Celestial Predicament!, Jihoon, Hong (2D)

[GlenGramling]

these are flippin awesome thats about all i can say very creative, oh and i love TooL

[HOON]

series collection can be seen >>HERE (http://www.messs.cc/gallery/ASTROCHICS)<<

(http://messstudio.com/hoonimages/Kikuchiyo-campaign-HOON.jpg)

[noelt]

Nice style and tone,love those lips, i'd love to know the technique you use.

[keight]

The implications of the action going on in TOOL are so well told. I particularly like the nearly identical pouts on the females' faces, and the rendering of the heart. You already know how much I like the other three pieces. The line, "Sushi" is priceless!

[AndyH]

Dammit, hoon! Every piece i see from you just gets better and better!
Youre well within my top 5 fave 2d artists on this forum! Brilliant work as usual.

[Godzi]

Excellent work, I just love it. the colors are so nice and the shapes are perfect in the style you are using, it's really super. And it's not only the technic, the ideas are great and originals, cogratulations, I like seeing so good stuff. hop hop hop ! Five stars !

[HOON]

wow..

thanks artists!

Glen Gramling: TOOL is my spiritual guidience.

noelt: as i posted up there... you can check the Intergalactic beat session walk through/tutorial (http://www.messstudio.com/con/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=)
its quite a reading meterial in terms of quantity of alphabets.. ^^

thanks keight, as always! sushi and sake for you!

ANDY:::: ahhhhhhhh not so sure if i deserve such recongintion but thanks! i promise next piece will have another notch up!

cheers everyone, much love.

[jsandoval]

I´m 3D fan mainly, but sometimes good illustrations makes me confirm there is no need to learn XYZ fundaments to make a good image. Art depends on feeling achieved, nothing to do with oils, pencils, Photoshop or Maya. Now going digital allow us to experiment even more, that´s all. Ah, convincing expressions and nice images...

[microcky]

good work,dude. i like it. but the girls seems a little fat,i prefer thiner ones.

[Daniel]

ohhh great! ! !! !! *save down to inspirations folder*
also thnx for that Tutorial/walkthourgh!

[Moreira]

That ilustrations are great!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[MoonVisionStudio]

Great technique and characterization(is that a word) anyway love it all!

Jose

[dgpilot]

Just excellent work Hoon! Getting better and better. I love the Sushi character, thats hilarious

[cultist]

woooooooow :bowdown: awesome :bowdown:
i especially like the 1st one!! ...very lively facial expression!! and the squid is sooooo cute heeehee

by the way, thanks for the tutorial

[noelt]

Thank you very much for the tutorials Hoon :drool: , sorry i wasn't being attentive to your notes earlier there...... it won't happend sir :banghead:

[giza]

Nice work, I like style and realization

[HOON]

haha, this is rather unexpected welcoming to such stylized illustrations. thank you all so much.
i intented to differenciate typical pop art style that are being abused nowadays, yet keep it stylized enough so these characters and their expressions can be dublicated in sequentials. so its absolutely fantastic realizing you like this approach!


here you have line art platform..
top half is whats done using pencil and paper. .5 mechanical pencil with 80lbs comicbook paper.
bottom half is whats done additionally using Painter, pencil tool. (custom made)
http://messstudio.com/hoonimages/celestial%20predicament-sketcomp.jpg


the characters you see here should suggest that they are conveying the expression of (in order)

Dilemma/ frustration

Confidence/ "do you feel lucky Punk?"

Spooked/ eery

and Determination

expressions are rather subtle in some of them but i was avoiding exaggeration you see on Norman Rockwell esque illustrations.

Thanks once again for thumbs up, your comments are cornerstone for my next piece always

[nomad2323]

Awwwesome style, reminds me of Stanely Mouse/ Rick Griffin if they were from Japan.

Thanks for the lineart and close-up detail shots. You are very talented.

Hoon, did you post a galatic DJ (female) in another art forum somewhere?

[New]

!!!

HOON, you have impressed me (again). Your last pictures are really good, I specially like the expressiveness of your characters. Very well done, your style makes you unique.

