//aXL99 - WIP it good!

Vote for my Bayonetta Re-design!

2009-09-02T10:12:00.001-05:00

SEGA is hosting a "BAYONETTA RE-ENVISIONED" contest over at WizardWorld.com, and the poll is finally up!If you like my original take on Bayonetta's character design from my previous blog entry, head on over to the poll, scroll to the very bottom and select "JESSIE LAM".Much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Sega contest + FANEXPO~!

2009-08-25T15:59:00.004-05:00

Just sent in my entry for Sega's BAYONETTA RE-ENVISIONED art contest, submission period ends on the 28th - the same day that FanEXPO begins!Speaking of which, my penciller buddy J.Korim and I will have a table set up at the event. You can find us at table A28You can also check out FanEXPO's floorplan to get your bearings! Come on by and chat with us! We'll have Neozoic trades, issues and poster

Back to basics.

2009-07-14T01:08:00.001-05:00

[Clickies for more] Portfolio thing for a college application. Doing 2 hands, 2 household objects, and 2 drawings of the same room from opposing corners. Funnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Packing for AX!

2009-06-27T13:46:00.001-05:00

So much to pack, augh! Other than that, I went nuts on a new painting of a character from FFXII: Versus.

Heatwaaaaaaave

2009-06-23T16:47:00.003-05:00

Some fanart of DOGS, a manga by Miwa Shirow.Noctis from FF13: Versus. Still in progress. Not too fond of the character design but I do dig his swords.It's boiling where I am. How about you guys?

Going to Anime Expo and Otakon

2009-06-20T22:57:00.004-05:00

This July I'll be con hopping to LA and Baltimore for Anime Expo and Otakon. I've painted up some new postcard illustrations as an experiment. No idea how the shows are going to go but I'm sure I'll be having lots of fun while I'm there :D.At Anime Expo I'll be sitting with a friend in table C33, and Q13 at Otakon [tentatively].If anyone's in the area, please stop by and say hello![Clickies for

Back from AN'09!

2009-05-31T10:14:00.004-05:00

Anime North was quite fun this year, I was sharing tables with my new con buddy Nicole and bantered with some of the artists around our area of the artist alley. It's been a long week of commission sketching and page colouring but I'm finally free to write something down in this blog o' mine! I've no real life sketches this time around, but to compensate here's the links to the commission

TCAF + Music to Draw to

2009-05-13T10:42:00.003-05:00

TCAF '09 at the Toronto Public Reference Library was nuts over the weekend. There were so many people packed on the floor it was amazing. I bumped into a bunch of con buddies and classmates and teachers I haven't seen in aeons and was pretty much dragged here and there until my feet gave out. Then came the Doug Wright awards afterparty at the Pilot. I managed to stay long enough for one gin

FCBD '09 @ Paradise Comics

2009-05-13T10:31:00.002-05:00

Korim got to do most of the drawing requests that day so I pretty much took a backseat and chilled.

Con sketches

2009-04-20T16:43:00.006-05:00

[Clickies for more] I was at the Toronto Comicon Fan Appreciation Event over the weekend promoting the Neozoic comic; in between I breaks decided to sit down and draw some people from life and take on a couple of drawing requests. I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with marker rendering this time around.

Time for a beatdown!

2009-04-12T11:28:00.004-05:00

Boys and their wooden sticks :D.Finally finished up this speedie, stupid CS2 brushes kept freezing on me until I grabbed an update fix. I still get lag, but only with the more bigger and complex brushes.

Metalhead

2009-04-04T22:20:00.004-05:00

An experiment with a new colouring method with a simple "Lookit me~ I'm in a magazine!" headshot.Hairstyle inspired by Keith Flint of the Prodigy.

Ambush speedy

2009-04-03T16:51:00.006-05:00

Speedy! Like Gonzales! Cept I don't squeak.

Speedpaint

2009-03-29T23:52:00.002-05:00

Experimenting with some custom brushes I've picked up here and there.

Speedpaints

2009-03-18T01:39:00.004-05:00

Trying to loosen up my wrist, focusing on visual contrast and composition.

CG Hub drawing jam 08

2009-03-17T12:53:00.001-05:00

The theme for this round of the CGHub drawing jam was "David and Goliath". I wanted to try putting a bit of Steampunk Western into this, but I sort of ran outta time trying to figure things out on paper that I kept it nice and simple with a Cowboys vs Indians motif.

Drink+Draw @ Starbucks | Subway Sketches

2009-03-07T22:14:00.005-05:00

[Clickies for more] Sorry for the poor quality of the images, my scanner is shot and I had to use a digicam.

