The LionHeart Team
Vision
Lionheart Studio aims to grow big alongside Singapore’s burgeoning pool of artists and talents, and desires to encourage them to share their values through teaching and imparting, and to preserve and boost the value as well as importance of art & aesthetics in an otherwise secular and commercial world we live in.
Mission
Our logo is with the colors Red and White, similar to our nation’s flag. It symbolizes in Red the boldness to step forth and be passionate about art. The white represents purity and a blank canvas- always willing to learn and accept new challenges. Lastly, the charging lion represents our desire to promote love & arts by charging forth into the future with Art as the driving force.
Company History and What We Do
Lionheart Studio is a creative collective of talented individuals, started in 2017, it is a studio where courses can be conducted and outreach programmes can be launched.
Education
At Lionheart Studio, We provide relevant and updated courses that serve to enrich & upgrade, as well as to fill in the gap where the education system today does not cover or provide adequate learning in. All our trainers that are affiliated with us have either won awards & held exhibitions or has been in the industry for very long, possess master and bachelor degrees in the trade they do...or just all of the above. We take our education seriously whether it is an 1-on-1 mentorship,a class workshop, or an overseas demonstration- you can be assured of our commitment to provide the best training and guidance.
Recreation
Beyond providing focused learning, we also offer a platform for corporate clients or the occasional hobbyists who may just want to unwind, relax and search their deeper inner-self by taking on the more freeflow painting sessions to explore traditional art mediums and cultivate acute sense of aesthetics and appreciation.
Service
Our designers and directors also hails from our educational pool and beyond as all of us are in the industry. When it comes to service side- illustrations, concept art, graphic design and more, you can be assured your project is in safe hands as every project is managed by one of our in-house art directors, overseeing all that needs to be done and to be delivered on time.
Meet The Pride
Raul ramos
bFa. in illustration
rocky mountain college of art and design
I am an Oregon based illustrator and concept artist currently working in the videogames industry.
I grew up in Monte Vista, Colorado. I attended Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. I went on to work for Dire Wolf Digital LLC on several trading card game projects including Elder Scrolls Legends and Eternal TCG. Most Recently I’ve worked with Sideshow Collectibles as a concept artist and Illustrator.
I have a passion for all aspects of art and art making. However, my strong interests in biology, paleontology, and comparative anatomy have given me a great appreciation for paleoart, wildlife illustration and creature design. I try to learn as much as I can from nature in an effort to accurately represent life from the real world and infuse my own fictitious creatures with a greater sense of believability.
Rebecca
ba. in fine arts lasalle
Since earning her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Lasalle, Rebecca has gone on to pursue a range of projects. For nearly 2 years, she was the in-house Art Instructor for Arteastiq at Mandarin Gallery, and has also been sourced out to various primary schools for art lessons island-wide.
Besides teaching, she also provides her skill for events doing live portraiture and painting/illustration commissions. She illustrated the front cover and artwork for local novel, “Sound of Mind: A teacher-writers anthology of poems and prompts”, which was featured in The Singapore Writers Festival 2014. The previous year she had come in 2nd place for the CATS Coffin Design Competition 2013.
Rebecca also exhibits her artworks in places from the Art Fellas Gallery, to Project Space, to participating in the bi-annual Art Walk @ Wessex open studio exhibit.
dorcas
visual communication
nafa
Dorcas Ng is a visual artist and art director with 6 years of professional experience in the creative industry. Kicking off her creative career as a Junior art director at a multinational advertising agency, she went on to art direct various corporate short films and TV commercials.
She also has a vested interest in contemporary art and has produced art exhibitions for commercial clients as well as exhibited work at various independent art spaces and galleries in Singapore and the UK.
Being well-versed with various creative software applications, she is enthusiastic to teach keen learners ways to achieve their creative potential.
dylan pierpont
bFa. in illustration
rocky mountain college of art and design
Dylan graduated from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2011 with a BFA in Illustration. He’s worked as both a freelancer and in-house artist for a number of different clients.
His projects include Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, Tom Clancy’s: The Division, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and more. From trading cards to video games, book covers, tabletops, and mixed reality, Dylan brings traditional experience to today’s visual media.
He now works as an Illustrator and Concept Artist for Microsoft near Seattle, WA and lives with his girlfriend and an enormous greyhound.
SRI
Master of arts in urban design
national university of singapore
Since earning her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Lasalle, Rebecca has gone on to pursue a range of projects. For nearly 2 years, she was the in-house Art Instructor for Arteastiq at Mandarin Gallery, and has also been sourced out to various primary schools for art lessons island-wide.
Besides teaching, she also provides her skill for events doing live portraiture and painting/illustration commissions. She illustrated the front cover and artwork for local novel, “Sound of Mind: A teacher-writers anthology of poems and prompts”, which was featured in The Singapore Writers Festival 2014. The previous year she had come in 2nd place for the CATS Coffin Design Competition 2013.
Rebecca also exhibits her artworks in places from the Art Fellas Gallery, to Project Space, to participating in the bi-annual Art Walk @ Wessex open studio exhibit.
jimmy ling
ba. in entertainment design 2d
AA. in illustration
aspen university, academy of art university
winner of 2017 wacom master artist
Jim aka Dreadjim sparked off with a diploma in Digital Media Design and started off an art director in the advertising industry for a year at TNBT, then moved on to freelancing for various small and big names since 10 years ago.
