Back Again

Here there and back again in Ipoh for the mean time. There’s so much things that I need and want to do though when it comes to drawing, colouring and whatnot, I have come to realize that – my desk and bed is no longer mine here (LOL). Though there is still some extra space where I can carry on and do what I want so I don’t really mind.

I would like to garden when I can though it has been raining a lot these past few days. The garden looks better overall with my grandma staying over and looking after the flowers though the spot where I’ve been taking care of is… an utter mess haha. I doubt I can do much for the garden in such a short spent for time but I’ll see what I can do.

But it’s good to be back. I miss the birds chirping in the morning, the smell of the wet earth when it rains, noises from the kids and the things I was deprived of during my stay in KL. When I’ll be gray and old on day, I would certainly get myself a house in an outskirt area haha. As much do I like city life for the people that I was surrounded with, I would pretty much prefer a peaceful setting when it comes to working.

Inking something here~

My Temporary Desk For Now

Gifts

A few days recently really pulled me down with the lingering effects of fever and the lack of sleep because I was catching up with the assignments. People seem to seek me this week and I was eager to meet some people I know~ We had such a great time and two days in a row, people actually gave me a gifts! It was said to be for my birthday QwQ They’re both so sweeet! Thank you Rin-chan! Thanks Justin and Kev! TTwTT I had a great time and you guys cheer me up a lot~

This is what I got though OwO
Glasses! <3
It’s two glasses with ‘happy’ on one of them and ‘birthday’ on the other~ Mine is the one with the ‘birthday’ on it. My sister got the one with ‘happy’ on it XD Now we have matching glasses!

Present so nicely wrapped QwQ
Windchime
It’s a wind bell! It’s sho cute >w< It was wrapped so nicely that I had to take a picture of it before I open it and I was contemplating on keeping the paper but I ruined it lawl. I love you guys sho much! Can’t wait to see you guys again~ We practically chit chat the whole day through. Thanks for walking us back to the car *hugz hugz*

Oh it’s been a while since I post what I’m currently working on so here’s one of them, a colour pencil work of course:
Ginryu
It’s Ryu from [Ginryu], another ongoing project that’s under development story wise but it’s going quite smoothly nowadays. Though I have to stopped working on this one because I haven’t finished two more works for the [Bishie] Project but they’re almost done. Gotta finish my assignments first! XD

How Do You Colour So Smooth?

In the long years of using colour pencils as my favourite tool for colouring, I’ve always meet people who asks “How do you colour it so smoothly?!”. I assume that it’s always the texture that they’re talking about; even so the only answer I can come forward with is “you just have to colour it”. Simple as that haha; of course not everyone is thrilled with such a reply. It is simply because I do not know that there was any specific tools that I can use to create such smooth texture so I solely depended on my shading techniques till now. It is THE ONLY technique I was thought back in primary school (in art club).

When I colour, my mind starts to wander around the planet and sometimes in la-la land too! That’s the reason to why most of my past works are done subconsciously. But a few weeks since I’m working a lot, I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting and trying to stretch myself where colouring is concern; both in timing and choice of colours. So, with such a mind actively brimming with conscious ideas, I realized how I got to where I am today.

This is how it all started. Having a big family, you tend to share spaces with them; with that, you can imagine what kind of situation you have sometimes. “Stop shaking the table!” or “WHO shook the table?!” would be the case most of the time. After years of experiencing this, the only way for me not to ruin my art works by this is to develop either high good reflects OR to have my hand as sturdy as it can be so that when my hand is pushed or the table shook, I won’t cause as much damage as I would normally do. I could only help you on the latter so lets proceed.

For me, pressure is important when it comes to colouring but for you to control and maintain pressure is… to have sturdy hands! 83 Lawl, I didn’t think I was much of a help here haha. It is easier said than done but for additional info, you can use your little pinky finger to fix your hand on the paper and colour by using the only fingers that’s holding the pencil to colour. I do not realize how other people hold their pencil though I use my first three fingers to hold the pencil; so the other two are mostly fixed on the paper when i work.