CGS cover challenge entry

2009-03-05T01:48:00.003-05:00

Did this for fun for a comic coloring contest over at HueDoo a little while ago. You can find the original lineart and contest details here.Since everyone partipicating has creative licence on the final look of the character, this is where I get to mess with all the colours I don't often get to use. It's usually my personal policy NEVER to mess with the lineart in any manner unless the penciller

Drinking and Drawing... again.

2009-03-05T01:47:00.003-05:00

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Portrait practice

2009-02-27T22:40:00.006-05:00

My PC just flashed the dreaded BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH so fast I can't tell what it read before it kept rebooting itself repeatedly. So until I manage to see if my hard drive can be saved, I'll be taking my sweet time in breaking in my Macbook Pro and the 4x6 Intuos3 I left sitting in a corner - the one that inexplicably hated the PC with a flaming passion. One of the best ways I could think of to

Drink and Draw!

2009-01-28T02:06:00.004-05:00

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Bananaphonnneeeee~

2009-01-21T18:07:00.001-05:00

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Oh teh lulz.

2009-01-16T23:26:00.001-05:00

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Oh my lulz

2009-01-11T20:59:00.001-05:00

Gettin' ready

2009-01-11T20:48:00.001-05:00

I've been doing craploads of stuff on tegaki-e for the past while, it's become quite an addiction. Who knows, I might find one or two I'd love making into finished pieces. But for now I just want to have fun scribbling these out <3.

Happy New Years!

2009-01-11T20:39:00.001-05:00

Tegakie dumplings!

2008-10-25T21:13:00.001-05:00

EPICNESS.

2008-07-29T19:17:00.002-05:00

Otakon in two weeks. Wish me luck.

<3

2008-07-20T18:50:00.001-05:00

@W@

2008-07-20T18:48:00.001-05:00

OWO~

2008-07-20T18:45:00.001-05:00

Free Comic Book Day 2008

2008-04-24T23:21:00.004-05:00

Ok, I've got this all figured out. On May 3rd, next Saturday, I'll be hitting up The Beguiling, The Labyrinth and The Silver Snail, in that order, for Free Comic Book Day. Not sure where my buddy Korim's going but I'll see if we'll meet up at the same places. If there are any Neozoic comic fans in the GTA, I look forward to possibly bumping into some of you ;). So far I managed to dig up a few

Too much paint paint paint, must draw draw draw!

2008-04-20T21:16:00.004-05:00

First up a practice portrait, a couple of fanart sketches from the DOGS manga, and another for Blade of the Immortal, and a random scribble that sat in my sketchbook for aeons.

More tegaki e

2008-03-30T12:47:00.001-05:00

Tegaki.

2008-03-23T18:42:00.001-05:00

O_O

2008-03-06T12:30:00.000-05:00

:O

2008-03-06T12:27:00.001-05:00

D:

2008-03-06T11:18:00.004-05:00

Master and Apprentice

2008-01-27T17:19:00.000-05:00

Some Kirihito and Odoroki for all y'all. Glad to finally get the WIP of this off my chest, and since I'm in a good mood I'll even throw in a little walkthrough as a bonus ^^.

"This is SPARTAAAA~!"

2008-01-26T22:55:00.000-05:00

Course it's not, but the colours to me did scream 300 in some way.I fried my tablet a couple days ago and got me another one, a Wacom Bamboo Fun whose name alone made me think of pole-dancing pandas.Just finished another epic issue as of this morning. Boy am I spent.

Adrian + Shoe = love

2008-01-18T19:18:00.001-05:00

There. A new update!Freelance comic work got me under the weather, but you can be sure I'll be fixing up some stuff before/during the AJ:AA release!

T^T *sniff sniff

2008-01-10T19:10:00.000-05:00

Yey, a surprise update! After having finished colouring Neozoic #2 and the cover for #3, I took on a freelance side job and spent most of my December off getting it done. Basically I had to paint 3 asian backgrounds [China, Japan, Indonesia] for a company called Mixis that specializes in making designer dolls of mixed ethnicity. Still need the final OK from the client, but otherwise these are

Oh so pretty~

2007-12-03T03:24:00.002-05:00

Kirihito/Kristoph strikes a pose!On a whim I went and painted over an oekaki scribblie. Was much fun, but I can't get that damned West Side Story song outta my head!

Right! Right? Right...

2007-12-03T03:12:00.001-05:00

Not quite sure why, but I seemed to keep drawing on the right hand side of group oekakis lately LOL. Gotta love Shoe, that cuddly lil fluffball of luv <3.Ahh Kyouya/Klavier you silly silly man, I now dub thee the "Prince of sparkle".Fangirlies: "MEESTA SUPAKALU! MEESTA SUPAKALU!!"Kyouya/Klavier: "Konnichiwa!"

HAPPY B-DAY TO ME~!!

