I've started colouring this WIP again from ages and ages ago. I haven't drawn anything at all this year. I think it's because I stopped for most of last year and now I can't find the motivation to pick it up again. My entire 2013 folder is MT. TRULY EMPTY. Hopefully I can put this in it (but in reality, it belongs in the 2010 folder).
Life is going at me too fast these days... but yeah, I went to TonyMoly last week and yesterday and picked up more items. That post will be coming very soon in the near future.
Arrghhh we must reach 2.5million views for Exo's 'Wolf' this weekend! *shakes fist at SME*
I was just thinking what a great month April is going to be with the release of several albums from some of my favourite bands-- Bring Me the Horizon, Paramore, and Fall Out Boy. Maybe even EXO?
Then I hear the news of My Chemical Romance calling it quits today:( This is devastating because there was a rumour that they were going to release a new album after their mini series of 'Conventional Weapons' (which I still have not gotten around to listening to yet). MCR has helped a lot of people get through their dark days and I wish they could have stayed around. I have loved all their concepts and will continue to support the individual members if they continue to pursue in the music industry. I will also remember the day I went to see them at Luna Park and Gerard waved at me from the car park when their driver was parking their van.
In a way, breaking up may be a better alternative to replacing members. After bands such as From First to Last, Escape the Fate, and Nightwish made notable changes by replacing their lead singers, I've never felt that they were quite the same band. Not that it's a bad thing-- it just adds a different dynamic to what fans have grown to love. But lead singers do not make the entire band. I'm sure fans could also feel a strange sense of unfamiliarity in proceeding albums when Ben Moody left Evanescence, or when Ryan Ross left Panic! At the Disco.
After twelve long years, maybe it's best to drop the rock lifestyle, settle down and move on.
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To finish off this post in a brighter light, I've purchased and received a number of gifts from friends in the last 2~3 months. I'll be sharing some photos of my purchases soon^^
I felt like dotting some stars. I'm not sure why there is such a decline in quality when I open my file as a jpg and when I view it as a submission. I've seen this happen quite a lot to my pieces. Not sure if it's because I keep on converting between SAI and PSD files on SAI and Photoshop. This happens even if I do not resize my pictures (i.e. this picture).
Going to hang out with Chris tomorrow and avoid temperatures of 36-39 degrees by staying in strictly air conditioned buildings. Yay.
My package also arrived today! I'll write about it another time:)
Constant artblock! I haven't drawn in so long, my anatomy is going backwards and getting worse and worse... if that's possible. I did a rough one of Exit Tune's new Vocaloid 3 Mayu yesterday. I love that she's a yandere goth loli. She even has an axe covered with sweet loli bows:DD
Does anyone think her design is really similar to Namine Ritsu's? Or is it just me?
Seriously, it took me ages to figure out what was happening in SAI. I thought that my canvas size was displayed on the side, and I was wondering why every time I did a short-cut for changing sizes, it wasn't displayed at the side. Turns out I was looking at opacity the entire time orz. Fail much...? I'd like to draw more, but it's not coming to me. Maybe after I finish playing the last route of 999, Kirby Mass Attack, and finishing off PKMN White?
I PRE-ORDERED NAMIE-KUN'S NEW ARTBOOK A FEW WEEKS AGO ZOMG. Get your pre-order of Phantasmagoria here. My only doujin purchase of this year. I know it'll be worth it because I enjoyed her last Touhou release immensely.
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I've been feeling really love sick recently. Not sure how though because it doesn't make sense. But I'm feeling it. My layyydehhhh, baybehhh dunnn creyyyy x 1000 EXO feels.
My birthday is coming up this weekend! I gave a huge shopping list for my friend in HK. Haha, so that's where the money from my new job is going huh.
I'd also like to do a mass post of my artbook collection and all the nice makeup I've accumulated in 2012.
So stressed... the day before yesterday, my usb decided to corrupt/ delete everything on it by itself (along with my written drafts...). I had not backed up my drafts for around 9 days because I've been working off my usb in the labs and studying (i.e., not writing) at home. I had re-written at least 10 paragraphs and not re-saved them onto my laptop or anywhere else. Stupid, I know.
