Singapore Night Festival 2013 - J C Sum & Magic Babe Ning

Here's a poster I did for JC Sum and Magic Babe Ning. They will be doing some crazy stunts for this year's night fest. On top of the poster, I will be presenting a short projection intro as well.

Here's the details for the act: "The Water Vault" & "Ultimate Inversion" Mega Stunts 

Thanks to the team @ NHB and OIC!

foodrepublic - 一切从心开始

The final print out @ City Square Mall's foodrepublic

Final digital painting.

 Was commissioned by foodrepublic to create a vintage movie poster. The theme was food and love. It's a digital print out which stands at 3m x 3m. Many thanks to bro Jeth for the job and Zid for helping me out with the colors!

SK-II Pitera House

Fashion Illustration done for SK-II Pitera House @ Tangs Orchard.

7-Eleven Mixology 3D Perspective Art x Ben Qwek x SKOW

The installation @ Big Splash

Featuring sculptures cups

Love the expression of the middle guy!

Four's never a crowd!

Father daughter tag team

Give this dad an award please!

Another anamorphic art done by me, big thanks to SKOW and 7-Eleven for making this happen!

7-Eleven’s first ever Big Gulp Mixology campaign. Featuring a floor art installation with 3D sculptures of 7-Eleven’s iconic Big Gulp cups pouring sodas into a giant floor art whirlpool, the Mixology campaign is aimed at encouraging consumers to try mixing up the different flavors of soda from the Big Gulp selection. 

The installations were placed outside the 7-Eleven outlets at Big Splash and Orchard Cineleisure Singapore.

Standard Charterd Bank - Digital Banking 2013 Isometric Art

Digital Banking Metropolis

Some Close Ups.

 Illustration project done for Standard Chartered Bank - Digital Banking. First Isometric Art, quite a learning curve and I had great help from intern Caleb Tan, check out his other works HERE.

Passion Arts Event

Commissioned 3D Street Art for Passion Arts Event @ Bishan, Singapore.

Ben Qwek for The Hell Lotus Art Show 2012

Celebrating the first Singaporean designed and produced original vinyl art toy, the Hell Lotus, we invited 42 local and international artists to contribute their own rendition or artworks inspired by the Hell Lotus design.
Join us for the biggest, baddest urban art show in Singapore! With plenty of limited edition prints, shirts, original artworks and exclusive Hell Lotus up for grabs!
There will be a 'live' graffiti by artist Clogtwo, this 2.5m X 2.5m artwork will be auctioned off to the highest bidder

, proceeds go to charity. A fun-filled night including a photo booth, DJ, booze and meet with fellow artists and art collectors!
Hell Lotus is designed by Clogtwo, produced by Mighty Jaxx. We would like to thank our amazing sponsors, Sup, Foster's, Red Bull, Brilliant Prints, Function Group, Hello Stranger, Armadillo cases, Fukusuru, Zenith Cans and Dstry. 

The Hell Lotus Art Show 2012 from neo on Vimeo.

Here's my contribution piece, hope y'all digg and see you @ the show. peace. B

Making of BAPE x Transfomers 3D Street Art

Recently I was commissioned to do a 3D art street mural for BAPE x Transformers collaboration so I thought I shall share some of my thought process and WIPs. The main concern for doing anamorphic perspective is basically the calculation. Having said that, I went down to the spot (Mandarin Gallery) and measured the size of the actual installation and how would the actual would look like.

Marking the spots and four corners.

Since it's meant to be interactive, the proportion of a human figure has to be in sync with the illustrations. You can actually see some markings to indicate spots for posing shots. You can see from the next pic, my two lovely assistants, standing on those spots.

Marking the "posing" positions. Thanks, my lovely assistants for the day.

Ok moving on. I knew I had to create an illustration with a depth of feel. Did some research online and decided to go for the cityscape / looking down sort of thing. The following image is the final proposal, an important step: to assure the clients it's gonna work. : )

Selling the idea.

Ok once the idea was approved. Time to get cracking. I came out with the lines and work closely with Studio Hive for the colors. The images are pretty self explanatory.