[illogiCG]

AWESOME WORKS... i wish i could draw like you man! :eek:

[HOON]

thank you nomad, mario, and ewis!

i forgot to add little text that goes with celestial predicament piece

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Hi all the ladies who are in mad love with digital art, this is for you!!!

Life is tough, and it never comes in black & white format.
number of options you can choose in this spectrum of life is astronomical. but you do must make decisions one after another.
Because thats what life is. continuous decision making.

a good news for you.
when you are stuck before a predicament of the lifetime,
just remember this one thing.

sometimes,
its okay to be wrong as long as it feels so right to be wrong!
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and yes, this description to the piece is very wrong. very.. politically incorrect. ^^

[GlenGramling]

Hoon;

Once again .... Amazing

i know your theme is emotion and expression, but i want so bad to know more about these characters. any way other than that im speechless.

TooL is deffinately a spiritual guide for me as well, i cant explain how much knowledge and inspiration they have given me.

[C-A-U-T-I-O-N]

AMAZING work yet again!!! i want that mushroom squid thing!! it's sooo cute!! :love: tequila for you!!!

:D

[xinliang]

I like very much!Beautiful painting1

[CoolDuck]

OMG! :eek: I love them! Brilliant! :thumbsup:
Great character in those illustrations and very unique visual style.
I love the boxing girl, but the first pic is also very nice.
She's pretty man. :)
More more more! :P

[exnihilo]

Your pics are so vibrant, expressive, alluring, detailed, engaging, and cool in general. THanks for sharing. Wow!

[Amida]

I have just one thing to say: Hoon for president!! :) Great work man.

[bolchover]

your style and use of colour is fantastic

[Luke Mrozek]

Those images are way cool, my friend, love the expression of those girlies!

[ditchman]

great understated sense of comedy! (i also use tool to work to 'Lateralus')

[pinnamraj]

awesome stuff

nice style and kewl concepts...

[HOON]

my god, thanks everyone!
such a great flattering positive comments! certainly generating alot of energy around the studio!
Thanks once again for all of you and GCTALK acknowledging my endeavor towards creating tasty art! thanks thanks thanks! mucho gracias, and arigato!

tequila!

[Ariyoshi]

Really love the mix with the color and the style of drawing, my fav is the kendoka in blue, really good works anyway :)

[Daroita]

thats some intense stuff

[Decadence]

I love it. That's all I can say man. I totally love it. A fest for the eyes!

[Skyraider3D]

Awesome stuff! I like the WIPs and close-ups too. We want more!!! :D

[delta wolph]

:eek:
You've just replaced Feng as my favorite artist. Jawdropping detail and work, amazing style, and great expressiveness! Excellent, superb, fantastic work!

[Michael Chen]

Another awesome piece of artwork. Always impressive :thumbsup:

[-Vormav-]

Nice style. I hope I can find the free time to try the tutorial out.

[joerhoney]

Damn!... That's about all I have to say. :bowdown:

[Goldenavatar]

I don't know about you, but I'm really glad I'm not Harry Callahan. These look pretty sweet Hoon, keep'em coming. I'd say more, but I prefer to not suck up to folks, or stroke ego's too hard.

[FX Kaito]

Perfect man! I´d like to have that as a wallscroll :)
Any chance to get a larger version of that? ^^
Superb skill and uberperfect colors :D Great!

[UltRaNOL]

Very nice style and very funny interpretation of "good vs evil" on the first one ^_^

[michael101171]

Everything said by all of the others - but again: great work!!!

[Spc]

Awesome man!

:thumbsup:

[Hayven]

Love the style you used. It reminds me of ink n paint filter. Very good none the less.

[Tidus_44]

there great i got nothin to crit

[Jamu]

wow that's really good... the boxer is my favorite :buttrock:

[Haruki]

You see...the thing about your art...is that it's FANTASTIC.

[fanlian]

i love these picture,very much

[fanlian]

i like them

[Eternally Mine]

I definately need a class for Painter and Photoshop!
Your image inspires me and of course I liked the mood of your image.

Tamar

[Brianwang]

ur art work just great!i like it!

[tilite]

amazing 10 stars if it were possible... u'll have to settle for 5

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