So i have an upcoming exhibition happening about a week and a half from today and I am feeling totally nonchalant. Not confident, neither am I afraid nor feeling paranoid. About ten something minutes ago, I felt like I was about to lose my head when staring at my incomplete artwork. Incomplete. I thought to myself, my incomplete work is actually done - one second feeling very contented and somewhat happy while the next second, feeling rather lost. I feel like something is missing but then again, it looks perfect. My incomplete artwork is in need of my resort right now for which I have about 36 hours to carefully think and carry out action(s) once the thinking stage is completed.

Okay, a minute has passed. I am feeling a bit jittery right now to be honest as I look at my incomplete artwork on my right. Gosh, thirty six friggin hours! I must start something i.e. deep and logical thinking. Anyway, for the fact that this is my first time having my incomplete artwork going up at an exhibition, let alone in London itself, which happens to be one of the prime places for art and music in the world - this certainly adds on the anxiety. Anyway, I feel very honoured to be part of the exhibition that is happening in the arty Shoreditch, London. Thank you Donald of DonShi Art for this amazing opportunity. The exhibition is called Uncontained and my artwork will be exhibited under DonShi Art. Check out both sites and the video below!




Uncontained: the trailer from ShellsuitZombie on Vimeo.

FINALLY. Melly is back on her creative toes! Illustrated the picture above due to my excitement for Christmas which is happening in less than an hour time! Can you smell the wonderful christmas air?! I do! I do! It smells like fresh baked cinnamon rolls, yummm. Haven't been keeping in touch with my adobe sisters ever since i got to the UK and that is like four months. WOW. Four months!? It's crazy to see how crazily time flies. I'm spending my Christmas with my friends this year and it's gonna be one special Christmas cos I'm celebrating it in London! Woo Hoo!!

Anyway, i was on Facebook just now (weird how i log onto it every day now, hmmm) and apparently 'What I Want For Christmas' topic was trending on my news feed. I have came to discover that almost all my friends wished for branded goods or electronic gadgets like the Fendi bag, iPhone 4s and etc. I'm guessing Santa Claus must be some loaded broker. If he ever exists or if i ever do believe in his existence, i just want him to know that my christmas wish is to celebrate the jingly festive season with my family. If only he can teleport me in his Santa's wagon back home... Oh well, i guess i have to just accept the fact that i am going through this 'adulthood' phase. In fact, five more months till i come home for good! YAY! I am counting down the days just so you know :)

And, Merry Christmas my fellow readers!! xxoo

Q: What do you get when an owl meets electro?
A: A hipster owl pimpin' out kanye west shades that's so flyyy rawking a mohawk yooooo!

Pardon me being lame but I just can't help being lame cos I am LAME. Illustrated a hipster owl for my visual comm assignment. Somehow the owl looks like a cat. Must be the shades i guess. It looks very much like an owl without the shades. Hope my lecturer dig this. OUT yo x

Here's what I have illustrated for one of my visual comm assignments comprising three elements i.e.: modern, retro and urban. Took me about 4 -5 hours for the illustrations. Currently, i am into bright neon colours at the moment. Speaking of which, gonna get colourful neon glow sticks for deadmau5 gig later *excite excite*. So far this week has been quite a good week for me. Few hours ago, I was at HURTS gig with my bestie aka jojo bear and it was amazing!!! It's been awhile since i have hung out with her and I miss her so much. This whole month is definitely gonna be our month and that's guaranteed for sure! Deadmau5 later with jojo bear. Anyway, will piggy blob about HURTS soon. Till then xx

Am loving Damien Hirst's butterfly prints. Indeed, it has touched Melly's heart and soul. Yay! Somehow I feel like doing some colourful illustrations on pigs now, maybe I could try doing some piggy prints like how Hirst's did for the butterflies. When I first saw the butterfly pics on Dazed Digital site, I immediately saved all of them and was so in love with the gorgeous butterfly prints that I even made a GIF picture of it.

Speaking of which, doesn't Damien Hirst's butterfly prints remind you of Warhol? Ah... I would so like to go to Hirst's butterfly exhibition now but am very far away from the UK. BOO! His exhibition, The Souls is at the Paul Stopher Gallery in London which is happening from Oct 7 - Nov 13.

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The bus is missing it's letter N cos I don't have enough space to fit the N on the bus. But, looking at it again, the Londo bus actually looks pretty nice! Oh, can you spot my car? ;)

Met up with my bestie, Jojo, Steph and Wei Keong last weekend. Had tea time at Austin Chase cafe with Jojo and my coll mate, Wei Keong. Sad that Steph couldn't join us for tea time because she had to go dinner with her sayang. Well, it's her loss, cos we had so much tea fun =)
While I was discussing with Wei Keong about our assignment, Jojo decided to draw my shoes and her gladiators to kill off her boredom. I think the best way to kill boredom is by letting your creative hands to venture your piece of blank paper with its friends that is the pen and the colour pencils.



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I still can't believe that Alexander McQueen is gone. He is one of the most talented and has an amazing vision for modern couture, his designs has captured many attention from everyone especially his unique shoe designs for Spring Summer 2010 - the one which looks like a tapir head at the front where Lady Gaga wore in her music video Love Romance. Mr. Lee is indeed a brilliant fashion designer and he shall be remembered by all of us. I even did illustrations on my favourite shoes from him - titanic ballerina pumps and the very popular Armadillo or Tapir Shoes =)
I heart you Mister Alexander and all your wonderful designs.

Doesn't she look familiar to you? Well, it's Melly Ling of Frenchie Pig which means ME =) Ah..yes, my blog Frenchie Pig is already one year old and since Frenchie Pig already has its own beautiful Eiffel Tower and the pink pig, the author should have a picture of her own too on the blog. When I say picture, I meant an illustrated picture just like Garance Dore beautiful illustrations. I fell in love with Garance Dore and my friend Tin Iglesias illustrations. Both of them inspired me to do one for myself. So, I eventually did an illustration of myself on Illustrator CS4 which took me about 2 hours. YAY! I know my illustration isn't that nice but it sure looks good to me ;)

How I wish our ice-cream packaging now are as cute as these? I hardly see any nicely design ice-cream packaging, it's always the common and the usual. The colours are either off or the cartoons/drawings will just give you chills. It amazes me more that ice-cream packaging back in the 80's are so freaking cool and awesome.