Random Art :- I'm Bored

Sometimes thinking too much or overworking out some design ideas can be frustrating and it drains you out of your inspirations. Last month our school's counseling department organized an education fair. While looking through some art colleges and courses offered I was inspired by some of IACT's college artworks and being bored at that moment I decided to do some doodling to kill time. You may be pretty curious what does this artwork have anything to do with Car design... well sometimes I need a break off to explore my creativity. Some of the elements in it has been inspired by my brothers doodlings he used to do. While most of the things drawn in it, relates to what's been going on in my life during the few weeks of taking my time to complete the doodle or even on my mind...

A Tribute to the Awesome ONE

God's been truly great all these while and I cannot comprehend how awesome He is... Here's 2 awesome declarative songs from Hillsong's latest 2011 Album God is Able! on the dreams, the ideas, and the talents.. ;)

Project P.D.C 2011

My apologies to my dear readers (which I don't think I have any, Sortoff..) and my bloggie for neglecting it for about a month since my last blog entry. This time, I picked up from what I mentioned earlier on Project P.D.C. So here's basically a brief introduction about it.

It's been pretty tough trying to find or even search for a Car design competition in Malaysia (since is virtually unknown and it's existence to none). Recently just a few months back in May, while checking out automotive stuffs like how I would everyday as a routine on a blog called Paultan.org, I had one of the most exciting moments of my life having to find out a competition that just suits the requirements I've always been expecting. If I would use my term, I'd call it "naive enthusiasm". Seriously, it was a rare oppurtunity like a gem. One of the obvious reasons of my excitement was that I could finally utilize my God given talents and skills. I have been like literally "longing" for such a competition to even be held. The good thing was, it's open to secondary students, unlike international design competitions that include top college students from around the world. Anyways, the competition is held by Peugeot and Naza to raise up more people to be interested in Car design. According to them, the winners design will be made into a scale model for their exhibitions. Speaking about the prize, its a trip to France. Gosh this is seriously awesome! Project P.D.C stands for Peugeot Design Competition by the way.. Throughout these 3 months, its been a blessing and a response from God. One thing though, I haven't been giving much of the credit to him here for the great things he's been doing. As for the recent updates, the dateline was initially 21st August 2011 but postponed to 30th Sept 2011. Somehow this was another miracle that's unexplainable. Just enough time to have some ammendments. God you rawk! ;)

I DECLARE AND CLAIM FOR VICTORY UPON PEUGEOT DESIGN COMPETITION. FIRST PLACE CLAIMED!

Here are some of the pictures on Project P.D.C

The theme was to be the most suitable Peugeot vehicle for ASEAN in 2018

This is pretty much the settled Design that i'll be submitting..

I kinda made this as a motivation to show how we shouldn't have such a shallow mentality and assumptions that quick... :)

Rallye Edition

While trying to do some research on Peugeot's racing history, I couldn't really find much info about it, but I decided to do a Commemorative version of the Peugeot 504 coupe Rally car in the 70's ...

Top 10 Radical Malaysian Car Designs

Just as I had promised although a little late, I have finally resolved to blog up about the Top 10 Radical Malaysian Car Designs that I personally think stands out in the Malaysian automotive scene. Some are rather silly while the others are significantly different in their own unique way and as I have listed 10 Malaysian cars, they make a major significant impact in how Malaysians conceive and perceive it.

Starting with the first car at Number 10 :- The Proton Saga FL

Proton had taken a rather radical step to giving the Saga a facelift that might not suit to everyone's taste like the previous front facia and its design looks pretty outlandish.

At number 9 :- The Proton Tiara

While the Proton Tiara was never a success to Proton and one of its failed products, It's pretty much an oddball to Proton's line during its time . Since it's a rebadged Citroen AX, they had done well to style it according to Malaysian tastes.

For Number 8 :- The Proton Satria GTI

While this car isn't really a strange looking car as it seems, but it's radical for its well design sporty look for its time in 98' and still looks great till today... it's also radical in a way for being the best car made by Proton in terms of performance.

Number 7 :- The Proton Satria Neo

The next incarnation of the Satria was a stunning design that replaced the rather bland previous Satria that was based on the Mirage-Colt. The design still looks great just as it is being rallied in the S2000 series and APRC. Although the interior was pretty much a disappointment in terms of quality...

Number 6 :- Perodua Kancil

I am particularly referring to the last generation of its facelift around the 2000's, because it is quite an achievement to re-do such a big area of the original Kancil based Daihatsu Mira. This facelift was pretty much a good one that disguised its older predecessor..

At number 5 :- The Proton Waja

While judging which car would be the first, I had the Waja in mind to be 2nd because, the Waja was our first in house design car that was a success to breaking off from Mitsu rebadges.. Although it was also the car to suffer from bad build quality..

Number 4 :- The Proton Savvy

Since the Proton Tiara failed, Proton decided to enter in the supermini territory. But of course they weren't good in making small cars. To revive the failed Tiara, they came up with the Savvy. If you think the names weird, the Design was pretty much very radical for its time aswell. Whether it's about the interior or the exterior, it was pretty quirky to compete with the european rivals. Such as the step up windows or the bonnet that is regarded as a toilet seat..

Number 3 :- The Proton Juara

Were getting closer to Number 1 , but for number 3 it's the Proton Juara. Another car that was a flop by Proton for it's radical and ridiculous look, no one really bought it with only a very limited number that was sold. It's design is understandable since it's a rebadge of the Mitsubishi Town Box and would have deffinately be better off as a Japanese kei-van.

Number 2 :- Proton Arena/Jumbuck

Why is this radical? It has to be radical! Who in the right mind, during the 2000's would ever think of creating a utility vehicle/ Ute/ pick up truck especially Proton!? It would have been a pretty risky move for Proton to introduce such a variant. And while nobody ever thought about taking a Proton Wira base derived from the 90's Lancer to turn it into a pick up truck, it is deffinately a radical turn.

Number 1 ! :- Proton Gen-2

I'm pretty sure not all of you would agree with me on this. But after taking sometime to think about it, I had concluded on the Gen-2 to be the most radical Malaysian Design. While Proton cars were all pretty bland and safe. Right after the Proton Waja had been launched, came the Proton Gen-2 which was pretty outstanding to its design. But because of its huge leap in design, it's quality was one of the worse during its time for Proton, especially its interior and its ergonomics were poor. Come to think of it, seriously! what car manufacturer had offered Turquoise/Aqua blue for their car that time!? Now that's seriously radical.

To see what I really mean, take yourself back to 2003 and imagine you were watching this ad..

Even after watching this today, it still reminds me of how radical it is and I'm still blown away today lol..

Next post i'll be posting about the current Project P.D.C

Latest Artwork : Mid Year Exams

Back in February during CNY, I posted up some of the latest artwork for the CNY Editions. It has been many months since I've done so and recently I had just taken my mid year exams. While preparing for my art papers, I had done some sketching to give me a glimpse or idea what I was going to draw for PSV (pendidikan Seni Visual) or Visual Art. The question was :- Sebuah Kereta mewah yang sangat cantik dan hebat sedang diparkir di laman sebuah rumah (draw a really beautiful luxury car parked at a porch of a house) . So I decided to sketch out a Merc and got some of the details from the Merc C Class coupe. Now the other drawing below, is a C210 Skyline drawn much earlier before during my Intervensi Exam a few months back.