My sweet prototype for my 2010 Chinese New Year Nengajou

Kyaa, I just finished my very sweet prototype of this year’s Chinese New Year Nengajou (Nengajou is a Japanese New Year card). Like many other CNY (and Japanese ones) cards too, this features a really adorable tiger. The illustration of the tiger is from a easy-to-draw book. It’s real handy :D

I’ll post up the photo later, okay? Here you go~

I even added 2 more illustrations here!

This time, I’m working around oil pastels! I haven’t used it in a really long time but I certainly did great ;D

A few stuff from the past =)

Hey there, it’s finally November. My finals are currently ongoing and there’s another 2 weeks before my finals finish. So, this post will be showing some stuff that I did back then. Some of them are from last year’s while some maybe probably from 2-3 years back.

Okay, first in queue would be this. I drew this together with the one of the artwork in my second artwork post in this blog.

This was suppose to mimic one of the times where the character sprouts horns and being mischievious XD I didn’t manage to draw the rest. This was from 2008.

Maybe, I’ll add more here later?

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More Tie&Dye styled into cards ;D

Hey there! I’ve just finished making some Tie&Dyes (4 to be specific) again this time around and I was making them for Deepavali. (Yeah, I can’t believe I’m giving them out…) This time, I pasted them and turned them into cards XD

The colours used this time was Cobalt Blue, Purple, Pink, Lemon Yellow and White although the colours are sometimes mixed for a different hues or colours. The colours for this batch are kinda pale >_< since I placed a lot of emphasization on more tones and graduation(?). 

Okay these are before,

:I know I said 4 of them but I forgot to take a photo of the last one that I made, sorry >_<

and after,

Another view of it,

and the rest of them…

はい、おわりました！I’m finished! The duration of this tiny project took about 2 hours or so. Again, the tissues are of Kimberly Clark’s Scott brand

See ya next time!

P.S: My dad asked me, ‘Why don’t you do it on clothes?’. I said , “Don’t dyeing them need lots of money?” Besides, I feel I can’t really be free in choosing the colours and the design of the clothes.

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ちびのあたし？！- Chibi no Atashi?!

Hi there! Here’s another doodle that I did during History class.

Inspired by the chibi me (chibi means small or petite in Japanese), I decided that I should be the character in this doodle here~

Well, that’s all for now. I will be busy during November because of the finals at school. Look out here for any updates of what I’m doing (just in case you’re watching out for updates at my other blogs and communities XD)

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Mid-autumn Festival card!

Hi there! Thanks to all who read this blog as well as willing to look at my artwork, it’s kinda contributes to my self-esteem about my artistic abilities

Okay, I was asked to draw/make a card so I my imagination helped me ended up with a Mid-autumn Festival card. Only my Pentel Techniclick 0.5 and my Staedtler Rasoplast was used this time.

It’s not that clear but I hope it’s sufficient

Okay, the streaks of line on the card was supposed to be like a flower or fern? The insects on the cover was inspired by the thought of Fujiwara no Akiko and Abe no Masahiro of Shounen Onmyouji going to Mount Kifune to see the fireflies at the end of summer.

Since summer has ended and it’s already approaching the Chinese Mid-autumn Festival, I finished with a Mid-autumn Festival card.

I used a different approach for the card this time, I folded it in an unconventional way so now it looks like it was inspired from the origami

I will probably put up an opening of a story I wrote, it will probably be considered nonsense but comments or suggestions for the story are welcomed but no bashing of my work

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Tie&Dye Series~ Part 1

Hi there! I will now show my Tie&Dye Series done by me~ I just did it on Friday so it’s the latest thing from me now.

If I could make it, I will probably put up some of my writings here, just for fun XD But none of them will ever have endings, since my head has a ‘my life hasn’t started so why write an ending for a story?’ thing, so in advance, sorry ._.

The colours used for this time (at least for these batch) were Ultramarine, Cobalt, Purple, Pink, Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Brilliant Red and White. The tissues were from Kimberly Clark’s Scott brand that were used in hotels.

I like to use the ones from here because of the durability of the tissues. Unlike the ones I use, facial tissues are too soft and absorbent for tie and dyes so if you put too much colour (as well as water) to it, when you want to open it up, it will tear. This is not the first time I did this but it has been since a few years since end of 2005. The photos of them will be posted up later.

I tried to fold the tissue differently so I would get different results from the poster colour painted on so everything wouldn’t be the same. I actually wanted to open up this piece but I decided not to. I thought it will be more attractive this way

Next will be… this! I added extra volume of water to make it look like it’s of watercolour. It’s different from the rest of the batch. All these has lighter tints to it but it came out nicely~

This one? I don’t really know what to say. What do you think?

This is つきの色 (Tsuki no Iro) or in English, Moon Colours. This was the last one that I made from the remaining colours I have on my palette which were Purple, Cobalt and a mixture of colours that I mixed from the leftover colours.

This piece is my favourite~

つきの色

That’s all for now!

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Something else…

I just doodled this just now and took a shot with a camera.

I started this with the eyes (so random -_-) that something just came out. Sorry about the blanks in the photo, it’s just I drew randomly so the paper contains some information that I can’t say.

That’s all for now, doesn’t the drawing looked like a yakuza that just got an idea? XD

じゃあ、またね！

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More of my artwork~

Hi there! It’s been a while since I posted anything here but here are a few of my artwork, 1 from 2007 and 4 from 2008. Everything are drawn originally but sometimes certain aspects of the artwork is strongly inspired by some characteristics I want to see in my work

This is the one from 2007, drawn when I was not really concentrating in (a few) my Moral Studies class. It doesn’t quite reflect my style but this drawing is completely inspired by Hiroki Yagami’s Dear Boys character, Mai Moritaka.

This one, hmm… I can’t really remember where this character come from but I got a feeling that it’s somehow based on somekind of series like Star Wars or SoltyRei’s Illumina.

Okay, this one is supposed to mimic a panel from a manga (or comic). But then, it’s all my own creation. It’s supposed to be a scary background when this female character meet the in-laws XD The setting is supposingly in another world. (Yeah I know, fantasy.)

Ah, this one. This was drawn when I was in school and and that period of time, I was just starting to read Kaichou wa Maid-sama! by Hiro Fujiwara so the hair for this character was made to look somewhere like that The character is supposed to be getting angry at her escort since he was late.

So that’s all for now~

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First few…

Hi there! I suppose the few I’m going to put now is the first for the blog.

My work are all abstracts I suppose, since I do this without the technical terms and all.

My thoughts will be put up later. Comments are welcome!

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Update!

Hi! Unfortunately, I’m still unable to use the wireless broadband that my father tried to subscribe.

To continue this blog, I hope my area is covered soon and I’ll upload some of my artwork then.

Another thing to clarify is that this blog of mine is no longer showing artwork but everything related to art. For example: lyrics, poems, stories and artwork. I don’t really do everything that I mentioned just now but check this blog from time to time just in case I upload anything.