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Amazing illustrations from Asia are getting together.
Maybe the best asian illustrators portal I've ever seen. Highly recommended!
Lots of good shit.
A tremedously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere.
If you like the mix on Lines and Colors, and Drawn!, I think you'll appreciate the nice stwe of styles , genre and approaches in contemporary Asian art that the blogs' creators, Josef Lee and Sam Lay. are constantly cooking up.
Kinda like Drawn! but focusing on one continent where alot of exciting things are happening.
A great site for keeping up with new artists in Asia. I have been blown away by the quality and diversity of style of the artists they feature.
Lovely stuff
This is seriously the place to visit if you have any remotest interest in art and illustration.
an Asian drawing portal that seriously rocks
J.C. Wong
Writing by Jay Lim on 04 May 2008 12:00 AM
J.C. Wong

J.C. Wong, born in Penang, Malaysia, graduated from The One Academy of Communication Design in 1995, majoring in Visual Arts. JC loves watching movies, relaxing at beaches & creating picture books.

Besides 5 years' experience of teaching art at The One Academy, JC was also previously involved in various artistic projects such as Animation Pre-Production, Children's Books, Fashion Illustrations, Comics & etc. In 2003, JC founded a creative studio in video production which produced over 50 TV Identity Short Films for Channel [V], the most popular music Station in Asia.

JC has always been very passionate in exploring & adopting artistic contents into his creative art projects. At present, JC is managing JC Wong Productions, a Concept, Art & Design studio & he is also involved in Satir psychology course studies, creating his new Picture Book & wishes to have his book published around the world.

Category: Illustrations > Malaysia
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Jerome Moo
Writing by Josef Lee on 08 Apr 2008 6:41 AM
Jerome Moo

Jerome Moo Wen Han, is a Malaysian artist currently living in Singapore and working for Lucasfilm Animation Singapore as a digital artist in the Digital Artist Group (DAG for short) since September 2006. He is working on various media: Film, TV and Games, doing mainly conceptual works and some 3d modeling.

Jerome graduated from The One Academy of Communication Design with a Diploma in Illustration in the year 2002, and was awarded the Dean's List Scholar of the Academy upon graduation. Thereafter, he worked at GameBrains Sdn. Bhd. back in Malaysia from 2002 to 2006 as a concept and graphic artist. Jerome has also worked as a freelance illustrator for various organization; McCann-Erickson Malaysia; Coca-Cola Malaysia; and so on. His latest clients include Imaginary Friends Studio, for which he did some fun and exciting works, including conceptual art for a game (by Timegate Studios), illustrations for card games (Warhammer 40k, Soul Calibur 3, Street Fighter), and comic colourings (Tales of Army of Darkness, Fear the Dead, etc). His work was also included in Ballistic Publishing's latest "Exotique 2".

Check out Jerome Moo's impressive drawings, ranging from concept art, to digital art, comics, and even traditional art.

Category: Concept Arts > Malaysia
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Sonny Liew
Writing by May Ann Licudine on 04 Apr 2008 5:19 AM
Sonny Liew
Sonny Liew grew up on the island of Singapore for most part, with frequent trips to his hometown of Seremban, Malaysia. After a couple of cul-de-sacs, he eventually wound up studying Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has done work for publishers like DC Vertigo, SLG and Image on titles like Faith in Frankie and Re-gifters as well as the Eisner-nominated Wonderland and Xeric Foundation awarded Malinky Robot. He was also part of the Flight and 24Seven anthologies.

There, he was fortunate enough to study under teachers like Tony Janello, David Mazzucchelli, Nick Jainschigg, Jon Foster, Bob Selby and Nick Palermo. Other stints include concept work for MMORPG games, pieces in the Spectrum annuals and feeding the cat.

As a child, battery-operated robots gave him the heebie jeebies, but these days he lives in hope of Giant Robots one day Walking the Earth.

Read Sonny's resume. He has a deviantART page and a livejournal page too.  He also got quoted on Wikipedia
Category: Comics > Malaysia
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Shieko
Writing by Jay Lim on 26 Mar 2008 12:00 AM
Shieko

Shieko, who is responsible for Too Phat 360 Degree CD covers, is a true manga fan and enjoys vector art and graffiti.

She's one of the popular street artists in town, joining with her is SWS (Sembur With Style). She's now a full time freelance illustrator. She has won some illustration awards in 4A's Kancil Awards Malaysia.

Shieko is also a member of Digital Malaya.

Category: Illustrations > Malaysia
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Gilamon
Writing by Jay Lim on 25 Mar 2008 12:00 AM
Gilamon
The Gilamons are Lefty, Sau Lim and Michael Chuah, The Gilamon project is a platform for their creative juice to run wild in a no hold bar kind of way.

Gilamon specializes in Graphic storytelling, graphic design and character design. So far they have come out with mini comics, series of T-shirt design, poster design and other merchandises. Lefty conceived all his layouts in black and white the old school way. Michael's works are full of cute but vicious characteristic. Sau Lim's style is more towards the dark and gritty side of life.

Catch them at gilamon.com
Category: Comics > Malaysia
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