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Tampines ITE recently invited us over for cartoon caricature workshop. Conducted by Mr Luthfi Mustafah over 4 sessions, the students get to experience and learn the techniques on drawing cartoon caricature while maintaining the likeness of the subjects. By the end of the 4 lesson, everyone got the chance to draw funny caricatures of everyone with amazing results while having good laughs.
Singapore Sports School once again invited us over for a cartoon & comic workshop making this the third opportunity for us to impart our skills to the sports inclined students. Conducted by Mr Luthfi, the students underwent 8 sessions which students have to create their own original character and a sports related comic which end result will be printed into the school yearly magazine. Its nice to see that the students despite from doing well in sports are also good on their artistic side.
I was engaged to perform ‘live’ caricature drawing during the launch of Singapore Kindness movement. This event was previously known as our Courtesy Campaign or National Courtesy Month. Whatever it’s called, its not necessary if we were more gracious to others without being reminded, all year round. Due to overwhelming response, I was engaged to do it again over the next two weekends.
Find out more at my other blog for caricatures www.cartoon.sg.
The event was covered by Channel News Asia on 4th April.
ITE Bishan conducted a cartoon workshop for its students at the school library. Ms Suselarani, Teacher, engaged us to encourage the students to use the facilities and resources as part of the school library activities weekly session. It was good that she held it there as there were a lot of references to guide the students during the workshop.
Characters the students came up with during the workshop.
The students creating their own comic strip.
What a day it was at ITE Macpherson as they held an ‘Arts Appreciation Day’ at the school. We were running both workshops concurrently, Batik and Caricature demonstration. For six hours, we guided the students as they learned and at the same time exposed to these two art forms.
The students had a fun time teasing one another after having their caricature drawn.
Some of the students who took part rekindled their interest in batik which they had done during their secondary school days.
It was a long arduous trip of 10,000 miles half way around the globe taking up 25 hours. Besides sleeping, we warmed up our drawing skills on the plane.
Chicago International Airport: Ruoshi is happy that the ordeal with US homeland security is over and we're on our way again.
Oh how we longed for roti prata and chicken rice after a week of super sized American food.
The ballroom of Brownstone Holiday Inn was transformed into a busy studio for 180 artist 24 hours daily. You could hardly tell the time of day.
Ye Ruoshi, still loking good and going strong at 3 in the morning.
Luthfi Mustafa aka The Killer Gerbil applying graffiti medium for caricature
Likeness competition. All identifiable drawing of the same person but drawn differently.
The portfolio category is awesome. This photo is just a small part of it.
The walls eventually get lined up with wonderful works. Hers is an example of extreme exaggerations by Nate.
Masters touch by Jan Opdebeeck
My panel. The feeling is just like assessment time in Nafa many years ago.
Ye Ruoshi by her panel next to Luthfi's panel
It was an honour to meet Mr. Tom Richmond, famous for his features for Mad magazine. Coincidentally we both like to do free advertisement for DC comics.
The Singapore team at the final dinner and award ceremony.
cartoon caricature outram secondary
cartoon caricature outram secondary
cartoon caricature outram secondary
cartoon caricature outram secondary
Forty three faces to commemorate Singapore’s 43rd year of nationhood. The performance was held in conjunction with the National Day celebrations at Marina bay where the parade and firework display is held. Coincidentally, the glass panels is about 43 meter long. It took me between 20 – 30 minutes per face. It was an exciting project and at the same time it was scarry as I could not be absolutely certain how it will turn out. The transparency of glass and using only three colours of spray paint is the main challenge. I’ve been training hard capturing facial likeness at high speed so that was the least of the problem.
I conceived this project as a tribute to my nation and partly to show the artist community not to dismiss caricature as low-art. Being trained in contemporary art, I consider this a legit ‘performance art’ project as the audience completes the art. It was highly interactive and the public enjoyed it. It was titled “From all walks of life” as I chose whom to draw at random as the crowd gathers.
“Singapore is a local foreign country” said one of the person who posed for me. That explains why about half of the people drawn were tourists, Australian, Danish, Swedish, Nigerian, Irish, American, etc. and locals form various profession. A few of them even became my friend on facebook. I talked to all of them as I drew and the process drew a large crowd every time. The venue officials loved it as they had something exciting for the two weekends that I was there. And they had a wonderful backdrop for the sea of people that gathered for the celebrations on the 9th of August.
Since it was up, the gigantic caricature mural became a popular public art piece. I constantly see people taking photos with it. It was even featured in the newspapers, radio and TV.
You may view a clip of the process by Mediacorp here: rawclipx.podcast.sg
or another version on youtube: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=CC1NcQ0llwo Read the rest of this entry »
I was invited back to Evergreen Secondary for their National Education exhibition. They requested that I do portrait sketches of the ten founding fathers of Singapore. A copy was presented to their guest-of-honour who officiated the opening ceremony. The original drawings would probably be exhibited in the gallery. Since I was there at a very grand occasion, might as well throw in a show by drawing a few lucky people
Post note: We established a website specifically for our caricature drawing services in January 2008 at: WWW.CARTOON.SG. More caricatures can be viewed there. Please click here.
