we 3 archers of cassiopea

This is...one of those 'in long progress' artworks. Drawn and done half way some months back, only to come back to it today, when i flipped thru that file full of 'hibernating' works... Yea, maple-theme again, this time, my two buddies of cass: cutie and boii (the other of course is me! XD). Given it an old parchment treatment... cos now the three of us are no longer jamming together...

It was fun; an all archer party hunting and questing in ludi. Not long, cutie got caught up with her working life...boii's acc got hacked, followed by hers. Tried helping to revive their accounts by giving whatever archer stuff i can spare, but soon, both weren't continuing due to their other responsibilities. I too started to drift away. Ah well...

Work in progress!:


Tried painting in a standing position (due to lack of chairs in the room...). Pasted the painting on the cupboard (economical solution to no easels...). A piece of cloth hanging for drying my wet brush:



A wristband to hold my brushes! XD


After painting, a brown colour pencil was used to bring in more defined shades, not to forget the white for highlights! Seriously need a scanner.... the camera doesn't seem to be color friendly...

Just like a student

Went out with Ying to the national museum today. Gosh...never go anywhere unprepared... XD We didn't quite know the way, and ended up walking around fort canning park before knowing it was just beside the building where we started.... Anyways, we went there for the greek artifacts exhibition. These 100+ artifacts were brought in from the louvre, and hell are we gonna let this chance slip!

After it all, it we went for some munchies at subway....SMU. Are u a student? Nope, but ah well, i nodded my head (guilty!!! Talk about student discounts, i went into the exhibition at a student pricing, which is half of the adult price :x). So we jsut sat there, and talk talk, gossip gossip. While she shared about her NTU life, i told her about the life in my current company.

Somehow, she was quite right about something... getting a job in this line now wasn't as frightening as we thought while we were in nyp. I could still remember the times in school when we thought that there is no future. Everyone is so good, there are so many talented people out there, what about us moderate ones who hang no where? Wrong. Oppurtunities are there, it's just ur expectations. The good ones get what they want. The moderate ones also get a job, it's whether u accept whatever that may come ur way.

However.... even a dream job is just a dream. Seeing the lucky ones who got what they want starting to suffocate in their passionate circle..... realising the difference between selling one's soul and selling one's time... Seems like being a student ain't bad after all. Haha...

Seth

Just a color pencil drawing of Seth from Trinity Blood. The image is a rendition of the original in the 8th volume of the manga.

Medium: 0.1 brown copic drawing pen and color pencils

Tooran

Tooran, from Monster Soul (drawn by the mangaka of Fairy Tail and Rave). She's a sort of monster that can transform into sand at her own will. Somehow..when i furst read her name in the chinese translation, it came across as a vulgarity ('du lan' in a certain chinese dialect...).

With my white gouache dried up... i use white acrylic as a substitute. Hey, it seems to stand out better. While painting half way, i realised her head looks a bit too big..... :(

Medium: watercolors, color pencils, white acrylic

A newborn 20!

A small card i did for a friend's bdae...
(scanner's throwing tantrums with me... so took a photo of the pic instead!) Done with gouache. Think i should buy some new paints... the white has dried up!

Patching the Sky

This pic was sketched out a few months back, but didn't really finish it till yesterday. Didn't know what medium to use for this one... After flipping a few watercoloring books, i was quite inspired by a particular technique which i went ahead with applying it to this painting, splattering and making a big mess of my table :p Took a few photos of it!



Had to cover up the areas that i didn't want the paint to get in... so I did a cut out of the girl's silouhette and used that as a cover. (Wanted to give up then.... :x)



...And after that, the clouds were painted by dabbing paint with a tissue paper.


I am quite pleased with the two effects, however... the picture still seems rather incomplete... Maybe too soft... and many many mistakes. But I didn't want to touch it anymore. The more i try to add on and correct, the worse it will get...so gonna leave it as it is.