2007-11-05T23:06:00.000-05:00

Tommorrow I am going cake-hunting. Leftover pain d'oro does not count! Couldn't I at least get the first slice T_T?? Silly parents.[That is all.]

Happy Halloween!

2007-11-01T01:46:00.001-05:00

I didn't go out trick or treating hehe XD. Did anyone get lots of candy? [PS: Sorry about the mass mount of oekaki scribblies and the lack of actual illustrations. A lot of them are admittedly bad in my opinion, but I think I found a couple oekakis I'd like to paint over eventually XD.][Ok, I'll admit another thing... I can't draw cars oTL!]

Time to play!

2007-10-23T18:56:00.001-05:00

I didn't see PW: Trials and Tribulations at the local game shop today. I was sad TAT. Oh well... Zelda Phantom Hourglass shall keep me company for now.

Kristoph & Apollo

2007-10-21T02:39:00.001-05:00

Having some fun with Mr. Fork-Brows again :D~

Ikazilla is comin to town!

2007-10-18T00:29:00.000-05:00

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!So glad I finally finished this... Custom brushes, I love youuu <3~!Many lulz during the making of this painting. Many, many lulz.

WIP it good.

2007-10-16T23:48:00.002-05:00

[EDGEWORTH POWERS FTW]* Waiting for Godot[s] - PW3 spoilers

O-e-ka-kiii~!!

2007-10-16T23:36:00.001-05:00

[all done on the oekaki programs at 2draw.net]

C-R oekaki 05

2007-10-16T22:48:00.001-05:00

C-R oekaki 04

2007-10-16T22:36:00.001-05:00

Whootages! More random lawlilicous goodness~!

C-R oekaki 03 [Oktoberfest edition]

2007-10-16T21:38:00.001-05:00

One thinks Oktoberfest, one thinks of beer and sausages!

C-R oekaki 02

2007-10-16T21:37:00.001-05:00

C-R oekaki 01

2007-10-16T21:03:00.001-05:00

C-R oekaki dump of random whootilicious madness!

Hello Kitty~!

2007-08-24T02:03:00.000-05:00

Another Gyakuten Saiban fanart I did, this time of Adrian Andrews and Shoe.... With a tiny bit of a Range Murata touch in the couch. I actually spent more time on that than everything else LOL.[Due to some minor computer problems due to a freak thunderstorm, I had to repaint this from the middle stage.]I couldn't decide how I should crop the image since I didn't have much of a background to go

Scribblies OwO!

2007-08-08T21:08:00.000-05:00

I'm having a little too much fun doing some Gyakuten Saiban fanart... That series is pure win!

Last Stop

2007-07-26T09:51:00.000-05:00

Here it is ladies and gentlemen, my final film :D Video hosted at Vimeo.

Portrait Practice: Ikaruga

2007-06-02T23:51:00.001-05:00

[work in progress!]This is another friend of mine nicknamed "Ikaruga". He's a very hyper fellow in person, just don't catch him on a day where he's had a triple shot mocha with chocolate syrup dressing, you'll be lost as he's spinning around in circles and talking at the speed of light.

Portrait Practice!

2007-05-19T17:06:00.001-05:00

From top to bottom, left to right:Jessie Lam [me], Elizabeth Mccullough, Karen Kim, Melanie Olm, Joe Ho.Most of these took between 2-4 hours, but definitely 4-5 on the first one. Though I'd much rather be doing live portraits, these photo reffed paintings will do for now. It was a lot of fun making them, even if they're not as good as I'd like them to be that just gives me more room to try out

Tomasz Gruca

2007-05-19T08:31:00.001-05:00

This is my good buddy Tom, he's seen me grow from this snot-nosed kid fresh outta high school into a semi-neurotic colour monkey he's worked with at Sunscript Studios.He's probably the closest thing to an older brother I could ever have. In all the 5 or so years I've known him, he's been great to work with even during crunch times and manages to keep my head straight when it's about to fly off.

Demo Reel + Portfolio 2007

2007-05-06T08:05:00.000-05:00

Keeping this as nice and tight as possible.Portfolio 2007:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalamunki/sets/72157600149668865/Demo Reel 2007:

LAST STOP - a post-mortem

2007-04-30T23:06:00.000-05:00

Some good news, the above screenshot managed to make it in the National Post in their exclusive on the Sheridan animation program!Now that the post-production stage and preps leading up to Industry day is officially over with the final screening, everyone in 4th year animation can more or less rest easy for the time being. Overall I can say it's been a really tough but rewarding 8 months. The

LAST STOP - layouts

2007-03-01T19:55:00.000-05:00

Some [more or less] finalized layouts for my one minute animated film.