Luckily, I managed to recover my introduction and results draft, but the usb decided to eat up my method draft and some of the random ideas and references I had for my discussion. Lesson learned. SAVE EVERYWHERE. Everything you think that may go wrong will go wrong D: Just like that time I snapped my glasses whilst changing into uniform on the day of a very, very important 9am exam. I can't see 10cm in front of me without glasses...
It's times like these, you need to ROLL LIKE A BUFFALO*.
* patiently waiting for EXO's comeback. Are they really going to release 'Let Out the Beast'? Please say yessssss. And 'Baby Don't Cry'.
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I saw Nu'est a few weeks ago! Ren is really, really, pretty in person (tall and slim) and Aron's American accent ;lakjdf;kajsf;asd. JR is very handsome, and his smile (!) makes you want to smile too. Baekho's so sweet. When it wasn't his turn to dance or sing, he broke out of his position to wave to the audience~ and he waved in my general direction hahaha... I didn't pay much attention to Minhyun coz I was too busy staring at Ren and Aron:/
I lined up for 4 hours, and just managed to get inside-- only the first 700 or so people were allowed inside the venue. I met some really nice girls in the line. They went to the Nu'est fanmeet at 7am (skipped school), then went to the kpop store in China Town-- and bumped into Nu'est there! Lucky girls. I think it's really cute how they brought presents and handwritten notes for the boys.
Candice (who I met in line) got her shirt signed by Aron. She almost got a hug from him too!
Le blurry phone photo of the ticket
Girls I met in line... they were really nice and fun to talk to :D
So many fangirls running out of their seats after 'Face'. Nu'est all simultaneously took five steps back.
So much screaming...
This was Nu'est's tour van. No joke. There were multiple suns on the side of the van. Their manager is pretty good looking >_>
Uh, I was waiting for my dad to pick up at the gate 2 carpark @ UNSW around two hours after the event... and guess who I bumped into. So many people screaming when they came out. I guess there were only around 80 or so people waiting outside. Baekho did a heart from the window. Awwww. I waved at him again:)
The event was great! There were 10 singing acts and 10 dancing acts.
The group that won first prize for the dance competition did an amazing cover of SHINee's 'Sherlock'. Two dance groups did EXO-K's version of 'History' and Nu'est asked them why they didn't choose one of their songs to do a dance cover lol. There were also dance covers of 2NE1's 'I Am the Best', SHINee's 'Lucifer', SHINee's 'Love Like Oxygen' and some MissA and 2PM. I clearly only remembered SHINee stuff.
Time to get some motivation and back to late night working!
/I will come out of my cave in around a month and a half.
I got some really beautiful free sketches fromitemilicious andsuperstarpanouwho were doing the '10 free sketches' thing. Don't know why, but theOtaku links are not working so I can't link Temi's beautiful sketches here... likewise, for Panou's, the dA html code says it's broken!! WHY *flips table*
One day I need to do a compilation post of all the beautiful art trades and gift art I've gotten these three years I've been drawing:(
These girls are so talented and kind ;u; I really want to do the sketches thing as well, but I don't think I can get 10 people to request, and I'm constantly busy and in an art-blocked state.
BUT today-- my ticket and Maryn's ticket to Super Show 4 in Sydney arrived in the mail. Pew pew ~ yeahhhh.
I'm so sleepy at the moment... actually I'm sleepy all the time. I always feel like I haven't done much in a day and I've probably been slacking off again. Back to typing notes and doing research-____-
Over loaded with information (and boredom...) so I spent two hours organising my cosplay wardrobe, prints from friends at cons, vacuuming, sewing back buttons onto my jacket etc.
A quick doodle of Seiga. All the TD characters are evil because they gang up on you D: SAI WRRRRYY CORRUPT FILE. Oh well. I knew she was corrupted. [edit] It's fixed now! Probably coz my net was wonky that day.
Pikari is a model from 'Popteen'. I just wanted to try something different, using crayon and the brush tool-__-; This was done fairly quickly... but not that quick because I procrastinate and started singing to my ipod half-way through orz.
