familyportrait sketches part1

Doodle of me, wife and son 

I am robot u r not!

Monster's funny Moment.

a personal project for fun. using photo manipulation capturing a funny moment of a riverbank monster frightened by it's own tail. enjoy the art. do comment if u have any thought on it. thanks.

Doodle on switch point at home

Can't sleep.

Draw on paper can't seem to see stuff I like.

I ask my wife.

Me: can I draw on wall?

Wifey: sure why not?

So I started drawing too bad din have video cam to record the process.

But still loving it.

I am sure my son will be curious when he wakes up. Hehe

Hope u guys enjoy it.

t-shirt design: threadless submission

hi all, sharing another threadless submission here on the baseball T challenge, basically the design only needs to be tap on 1 thing, 2 colour. so here goes my design.

i have submitted this blog last weekend, and fathers day gave me the inspiration to come out with such design, say thanks to your dad, bringing you to games, encouraging u in your growing up process. on the design daddy baseball telling the son about the rule of nature, no pain, no game (gain).

threadless submission super cat.

i am blogging about a t-shirt design submission i have submitted in threadless.com . i would be very grateful, if those of you who find this design nice to give a 5 to me.

scoring link is: http://www.threadless.com/supercats/the-falling-cat/

Harley Quinn gaming centre by Qswitch Design LAb

This is the third interior work that i have done, yet still cyber cafe. but it's okay at least something that i enjoy doing as a concept artist, only brief on space that require my service and i conceptualized the theme and the arrangement of all. it was interesting enough to play around with wood grains, black and red. with mixture of of high gloss and matt surfaces.

hopefully i will get to do some interior or product design soon.

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3D structure design : interior design for cyber cafe

This is another post with original content of my own again, of the second cyber cafe design job which i have done. Its a modern minimalist cyber cafe with dim lighting. a mix of colour lighting to fuse a modern and soothing environment for the patrons.

Hope u guys like it.

Tron styling Cyber Cafe with orange lighting by Qswitch

hi everybody its me again. its been a long time since i have posted. and its been even longer since i post my works. because recently i have gotten a job in conceptualising a cyber cafe design from scratch. that's something that i am really looking forward to do.

now that i have done i would just post and show you guys what i have done. not bad for a first official job that will be made real. finally some design with commercial value. i am happy with it. do tell me what do you think of this.

oh yeah, i have twitter account too. do add me as your group and i will definitely add back and learn a think or 2 from you too. my twitter is @qsdesignlab

fundomental: fun font attempt

fundomental: fun font attempt: today i wished to share with you guys on my first attempt on doing font. fusing gothic font with doodle styling. apparently its only in caps...

source: http://fundomentalist.blogspot.com/2013/01/fun-font-attempt.html

updates: sorry for abandoning the blog

hi all, recently i havent been updating my blog. hmmm i was busy preparing myself to face the world apocalypse....haha just jokin, i was working on a personal development, no doubt qswitch is my personal development, however qswitch is the key projects which obviously require alot of side project to form. hence, qswitch is like a frame without organ. now i am accumulating cells to form organ...scary pretty scientific huh? haha. well well, i know theres only 8 followers here, anyway i will be happy even if one could actually catch my updates. i will be updating more now, but towards year end with all the holiday season, plus my wedding annivesary, plus my sons birthday, everything comes in a shot.

i need to breathe....nope i dont need, i need to buck up for a challenging 2013, as i am ready to face it all, as i have set myself to kick off my 2013 this coming xmas. will update again.

wedding design ( chee meng and janice)

well its time for a job again. i was asked by a friend to do up another wedding caricature for a friend. this was a follow up by the previous wedding design i have done up for one of the fren. but this time chee meng wanted it to be a smaller as scale as he is having his wedding luncheon in one of the restaurant, where he dont intend to fill the backdrop with caricature.

 so he wanted a bunting instead, but i was then thinkin now point having bunting as some might actually wanted it to be featured or decorate on the wall in their house as a piece of memento, i then advice him to have the caricature printed on canvas. so we can frame it up like a painting.

so then i have done a few rough sketch for him to agree on the concept, obviously its very very rough. i have done up the gangnam style, the UP animation theme as well as the Laugh til his pants drop. at the end he chose that as a what he intend, he wanted to have more fun element for the caricature.

Gangnam horse riding style cartoon of the groom.

Up theme, with groom holding balloon

Laugh til his pants drop. 

Finished vector of the bride and groom's caricature. a western wedding suit with chinese double happiness motive of chinese papercut dragon and phoenix.

Finish product finish printed on canvas and frame.

Hope u guys enjoys my work.

