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some stuff i'm working on right now...

Character Sheet front back

Front and back view...now what's left is the side view and i can start making it all pretty and stuff. I think i'm slowly starting to get back my kick, and hope that it's true.

Oh man...i got involved in quite a few projects and i'm too scared to count right now. Hopefully i can get it done since i hate to go back on my word.

Character Sheet roughs

Refining some designs i did previously. Progress is slow with the work i'm caught up with orzlll

Sadly, i'm not very motivated lately after i'm done with work. I need some form of morale boost and inspiration...

It's gonna be a slow year...

It's Hammertime!

Moar doodlessss. Feel like wanna finish this one up.

Shit...everytime i finish a doodle i feel like collapsing. Off to bed.

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Unrelated, i found out yesterday that my driving license expired for about 8 months and i just realized it then. Instantly, ran my guts out to renew it.

lucky.

Scribble Dribble

More junk.
Nodding off while typing this...
Nite nite.

Scribble Dribble

Qwuick doodle.
Just forcing myself to do something before i hit the sack.
Nite nite.

Halloween 2011

FFFFFFFFFF~~~~~~ *f face*
I might not make it in time this year orzlll

Rusty Gears

Slowly building up momentum...but still not at my peak yet.
Pretty slow year for me.
I miss sitting in my room for extremely long periods of time.

Perfect Cherry Blossom

ima chargin' my lazers.....

Something i have been trying to work on whenever i can lately. Another project with my Surface gang to come up with another Touhou fanbook.

Menkui

Menkui = the japanese word for being superficial/ attracted by physical looks only.

Yep, that's me at this stage. Nothing else matters as long as there's eye candy.

Don't wanna dwell on having concepts for everything. i just wanna have fun and enjoy doing what i love with no restrictions. It's ok to just ignore all else sometimes.

more WIP for the next OTACOOL entry.

my shaman character did years back

Momentum

wip of my submission for Otacool contest.

*sighs*

Momentum is uberly important to me when i need a kick start to work on something. Before my sem break started i was superbly over-excited in getting to do my own stuff. Due to the constant momentum of having to deal with my assignments, my drive did not waver. But 2 weeks have passed since then and i'm already in my final week of break.

I sort of regretted going for that Penang trip....it totally threw me off the mood to draw when i got home. Worst still my computer problem resurfaced and i had to spend a couple of days fixing it into working conditions again. I just got it repaired (i hope) and by now i'm already almost out of steam. Guess i just have to make the most out of it. Now i wouldn't be able to spam submit the Otacool competition i was planning to join.

Again...i'm not ready to face the next semester...things are moving a little wee too fast for my liking here.

Oh by the way, Muramasa: The Demon Blade is fun <3

Sem starts

And so it starts today.....

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On Saturday Monash had its convocation, and i attended it to meet up with my graduating Uni buddies. Puss...we need to go out for yam cha more often. Got holes ignore bros!!! watch it you.

I freagin haet you Monash.....you didn't prepare vegetarian meals when it was my turn. This year you had it. bastards!!! I ate my fill this year.

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On Sunday my old high school buddy came over and dropped his PS3 over at my place. Ian if you're reading this, you are freaking crazy you know that. But i likes it becoz i benefit :D

It will most probably collect dust anyway, since i don't have much time to play games. Still, i sure as hell feel dam lucky cause i had the chance to try out BlazBlue. I still haven't got the hang of it, so it feels pretty sucky right now. You better live up to the being the successor of Guilty Gear.

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Commission i'm working on right now. Madness when i have to start outlining it.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha slight yuri action fanart.

Time to hit the sack to rise early for tomorrow's bullcrap.

Art Nouveau WIP2

Just finished outlining it. As usual a few changes made during the outline stage. Some things didn't seem so pretty or logical while i was outlining.

Didn't have much time to spend on it since i was busy doing college assignments. Hopefully i can finish it by this weekend. Still a long way to go since i still don't have a solid idea for the background yet. I want this to turn out pretty well so i'm giving it a lot thought as to what to do.

And if you have not found out yet by now, i'm actually drawing my waifu.

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No matter how i convince myself, Typography is just not the thing for me. I will hell steer clear of it whenever i can in future. Please please let this be a very advertising specialized subject for the good of the Illustrations juniors. This is way worst than History of Art. I frankly enjoyed both HOA 1 & 2 minus the assignments.

But Typo? ridiculous. Bland boring shit. I don't give a shit about letterforms and all its gawd dang categories. Yea some claim it to be another 'art' form but to me it is just for communication. I can read, good enough. No fancy shit please. Of course you can argue we can communicate more effectively with all the different typefaces, for example using Blackletters for formal certs and stuff to give it a 'classy classic' look. Ok i gotta agree for that reason it is pretty useful.

But aside from that, don't give me all the shit like what i went through in caligraphy and letterforms. Tell a story using the letters......puuuuuuuhleeeezzz DOH!!! ala Homer style. i prefer illustrating something else to tell a story kthxbai. Still, i like the historical part though....

Sigh.....regardless, i still need to at least get through it this sem. Oh the pure torture. They have to give you a bad subject each sem to torture you don't they. Nothing is smooth sailing. But one day i feel i'm going to look back and tell myself, "Shit, i should have payed more attention!!". I know it's bound to be useful but i can't help but rant.