Hmmm, yesterday I went out with Alvin and we watched 'In Time'. A very interesting concept, and now I'm even more scared of dystopias than before. He got me a Touhou shirt! Unfortunately, it looks like a tent on me.
I just checked rankings and I'm number 3?? T-thank you OTL.
Mama-chan is the best for taking my book to Manifest (she's so cool, so talented at drawing... beasts, backgrounds, anime style, realistic, and creative in general. Traditional and digital. Of course she dresses well, in an artsy sort of way:D)
She even got me a print from Cherriuki (for free) of Cardcaptor Sakura. As a surprise she got it signed *cries buckets of tear*
It didn't really survive the plane trip from Melbourne back to Sydney in pristine condition and it kept on rolling up... so I had to put my Touhou book on top of it^ ^
DRRR! print by Mama-chan. Hrngggg Kida-kun. You can't see Izaya's face here very well, but let's just say his face looks... really... handsome. Anri is also covered:(
Back to assignments. I've been raging since yesterday since my ipod decided to explode dead pixels all over the place for no reason. Reading forums, I've found that most people who had this problem were owners of the 5th generation ipod classic (my model). I left it aside for the rest of the day, and when I woke up this morning, the lines got longer.
Sucks because I just transfered10GB of anime there so I could watch it on the train. I've only had my ipod for two years... is this a conspiracy? Music still works fine, but I can't watch videos now:(
Happy Cirno day, 9th of September!! Good on Namie for doing a 9-9 LS. I went on for 5mins but her skype and sound was lagging-_-; Then I went back to studying. I put together these progress pictures of Cirno awhile ago, and today is the perfect time to put it up.
Now that I think about it, I can't believe I used to draw so much with a mouse...
Sketch says 27th of March 2011 lohohoho it look me that long to colour it (exactly 5 months orz). やっとpixivでうｐした！ Also at theO. Except at like 3am so there wasn't anyone online pffffttt oh well. From 'Romeo and Cinderella' ^^b. Oh crap I just noticed the lace isn't even a;lkjadk;fasf I'll fix it up for dA.
I hadn't picked up my tablet in over a month, and I guess I had no more self control. I think I spent 4 hours drawing/ colouring yesterday. I did a sketch I'm relatively happy with-- to the stage where I'm going to take it to the printers A4 size. Guess I'll colour it in November or whenever I have time:(
And also from last night/ early hours of this morning--
Why doesn't transparent .png show? I turned it back to .jpg~ lol at the soul gem.
And something old I did touch-ups for from last year-_-;;
Whoooooo I'm actually doing one sketch a day (but not full CG). I guess I'll do that in the holidays. Need to work on cosplay now lkajdf;a I hate sewing.
I tried to help an older lady (she said she was 88 yrs old) off the bus today and she said 'But you're so tiny dear, I feel I should be helping you. I don't want to do your back in.' D: D: D:
Perspective fail! Clothing fail! Hand fail! Eyes fail! Hair fail! The only thing I like about this drawing is her bow:(
Old... from Fruits Basket (whee Akito~!)
Tenshi; even older-_-;; I think this was the only thing I tried to do in exam period.
Whoo, 2am sketches + colouring is always going to be awkward... especially the anatomy *A*
Another sketch (I'm too lazy to finish off three of my 'big' cg pictures... though I really want to. I forgot to save them back on my usb so they're on my desktop which my brother hogs all the time:/). Lewl, looks like a looks like a schz drawing---
Miku from Hachi's 'Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro' -->
This book is pretty big, so I couldn't fit the whole thing in my webcam picture. I think it's around 40pages. The pictures are beautiful~ but once again, every single picture is on the internet, and there's nothing new in it at all. The book is mostly dominated by President-Violent (暴力社长), rosen (rosene) and neon (雪桜桜). I'm a little disappointed that KD only has one featured picture even though they listed him as one of the 'artists' of the book.
The book is nicely laid out with four movements: Original, Vocaloid, Touhou and Misc. I've noticed that when you flip through the pages, it actually goes 'Movement 1: Original, Movement 3: Touhou, Movement 2: Vocaloids, Movement 4: Misc' and noticed a few typos:O Actually I've noticed a few typos in a few other doujin I have...
