BKK Unzine Issue 5

Theme: Loving Science Fiction

Published: 1st January 2021

Bkk Unzine Issue 5 Cover

Welcome to BKK Unzine art magazine, home to unseen independent artists from around the world.

The theme for January 2021 was science fiction.

If you are an artist you can also submit your artwork at this link: 

Artists in this issue

Jocelyn

Jocelyn

Ban Rak Sun

Ban Rak Sun

Patricia

Marc

Lizette

Giuliano

Boris

Boris

Shen

Shen

Piya

Paul Limgenco

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Venky

Venky

Piya

Andi

Maia Avatar

Maia

Laputa

Digital: Photography modified in Adobe Photoshop

During the lockdown in Bangkok, I took many many photos from my balcony. One of those days, the pollution was especially bad and I thought how nice it would be to be above the pollution. This piece came from that thought. I created a city in the sky made from the city from below. By viewing the piece we are unsure of the reason for the pollution. Is it because the city above is pumping pollution below? Or the opposite, is the pollution from below what is keeping the city in the sky afloat? It is completely up to the viewers interpretation. I titled this piece Laputa because Laputa is a flying island described in Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels.

Marc

Old Darth Maul on Blank Comic Cover

Paul Old Darth Maul
Gouache, colored pencils on a white/blank Star Wars comic cover.

I was commissioned to paint this for a long time client. It was later signed by the Darth Maul actor, Ray Park! I have a work-in-progress video of this on my Instagram.

Paul

Do you want to suggest the theme for future issues? 

Evolution

Giuliano Evolution
Mixed acrylic and watercolours with inks on paper.

This piece is called “Evolution”. In biology, evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection. This is a surreal bird on another planet. So, it’s a vision of a fictional evolution in another time. This piece was inspired by nature itself and it’s essence of imagination. This is a mixed media work, which is my own style called “Abstract diffusion”

Giuliano

Battle Arena

Shen Battle Arena
Digital: Procreate app with Ipad pro [300 dpi 2048×2048 canvas].

I’ve been playing this game called “Don’t Starve Together” with friends who are in different parts of the world. We get together once a week to play this amazing game and it makes us forget that we’re far apart from each other. There’s a character I play, WX-78, inspired me to draw my own robot character.

Shen

Science Fiction Movies I like

Ban Science fiction movies I like
Pigma Micron 05 (0.45mm) and MontmarArt special watercolors on Canson Heritage paper.

There are many science fiction movies I’ve enjoyed as time passes. I selected three movies that I loved in my childhood (E.T., 1984), adolescence (STAR WARS Episode 1, 1999), and adulthood (Star Trek Beyond, 2016) for this painting. The way I watch movies has changed over time (e.g. TV, Theater, laptop). It is exciting to imagine, ten years from now, which science fiction movie I will like and how the way I will watch it.

Ban Rak Sun

Travel Bubble

Jocelyn Travel Bubble
Gouache.

This was a hard theme for me, I am not familiar with science fiction and do not like to read nor watch anything related to the theme. But I do find the aliens portrayed in the media kind of cute and the travel ban due to the pandemic inspired me to paint this artwork. I tried to use cool, futuristic and exaggerated gouache colour palette to give this painting a sci-fi feel.

Jocelyn

STAR WARS – Luke, I am your father!!

Venky STAR WARS
Digital: Autodesk Sketchbook

I spent a month drawing best scenes from famous movies to practice styles, colors in digital medium. I even tried to make subtle animations and parallax.

Venky

CyborgPretty

Andi Cyborg Pretty
Created in 3D with Daz Studio on Mac OS and post process in darkroom and Lightroom on iPad Pro.

This was a work in progress to test this software and happened to fall in line with this month theme! I wanted to experiment with a new software, specifically to render realistically and at the same time there was a big hype about cyberpunk 2077 game, so I guess it inspired me.

Andi

Particles and Waves

Maia Particles and Waves

Digital: Adobe Illustrator

I came up with the idea for this illustration while sketching and thinking about the Sci-Fi theme. The main character is a strong female astronaut who is technologically augmented. Her weapon of choice is a particle wave scrambler.

Maia

If you have missed our previous issues, you can read them here:

Space Fish

Elizabeth Space Fish
Digital: Krita

I created this fun little piece when I joined an art group for an online art session where the theme was space.

Elizabeth

Save the Planet

Boris Save the planet
Digital: CLIP STUDIO PAINT.

This was an excuse/challenge to draw a MECH SUIT. If there was a subtitle to this image would be: “Save the world and when you do, take the time to pat the dog.” I wanted to drive the observer’s eye and if they observe longer they should be able to get the backstory.

Boris

Artists in this issue

Jocelyn

Jocelyn

Ban Rak Sun

Ban Rak Sun

Patricia

Marc

Lizette

Giuliano

Boris

Boris

Shen

Shen

Piya

Paul Limgenco

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Venky

Venky

Piya

Andi

Maia Avatar

Maia