A self portrait

2007-02-25T12:03:00.002-05:00

A "speedpaint" of 2-4 hours in Photoshop :D.

Gunner's Delight

2007-02-23T20:39:00.001-05:00

It's DONE!Gawd.. I'm so freaking slow... Four hours on the face alone and gawd knows just how much more for that silly background LOL. Horray for abusing custom brushes!!

Time out sketches

2007-02-10T00:53:00.000-05:00

Today I've got 3 sketches to show. The first two I'm slightly ashamed to say have been edited to death in Photoshop to fix some drawing irks of mine. Chances are when I paint them I'll probably paint over the lines or do some cleanups on some printed copies beforehand.The last one I'm about to show is one of the most risque I've ever done in a while, it's so risque in fact I've decided to put it

Portrait finished

2007-01-30T15:38:00.001-05:00

The custom brush experiment of mine had some mixed results, but overall not too bad, even if I feel like I over this a little.Looks much better farther back LOL.

Keepin the ball rollin'

2007-01-30T03:05:00.000-05:00

Some stuff I did over the past week or two, trying out a couple custom brushes I whipped up and all that jazz. Gotta paint a lil more often just to keep my head screwed on straight.

coughHACK!!

2007-01-16T20:25:00.000-05:00

Another one of my recent scribblies. I was drawing a face and next thing I knew it looked like a dying samurai [with his hair down] on his last legs.The background characters say "Oooooooooooo..."

The god of Rock n Roll - WIP

2007-01-16T19:38:00.000-05:00

[work in progress]"What if the god of Rock n Roll was really the devil?"I guess there are better guitars out there, but I was always in love with the Gibson Flying V. Seriously, if the devil was a rocker, he'd make all the angels jealous of his mad playing skills.I always wanted to draw a guitarist, so I went nuts with this scribble. Originally I was gonna use a flaming human head with no facial

I am KING!

2007-01-13T14:02:00.000-05:00

OK, so I lied about editing the previous post, way too many images to go through hahaha.Hands gave me a hard time painting them right side up so I did it upside-down. Still looks kinda funny... As well as that darned font I used for the tats.[edit: threw in some handcuffs just cause..]Comments, suggestions, apples, tomatoes? Throw 'em at me.

Scribblies!

2007-01-10T23:46:00.000-05:00

Here's some of today's drawings that I did, a couple of which are my feeble attempts at badassery. Included a new signature which I'll use for future pieces, but I'll still use the tried and true XL99 logo for finalized digital paintings.I'll colour one or two of the above sketches in a bit in a later edit of this post :D.[That last one kinda looks like Griffith from Berserk, doesn't it LOL?]

Man of the cloth

2007-01-09T23:55:00.001-05:00

Finished this one this afternoon.This is a commissioned painting of a holy man I did for my buddy Charlie, who also provided the photo ref. Been ages since my last digital portrait, but it's all in good fun :DI'm thinkin of doing more portraits later on...

Lifedrawing stuff

2007-01-09T23:02:00.000-05:00

These 20 min studies are pretty much the best pieces I felt I've done all year in terms of bringing out character and whatnot.[I'm most definitely putting them in the college yearbook :).]

Last Stop story reel: the screening version

2006-12-30T21:08:00.000-05:00

Here you go ladies, and gentlemen, my story reel.Granted I've been slacking off on scribbling for the past while, but have no fear. Four months from now, after the completion of my grad film of which I'm sure to crash and burn over, I shall be in a frenzy of pencil scratching while simultaneously being forced into finding a 9-to-5.

John Woo-esque

2006-07-31T20:49:00.001-05:00

This is one of the characters from the GunDuel graphic novel I've been writing for aeons. His name is Akatora Jagur. And, as I'm sure all of you can tell, I like to put some meat on his bones.I've always wanted to draw something in that pose from all those action movies I watched as a kid. Come to think of it, that's the first time I ever painted guns. If you can ignore the tedious process of

IT WAS AN~

2006-06-14T01:26:00.000-05:00

"- itsy bitsy, teeny weeny yellow polkadot bikini, that she wore for the first time today..."The whole time I sketched and coloured this the chorus to the old song was going on and on in my head LOL.. By the time I caved and finally found the cd with the song... Horray for old 50s compilations...PS: That's a yellow bikini with polka dots, not a yellow polka dotted bikini ;).

First to third year animations

2006-06-13T23:42:00.001-05:00

Hijole, can't believe how long it took for me to dig for some old mov files... I'm a little ashamed, on many accounts. But all in all, I guess it's a way for me to look back and remember :D.Uploaded a bunch of old animations on Youtube. You can check out the rest there. I'll be updating it periodically :).The best of 2003-2006 I'd say? Mah gawd, I can't stop laughing at myself! I'm very tempted