Medium: watercolors, color pencils, white gouache, signo gold pen on watercolor paper

HongDouDou

A friend requested a pic of hongdoudou, a former guild member of the guild my archer is currently in. I tried my hand at drawing her character before, but failed... When I lift the pencil to draw, I was stuck with the question: 'what is doudou's personailty...?' As she left shortly after i joined, I didn't get to know her well.

Think..see..ask... drag drag drag... settle!

Her name meant something more than a 'red bean'... so, decided to add in the un-maple element of saga seeds (yea..those red dots there..) The few who i showed the pic to couldn't figure out what they were ...T.T (shi bai arrrr). Until i said 'her name is hongdoudou' did they go 'oooo'.


From doudou's guild blog:

红豆生南国，春来发几枝，
愿君多采摘，此物最相思

A ranger's life for me...

Whew...long time no update, as usual. XD Zardas is now at lv 79.... guess the exp bar will be crawling at a snail's speed these times. Done with watercolors. Still awed by the rich colors of the new set i've bought. Just a tiny dab of paint and it's so....><

Flash-er in the making...

Hmmm.... a week and two days since i started working... and things are quite ok. Still trying to et used to macromedia flash tho. It's similar to illustrator in some ways, but the pen tool in flash is definitely unfriendly...



Did a short 3 page comic when i came back yesterday, about me and flash... or Flasher... haha. Lame-o. XD

On the fifth day of work, my poly fren gave to me...

Went out with Huiying today. It's always a pleasure to hang out with her, chatting about the things I've missed out over the weeks. Thought a nice little meet would be good before her uni studies start in august, never knew I end up having a little belated b-dae surprise there. Went back and read the card she gave me. It was a little card decorated with simple doodles of sunflowers, in oil pastel (something, I guess, she has recently been in touch with since she is teaching little kids art.) Somehow, it kind of inspired me to pick up crayons again...XD

Just a simple picture, and yea, quite a bunch of mistakes, but just wanna forgo the human idea of perfection for now. I have hardly done any doodles over the past few weeks, not to mention a fully rendered piece, reason... maybe afraid or braindead... or lazy XD

Two Idiots

Two buddies...Two self-acclaimed idiots XD

Hai Nan there and back~

Yeap, went to hai nan dao a few days ago. It was a 5 day tour with my relatives and grandma. Went all over the island, visited many tourist attractions. The weather is really hot, however, when one stands in the shade, it feels very cooling, unlike the stuffy weather of Singapore. The sea is really blue too~ This drawing is inspired by the beaches there.

Lately have been feeling rather lerthargic... Wanted to draw some pictures, yet halfway through, just feel like stopping. Maybe I should change what I draw nowadays... :)

Zack and Zora

Something I did sometime back for an art trade. I kind of enjoyed doing this one, combining watercolors and color pencils for the first time in manga drawing back then. So much that I decided to do a real trade with the person. Yeap, the original picture is now in her hands, and hers in mine :)

Something really old...

Sis was flipping my old stuff last nite for some drawings to deco her file... Ended up finding many many old stuff XD

::done when I'm 10? Haha... this was a character from the second anime I've watched, and was my fav childhood anime~


::this one was one a little story I came up with when I was 12... Done a year later, but was never coloured. Don't think I'll refine it anymore... XD::



Posting more old stuff soon :)

Julliant

I had this pose and scene set in mind for sometime, but never really quite got the right character to fit in. Initially thought of mages, but their clothes covered the silhouettes too much. Until I saw a pic posted by a forummer. Man, why didn't I think about a bowman in ades? So did a sketch of it, and rendered it out. Named after the forummer's character.

I <3 U

A pic I did for valentines day. Done with gouache and a bit of color pencils. The coloring was done in consecutive 7 hours...which resulted in a wrist-ache for 2 days. :p

And a little aftermath~

Dragzer

 A pic of someone else's character in msea. Done with Copics and pastel.

Yea~

Yeap, created a little space for my drawings. Dun feel like posting in DA or FAC anymore... Just want a space for my own viewing pleasure. :) So now.....

 

Haha, yeap. My ranger when he was lv 69. Nooby looking~ Medium: Pen