On another note if you do try this out and this works for you: Please do not overwork your hand since this way adds pressure to your pinky finger and through pass experience, this finger would hurt the most when you overwork. (And if it gets worst, they might just stopped moving for a while too; that was kind of scary) So do please take care of yourself and your hand for the sake of art! XD

Bishies, bishies & bishies

Now that I am pressed for time, the more relaxed I am. (especially where deadlines are involve) There’s no point of losing your head and pledge for insanity at this point since there’s nothing much you can do other than doing your best and what you can do with the time given.

With the current project in hand, getting registered for college, moving, organizing, spring cleaning; there’s a handful of things you can do in a day, a week yet a month. My to-do-list is growing enormously longer everyday but it’s not out of hand (yet haha). I feel lighter these days and I try not to worry as much as I used to continuously pressed my stress level so severely.

Going back to the current “Bishie Guys” project that my sister and I have been working on, I am certainly officially disgusted with the sight of bishie guys now! (haha the effects are probably not that dramatic) We have to come up with 5 art works regarding the theme and so far, I have only finished one and a half, out of five. The deadline is this 31st. But once the mini illustration book is released, I’m sure it’ll be worth the hard work.

I was a bit worried when my little finger on my right wasn’t moving (lawl though it has happened before). It seems that I must have overworked it; I realized that I was working on one of the illustration, re-did and finished it in one day. I’ve often tested my time on colouring and as simple as it gets, I can only finish an illustration in one hour. This took me a day so I guess it’s not as bad. (but time is running out!)
Band Guy - Bishie Project

I am not happy with the editing. A lot of my traditional works are hard to edit it like how it appears to be on paper. ;;; But either way, enjoy this small resolution picture 8D I shall upload it somewhere on dA later on. Oh btw, ithis is one of my Original Characters (was actually based on one of my friends and severely altered haha).

SPM – Results / Another Project

Oh dear, I feared that my results will mean that I have to take the miserable July paper and wouldn’t be able to catch the April intake for college but…. I GOT BETTER RESULTS THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD. I couldn’t describe how anxious I was wanting to know and not to know my results. I wasn’t serious enough as how other people are. I did not enjoy going back to school in order to take the papers (even if it just for a few days). But either way, it’s good enough results to enroll in college. So I’ll be doing just that. (Lets hope I have enough time to work on the art works too) 

I’m currently involve in a small illustration project with a few friends who pulled me in. It is quite fun. I pulled in Ryu to collaborate with me and we’re going to debut as a duo. The duo group will be a sub group under KAMCAO itself. The theme for this current project is “Bishie Guys” haha. Hmm, I didn’t think that it would be challenging at first but it proves to be harder than I thought it would be nee. The illustrations that we’ll be doing are all of our Original Characters too!

I prefer to draw illustrations for more concrete concepts and reason. I tend to think that the girl market these days are too big and sometimes quite shallow, but it does sell nee. But it’s not generally shallow so I’ll just give it a try for experience and fun before studies are on me again. These are one of the illustration that I’ll be submitting in for the project:
Purdie - Intoxicated

Happy Birthday Ryu!

It’s my sister’s birthday today! Well ok, maybe I missed it already, but I was there the whole day with her haha. My family had a pasta birthday day party so I didn’t quite mind it 8D There was spaghetti, macaroni with ministroni soup (have no idea how to spell it) and pine pasta with a tint of tuna. It was very nice. I ate till I couldn’t no more and I forgot to take a picture ;;; yes, it was THAT good haha. I just love food XD Toonikun and gedokun managed to join us, though I was hoping my family didn’t freak them out lawl. Neko and his brother was suppose to come but his broter, Kev got sick last minute ne. You missed a good pasta party lar guys XD

Anyways, I want to update on some things I’ve been working on lately! It has been a while since I posted the last art work. Oh right, yeap, I didn’t win the WWF-Malaysia contest haha, but it’s been quite exciting to enter a contest. I might consider trying out on other contests in the future. Though I don’t quite like the contest which the winners come from voting >w< It somehow appear like it is a popularity contest, but it involves the readers or fans pretty well. But as for the WWF-Malaysia contest, I was glad to be apart of it since the votes all go the WWF-Malaysia so it’s more like an art for a cause contest. I’m quite an environmentalist when it comes to doing what I can so I was very happy to have had people vote in (even though it’s not my entry) XD I voted for the winner so it wasn’t that bad lawl.