Exhibition structure Design by Qswitch

hello everyone, yes been busy again with my full time job, but this post is about what i have done for my current full time company. as i might have explained before, i am a servicing representative for a design company, most of the time we are only focused on design base works. On some occasion we did have exhibition and roadshows awarded by our client. Every year, most of the 3D works of the booth will be done by a 3rd party, since this time around, purchasing department have take in some control over the award of job, my current partners could only come up with 2 design for the pitch, and i have volunteer myself to conceptualize the 3rd booth design.

and yes, reason why i am post in today is, my design had been selected among 10's of design from 5 different major agency. boy am i happy! its a lil bit excited overall when it comes to people acknowledging your design works, when u r so interested in that but u din demonstrate it to public and doubt about your capability. at least i did have some people thinking the concept of the booth is great and later selected it, and i have a chance to make it alive. how cool is that?

Well to major player in the market i know it's no biggie, but a for design enthusiast like me, getting to know everything bit by bit by self taught i am very happy with todays result. even though the profit from work will be contributed to the company, but hey its great to see the booth design made to real.

alil bit of history or background of the work. its a coating company called Dulux (formerly known as ICI Dulux) a brand from AkzoNobel, the biggest coating company in the world. they have launched a new flourish logo in the SEA region. name of exhibition Archidex (2012) a professional show from renovation to home deco for the professionals. Since its a high profile show with many visitors from relevant sectors, i have take this advantage to design a big 3D block of the LOGO with around 8-9ft in height, by booth location in the front entrance, the logo will be introduced to everybody that enters the hall.

from a perspective point of view, the logo is sitting against a bunch of colorful 2ftX2ftX2ft cubic which i name as colorful pixels, matching with the brand motto "let's Colour". This had clearly shown the colors behind the brand offering consumers and professionals a wide range of color selection for interior and exterior. by not wasting th giant logo, i have incorporated pigeon hole at the back of the logo with product sitting in it, signifying a complete range of paint solutions that the company is offering to the pros. oh yeah its also a double deck booth with a vip lounge to discuss stuff.

t-shirt design (diy graphic t)

hehe..today...i'm going to blog my diy stuff, always love diy. i have always dreamt of wearing something i design my own. and yes, t-shirt is something which has been categorized as one of the easier form of artist expression besides putting down on canvas...but hey...t-shirt is a canvas too...we can paint on it...just make sure the medium is right thats it.

and i have studied many many many books, articles even tested on screen burning, casting and all, but i really have lots of constraint doing that..well well, just accidentally came across this thing called t-shirt marker, so i bought it and give it a try...well well, its meant for graduates to sign on their shirt tho. it's somehow a semi-failed project but i enjoyed it...and have a good laugh on it. my wife even said why don't get a plain romper and paint one for our son.

hopefully one day, switch could starts its own label. since i have been dreaming owning an independent label of my own.

get a plain boring yet comfortable t-shirt which u still want to wear. create an artwork print it on a sticker and cut out space u want to fill with ink and paste the sticker on the t-shirt, and insert a mounting board underneath the t-shirt

then u will get something similar to above. then use t-shirt marker, or i think spray paint on it will do too, or get some acrylic paint and use paint brush to paint. depending on your sticker material. for me i chose this shirt marker from artline

yeap, this is what i done filling up the eyes and nice area like kids filling stencil.

keep on filling to achieve what u desired.

tadaaa! this is my first t-shirt prototype, the word qswitch is too hard to be cut off by a pen knife so i decided to use freehand on this.

hope u guys enjoyed this silly attempt which i am posting. so who is interested to get this very first prototype for an upcoming big label for 10 bucks?? heheh...good investment u know?? hehe. just joking, i will be wearing this for the coming weekend.

Wallpaper for MAC

wow, its been such a long time since i have posted. damn~! let me think what do i have to tell? emmm same old stories...my son SHINQAI is 5 months old now....been busy with him for a bit, but most of my time which i have to write blog now, had been occupied by works works works.....yeap other than works its still works....since market is slow, i have to work extra hard on development, at some point of time, i think i am so gonna lose out...i mean my mind and temper. but anyway i still havent gave up on qswitch yet...nope not as yet, and i will not give up too...i am currently on some development, just tonight suddenly i have the urge to sketch with my olddddd ipad, which serves me i have done a sketch on the macbook pro which i am using, and i have lay it out into a wallpaper. let's have a look

yeap this is it. oh yeah and the resolution is 1280 x 800. anyone interested in this wallpaper, just email me, and i will give away this wall paper for free, well well, its not something precious, its just a bit of a midnight inspiration. I love mixture of cute and violent graphic.

yeap, if u love this, just place on your comment or email me, i will fwd you the link to download this wall paper.

