Sketch 1

I drew these over my annual break. I wanted to get better at my technical drawing but kind of lost interest in finishing it. Referenced these girls from my Japanese magazines. They kind of don't look Asian here for some reason :/

The second one kind of looks like Sunny from SNSD but it isn't.

Yuki 7

I came across this video ages ago but noticed they had a new trailer out, so thought I'd share it with you!

Looks That Kill - HD from Yuki 7 on Vimeo.

This is the first Yuki 7 trailer

A Kiss From Tokyo - HD from Yuki 7 on Vimeo.

Yuki can be seen on posters, short film, movie trailers, tshirts, bags, cds, books, art...it's pretty awesome how far you can take just a single character.

I also like how they've kept the same style but tweaked it up more in the second trailer. The 3D and 2D elements works well, I can really imagine it becoming a movie now.

Check out the Yuki7 site and the creator Kevin Dart

Trying to be one with nature

One of my goals this year is to do more creative things outside of work. I recently went to the Berwick Botanical Gardens and Healesville Sanctuary and took some snaps of flowers and animals. Healesville hasn't changed that much since I was a kid, and majority of the animals kind of sleep all day which is kind of lame. At least when its ferocious lions and majestic elephants its kind of cool to be in their presence...but kangaroos and koalas not so much...

Berwick Botanical Gardens

Healesville Sanctuary

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hi everyone,

Hope you have all been well!

Looking back on 2011 it has been a pretty interesting year. I said goodbye to my job, my bum life and said hello to my first design job at Woof Creative. I feel very lucky to have landed this job. I've had a few design interviews in the past and its rare to find a place which has exactly the right environment and people you are looking for. The real surprise I could say was landing into the Advertising stream. It wasn't something I thought about during uni but I'm kind of glad it worked out this way. Kind of opened new doors for me...and hopefully be one step closer to what I really want (which is ? atm)

As well as the highs of landing this job, I also got to see some amazing sites in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, got to meet some pretty cool people and made some pretty awesome friends along the way.

But as the saying goes, with every high there's gotta be a low too, and for me there were times which were pretty difficult. The transition between bum life to full time work was never easy, and finding that balance between work, family, friends and personal time was definitely a struggle. Nevertheless 8 months on, I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

I've also managed to shake off my obsession with Kpop Music (sad to say it was an obsession). Not saying it was a low point of my life but listening to the music again it's not as great as I remembered it to be. Putting good looking, skinny, stylish idols in flashy music clips with auto tuned beats definitely sucked me in! I still have my favorites but I can finally move on from that phase in my life. Perhaps it's a small step to growing up? and getting old....time for some Buble please.

So now to look forward to 2012 filled with over time, old age, bad eyesight and better experiences to come.

Happy new year everyone :)

Haha who can resist? I think I can always have a soft spot for this group

Check out some of these links I found at work.

http://kenichi-design.blogspot.com/2011/03/2010-inspiring-videos-of-2010.html
I could spend hours on this guys blog. I dunno where he has the time to find this stuff but the videos he finds are amazing.


http://www.jaredandrewschorr.com/
Lizbro this guy is your rival.


stumbledupon.com
Sign up for this website. Select your interests and when you press stumble it pops up a random website related to your topic. First time I did it, I selected cartoons and the entire lion king movie came up on youtube. awesommmmmmme.


I really wanna start blogging/update online folio again. So many awesome things to share. Not enough time these days :( Will get back in the habit when I get a new computer! Which will hopefully be soon...

:)

Macro Lens

Hi all, it's been a while but I've got some news:

x DESIGN 9-5 JOB PLEASE

YEAH! I'd give a proper update on my job but my brain has sort of deflated from exhaustion. Perhaps when I get used to the lifestyle I'll give a rundown of what I do.

The reason I actually wanted to update my blog is cause when I was in Hong Kong, I got a new macro lens :). I'm not really that great at photography, but it's definitely something I want to pursue and get better at. I've also started my random doodles again so I might update that onto here too.

The thing I love about this lens is how close you can get up to things. Animals are generally the hardest things to take, so seeing their fin/fur/feathers up close is pretty awesome. And when I mean animals...I mean fish haha, I don't have any pets to take photos of ...

Here's some photos from St Kilda Beach. Was tricky getting the lighting right.

Online Portfolio

Slowly trying to build my online portfolio. Check it out :)

http://www.theloop.com.au/madeleinelooi