Happy Birthday~~

Yes, let's also not forget that today is also a festive celebration for the birthday boy(?) himself, for without him, there would be no Christmas, no Santa Claus, no Jingle Bells, no reindeer and not to mention, no presents for all of us. For it is also on this day that he received 3 valuable gifts from the 3 wise men thousands of years ago. So let's not forget the true spirit of Christmas, which is giving than receiving, and ask, for you shall also receive. Amen :)

P.S. Happy Birthday J.C

ho~ho~ho~

"Picasso" Ivan?

I've noticed there's some mixed responses due to my new style of sketch...or should I say illustrations... Some likes it and some not so keen on it. If you're wondering whether have you seen the last of my old "Chibi" sketches, I can assure you that this is just some new extra component I added in to enhance my art, there won't be a "picasso" style Ivan.. I'll still be using my old caricature here and there most of the time.

Heck I wouldn't wanna look like this guy.

Lady In The Painting

One of my personal favorite, it was first named "The Mistress" but I think she's a bit too young to be called a mistress. Mainly inspired by Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride".

The Jester

This one is really random, it was a breezy afternoon in Starbucks and out of all things i suddenly feels the urge to draw a Jester. It's just an experiments with spirals in the drawing..lots and lots of spirals...

Amnesia

This one goes out to all my friend's that had this sort of experience.. Personally I never had amnesia, I usually encounter problems trying to stay awake most of the time, especially when I'm working..

"Broken"

I call this style "The Picasso", because it's inspired by Picasso's outrages out of proportionate style of drawings. This also happens to be a visualization of a certain stage in my life.

I've lost it...but I got something new

I can't draw like how I used to..i dunno why...
I have a pencil in my hand..but my heart is dry...

It seems like I lost my touch, I can no longer sketch like before..
Dunno if it's me or the things happening around me are interesting no more..

So I come up with a solution..forget the old, start it anew..
So there you have it, hope you like what I drew =)

Saturday morning...

Heck of a way to start off my weekend...

Back? Not yet...

For those of you whose wondering, I'm fine, I'm not dead yet. Then again judging from the picture below, I probably will soon if this hectic situation still continues any further. Since the start of October I've been busy coping between my job, church work, freelance and my personal project(previous post). Sleepless nights, hectic datelines and so on, I don't even have time for my haircut! Look at how long it is now!

I'm not really complaining though, a busy life is better than no life. I just hope it will be over soon, so that I can enjoy my free time like I used to, that'll be my REAL comeback. Till then, take care. See you guys in November :)

Small Note

Hi guys, in case any of my friends are wondering where I've gone to, I'm undergoing a project using my drawing ability to participate in a production work, if all goes well I might post it on my blog around October, so see you around then.

P.S. I'm going to Singapore this week, woo hoo~~~~

Joker Comic Strip 2

An optional story for the comic strip, thanks for the people
that inspires this idea, you know who you are ^^

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Joker Comic Strip 1

Finally a comic strip with dialogs!!!

Enjoy :)

* Click on the picture to enlarge

why so serious....?

Getting bored one day I sketched out this comic strip, can anyone throw in some ideas on what storyline should I put for this comic strip? It will be featured in my next post, thanks :)

1st panel


2nd panel

3rd panel

4th panel

The Next Day After Rock Climbing

Just another haircut post...

I look like a friggin' boy scout!!!

Fruit of Thoughts

Overburdened

My dog ate my sketch book...

Ok, that's a lame excuse, I don't own a dog.

Truth is I'm going to Genting later and I'll be away for 2 days, so there won't be any new sketches, at least not until I return from my trip.

See y'all soon, Casino here I come! XD

What the heck!!?

This... is bad

Hello again peeps!!

Hi guys, it's me again! I'm back!!! Can I have a welcome cheer?

Ok... ok... I know it's been 2 weeks since I posted any sketches, I hereby sincerely apologize for my absence.

To continue from my previous post, "A BAD HAIR DAY" I have once again pay a visit to the saloon. According to my colleague I looked like a "BOY" with that short trimmed hair style:

I'll take that as a compliment.

