Princess and the Frog

Unfinished doodle of the super-awesome manipulative, highly charismatic Disney villain with very slick dance moves, Dr. Facilier. All hail the wonder that is Keith David's voice!

The Many Faces of...

After seeing those particular pictures of Kris Allen and Adam Lambert making faces at the camera, I just had to do this. Also very loosely based on those photos of the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. Both an excuse to practice expressions and colouring. I have found the wonder that is the Surface Blur tool. Woot!

Original characters: Jojo (redhead) and Gideon making faces. Some of them weren't as successful as the others. Oh, well. XD

Check out a vaguely interactive version I did for practice at HTML here! It fascinates more than it should (probably just me, though).

Jumpers are cool.

Work in progress; some characters I created a while ago. Basically the only reason I make characters is an excuse to dress them up in stuff I can't afford/fit into/am the wrong gender for. I love jumpers; no longer should they be associated with horrible Christmas presents given by relatives!

EDIT: Unfortunately, stupid me accidentally did an overwrite of my original file, and now I only have a small compressed version. The colours seem to have become flatter and the lineart less clear. The things that could have been...*sniffles*

Artist figures.

Figures done for my team's SONY project, an idea which was later scrapped, which is a bit of a shame. =\ From left to right, and top to bottom: Michael Jackson, Lady GaGa, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, David Bowie and one half of Daft Punk.