Here’s something I coloured for Ai-chan, a member of the KAMCAO group. It was her birthday and she wanted us to have an art work of her character Dembe. If you follow her DeviantArt, you would know her contest, activities, duels and characters. I didn’t quite get the whole concept since I’m quite blur lawl, but I have seen Dembe once in a while when I get to check my inbox. So when Ryu was working on her drawing, she threw away one of her Dembe sketches! DX She likes to do that orz. Though I asked her if I can have it, ink it and colour it with colour pencil. I was happy that Ai-chan liked it! XD Here it is:

Dembe
Hmm, it took me one day to colour it, surprisingly. The flowers took more time since I need to reference it out from Hana-kimi. I’m trying to be more productive, as you can see lawl.

Clear Voice
This is what I’m working on now. I just finished the skirt and ribbon though I haven’t got a photo of that yet. I tried doing plaids (sp?) pattern with colour pencil and I don’t I want to do it again soon haha! It was a bit torturing, but it turned out ok. I’ll post up an update on it tomorrow or so. These are my characters for a story I had an idea for but it wasn’t that good so I put it aside for a while.

I just got my E00 copic colours yeay! I bought 5 of them (lawl) So I’ve been drafting out my commissions though I seem to be re-doing them a lot and I wasn’t satisfied with them. I hope I can come to something that I can be happy of giving to the commissioners.

I’ve been updating on my photography as well, on Clear-voice in dA. Though so far I pretty much is taking it slowly. I really like photography, but I’m not experienced other than just taking pictures lawl! but then lets see how that goes. I tend to update more on Mangabullet these days too. (usually of old works) I’m starting to be more productive and taking things a bit more lightly rather than pressuring myself of everything haha.

So far~

Hello!

It has been a while. I haven’t been updating my blog so far since my internet had just been fixed. Internet is so important these days but I think I can still live without it XD

Anyways, I haven’t post up the WWF-Malaysia’s contest entry that I sent in! I got in the top five and the voting for the first prize have closed on the 10th August, last Sunday. Here is the entry:

Amirah

I tried editing it but the scanner is so weird lawl. I kinda got used to it for a while.

There are so many works for me to scan! >w< Though I just got my E00 copic marker so I’ll be able to start back on my commissions but I’ll still have studies for my first priority nee. X3 There’s so many things to do but so little time~ TTwTT

I watched WALLE yesterday and it’s a very nice movie~ XD I might say that it’s the best pixar movie so far. The message conveys a strong message of saving the earth by conservation and living. Some concepts certainly slap you right and left haha. If you’ve watched the movie, you’d know what i mean.

Anyways, I’ll sign of here~

Ichibanzai 08 – Penang

This event was a blast! I have to admit going to an event with just me and ryu is tiring, but I like the environment that they have set up for this particular event. For a new event, I would usually be very skeptical since sometimes it would take time for people to get to know new events and such before the crowd would pick up but I thought that I’ve never been to an event in Penang, it would be something different.

And it was! I hope to be there at their next event as well. The committee members are so nice and greeted us zillion times to make sure we feel welcomed since everyone is busy running around. The president, Justin, was waiting for us at the entrance the first day, welcomed us and make sure we are where we are supposed to be. Despite his busy schedule, he managed to pull everything nicely and still participate in activities at the event haha.

But we’re grateful that everyone was supportive of what we did there, although I was a bit sad that I didn’t bring my camera, though I doubt that I would actually have time to take photos there haha. But we do keep photos of out commissioners 8D They were mostly committee and cosplaying at the same time so it was super fun!