So where have I been you asked? Well I'm actually very busy for the past two weeks, in fact I've been living a very busy life for as long as I could remember.

Yup, busy busy busy...

In order for you guys to forgive my absence and to understand my situation, I did these following sketches to show you what kind of a life I have to go through every single day, it's also a good way to get to know a little bit more about me.

Every morning after waking up, I have to....








1) Brush my teeth...

2) Comb my hair...

3) Change my cloth...

4) Tie my shoe laces...

5) ...and go to work.

See? There's like...5 things already!!!

And I haven't even started with my working routine yet!

Trusting that all of you are good, understanding people I 'm sure now you'll understand why I can't update my blog that frequent. So next time if I goes on "hibernating" again I believe you'll all think of something like,

"awww... sketch boy must be very busy with his 'life' again, hope his doing fine..."

Hee-hee ^^

BAD HAIR DAY

This has got to be my messy-iest, darkest, roughest drawing
I posted so far, but heck it does suit my mood well today :(

My Daddy....

Conversation between a father and a son on 15th June 2008 evening:
Dad : *click*
Son : Hello, Daddy?
Dad : Hello, son! How you doing? *hick*
Son : I'm fine, Happy Fa---
Dad : Is your life ok there? Can survive ah?
Son : I'm doing fine, just wanna call you to wish Happ---
Dad : Good that you're doing fine, this petrol raising issue is killing everyone! After petrol raise rice raise, then salt raise, then electricity raise, but salary never raise!!!
Son : Yea...Ummm.....
Dad : Employer probably get to raise income cos their product sales raise, but employee like *hick* you will never raise salary! The employees are the worst victim!
Son : Uh-huh.....
Dad : This is *hick* too much! Life is getting tougher and tougher! In my days.... bla bla bla....
Son : ................

My new sketch book!!!

Back from meditating...

" bow before me.... "

Overtime.... =_=

Ouch!! >.<

Pastel's Caricature

Request from Marilyn

WenPink "Punkenized"

Another caricature request by WenPink, a talkative
girl with an addiction to Hello Kitty and pink.

Another request from Pink is that I draw a
punk version of herself, this is what I did...

Hair treatment + dye = $150

Punk checkers shats = $49.90

Fake contact lenses = $45.00

Punk accessories = $38.00

Expression on her boyfriend's shocked face = priceless

Flying Joel

Here's a caricature request I've done for you Joel, exactly the same position like the picture you took, yea I know, there was no initial "J" on your shirt,but I just add it to make you more kiddish XD

Don't forget to set it as your desktop wallpaper hor...?

Fastcut Aftermath

People ask me to blog about my new haircut, but I also dunno what to talk about it... this must be the most effortless drawing I posted so far.... -.-

Fast cut

1st time going to those 15 minutes speed cut, so fast I suggest he might as well use a chain saw!

Important Announcement!

ivnsodyssey.blogspot.com will change to sketchyminds.blogspot.com due to an
amount of request saying that it's not "catchy" enough to memorize, so here you go....

Thank you and good bye

Time to hit the saloon again

Day Off ^^

Genuie Pig

A scenario at my aunt's beauty parlor last Saturday...

Angie : Hello Ivan, ready to do your facial today?
Me : Yea, thanks for doing this for me F.O.C, I owe you one!
Angie : No problem, Laverne's all ready now.
Me : La...Laverne?
Angie : Yea, it's your sister's 1st time but I guess she'll be ok.
Laverne : Kekeke....
Me : Noooooooooo~~~~~

....I was conned....

World Health Day / Earth Day

I tot yesterday was World Health Day so I sketched this, only to realize that it was actually Earth Day while World Health Day is on 7th of April, however catching a big flu / throat pain / heaty / ulcer / headache is not exactly my plan to celebrate these 2 occasion... somebody pass me a tissue please.

Nestum War!

My cousin Aiden bought a tin of Nespray Nestum the few weeks ago, it was long time since all of us had a taste of Nestum since primary school so once we tried a taste of it we all get addicted to it for quite a while. It brings back chilhood memories just like MILO, haha...