BKK Unzine Issue 5

Theme: Loving Science Fiction

Published: 1st January 2021

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.

Old Darth Maul on Blank 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.

Evolution

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”

Battle Arena

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.

Science Fiction Movies I like

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.

Travel Bubble

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.

STAR WARS – Luke, I am your father!!

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.

CyborgPretty

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.

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.