Black n White Lines

Flat Colors

More shading, the robots are pretty much there.

FA. Adding the FX and details.

Then, its off to the printers! Here's the setup and final installation pics, will post more soon.

Pros @ work.

Must do swee swee.

And its a wrap!

Like to thank the Kwang Sia team for the support and chance to work with BAPE and Hasbro. Bucket list checked! Hope y'all digg!

CLEAR Campaign ScreenShots

Clear's Paris Homepage.

Intro Screen

Intro Video

Customize your Avatar.

Play the game, kill some zombies!

Lotus Head

Lotus Head Digital Collage 2012

Making of CLEAR Campaign

Hi Guys, I got some request on my process of creating a character. I tot of doing a simple show and tell.

First off, after getting a brief, I would usually create a series of loose sketches. It's for me to get the feel and look of the campaign as well as to look into the kind of clothings being donned on the character. Pose is also another key factor as well as some gadgets depending on the setting.

Facial Expression / Head Studies

Adding some gadgets

Costumes approved. Pose studies

Final Confirmation from clients.

OK. Now for the coloring. Basically it's done in 6 steps. From a sketch to a refined sketch. Flat colors. Add shadow. Detailing and more fine tuning. It's the same process as THIS.

Progress

P>S: the main thing is always understand the reflectivity of flesh as compared to other materials. Basic 3D lightning fundamentals does apply to digital painting as well : ) peace, B

CLEAR Escape Dirt City

Splash Page

Here's something I do for a living other than drawing naked chicks. I was commissioned to do some illustration work for CLEAR shampoo. It's basically a web game that enable google maps. The game involves illustration, programming as well as 3D elements.

Protagonist Character Shots

Some monster designs as well. I don't have the 3D shots but you guys can click HERE for the game itself. They are based on various characteristic and animals such as bats, dogs, etc. Oh yes, there's also in game illusts done by me as well.

Once again, big ups to the folks @ Kilo and Arcade for the gig. Go local folks. CLICK HERE FOR THE GAME.
peace, B

Gap 0% Plastic Bag 2012

Green Revolution

Collab with GAP for Earth Day 2012.

"Just like the graffiti act of "tagging" indicates a marked territory, we create our carbon footprint through our actions. Let us "untag" our carbon footprint by joining the green revolution."

10 pieces to give away. Interested please email: benqwek@gmail.com

Art of Rebellion : 宁死不屈

Screens shots of the progress

宁死不屈

 This is my submission for the Art of Rebellion, based on the Chinese idiom: 宁死不屈, death over submission. Its running edition of 10, giclee print on watercolor paper. 


The show will be on 14APRIL 2012 @ Geylang Lor24A, remember its 24A not 24. 24 brings you to the red light district if thats ur thing.

24 artists and 3 poets execute a contemporary exploration of Chinese culture; a play on the power of idiomatic suggestion.

The Art of Rebellion ▷ visual interpretations of idioms ▷
eeshaun / winnie goh / ben qwek / adeline tan / brick / xiaobao / antz / kittozutto / xiao yan / zxerokool / roy wang / michy witchy / messymsxi / tiffany tan / sun lee / pigologist / xinjie / leonard wee / cleo / kristal melson / XOTL / pamm hong / zhao renhui / SUSEJ

The Wanderlust of Words ▷ idiomatic haiku scrolls ▷
ng yi-sheng / amanda lee / rebecca toh

Opening night: 14/4, 7-11pm
feat. DJs
pamm hong / sarah chan / troupemaster / nat h.

Exhibition week: 15/4 - 22/4, 2-8pm

Curated by studioKALEIDO (Winnie Goh + Amanda Lee)

Sponsors:
42Below / The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series / Pocket Projects / Orita Sinclair

FULL EDM

"THE LONGING" for SHAPESHIFTERS3

Collab with Leia Ham

Custom Superga Shoes

Here's a snap of the actual.

Here's a recap of SHAPESHIFTERS3! Big thanks to Drayson, Max and all the good people who made SS3 possible. And congrats to Leia Ham and the rest of the students! peace, B

HERE.