Though the pages feel nice, the quality isn't that great. You can see all the scratches on the black pages and on the cover. It kills me that the middle isn't stapled properly and that some of the pictures aren't absurdres and pixelated.
Oh yes, the most exciting part is that it's signed!
This is the picture my friend put on facebook a few hours before he gave me the book... at least you can see the full cover T^T I heard it retailed for $20, and even though I got it for free, I think it is worth the purchase *adds to collection*
I hardly play Touhou 6 but I tried the extra stage just then (first try!) and ended up seeing Flandre (oooohhh I love her theme <3 Credits to Steel for helping me find the link to some lovely arranges). Finished 44.9% of the extra stage (lolz, I only took one of her ten lives).
I've only ever seen Mokou in playing extra bosses. I'm not very good at games, but I want to play more in the holidays! So busy at the moment-- have to study, study, assignment, assignment. But I've been lazy a bit and stayed up late to go on art sites and stuff:/
WIP from awhile ago. Don't get to draw much these days T_T Saw I got on the leaderboard rankings today on theO. Yeah. I wish Namie-kun and Lulu could save their livestreams so I can go back and watch them. I've only caught them on twice~ I like watching them draw and listening to their chat. My friend said he got me my artbookkkkkk!! Just have to wait for it to be delivered now:D
Oh yes, and a few weeks ago I entered Juu-Yuki's OC contest. This is my entry =w=
Ahh, after so many months, this PV still makes me sad every time I watch it... but I guess everyone can relate to these lyrics.
This was from last week-- eeeekkk I freaked out!
My laptop told me to plug it in:p
And then... some old WIP shots I took to show my friend~ (I work pretty messy!!)
I need to go back to study now! I've got a test on Wednesday, and one on Friday. I don't feel prepared for either of them. I'm really scared:/// Then, I've got a six page essay due on Friday which I've done around five pages (but it sucks badly... I don't want to fail lolz).
I came back home today and slept for an hour and a bit, did a practice exam when I woke up (that probably wasn't a good idea because I made some really stupid mistakes), washed my hair, did more studying.... I miss drawing already. And cosplaying. I've been going through some more stupido relationship problems-- I just can't make up my mind, so I just keep on worrying about it. I wish it was the holidays then I can just stay in bed all day and feel sorry for myself*rage face*
Aiya, whatever will be will be.
Hmm, going to get Alice Overture's artbook soon (formerly Lilium), can't wait, can't wait. I've been listening to VOCALOID albums (loved the first two albums since last year:). My picks are--
Delicious (minato)
magnet (minato)
magnet -favorites plus- (minato)
Romeo and Cinderella (doriko)
supercell (supercell)
supercell tribute -stowaways- (various)
All these P write such precious lyrics. minato has very heartfelt, touching lyrics which sound so natural with Vocaloid. doriko on the other hand writes beautiful ballads (and I'm going to admit that 'Romeo and Cinderella' has dominated my itunes, surpassing 'Just Be Friends' and 'Flavor of Life'. I still can't believe it). I don't understand how ryo does it, but he can read the minds of every single girl out there!
When I get more time I'm going to give Deco*27 and Hachi a go. They're sure to have great albums. I also listened to Sound Horizon's '-Lost-'. To me, it was a bit easier listening to this story than Marchen^^; I need to look up the lyrics and stuffo when I get time. Anyways, I need to get back to work~ wish me luck, and lots of it:DD
(P.S I passed the JLPT N3. Glad I decided to take it easy and not do N2, otherwise I don't think I could pass with just a mere 2 weeks of study. ふふふふ。)
My dad just got back home from the library and shoved this book about Japanese Animation in my face.There was a picture of Ikkyu san (we called it 'yut yow'). I didn't know it was called that~ I remember watching it as a kid when I lived in Hong Kong during the ages of five to around seven *starts bawling* I still have episodes of it on VHS in Cantonese. Myanimelist just informed me there are 298 episodes. I-I don't think I've seen that many.
I would totally watch it all if I had the time and patience.
