Swallow tattoos I helped design for a friend ! I haven’t done realistic colouring in a long while ~
She ended up liking a realistic swallow design best – me too ! Birds look nice when they’re puffy and soft-lookin’ :D Wonder how the tatto’s going to look on skin !
Hello !! I’m back safe and sound from Mexico ! It was an awesome week, more exhausting than a relaxing trip :D
We were out and about half the time – went snorkeling a day and swimming in underwater sinkholes, went to look at Mayan ruins, Chichen-itza, and… did a lot of stuff I thought I’d be scared to do !
Prettiest picture I took in Mexico:
Random thought about Mexico though – they always tell us we’ll be eating iguanas for lunch/dinner, but then it’s really chicken – is it a tourist thing ? Trying to scare us with the iguanas.. ! Hahaha!
Anyway ! Cafe sketches from July and August ! I really like the last page !
I FINALLY MADE A 3RD ONE !
Geeky Marmalade Toast-san (with a slice of butter on his head too) ! His glasses are dazzling ! Hahaha :D
Now they’re a trio !
The third toast looks a lot more refined than my previous two. I guess I’ve improved on my toast-making.
I’m thinking of making a line of originals, then make a whole bunch of duplicates and sell them somewhere. If only I have a way of getting pre-cut fabrics and all -_- then I don’t have to spend time cutting it out and stuffs – it actually takes awhile because my scissors aren’t that sharp and it’s hard to cut it smooth x.x
We shall see !
Now… what kind of toast to do now …
Recently my mom decided to rent out a little “box” from those stores that have like 50 boxes in them so people can sell whatever they want there. I wanted to try to put something in there to see if anyone would like my stuff too, so I made some little plushies !
100% Handmade, Super Original Work of IMA ! i even sewed my name to the back of these :D I added a little hoop to their heads they could be keychains or necklaces or something !
I was going to sell these two off but didn’t have the heart to T-T my originals ~
So I decided that I’ll sell the duplicate ones :D
Yay!
I’m still here ~ !
Not fully though, sadly :/ I brought my tablet over to Hong Kong hoping that I could be painting up some awesomness..but this laptop’s monitor slot thing is busted, and the computer at home only has one slot! Next time I’m just going to bring my Graphire over to Hong Kong, no need to lug my big one around..wouldn’t want it damaged anyway :S
I’ve no scanner! What! I can take pictures of my cafe sketches..I’ll be doing that…
But most of the time I’m spending here is helping my brother design some boxes and right now I’m doing the front cover of a catalogue. I’ve learned some nifty stuff in Illustrator and Photoshop!
But the best thing I’ve come across so far was …APOPHYSIS !!!!!!
I’ve always wondered how people did those wicked fractal designs – I was like, “oh man, it must take forever to make one of those !” BUT NO! There’s a program that generates fractals for you! You can tweak it! You can make pretty fractals yourself!
http://www.apophysis.org/
YAY FOR APOPHYSIS! (I’ve spent an hour or two toying with it, I’ve converted my desktop, my mom’s and my brother’s into fractal designs :D)
I have to figure out how to make it look less particle/pixel looking, more high res…
This one below was a wallpaper I made after doing a Photoshop tutorial :D
P.S. I went to the Ani-Con in Hong Kong a few days ago and got myself a Yotsuba! I was asking every booth if they had the Danbo, but alas.. they were all sold out :/ If only I went a few days earlier !! Now I have to scour Hong Kong to find it!
Hope you like!
Off to Hong Kong by the end of the week! I’ll be gone until Mid-Autumn Festival – around the beginning of October.
So now I’m packing stuff.. packing my tablet snugly, I want to be drawing lots when I get back :D Hopefully the computer there can handle Photoshop.. or else that’ll suck pretty hard.
I’m still painting my grandpa’s picture! It’s finally starting to not look so blank and bleak :D Don’t it look FIERCE!
..and that’s where it is as of now.
I’ll be posting the finished piece soon!
