This is continued from the first part coverage of Artist Alley at Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention.

Sonny Sy used to work for Lucasfilm but is now striking out on his own, creating miniature figures sculpted and painted personally. You can find more of his work at Orange 3D Plastic and also get a glimpse of how he creates the models behind the scenes.

That's Magenta, a figurine sculpted by him, featuring the character design from Ray Toh. It's 1/20 scale model. The craftsmanship is exquisite. You can order it at www.o3dminiatures.com which shouldn't be too expensive to ship because the packaging is quite small.

Here's another fine piece of work sculpted by him. It's actually the logo for his blog.

Speaking of Ray Toh, that's him on the right with me. He's a freelance illustrator and concept artist whose work is really good. You should check out his blog. I've an artbook from him which I'll feature soon.

Thanks to Sonny Sy who alerted me that Yonghow Vong is around. Yonghow is the blogger behind Halcyon Realms. He writes about animation, Japanese stuff and reviews art books on his blog as well. Currently, he's working as a Lighting Technical Director at Lucasfilm. Prior to that, he has worked on the Freedom Project anime series.

The photo from left to right is me, Yonghow, Sonny Sy, Wai Ming (Yonghow's colleague) and Hillary Yeo.

Two ladies from Indonesia representing their art group. You can find their work at plainpaper.deviantart.com and orrie-g.deviantart.com.

We are a group of artists with various background, skills and styles, especially in illustration department. We joined the event to further our exhibition, share our interests with fellow artists and fans, as well as make some money on the way.

This is Wuyu promoting his comics. He's a Chinese illustrator.

Orcaloid - Featuring our first doujinshi release from Capcom's title Sengoku Basara, The fanbook centres on the relationship of Date masamune and Sanada Yukimura.

Here's Troy Chin at his Dreary Weary booth. He's has published several comic books on his own.

Those who buy his book gets to play video games at his booth.

Dreary Weary is the home of Troy Chin's various projects. It is her that you will find comic books like the autobiographical Resident Tourist series, the slice of life, 4-panel daily strip Loti, his illustrations, Mixtage, a weekly music show that compiles progressive, trance and the occasional retro tunes.

This is Otto Fong with his educational series of comic books.

Ottonium Comics publishes "Sir Fong's Adventures in Science" comic sci-fi series exclusively. This series, created by Otto Fong, an ex-secondary school science teacher, make the science curriculum fun and enjoyable for kids aged 9-14. The series currently has 3 books: Atoms & Elements, Light and Cells.

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Keatopia (Ong Ean Keat) is a passionate character animator who makes TV cartoons in Lucasfilm Animation Singapore such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He loves drawing comics of superheroes, gods, monsters and cartoons with plenty of imagination and versatility.

Krysta Lau representing Espirit.

Espirit - We are freelance artists who love Japanese pop culture. We'll be selling our latest range of merchandise featuring popular anime/manga series such as Vocaloid, Reborn Hetaliz, K-ON! and Macross Frontier.

Celine Choo (deviantart.com) showing off her sketch.

Asuka111 (deviantart.com | blog) is a freelance artist and illustrator living in Thailand. His artwork is inspired by Japanese manga & anime. Most of his work is featuring the beautiful character with the fantasy-theme story. He published his original artbook name "Everyday Fantasy" in 2010.

Tan Kek Fong with his portfolio.

Ng Chuan Hock beside him has an online comic based on The Three Kingdoms.

Kidchan (cghub) from Malaysia with her work.

Other booths

These are not from the Artist Alley but I thought I should mention them as well.

Helliger is an intellectual property that's going to be released as a comic, game and movies in the future. The concept art is very good.

Cut Out Magazine is a new graphic design magazine that's going to be published quarterly. It features artists and designers from southeast Asia.

Jove Pater Media is a group of comic writers and they are here at STGCC to promote their latest comic Salvation Dam.

Sonny Liew promoting his latest anthology series Liquid City 2.

Closing thoughts

So far, the quality of work I've seen from the artists are really high. The level of creativity is really high. It's really a pleasure to be able to share some of their work with readers here.

It was fun talking with the various artists, some of whom are readers here - I'm flattered. If you guys have any upcoming projects you want to promote, you can always contact me. I'm more than happy to promote local and regional artistic talents.

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First part coverage of Artist Alley