Naomi Hoang

Ying Yang Dragons

CheeB — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:22:52 +0000

Two dragons jump out of their scrolls to have a friendly fight.

Stylised Self Portrait

CheeB — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:18:11 +0000

Viking Sketch

CheeB — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:33:28 +0000

Here Be Ogres

CheeB — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:50:02 +0000

Portrait of Alena

CheeB — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:36:13 +0000

Environmental and Plant Designs

CheeB — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:08:19 +0000

Pokémon Redesign

CheeB — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:25:55 +0000

These are part of a personal project where I’ll be redesigning my main team from the ol’ days of Pokémon Blue. :D The idea popped up whilst clearing up all my old drawings and collectables at my parents’ house so they’d have more space for themselves. As with most 90′s kids, Pokémon was a huge part of my childhood and I wanted to do some sort of tribute to help maintain/learn new painting skills whilst updating my portfolio. They’ll mainly be interpretations of how I perceived them to be when I was a child.

Click on their names to view WIPs from my blog.

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Rapidash

My main fire-type Pokémon. I always liked Rapidash until a friend put me off by calling it an “overgrown version of My Little Pony”….so I made it my mission to make it look cool~

Gengar

Gengar was one of my strongest Pokémon. Looking back at the original design he actually looks quite round and cute but as a child I thought he was more cheeky and menacing.

Venusaur

When I was little, I didn’t like the look of Ivysaur and Venusaur so I kept him as Bulbasaur until level 60 ’cause he was cuter. In the end, I let him evolve so complete my Pokédex and because their stats tend to increase after evolving (I think?). This is why he’s so grumpy-looking!

Tarot Cards

CheeB — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:51:12 +0000

I was asked to design tarot cards that depicted a pre-determined list of words and included a child protagonist. Instead of illustrating them literally I wanted to convey them via a narrative and underlying concept so they would appear more interesting and less clichéd.

Honey is depicted by a spoilt queen bee gorging on the delicious produce of her minions. My intention was to put a grotesque spin on power, showing that too much of it isn’t always as appealing as one might assume.

Brittleness is expressed through a boy who has the ability to turn everything he touches into ice, leaving them to shatter into tiny fragile pieces.

MasQ

CheeB — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:50:30 +0000

Here are some designs for a hypothetical game called MasQ and my primary focus was to create a strong female lead who isn’t hypersexualised like most of the female characters currently in video games. I wanted her to be a tough but feminine protagonist who would be appealing to both male and female audiences.

For this I compiled a game-style booklet containing the developmental processes for the character designs and background story.

Blind Mage

CheeB — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:48:49 +0000