New learning: virtual sculpting and modelling

hmmm its been a long time since i post, well same old story again, no time no time no time. well i do have time while i am in the office but i will be seriously in stressed, when i am free, that means the business is not doing very well, might not even moving, and that might affect my income. hehe, whenever i face such and such issue, i would normally do one thing, surfing and reading something that i am interested in or something that i think it might be useful for me be it now or future. Most importantly feeding the soul well.

quite often i am on youtube, watching different tutorial which sometime might not be relevant to me at all, but believe me, as long as you keep reading or watching, somehow you will find place where it is applicable, well if i am not wrong, steve job did mention this or something like this before, gather all the dots first be it useful or not at the moment (your interest), in future or soon, you will find everything u learn is useful and by then when u r ready, you just need to join the dots together and form a bigger picture. Haha i cant remember how exactly he said it, but this is something that i interpreted.

Well at this time, i managed to learn something new, and something which i have always wanted to pick up. 3D yes, no doubt i have master google sketch up as 3D basic quite well, but rendering an organic model in sketch up is do-able but very very time consuming. Well this time, i have done it again, my first virtual or digital sculpting attempt.

A mutated cat or monster fat or fat lazy cat or anything you would called, it just a simple take out on a character design in 3D. Have a look? do comment or share how would u sculpt.

too bad, with my current laptop, there's alot of limitation, once too much detail has been inserted, the computer starts to lag, and i couldnt sculpt further or else i would love to sculpt a full figure, it starts to lag, and sculpting cannot be done smoothly, most of the detail cannot be sculpt according to my mouse stroke.

Comic character design

hello all, it's been a week now and i still feel haven't rested enuff...hahah.well during my previous week where i decide to get some rest i have been sketching alot, and alot of them are rubbish though, well to me i think it might turn into something great just for style exploring and sorts.

 Today i am posting a comic character design. This character carries essence of a human figure which hasnt evolved entirely, white eye ball, hmmmm witch hunter? Apeman hunter? Well i dunno however this is some new attempt which i have seen some breakthrough. Do comment if u guys have a different tots about it.

an apeman which is not fully evolved biologically, skull feature of an ape.

7 finger painting in 7 days. A week of life lesson with sketching.

It's been 5 months since i posted now. It has been quite tiring for me actually. Not because writing all these post, more like a mind thing, i have been trying hard to master adobe illustrator to become a better contributor in stock, and researching about valuable stocks and so forth, and it had led me to forget how much this initially should be, it will defeat the purpose if i am not enjoying doing it, because i have always been stuck on it. it is cliche, but hey, that's the whole point right, once in a while while we are trying to hard to achieve something we tend to forget the key objective to it. So it's good to stop and look back, did we left out something, or missed out something while we were sprinting towards a victory. Well this is not a moral talk or whatsoever, but this is something i always believe in, and hopefully log it down, so i will get to read back my believes and therefore after this post i think i will stop posting for a week or so. unless i found something interesting or read something that i wished to share with fellow friends and readers.

As continually working hard on something, especially on stock contribution, being anxious and worries about unbalance, uneven pen point, wrong usage of gradient tool and many many more as a rookie contributor which is still trying to pass the test, sometime i forgotten how much fun is it, just to express what we feel is enjoying the arty part of our inner self, without taking much consideration about details, Just like when i am 4 to when i am 24. i just draw and sketch whatever i likes, and feel the soul had been fed in a positive manner, i do want to achieve this anyway with a more steady achievement which pays in return with recognition and acknowledgement, but hey, being overfed and constantly putting myself under pressure will do no good in long run. 

one fine day, i took out my ipad sitting inside my bag without using it, and attempt on finger sketching and painting again. i felt so much fun, without realizing much, i have evolve in terms of styling, correcting my previously flaw in a fun way. the ease of use, like pencil and paper gave me the feeling to draw and draw without being scared of badly coordinated pen points.correct layer planning and so forth. and i have been finger painting and drawn for the past seven days. and here i would love to share with all the readers.

A caricature of me and my lovely wife. She is 36 weeks with junior inside still waiting to come and greet the world, when i drew this, i was accompanying her while watching drama and she was paying attention to my sketch and then when i am about to complete, she had requested to change her shoes to slipper because she wants to remember the kind of water retention she's going through on her leg, haha. and then she wants me to draw her holding an iPhone. because that's wat she is with all the time, when she is fatigue or about to sleep while she is pregnant, constantly with her iphone reading facebook status, watching youtube, and play her few favourite games including smurf village. 

A devil figure inspired by hellboy.

A fictional political figure or a successful person, to speak the truth, i initially wanted to cartoonize Mr. Robert Kuok. there are many many news that tells us how great this man is.

A portrait which initially i wanted to try my illustration skills on a very dark contrast between shadows and highlights. I failed :). my wife named in " the man of darkness" she thought its one of the character inside my novel writing attempt.

A robotic figure with wheel and motor base on the lower part. inspired by a post apocalyptic era which i recently wrote on zoology, exploring character in novel.

