Here's my 3 submissions for 101010.

3 of them is based on, inspired by or adapted from Japanese culture.

1) The Black Sea
Collabration with saltyshadow , design is Inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai and based on a true event in Gulf.




2) What Lies Beneath
this is my 2nd collab with Yeoh Gh.
Inspired by an old Japanese folktale , "The crane wife"



3) One piece of dream
Inspired by a Japan anime. ^_^
The dream of Captain Monkey is to explore the ocean in search of the world's ultimate treasure and to become the next Pirate King.




Do vote for us if you like it. Thanks!
Domo arigato! ( ＾∇ ＾)

This is the 2nd collaboration with FLYINGMOUSE.
Sequel to Solar Power and a remade on the first design from FM365.

Original

Rework




Do give us your supports again~ Thankie~!

Again, I want to thanks everyone for your great supports on our collaboration. I hope you like it as much as we do. ^_^

*Thanks Mimi for the helping us on correcting the names.

This design is currently up for vote . And yes , it might had been done a numerous of times before.

*I had done it 3 times myself. ( ^ ^!)

~Evolution of the design~


1st version

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2nd version


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3rd version

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And the latest version , i had made many changes to it.
East meets West~
I hope if you like it , do give your loves to this design.
Thanks :D

Special thanks to YEOHGH for the suggestion on the colors.

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Please also show me some emptees love

*neko= cat ( in japanese)

My new sub, going to be up in a few days times so i thought i want to blog about it to give you a better ideas or pictures of the design & hopefully drew your attention for some future votes. hee.

You might had seen him catching this and these !

THE BIG CATCH

* tee available in Threadless now. Buy here

The Big Appetite



Now , he's back....
and he's going for something even bigger!!!

The last sequel of the trilogy.
The Last supper

1) sketch



2) cat sketch



3) Added in the wave. Took me around 2 days to draw and traced everything again



4) Testing the colors but i didn't quite like the blue scheme. :D



5) Change the lineart into purple. As i want to followed the same colors scheme i used for THE BIG CATCH .



6) Added in the wave color



7) Added the splash and tattoo for the whale , cloud & halftones for the waves . Done.



Alternate one color version



Close up


On creme


and the presentation done in a Japanese comic style. When its up , I hope you can give me your vote if you like it.

Thanks :D



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Collaboration with Mr Creative King, FLYINGMOUSE :D

Flyingmouse brought up this idea of a Japanese woman lighting up a smoke with the Sun.

Here's the working process.
0) Sketch


1) Refine in Flash


2) Color in Photoshop


3) Almost done


4) Mocked up as a print


The collab


Lineart and color of Japanese girl by me
Overall composition and concept by FM

I hope you guys like our collab and do give us some loves when it’s up.
Domo Arigato mina-san ( Thanks everyone)



Please give us some emptees love.

Thanks everyone for your interest and likeness on this cultural inspired design. It would not be printed without your vote & thanks Threadless for picking up this design.

Thanks again & Happy Holidays to everyone. :D

Process for Threadless LOVES Drawing




- Sketch



- Ink with Sakura Pigma Micron 0.1 & 0.3
- Scan in and then clean up with Photoshop using Tablet
- To give it a soft , painting look alike feel . I used Gaussian Blur - Radius around 1-2 pixels to blur it .

Below it's the coloring process...


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4. Final design

- Chinese Love Poem by Lee Bai ( not included in the design)



Hope you guys like it and do give me your vote when it's up. Thanks :D

Thanks everyone for the votes and thanks to Ross Ziet and team of Skinnycorp for the effort of making this design come true. I hope everyone like this design , as much as i do.