BABYTALK ©2009 nataliette. digital painting.

dedicated to my breastfeeding sister & her month-old child, my beautiful beautiful baby nephew.
coo.

normally i work in international paper size, ’tis my first time doing a square format… i think i like it!
my favourite piece so far.

p.s. drawn with my new&shiny wacom tablet bought with love from my sweetest bestie & friends! this is the perfect bday present ever!

oh & here’s a picture of me & baby abe, taken only yesterday…he is such a beauty no?

LONELY LEIGH, WANTS TO PLAY ©2009, nataliette. digital painting.

oy people in da haus!

sorry for the unabashedly long unofficial absence… literally zero art done since the conclusion of my exhibition…! eeks. in my defense, my schedule has been crammed with work, work, and more work! (i suppose its a good thing… for my bank account)

here’s a piece i did, custom for halloween!
look for more variations soon, because she was originally meant to be for something else.
i know, im cheap, slappin’ on fangs and bloody tears and a noose – but dude, its waaaay to easy to qualify for halloweenishness!

her name is leigh. and i wrote a shitty poem for this piece:

poor leigh
she only wanted to play
but the man bit her
and she screamed murder
and now she hates the day

so im not going out on halloween because its just madness and i dont really fancy queueing 3hours to get into some shitty club jampacked with shitty smelly kids all doing the melbourne shuffle (ORIGINALITY PLEASE, GUYS?). instead, i have 2 houseparties to attend! woohoo, cant wait! im gonna be anna wintour, hawhaw… in fact, im going out now to buy some faux fur to be totally anna.

so what’s everyone gonna be on halloween?

THE KOPI GIRL / SMOKING CAUSES CANCER ©2009, nataliette. digital painting.

an illustration piece i did juuuuust in time for the local art & design competition, Singtel’s Mosaic Project (while still holidaying in germany). will fly back sadly in 20+ hours already boohoo.

they wanted something with a ‘local flavour’ so i did this terribly cliche scenario of a girl in the typical singlet+shorts combo, feet adorned by the ubiquitous chao lao (unfashionable) red clogs chillin’ with a cigarette at the kopitiam (coffee shop). i tried more than 5 different hairstyles and they all just didn’t fit in so i just chopped off her head and made the entire picture a poster for the dangers of smoking. UBER CONVENIENT HUH.

by the way, for my international fans (ahem yeah riiiight) the yellow box marks Singapore’s recent laws against smoking in public. normally in outdoor eateries 10% of the area is cordoned off (marked by a bounding yellow box) for smoking and you are not allowed to smoke anywhere else or risk getting fined S$200. yeah… we’re a Fine city!

THAT SNOBBY HARVARD COUSIN ©2009, nataliette. digital painting.

see the progress animation here!

THE WARY AND THE THIEF ©2009, nataliette. digital painting.

warning her naughty twin not to steal.
yey another painting! this one is of my original sketchbook drawing, “The Wary and the Thief” (obviously).

its in the bitchy style, so it was really fun doing the faces! adding nasolabial folds¹, sharper cheekbones, stiffer upper eyelids, and best of all, noses and their respective philtrums²! also, this is my first time colouring in a nose, as the girls from my Porcelain series are all noseless.

¹ two skin folds that run from each side of the nose to the corners of the mouth
² also known as the infranasal depression, is the vertical groove between the nose and the upperlip.
see closeup shots + animated gif of my work-in-progress