They were very nice people. I didn’t get their contacts though ;w;

street fighter!

Its yuna right?! *game newb* but she’s so prettyyyy >w<

yuna

ah darn me, I forgot his name. But he’s very very good at smashing drums XD

drummer

OHHHH we had dinner or was it lunch the next day which was a Monday, we went to this Korean restaurant which you pay on entry instead of what you eat. Gosh, this was great but I wasn’t feeling well, but I did enjoy the meal though <3

I hope I’ll get to go there again 8D

I love food~ I love the prawn, the beef, the squid, the chicken, the noodle woaaahhhh *drools*

omgomgomgomgomg

Oh, at the event that second day, I manage to do a few commission since I pretty much only colour. Ryu did a lot of sketch commissions; she’s so talented orz. *I wanna draw tooooooo* D8 Oh, but when I was colouring (with my copic), the skin colour dried out!! I was very sad and a bit panicky since the commissioner has been waiting for me from the start and inking it has took a lot of time. But I managed to fix the skin with colour pencil and coloured the rest with copics <3

It was super fast though XD;; I hope the commissioner was happy with it. I’m not confident with my copic skills just yet haha. But this is what it looks like:

I’ve never coloured or drew saber before so I realllyyy hope he was happy with it XD

Saber

Oh, and since I didn’t bring a camera, thanks to Tsu for taking this piccy and sending it to me! So much trouble for this one piccy, sankyu na~ X3

How did I do? 8D I managed to fit in my journal, artwork and event report n one entry fufufu, I’m a genius haha. I was planning to be there for cosfest though I got a letter from the government stating my oral test which is the very next day after cosfest so I won’t actually make it in time and if I don’t, it’ll be a waste since I’ve paid for the test already. XD So I won’t be there this year neeee~ ;A; It’s an emergency, so yeh.

Though Neko and Kai will be there selling some KAMCAO and my personal prints. Please do support us. ^^

Money money money

Haha heelo everyone, we all know that everyone needs money, some desperately need it to start living, some needs to recover from disasters, some to keep on surviving, some just have too much of it that they don’t know what to do with it, some have money but no time to spend it, some certainly needs it because they’ve lost more than just money. There are a lot of donation programs that goes directly to the people in China and Myanmar that truly needs em after the natural disaster that has hit them. Please contribute if you can.

Anyways, I managed to catch up with my piano already and hopefully I can maintain it until the exam this August. Studies are going slow, but ok and I’m making time to finish some of the CG works and draw once I got the chance to. Hopefully it’ll be finish before the IchiBANZAI event comes! I’l post up the details for the event later on. Look what me and ryu saw while we’re on our way to tuition:

Kittyyyy

Why do I get so much joy in just looking at things like this.. ;;; Anyways, I haven’t got time to properly figure out whyyyyyyy I can’t edit my copic works on this new scanner.. ;w; but I did scan them just that I think it looks nicer up front instead of scanning it when the settings are liek crazeh lawl XD They are doodles btw since I don’t have much time to spare for detail work atm TTwTT

More Ban Daed (but with Maes this time! A new chara I’m addicted to)

ban daed and Maes

Ban Daed and Maes 2

I love how her freckles turned out though <3 It was fun playing with copics.

Summer

100%

Wow, I just got my Piano Theory Exam marks an I got a 100% full mark score for it haha. But I guess it shouldn’t be much of an excitement since it was for grade 1 theory. I’ll be aiming for grade 4 or 5’s theory next since I wanna catch up before I have to stop for college. Shouldn’t have stop on my piano when I was small haha, its fun now.

Anyways, it’s been a while since I update here! I always keep the blog open, but I barely get to update till the end of the day when I’m too tired so I ended up sleeping instead of updating it.

Anyways, hows everyone? I’m planning to print something for the upcoming event (Ichibanzai) in Penang this 7th and 8th June so wish me luck on actually finishing it in time orz. >w<

WIP1
WIP2
WIP3
WIP4
Lawl, somone was helping me with the anatomy haha. ^^

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