Estée Chan | BLOG

‘Breik’ by Hyun Soo Kim

esteechan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:27:02 +0000

I love this sculpture! Holding on to childhood and not grow up…

http://www.designersparty.com/entry/Breik-Hyun-soo-Kim

Pink whale plays cards

esteechan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:16:53 +0000

Ken doodle!

esteechan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:18:41 +0000

I was so happy to find this old doodle that my talented artist friend – Ken Wong, did for me a long time ago. I remember it was in his illustration workshop during Animex at my first university, about six years ago! One of his advice for me after seeing my sketchbook was to try and draw characters with ‘thinner’ lines and to build-up form by gentle rendering of these lines. Another one was to draw with the character’s weight/body mass in mind – the balance and strength of their pose have to be convincing. If you haven’t yet seen his amazing artwork, you should check it out! www.kenart.net

Rocks in my throat

esteechan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:45:34 +0000

How I’ve been feeling lately – like rocks in my throat~

Coca-Cola theme T-shirt design | UNIQLO, UTGP 2012

esteechan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:44:02 +0000

A while ago I did a T-shirt design for a UNIQLO competition based on the theme of Coca-Cola:

With the aim of incorporating a sense of familiarity and to be fun to look at, the T-shirt design is a visual representation of the familiar Coca-Cola tune/melody that everybody knows. So the notes – if played on a music instrument, would basically sound like: E – C – D – E – C. There is the music stave with the Coca-Cola bottle caps representing these five notes on the top half of the T-shirt. Below are five bottles filled with different amounts of Coke to represent those five notes as well – that if these bottles were to be blown across the top by mouth, they would produce these five sounds. The stave and the bottles are joined together by five straws to show this musical connection.

http://esteegraphics.tumblr.com/

http://ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/top/?co=us

DISTANT WORLDS | Royal Albert Hall, 05.11.11

esteechan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:24:29 +0000

Was so happy that they finally came to London to perform! The whole experience felt so magical and surreal – the nostalgic melodies playing against large screens showing classic scenes from each game of the Final Fantasy series; Nobuo Uematsu (植松伸夫) actually sat right behind us for the first half (was SO CLOSE!); and then the best part was meeting him after the show with Arnie Roth and Susan Calloway. They will be performing there again next year – let’s hope they do some good remixes or tunes from The Black Mages next time!

Haruko and Sora (fanart)

esteechan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:56:20 +0000

Found these really old sketches I did when I was at my first uni! They are the characters: Haruko (from anime, FLCL) and Sora (from game, Kingdom Hearts):

it’s raining red drops and greedy rabbits

esteechan — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:53:33 +0000

‘Monsieur Lapin avec une bouche sale’ | process

esteechan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:02:30 +0000

I saw a photo of a cute rabbit! – but with food smeared over its mouth, and thought…the rabbits I usually see are clean and fluffy, but this one has a dirty mouth, how funny. So I thought I’d draw one, but somehow it turned out evil-looking…

http://esteechan.com/illustrations/mrldirtymouth_s/

strange figures

esteechan — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:41:23 +0000

Playing with watercolours again…

Bloc-Heads

esteechan — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:37:02 +0000

Hotpink Portrait process

esteechan — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:18:38 +0000

Hotpink is one of lemonyellow‘s friends. He has soft, fuzzy candy floss-like hair and an appetite for all things sweet! You can see the final painting here: http://esteechan.com/paintings/hotpinkportrait/

floating dots

esteechan — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:55:22 +0000

You know when sometimes you see small black ‘dots’ floating about in your vision? Well, they’re kind of like the small eyes of tiny creatures…

my hand hurts | lan-toh

esteechan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:38:00 +0000

mushrooms ‘n’ worms

esteechan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:36:55 +0000

lemonyellow & friends x Xintoh x Lan-Toh

esteechan — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:21:49 +0000

Some doodles – Feb’

esteechan — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:10:11 +0000

Just some random old doodles I found in my notepad…

Six to Start | BBC Panorama

esteechan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:32:13 +0000

BBC’s Panorama: Addicted To Games? feature filmed us at Six to Start:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wlmj0/Panorama_Addicted_to_Games/

Hideo Kojima & Yoji Shinkawa @ UNIQLO

esteechan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:40:23 +0000

METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER Signing Event

UNIQLO | Oxford Street, London | 19.06.10

My brother was there and here are some photos he took!

Rabbits in Suits

esteechan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:14:34 +0000

Channel 4 studio | 04.06.10

esteechan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:04:44 +0000

I was at Channel 4 for an interview (- got the job!). It was such a bright fine day, and the studio was easy to find with all the colourful umbrellas displayed outside (remembered seeing this on TV).

Squid doodlisms ‘n’ snacks

esteechan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:54:24 +0000

Doodling over ‘supreme’ squid (yes) and ‘large’ chicken wings. Lantoh and Serious Duck became friends since they both love to smoke.