This month I’ve been starting to paint a dragon for my grandpa’s place in Hong Kong! I haven’t painted since I went into college, so it was very slow… haha :D I went to go visit my drawing teacher – haven’t seen her since I stopped classes when I went into college too! I had to ask her how to paint again – light to dark ? Dark to light ? What ? :D
I’ve always learned painting by replicating a picture and that’s what I’m doing now! Honestly I haven’t touched this in so long.. I don’t think I can come up with my own design yet :/ Later on!
This is what I have so far:
It’s going to be a looong process :D I need to finish this by the end of the month!
Offtopic thing here, but I wrapped up a new notebook I got at the dollar store (very sturdy, I like) with a picture I found in a Milk Magazine…looks purty nice!
Mm…Deep-In-Thought Book …
HELLO !!
A new post after a month and bit :/ sorry! I was working on my Pikmin cosplay up until May 22.. which was Anime North!!
This year I made my first mascot costume and luckily it wasn’t like that 30 degrees weather.. still really hot in the costume though x.x My flower on my head kept wilting down! Thanks to my friends for ‘pikmin maintenance’ :D
We had a 6 person group in one hotel room! Yay! Jennifer was Justina Borne (Magna Carta), Aggie was Suigintou (Rozen Maiden), Michelle was Hatsune Miku (Vocaloids series), Angie was Yuuko and Teddy was Watanuki (xxxHolic) and they had matching cosplay ~
I can’t type out everything that happened this year, but it was all so fun ~ Generally it felt like there was a LOT more people at AN this year! Cosplays in general were reallly nice, and my favourite past time was having our Mario Kart battles between the 5 DS’s we had at night – but had to quiet down because we were bitching at each other until 3am while we raced :D
Random pictures!
Group Photo minus Jen!
Jen was supposed to be in the picture there ^
BEEFING WITH THE CAT :D
PIKMIN PANDA PIKACHU
That’s it for now ~
This is a big fat eye candy post of an upcoming mmorpg that I can’t wait to play !! Blargh!! I’ve been kind of a stalker with this game, checking its website almost everyday to see if they go “hey game’s up! The download button works now!” but nope.. I keep seeing the same news update of all the fun the people in China are having with the game. Poo.
But I checked it just a bit ago and they have a new splash screen that was pretty cool !! Check it out! DRAGONICA WEBSITE
It makes me so happy, it’s coming soon! SOOOOON !
For now, I’ll just keep looking at these pictures..mmm :D I thought I’d upload some pictures ( a lot.. of pictures because they’re really worth sharing) that were in a Media Kit they have on the website, just images of NPCs, monsters, players, locations and stuff! The models are so simple but so good! Look!
Here are some of the Playable Characters:
Monsters ! The sheep’s my personal favourite :D I really like the simple modelling !
NPCs…sketches & models :]
Locations! Pretty ~
Lastly.. a random screenshot:
When you Power-Up, your head turns into a BEAR HEAD! :D Is that awesome or is that AWESOME! Haha!
Anyway, yup. This game’s an inspiration to me because I really like the designs of the characters and the painting, but I can’t seem to find out who did the designs! Oh well.. until then when the game comes.. back to work!
Yesterday was my birthday!
Thanks to some really really awesome people, I got a surprise birthday present :) ! I LOVE IT !!
My very own Petra figure :) Despite having very very little sleep through the entire week and had just pulled an allnighter, first thing I did when I got home was take pictures of this hot awesomeness :D
It comes with her, her weapon, a base and an unknown black piece..I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with it. But I’ll keep it when the day comes that I figure it out :D This is Shunya Yamashita’s figure, so there’s probably detachable clothing because…yeah it was from Japan..you know how figures roll there – people like that option. So you can take off Petra’s skirt and her .. strip of clothing that covers her breasts, but I’m not going to do that :)
Look at her!!
That’s all for now :)
For my demo reel, I’ve decided to just put in the 2 animations I’ve completed and just polish them! There’s no way I can have a nice 3rd animation done in 3 days. Inconceivable :D !
Hope to post my polished stuff up sooon~
