Done in 1989 as art practice (wow, 10 years ago almost to the month!)

Poster paints and ink on sketch paper.

“1989 (Oct) Cover – adapted from Anne McCaffrey’s “The While Dragon” by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License. Please credit as “Ivan Chew – MyRightBrain.wordpress.com”.

Another of my book cover adaption. This one was from Anne McCaffrey’s “The White Dragon”, which I borrowed from the public library back then. While googling for the book, I just discovered the cover was by David Roe. Found a scanned image of the cover from this forum.

This was inspired by the All-Terrain Scout Transport vehicle that I first saw in the 1983 Star Wars “Return of the Jedi” movie.

Ink, water-colour pencils, water colour on sketch paper. 1989.

“1989 (Oct) Amtrak – Men and Machines – Waltz Piper” by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.
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Ink and watercolour pencils on sketch paper. 1989.

“1989 (Oct) Amtrak Warriors – The men who dare” by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.
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The updated version of this 1989 illustration, here.

I was reading a lot of Anne McCaffrey back in those days.

Ink on sketch paper. 1989.

1989 (May) Dragon by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.
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Basically an oversized racing bike, with a few guns and mini-turrets as props. Ink, watercolour pencils, poster paints on sketch paper. 1989.
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1989 (May) Armour – SuperBike by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.

Water-colour pencils & ink on sketch paper. 1989.

1989 (May) War Zone by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.
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Wasn’t sure how this would end up when I started with urmymuse’s guitar stems. If you think this sounds like a Japanese Anime soundtrack, then I’m glad

STRANGE TOWN

“Tokyo Lights” originally uploaded by OiMax under a CC-BY 2.0 license.

Was toying with urmymuse’s guitar stems. Managed to record a decent sounding lead guitar part for the chorus (which is what you hear in the track) but after that I couldn’t work out an opening guitar melody. So I headed over to Freesound.org for ideas. Found hanstimm’s “This is a strange town” spoken Japanese recording. Learned from one comment that the words meant “I’m looking at a strange town” and that inspired the title. morgantj’s track and yewbic’s Freesound sample completed the picture.

Enjoy!

Ink/ Poster colour on sketch paper. May 1989. The title was from a phrase in the book “Wizards & Warriors – chronicles of an age of darkness”… borrowed it from the public library back then. I think it must be out of print by now.

1989 (May) Arhyak Rovac (Wizards & Warriors – Chronicles of an Age of Darkness by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.

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Poster colours on sketch paper. Circa 1989.

1989 (Mar) Hunter’s Moon by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License.
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