And this was my wonderful birthday present from Kim!

Kero-chan’s neutral face

esteechan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:42:08 +0000

(…There’s nothing creepier than this little guy staring at you while you work, through some organic-shaped speaker.)

Summer is here~!

esteechan — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:33:55 +0000

May is a nice month :) so lucky to always have a sunny birthday.

女強人!

esteechan — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:28:55 +0000

Due to the recent re-showing of many classic dramas starring Amy Chan 陳秀雯 on TVB 經典台, I can’t help but admire her diverse and charming acting skills. I realised I have actually watched many of her dramas before when growing up (in the 90s), with each re-watching of series bringing back nostalgic memories. I particularly liked her ‘女強人’ image in The File of Justice 壹號皇庭 series, as it seems to bring out something very attractive about her.

lemonyellow | figure

esteechan — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:47:06 +0000

lemonyellow & friends

esteechan — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:32:58 +0000

lemonyellow & friends are my latest character designs inspired by the funny and simple ways of describing colours. At the moment there are: lemonyellow, hotpink, milkwhite, grassgreen, skyblue and orangeorange.

Lan-toh WIP

esteechan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:36:38 +0000

Played around with some masking tape and tissue paper to get some mild 3D effect in this painting.

See the final painting here: http://esteechan.com/paintings/lannnn/

A Random Universe complete!

esteechan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Final illustration here: http://esteechan.com/illustrations/a-random-universe/

Creepiness prevails…

esteechan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:10:26 +0000

Playlounge Comic-strip Results! | Contest

esteechan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:31:19 +0000

Playlounge’s comic-strip competition results are up! I won booooks!! So happy that mr clement, Nathan Jurevicius and Peter Blegvad liked my comic-strip artwork!

Mr.Green and Mr.Brown

esteechan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:23:03 +0000

Bubbly Bon Bon (WIP)

esteechan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:34:24 +0000

You can view my Bubbly Bon Bon WIP images here.

The finished illustration here: http://esteechan.com/illustrations/bubblyfinal/

Asia Game Show ’09 @ HK

esteechan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:00:58 +0000

SHIFT 2010 Calendar

esteechan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:07 +0000

I received this today, seems like I’ve won one of the SHIFT 2010 calendars! ~~~LUCKYYYYY!!!

POP LIFE @ Tate Modern

esteechan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:09:23 +0000

There seemed to be lots of stuff by Warhol, but I have to say my favourite pieces were by Murakami!!!! The music video starring Kirsten Dunst in Akihabara (‘Akihabara Majokko Princess’) was fun to watch ;D I hope we get to see it somewhere online soon… Some information about the past GEISAI#11 (Murakami’s annual art expo & competition in Tokyo) was shown. I still think Mr.‘s work is a bit creepy… and it’s cool to know that Kaikai Kiki Co have been around for nearly 10 years now! (they are currently recruiting I think.. o.o).

Irresistable cuteness…

esteechan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:34:42 +0000

I saw Murakami’s flower cushions – and just had to buy!

Available at Tate Modern from the current ‘Pop Life‘ exhibition.

Lan-toh’s Breakfast

esteechan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:00:09 +0000

Many rabbits…

esteechan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:34 +0000

Hearts and fish

esteechan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:26 +0000

Ghosts ‘n’ Rabbrain

esteechan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:53 +0000

AMUSE ARTJAM ’09 | Contest

esteechan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:35:30 +0000

Thinking of incorporating my ‘Rabbrain’ shape into the exhibition display for this year’s ARTJAM competition.

Tofu boxes

esteechan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:03:07 +0000

Just thought I’d bring a bit of ‘life’ back to the dull boxes in the storage room by adding innocent Tofu faces…

Devilrobots’ studio…

esteechan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:27:13 +0000

…is a toy designer’s heaven.

Current work in progress…

esteechan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:34 +0000

Recently I have been working on a little personal project called ‘SURREALITERALISMS‘. It is something I had in mind for quite a while now, and which is why I would like to finally express it in my art. The basic idea is about playing with the intricate and ambiguously-possible (yes! ;D) ‘sounds’ or phonetic ‘tones’ when pronouncing Chinese four-character phrases or 成語 (don’t know if there is a word for that in English..) and showing them in the most ‘literal’ sense possible! This inevitably conjures up many interesting and humorous ideas, and often surrealistic in style when illustrated. I would like to try and express as many Chinese 成語 as possible, and hopefully introduce an unusual, new and fun way of looking and understanding them. Below is a little glimpse of the stuff I’ve been producing, for you to see:

Walking in My Mind @ Hayward Gallery

esteechan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:43 +0000

Walking in My Mind (http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/) explores the inner workings of the artist’s imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery’s indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams collide with exterior reality, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space. Artists include: Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson.