Felicia Chin

I have just released 2 scans of Felicia Chin. As usual, you can get the full-sized scans via my Yahoo Groups & Google Groups.

So the latest foray into long forgotten corners of my room continues. My room was being repainted, and it was an opportunity to clear through the mounds of stuff that clutter the floor. I unearthed plenty of old magazines. One of which featured Felicia Chin, circa 2005.

I think it's interesting to see the steady progression from her first underwhelming FHM shoot to the current cutie we see today. I don't normally scan "backwards" chronologically speaking, so it's kind of a reverse time warp, or something. Speaking of which, I SHOULD still have that FHM issue around somewhere, but I still haven't found it yet.

This particular scan was from a 2 page magazine spread. I felt that the plain white background was kinda boring, so I decided to draw some patterns using some of the more exotic brushes in Photoshop CS2.This particular brush gives a leaf pattern, and the size varies with the pressure you put on your stylus. The harder you press down, the bigger the pattern. I doodled on the background with a variety of colours, and I think it makes a nice accent.

Felica Chin, Cover of Dolce Magazine

I just released 2 scans of Felicia Chin. As usual, you can grab the full sized scans from the archive here.

She certainly looked very girlish here - all bright eyed and bushy tailed. She just looks overwhelmingly sweet & wholesome, just the kind of girl you'll bring home to meet your parents without a second's thought :) Heh, maybe that's why Vitagen chose her as their model.

I had to do some colour correction on the cover - there was too much cyan and the overall picture was a bit too cool for my liking. Also, the cover pic seemed a little out-of-focus when I examined the full-sized scan, and there were strange blotches in the brown blackground. I was not too sure if that's a printing artefact or that they used a mottled background for the shoot. I was too lazy to do much retouching on the background, so I applied a texture layer on it. It hides those splotches good lol.

Oh well, Dolce is a free magazine anyway, so I guess we can't complain too much ^-^

Felicia Chin

I just released a set of 3 scans of Felicia Chin. Grab them here.

I first saw Felicia Chin in a FHM Singapore photoshoot many, many years ago. I forgot the exact year, but I probably still have that mag around somewhere.

Truth be told, she wasn't particularly memorable then. The poses were uninspiring. Same goes for the makeup and general photography. Her hairstyle was awful - she looked like a boy! The entire shoot was dark and dingy - what, they cannot afford lighting? I dunno what criteria the local FHM has for its local photographers, but since it's a "lad's mag", shouldn't the girls at least appear to be more glamorous?


All that changed around 2006. She appeared in the Vitagen ads. Then I saw her Silkygirl (a Malaysian cosmetics brand) ads. Damn, that's when I really paid attention. Great smile, nice teeth, fresh faced. Maybe it's her new hairdo. Or maybe she found better photographers :) She's also got the cutest nose!