Tifa (collab with ricey)

An art collaboration with ricey on mangarevolution.com. The picture he gave was one of Tifa from FFVII (oh yea, an unforgettable rpg....:D) The lineart was very clean, traced out from illustrator. Influenced by the recent 'World Ends With You' game I'm playing, I decided to make her look a bit Nomura-ish kind of lineart. It looked kinda empty, so I added Cloud in there. Kind of regreted it halfway through the inking, cos he seems to be catching all the attention.

When it comes to coloring, I decided to try out that 'alcohol dripping on copic ink' kind of technique, which I read of a year ago on a book of Japanese comickers. It was messy, and again, I smell like some mad doc and the paper behind the artwork was soon drenched in purple ink (the sky blue ink I used seems to seperate into some magenta color which produced mixed with the blue, became purple). So on and on... the 'destroying' continued and wahla - I got this... Pretty fun, maybe I should try it more next time. XD

My First Booth Setting Experience! :)

(All photos from DORO N HER RANDOM CAMERA!!!)
Yeap, EOY 08 came and went. And as planned, Dor and I got a booth there and sold some prints. It's our very first time joining as sellers and both of us had quite some troubles along the way, but hey, things got settled as the time passed. We got there early to set up our booth, the space was not as small as I thought it would be.

It's pretty early and there aren't much people around, save for the booths at the furthest end which are helping some cosplayers.



A pretty good space where the toilet is just nearby and coffeebean is just within sight (weeee~ cofffeeeee!!! XD) I brought along the 20 yr old briefcase which Dad wanted to get rid of during the previous home cleaning months ago. It looked kinda cool (like those underworld 'hei se hui' black suitcases which can contain bundles of cash) and maybe it might spice up the display a bit with something sticking out instead of a flat surface. We laid out our stuff neatly, Dor's Naruto and Team Fortress prints and my random rojak fanarts and personal artwork prints. So yea, wrote the price tags and organised our stuff a bit, sell!



The first costumer came and bought Dor's Naruto postcard (of Team 7!).


It kind of shocked her, cos she thought it wasn't the best work she produced, but hey, it sold off. Sales went slow, till probably the afternoon when the crowds came. Some looked at our works and went off, some bought a few prints, some got all excited and some just came and chat, sharing some experience. It kind of felt like poly days when people just say hi and talk crap, very DMD-like. As for the selling, I was quite shocked that the most unexpected ones got sold, my personal works. Heck, all of them were actually past works given a touch up in photoshop. I couldn't do new works out, especially when the calender is lined up to be done in digital, along with the Ciel bookmark....

click here to see the pic before the touch up.

Dor told me it would be better if I could touch up my works digitally, and maybe it did come out better. Added in the fairy wings for the sunflower picture (which I missed out during the painting). The one of Houshin Engi (H.E) was also given some digital touch and yea, one was sold when the buyer saw the original. He didn't read the manga before but he seemed impressed with the pencil work, which was kind of comforting to know that people do look out for the craftsmanship too instead of popularity. It also made me wonder if I should just bring out all the originals I have next time.

My Soul Eater calender got sold out. Yea, many told me that it was too cheap... maybe I should amend my pricing for the next calender tee hee.. Anyways, no photos from me, my cam died sometime ago. Saw some really nice cosplays, but could only depend on Dor to get the pictures. Saw one of FUKKI FROM HOUSHIN ENGI! I couldn't believe that I'll see that here, since the fanbase seemed to have quieten down ever since that series ended. And the one cosplaying Dakki was.... pretty hot.. and courageous to go into bikinis in such a place... but hey, that's how Dakki is.


(NYAK NYAK NYAK! FORCED Doro to take this picture of them for meeeeee~! XD)

Someone cosplaying as Hughes gave out a feeling very similar to the character, flashing out his 'daughter's' print everywhere, though I thought the drawing by his 'daughter' could be done out manually instead of a pixelated printout... heh (yea, do it all the way since you are in it!:D)



A lot of cosplayers, and the most memorable one is this:

A whole Naruto gang flooding the area. It was really cool to see this enormous crowd of Naruto characters walking together. When the EOY ended, we saw them parading past the Burger King outlet we were chilling out at.