Art Nouveau

something i'm working on right now, trying to do something i love combined with art movements. Getting the inspirations from Alfons Mucha. Currently it's still very bare without the framing thingies art nouveau styles are famous for.

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Anyways, the weather these days are killing. Baking hot and that's coming from me that fears cold way more than heat. Sucks to have false rains all the time.

My body is currently quite sick or 'heaty' as chinese people would call it. I've already been assailed with a few body ailments non-stop, rashes and eye sores to name some of them. One after the other. Gah.

Toa has been kind thus far, only qualms is that i'm not happy with having to take Typography. But oh well, i shouldn't complain as i have NO MORAL CLASSES BOHAHAHAHA!!! Oh~~~ you poor poor people. SPCA, community services, fund raisings, etc. Ahhhhh ain't all those fun. I better stop now before some of you decide to gank me in class.

Sheet!!

Please forgive this poor soul Gan... orzlll
Shaun...i'm gonna join you in not doing the figures holidays assignment. I actually did something. 1 piece of coloured figures and another incomplete piece which i was too ambitious with lmao.

There are 2 more days before Friday but i'm currently working on the DA contest entry Good vs Evil theme. Here are the WIPs.

the initial rough idea. complete mirror images except the facial expression

editted the reflection because i improved on my rationale

cliche....totally cliche....i'll put up the complete version later with my rationale. By then it will turn out even more cheezier because of the rationale.

Anyhow so far so good to the classes i've been attending. I'm wondering why we have Typography....hopefully it is more bearable than calligraphy this time around.

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oh i forgot to mention, quote of the day,

"Tatsun is out of proportion" ~Lip Wei

The basic principles of Kai-ism

Subconsciously, after knowing someone for a while, his/her traits will rub off onto you whether you like it or not. To illustrate this, let me give a scenario based on what i have experienced myself.

example 1

When i'm giving advice to a friend, i tend to act and imagine myself being my father at times. Like really donning on his very body and speaking through it. Of course i am still myself, but i have brought along traits that he portrays when doing the same to me.

example 2

This i think some of you can relate to easily. When i mix around Mr D for too long a time, i bring home some traits of what he keeps saying when i'm around him. It's like he goes "RACIST THIS RACIST THAT" and then you tend to carry that around with you for a while and use it yourself without his presence. At that moment and that time, it feels like you are Mr D. Of course whether you will continue that or not, time will eventually evaluate that.

example 3

When i witness a certain gesture from someone, lets say Mr AB, that i find interesting i would then unknowingly repeat it in the presence of others. At that particular moment i feel like i am Mr AB himself doing that gesture and a part of my mind flicks over to think that i am exactly Mr AB now (which by now i would guess his behavior and how he would act).

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Those are some the examples that i can come up with right now. I know i'm missing some good ones but i think for now it's enough to get my point across.

In a way, after your first encounter with a stranger, inevitably some traits from him/her would rub off onto you. So a part of that person is fused into you subconciously. He/she has passed on a little of their "essence" into your very being.

I think the closest word that can describe this is "influence" but that's not it. It's like you are that very person itself at the split second you think you are. A mind link sort of thing where you drag out and bring that person into yourself. The longer you know that person the easier for you to visualize as him/her.

In some cases doing what i have mentioned above has helped me achieve things i couldn't before. By willing myself to be another person i have managed to overcome insurmountable problems.

So how much of yourself remains after all that other-person-thingy? Are you still your original self or are you borrowing the skins of others and making it all into a cocktail you call yourself?

I guess everyone differs because it is in our abilities to filter out what we choose to mix together to form ourselves.

In the end, i might just have written something incoherent and confusing. It proves nothing other than that i'm doing my usual crapping. But know that once you have read this article up to this point, a little bit of Kai-ism is already passed on to you :D IT'S TOO LATE TO REGRET NOW!!! I AM SOMEWHERE LURKING WITHIN YOU NOW!!! *mind raeps*

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Have a little work in progress before the post ends. Year of moo moo new year pic which i has procastinated long long.

WIP

Progressss of the WIP work.


i'm far from done orzlll
and it's coming out quite differently from what i expected *sobs*
it's been some time since i spend so crazy long amount of time on a single pic.

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a Nike Ad vid which i think is pretty cool and relevant to the interests of us designers.

Perspective class + WIP

Perspective classes was really fun. Glad to have Lip Wei teaching us again this sem and he rox man. He calls himself lame but i find him really funny and can really grab our attention. We are still learning pretty basic stuff which god knows how many times i've gone through it.

But peace, i shouldn't get all cocky and empty myself up to learn it again. Things will get rougher along the way and this would be one of the important things i need to master to become a valuable illustrator.

There's still a slight barrier among our classmates...needs some time before all of us can mix in like fruit punch.

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Moving on, i'm currently working on a self project aside from my commissions.

My current obsession with Warhammer 40k has led me to create the work below.....I'm overusing skulls and chains in my works orz. I promise this would be my last one for a long time.


So anyways, I've already outlined it. Changed some parts as well like the boots. (Made it bigger to crush you beneath it xD)


So what is left now is i'm not quite sure how i would like the colour scheme to be. So it's gonna be a while before i can actually finish this pic. I'm trying to go for an epic, surreal kind of feel for the image. Trying to work out of my comfort zone of just cging in animu style. This project would take some time to complete i foresee >.<;;

signing off for now.