teddY Learns How To Draw (and Design)

I've learnt how to manipulate white balance with photoshop recently using the curves function. Well it yields pretty nice results! At least it can make my photos look as if they're scanned. I've decided to make good use of this new-learnt skills and came out with this:

My Stock Photos

Well I believe this is the first time you've seen m handwriting! Not really neat though. Ugly! :mrgreen: If you noticed the heart and the ladybird at the top are hand-drawn by ME too! Haha! Anyway the above photo is a combination of real photos of my handwriting (black and white balances manipulated by photoshop though) and photos I've taken in the past. Quite a few of them are my personal favourites and appeared in several tutorials (like the recent Making Photo Collage Tutorial).

Oh and recently I've got Yuting to teach me to draw very cool stuff! Kudos to her for being such a patient good teacher! She taught me how to draw "The King" a few days ago and I've been practising really hard! Well in fact Yuting got a more professional person teaching her how to draw and she's Zhi Xin. I don't know Zhi Xin personally but what I've heard from others she's a genius at drawing. Woah. So here is The King:

My Illustrations

Have a great weekend everyone! :razz:

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Terry Mun (Teddy)

I'm relatively new to the design world - only to start learning HTML in secondary school and then moving on to (X)HTML and CSS in college. Since then I have been hand-coding my designs using notepad, alongside with the amazing help from Firebug. I embrace photography as a personal persuit during my free time, and I prefer spending the rest of it doing meaningless quizzes on Facebook and destroying the world (in Rampage World Tour, that is).

5 responses to “teddY Learns How To Draw (and Design)” » Leave a response

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Alexallied
April 14, 2007 at 8:38 am \ Permalink \ Reply

nice illustrations there dude! what did you use to draw/write?
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Benghan
April 14, 2007 at 9:31 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Teddy, you draw and scan or how ar .. ?
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lunaticgal
April 17, 2007 at 3:03 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

yea i was wondering too…
should be using photoshop draw one, i guess?
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Nonnie
April 17, 2007 at 5:41 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Ahhem~ “The King” should be female. (So I can steal it!)
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Teddy
April 17, 2007 at 6:16 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Alexallied: I used a blank A4 paper and a black marker pen :D Thanks for the compliment!

Benghan: I drew them and took a photo of them (vertically above). And then I manipulated the contrast and colours using Photoshop (is this called cheating)? Anyway, this is a good substitute for people who doesn’t want to use scanner (because they’re slow and sometimes they distort the actual colour).

lunaticgal: Nah. My eye-hand coordination is one of the worst on earth so I can never draw using my mouse. But if you give me a PC tablet it will be a different story :razz: Well, I drew it and took a photo of it plus some fansy photoshop work.

Nonnie: Haha! Nice one Nonnie. Well I have not tried drawing the Queen yet since I have not learnt it. Maybe one day. Oh yea I nearly forgot you call yourself “Nonnie King”. Woah! :D

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