Anyways, check out Dor's album for them pictures!! (Since they aren't taken by me.... dun wanna grab so much and put them here...)

Also, Doro invited many people to our booth! Me didn't, cos the thought of that entry fee made me feel it's too ex >_<



Dor with Sean and her Bros!



Dun they siblings look alike when they smile? (she's gonna smash me for saying this.... XD)

She was really into the project, and quite a number came, not just to see us but other friends who are setting up booths as well!



Val and Isaac at their booth just diagonally across from ours! XD Dunno why, it's fun to see people u know setting up booths nearby, I guess. Saw Jacqueline (previously an intern at Scrawls) just beside our booth too!

I had a surprise visit from Miss Sunshine!



And yea, she bought some prints from us, and the sunflower one... Kind of felt bad that I didn't remind her of the event coming and she rushed there in the last hour. I was really tired then and couldn't chat much T_T.... kind of like isolating her there... (very very sorry >_<).... When everything ended, Dor and I, together with Isaac, Shawn and Huizai went for some food at the nearby Burger King. They chatted a lot but I think my brain was really shutting down that I found myself dozing off a few times at my seat. The finance part was hard to settle at Dor's place, cos both of us were shagged.... but we still got through there. We had some more stuff left unsold but yea, there is gonna be a next time, rite? ;)

An Unlucky Week...

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Haaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

I know I have been neglecting you la.... putting you aside in that bag but you cannot do this to me nia..... T_T



T_T ngggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....................

It just died suddenly..... After an autopsy done at Dorothy's house, it's confirmed that it's dead...... Maybe by internal 'bleeding'.....



RIP on 03-12-2008

Second Unlucky Day....Went shopping at Daiso and my handphone went missing.... T_T Haiz... dun wanna say about that...maybe I was careless.... Just hope that if it's stolen, that person don't do anything to the people on my contact list....

Preparing for EOY! Have to get down to coloring my calender and finish off that bookmark! Kind of like the calender so far, but I really wonder if people will like it? The illustration is not the typical chibi character which allows one to see the entire face of the character.... But hey, let's just take it as an experience ba... haha...

Maka!

Death the Kid

and Chrona

Yea, it's a calender of Soul Eater characters, trying to make it stylised, which I wonder if there are people out there who would accept it? Anyways, thanks to Dor's bro who lent me an intuos2 to substitute my dead intuos3 for the moment... A trip to her work desk at her house had been very inspiring, watching how she paint digitally. Man does she improved damn lots. Maybe to the point I get fired up to do digital illustrations lol! There's a whole lot of things to learn there, guess if I look on the bright side of this booth thing, I might see myself doing something different from my usual habits. Okies! Time to sleep n get ready for tommorrow's workload! JIA YOU!!!

Meeting Mr Michael

Went back to school today for a review by Mr Michael Tan. It's really nice of him to do that, and brain draining for him too.... By the time it was my turn, he seemed very tired, but his patience is super.... Anyways, he complimented on my works, and told me to brush up on my communication skills, which had always been a big obstacle for me. Something I really liked about him is that he sees things that we students normally aren't aware of. I didn't know that my works revolved around conciousness... or maybe the assignments he gave made me think in that direction? Dunno, I thought I could have done better in my work there, overall, I have felt disappointment for not doing up to my own expectations for this module, especially since the tutor had did a really superb job in his role. Or maybe I'm thinking too much.... ah well.

He pushed me to find out more drawing styles, just like what Ms Amy said last time...And read up more books (i'll need that i guess). Some food for thought there, he also asked me to know myself and stuff... cos ultimately, I'll need to come up with my own animations in these 4 years. I can't possibly be just doing what others want of me, although the industry is different. Or maybe I should think 'it's the only time I can do something for myself, so maybe I should do it well?' That sounds more like it.... lol.

About 30 minutes (?) picture of Shiki from World Ends with You. Man.. the story is starting to drag, but guess I'll just let the pp accumulate while I work on my drawings these days. Have been going on a break the past week, running around with ex-col and friends, and gaming. Time to get some work done... LET'S CHIONG ARRHHH DOR!!! XD