Kung Fu master, inspired by the great bruce lee. but this is not bruce lee.

a special love and interest in skull art, i wasn't that into skulls stuff before, maybe man do change, i love exploring skulls shape and arts in recent years, there fore as i kept on drawing, i was like, her why not a painting with different art.

every single piece, i have been trying to make it as nice and as finished as possible. but hey the thing is i am enjoying every single part of it, and able to develop a better design sense, without feeling much pressure, i just take out my ipad and paint with my finger. Maybe after this week, after resting from a rest from constant finger painting, my software illustrator skill had growth and found a new path. 

" sometime it's good rest to complete a longer journey" - it's not my quote, it's some chinese saying i don't know who.

Free vector for download.

Hi to all fellow friends. in order to celebrate my first one thousand view and support, i hope to have further support from fellow friends and interested readers. A token of appreciation i have submitted a free vector to be downloaded from vector stock. It's free of charge, and i hope everyone can take opportunity to subscribe to my blog and every 1 thousand view i hope to release a free vector for everyone to download.

This is a vector created by me, with a concept of protector in the form of samurai, fused with element of ninja seal, arranged in blue and red on each side, containing elements of chinese in their god of protection symbol, to hold evil spirit to enter their house.

it's a simple stock, i hope you will like it. 

character design made possible with ipad via sketch pro

i remember i have got an ipad on my last birthday from my wife, well i did have an iphone already...most of the task and aps are shared....there's one good thing i like about, i did try out some finger painting on iphone, however the screen is too small, it's very very difficult to execute detail drawing, even though is possible. well now that i got ipad, i can sketch and sketch and sketch and explore on character styling without worrying on killing more trees, now i dun really need papers anymore.. : )

hmmmmm by right i shud be sharing only some of the works but today, i wish to share some of the technique which i always apply when i do detail sketching and steps to create a piece of drawing with an ipad or an iphone (the concept is quite the same anyway). perhaps the pictogram of a black and white air brush, pencil and paint bucket in a piece of fictional political icon in black and white.

1. get the anatomy right. every sketch you shud determine what sort of character u desire, whether or colour or black and white it doesnt matter. getting the character anatomy ratio right is the best thing anybody shud do.

2. after getting the anatomy right add a rough idea of what your character shud look like. sketch it out on the rough detail on the hairstyling,  facial expression, apparel and what ever u could think of. don't worry too much, every thing is editable made possible by ipad and sketch pro.

3. once u have done, on the top right corner, touch on screen and open a new layer. upon opening the new layer, u can always set the level of transparancy of the first layer. this will enable you to totally follow a semi transparent background and sketch on top of it. Do bear in mind, since it's a digital sketching, straight line is hard to achieve especially when you are using your finger to sketch, often u would find many many fine sketch line. of course the thickness of the drawing tool point can be set according to preference, bear in mind every medium produce different effect. even u select on the same colour. 

4. spread your finger wide on screen constantly to zoom as maximum as you are comfortable with, for my case i would normally zoom my sketches until it gets pixelated. from here i can perform a series of multiple strokes....and form a very very detail drawing depending on your patience. dont worry about the line, you can set to invisible mode later. please find the picture below. and compare with 5th picture when it's zoom to 100%. 

5. now as u can see below a basic detail sketching is out, basically very acceptable already. so what now. with such sketches obviously nobody would say anything about it, cause it's just a piece of  drawing, what more value can u add to the drawing, why not add a background? now at this time, open up the layer window to draw on the b/g, u can later overlap or goes under it, depending on how u plan the whole drawing. so now open up another layer.

6. background in progress, if you guys are as impatience as me, and did not master the tool well, u would probably goes through around of using or maybe trying to find the easiest way to navigate. simply place 3 finger on screen and a simplify tool will pop up for you to adjust the level of opacity of your ink, and the thickness of your drawing tip.

7. you can then revisit your character and use the bucket fill tool, to fill which ever area u desire in your desire colour, but you have to make sure all boundary all enclosed. now after you do that, you would normally find that there are lines or gaps that is not filled, it is because the ink would stop until the enclose boundaries if the the ink flow logically. now u can choose to filled the gap or line, with existing body colour by using other tools like brush, air brush or pencil tool, or the line colour.

8. zoom in here and there to asses all the area that should be filled with strokes or shades. depending on the styling. basically adding details to the working pieces.

9. overall the piece is close to finished, however instead of hair stroke, i still find a grey shaed with subtle lining would be better for my piece, so i use 50% transparent of grey ink and air brush it. so the line is still visible when u zoom in detail. another tips that i always like, erase and fill. check out the hairline great white strokes, which i deleted and refer to bottom.

 10. you could repeat as many part as you based on the above technique, usually it brings a more  realistic feel and make the sketched looks livelier.

now that you got it a black and white, fiction asian political cartoon character.