Florence Chan Illustration

Hey folks.

It’s been a while… i’ve been pretty busy with work and haven’t done all that much artstuff, to be honest, though some sketchery is ongoing.  Much of this year so far has been about better establishing my current workstuff so that it provides me with a stable base upon which i can work in my own ideas and what not.  Work has mostly meant a lot of building and texturing content for business and private clients, local and international. It’s been fun so far and things have been picking up, so for the most part I am content. In the mean time, here are a few snippets of stuff I’ve been doodling lately: an experiment with Corel Painter Sketch Pad, a creature design for The Wastelands , a fanart commission, and just a bit of me futzing around with custom brushes i scanned and put together for Photoshop.  Hopefully more soon.

// EDIT: Oh, and…

Yes, I’m a geek and a nerd.

Also, i think i may have mentioned a while back i got a new scanner because the old canoscan lide 80 broke - we got a Brother MFC, which scans 11×17 fairly nicely. Unfortunately, the colour depth leaves much to be desired. I will probably look in to something a bit more decent for colour and sensitive greyscales in the near future.

Various sketches from the last couple of weeks.

Added a few pieces to the Illustration page . Still tinkering here and there, catching up on a few personal projects and sketching in the mean time. More sketchbook stuff coming soon as I get the opportunity to scan.

On a somewhat related note, I took the opportunity of site moves and updates to migrate all the old MIC forum data over to its own account, under Maple Ink. The forum overall has been upgraded to phpBB3 as well.

Things have been sort of slow, but people still seem to post now and then.

For my own part, i have been busy over the past year or so with graduation, moving across the country, work, and then another move (within Toronto, but still…) and a bunch of personal stuff.

But lately I’ve really been missing the connectedness I used to feel with the online art & comic community and would really like to work towards an active presence once more. As I ended up mentioning on the Maple Ink forum today, i would really like to see this happen and would like to hear from creators in the community about what they’d like to see, as far as management of the forum, info on the blog, etc.  If you’d like to be heard, give me a shout either by responding to this thread at the Maple Ink forums, or respond to this post.

Welcome

This site is currently undergoing a bit of fixing! Please bear with me as I get my database fixed and my posts & pages are re-uploaded. Everything should be fixed ( AND LESS PINK ) in a day or so!

In the mean time, I’ve uploaded some sketches, as well as some conceptual drawings and illustrations.  I’ll post future uploads to individual posts, but since everything this time around was uploaded in bulk, it’s a bit of a hassle to link them up manually.  Everything’s accessible either via the Portfolio link (where you’ll find conceptual and illustration stuff) or the Sketchbook link (where all my other sketches are found).