He was also attached overseas to a large-scale project involving millions under Da Han studio to oversee art direction and visuals with a team of 15.
Some of his clients he had produced for include Mitsubishi, Ministry of Transport, Singtel and many others. Besides creating commercial graphics in the industry, Jimmy has also created illustrations and concept artwork for various companies including art houses overseas in China,creating 2D art assets for companies under 3rd party art agencies like Virtuos (Naughty Dog, Square Enix,ILM and so on).
His artworks have been published in events since Singapore Game Expo 2006, Games Convention Asia 2008,as featured artist in MDA 2013 brochure to ImagineFX Digital Art Magazine 99th Issue and VampireArt Now! Artbook etc.
BoBo
Western Art, NAFA
BA in Management
BoBo graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Management. With her passionate in Arts since young, she had also studied further and obtained Certificate of Western Arts from NAFA, containing pencil drawing, watercolour and oil painting.
BoBo is an amiable and innovative teacher and had teaching experiences involving Mandarin and arts & crafts for foreign students aged from 4 to 12 years old. She had also collaborated with Hollandse School Singapore to teach Mandarin as a Co-curricular activity. During her Mandarin teaching, she stimulated the students’ interest in learning through artistic ways, such as Chinese ink painting, Calligraphy, finger drawings, Hannah and etc. Her teaching style was loved by many parents and students.
Chen YIXI
BFA in art & design media
NTU
Being born into a family that is very involved in the arts and media industry, Chen Yi Xi has always had a strong interest in this field since young, and is particularly intrigued by the visual arts. This strong drive continued pushing him through the years, as he continuously sought new ways to create his own art and explore different mediums. Chen Yi Xi graduated from Nanyang Technological University, School of Art and Design Media in 2016, and has never stopped pursuing his passion of the arts. He specializes in illustrations and water colour works, and enjoys practicing his art whenever he is overseas. Through sketching and painting different sceneries, he allows himself to fully indulge in the present moment and remember every detail.
His latest heritage series includes paintings of Katong Peranakan shophouses to the famous Tong Ah Eating house at Keong Saik street; and he aims to draw more significant landmarks, not just in Singapore, but across the globe.
Chen is scheduled to launch his new upcoming book, Xi the World, which is a compilation of his sketches during his time in Mediacorp at Caldecott Hill. This book is particularly meaningful as he had fond memories of the place while growing up.
Chen recalls how his Dad inspires him to move into this field with the words "Why Wait, when you can create"; and strongly lives by it.
zaki
entertainment design
Ice school of design
Zaki Ragman has been spending 10 years in an animation industry , then moved on to advertising company, freelancing for various company in the industry since 5 years ago.
He also worked with various companies like Omenstudios, Scrawl Studios and Southern Star and was involved with Disney director Ben Lee as well as Mark Chevaz from DreamWorks in projects.
Some of his works you can see on tv Nanoboy (Animation Director) in local tv and bottle top bills and his best friends corky in Australian tv ( storyboard artist ), working on commercial graphics in the industry.
He published a couple of books in a passed years from asiapac books
Lagendary Tales of singapore, Gatway to malay culture and the latest book to publish this year march lieutenant Adnan and the last Regiment.
Irfan Yang
Digital Media Design
Owner, Irfan Yang Illustration and Design
Irfan Yang is a Designer who works across multiple fields as well as a professional Illustrator with 4 years of experience under his belt.
After graduating from Digital Animation in Nanyang Polytechnic, he started out in the workforce in Architecture, and Educational Editorial for a time. He has since stayed in Freelance under his own company, having done work for various clientele in branding design as well as design for publications.
He has also taught secondary schools in creative fields as a part-time instructor in various digital media.
As an artist, he's gained a following online on Facebook and Instagram which boasts a combined 7000+ followers and fans from all over the globe.
He works primarily in Traditional handdrawn illustrations using line drawing and marker rendering as well as using photoshop for digital colours.
xiaomin
Western painting
NAFA
Xiao Min (b.1994, China) is a young practicing artist currently based in Singapore. She graduated with a
Diploma in Fine Arts from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in Singapore in 2017. She majored in Western Painting and her works focus mainly on the relationship between place and identity. She depicts how the environment plays an important part in forming one’s identity. She is inspired by artists such as Nikki Rosato and Ian Davenport and she prefers to use mixed-media with acrylic paint in her artworks.
She strongly believes that fun is an important part of art and she enjoys the art-making process.
Xiao Min has also won important awards and engaged in many arts related works. She won the Second Prize for the International Art & Design Competition, Italy 2017. Xiao Min has also co-published an art coloring book entitled “World of Colours: Sweet Memories” by the Singapore Press Holdings in the year 2015.
Xiao Min’s work exhibited at International Art & Design Competition (2017, Italy), “Drawing Materiality”
exhibition at NAFA On Air Gallery (2016, Singapore), “Asean Identity” exhibition at NAFA On Air Gallery
(2016, Singapore), “Art In Practice" exhibition at NAFA On Air Gallery (2015, Singapore).