When I went to Kinkakuji in 2005 and 2008, my mum pointed out that was where he lived! I was always upset when they talked about his separation issues with his mother, and how he got a man tou tied around him when he was a baby:( でもね、本当に懐かしすぎる！OPとEDは今聞いているんだ。
I saw a girl I gifted chibi bait to on tinierme had a hard time accepting 'crappy gifts from people'. In that case I wish I could take back my gift you *$#%&. I don't mind if people give me doubles of what I already own or items that aren't rare. I'm always up for presents. I just thought I'd give bait because it's usable and on sale AND OH LOOK the event this week requires you to catch 20 fish a day. Isn't that nice?
*sigh* I wish I had the patience to finish this already... after 4 months.
OMG;klajdf;kajdf I was the first winner for a print (order number 4)! SO HAPPY ;u; I chose the Vocaloid one. Hopefully I'll get that too~ I asked Namie-kun to sign the book for me. Since I was one of the first fifteen to order, I also recieve a never before seen print *waku waku* , a pre- order discount and a secret gift (something to do with Ayayaayayaa).
I also just saw 'The Green Hornet' today with my friends in the city. Hey, it was actually good. I still don't know who Jay Chau is, but he looks cool doing martial arts:D
Old WIP:
When I was colouring this, I thought it looked like Byakuren. Everything looks like Touhou to me.
I was playing around with my Rin/ Len shimeji, and look what they did? Dawww, so adora-bubble I want to huggle them.
I did this last year to remind myself of the SAI tools. There's not that many, and yet I still haven't actually figured how to utilze everything 100%. For instance, pen and inkpen look the same to me, but apparently inkpen is 40% sharper. I like the pen tool more.
It was Luka's second birthday yesterday (30th of Jan). She still has one of the best voices for Vocaloid, in my opinon. I actually quite like Nekomura Iroha's voice as well (the Hello Kitty Vocaloid!)- but yeah, her cute looks don't match her deep, mature voice and she doesn't have enough songs floating around. Luka FTW.
Of course Luka's birthday cake has a tuna on it. Of course.
On Saturday, my friend bought back to me Dhiea's artbook from C79. Find her here. So happy! And grateful! And thankful! I wanted to pay him back, but he insisted on giving it to me as a present ;u;
(edit: someone scanned the whole thing. You can see it here. Lol, maybe one day if I'm bored enough/ have time I'll translate the story with notes =w=)
It's 40 pages, printed on high quality paper. Her illustrations are simply stunning, but I was disappointed that 98% of the pictures can be found high resolution on the internet. There were only three I hadn't seen before, but they were in the preview on the banner (just smaller size) in an advertisement for this book, so I kinda count that as having seen the artwork.
The book is split into two sections--
1.) Original (as the title says; her characters such as Dhiea Seville)
2.) Parody (basically fanart)
There was also a short story at the back, two character sheets and a message from Dhiea. I found it a little 'silly' (forgive for the lack of a more suitable word) that she had the cover printed on the inside again. I got hyped up for the book when some of the stuff she submitted on pixiv in December made weekly and monthly ranking. Noticeably the pieces 'feeling heart' and the fanart for Sound Horizon's 'Marchen' is missing GAH. I was looking forward to seeing it in print.
Here are some of the pieces which were not in it Q_Q
Flandre + Remilia
Vocaloid! Saihate (the 'Feeling Heart' piece)
The 'Marchen' piece. She called it 'Seven days of light, seven days of darkness' (七つの光、七つの闇)
There was also many pieces of her original art that I'm sure she would have drawn between 16-18 that didn't make the cut. I thought the first two would at least be in it, because it they were used as banners to advertise the book itself!
Oh well, but overall, I'm happy with it. Now, I'm waiting for Namie-kun's Touhou Fanbook to arrive sometime between this week and next week. Waiting. Painfully (because some lucky people who went to Waicon the past weekend already purchased their copy minus the shipping price and the extra waiting. GAHHHHHH). I think Namie's artbook is also 40 pages.
Dhiea's art book = 500 yen
Namie's art book = $30 AUD
I hope it's worth it.
(edit: arggh actually some of those pieces were printed in other artbooks-- like the 'Feeling Heart' piece released at C79 as well:)
