Dear everyone,

I've decided to discontinue this account, and start over with a new account.

It has been a fantastic two years plus here with everyone, and the DA community has been an amazing support for my art.

I've decided to move for a few reasons: This account is quite unfocused, and my new account will be entirely drawing-dedicated, in a bid to improve my art further.

I've also accumulated a massive backlog of unread messages and deviations, and I'm sorry to everyone about that. I do greatly appreciate all the faves and comments and watches. Thank you all for everything.

Hopefully, with the start of a new account, I'll be able to better keep track of everything and everyone. I'll be slowly adding watches and faves over the next few weeks... Assignment crunch time atm.

So...so long and thanks for all the fish...

Thank you thank you all for everything!!!

...and see you on the other side...

[NEW ACCOUNT]

My new laptop is sexeh! It's been way too long without a computer that doesn't lag, and I'm enjoying every moment of it.

Vista is pretty cool, but eats up too much processing power, so I'm having it run in minimal mode.

Now to save up for the bag and peripherals, and in the long run, a tablet.

I'll be getting Photoshop CS2 from a friend tomorrow. After that, the serious learning and improving begins.

After a semester of creative writing class, I'm kinda sick of it all, especially since creative writing is highly subjective. I did learn quite a bit though, but for now, short snappy journalism writing shall be my focus. One sem left before I'm out in the scary world!


On another note...I'm having trouble dragging fellow friends to this year's Wai-con. Meh.

Keokepa (no DA account, although he does lurk) will be going back to Singapore this year, and there goes the only big enough geek I know in Perth who would go to Wai-con.

And oh the audacity...but I was hoping to trade this year IF I can make enough high quality pieces in time, now that I have the processing power...

Most of my other friends are either going overseas or are too "normal" to attend these type of conventions... *sigh*

And if Keo decides to make props for me to trade, I'll wail, because how can I find fellow traders to man the stall if I can't even find people to go?

Oh wait. I can think of two or three people who WILL go. I'm going to harass them for the next few months to make sure they turn up muahahaha.

Half the year's gone... Happy mid-year, everyone!

Okay, I need to reacquaint myself with the emoticons and formatting on DA...

I've been away for quite a stretch...again. Real life is a bitch. I even had to shut down my main blog coz I've been too busy...

Thank you to everyone who've watched me/faved me/commented on my stuff while I was gone. I LOVE you all so very much. I really do. All your comments/faves really encourage me to keep on going as an artist.

Anyway, my current computer is reaching the end of its lifespan, and I'm here typing hoping that it won't crash on me in the next five minutes or so before I click the publish button.

My current PC is four years old and very limiting anyway (Celeron Processor... 256 RAM...), hence I cannot run Photoshop on it.

And...I'm getting a brand new laptop soon!!!!!!! WOOT~ Being employed part time and still near broke(bills bills and more bills), I now love my parents very much.

The new laptop I'm hunting for WILL definitely be capable of running high end graphics programs, which means that I can finally get started on Photoshop for real. I know...I'm lagging behind with the rest of the digital art world...

Plus...I'll finally be able to finish Warcraft 3 because I won't get a lag at crucial moments... Heh...

Whee~

I've started learning how to use Photoshop on my uni computers, so a new picture will be up in about two or so weeks. Prelude to a webcomic I'm starting when I get all my tools up and running.

Until then, domo arigato minna-san for still being here even though I know I haven't.

I'm going to forget about doing a proper coverage of Wai-Con. Raymond has done a much better job of that here.

So here is what I thought of Wai-Con in the shortest way I can think of.

It was my first ever convention. Yes, I was a noob there. If only Kuching had this kind of stuff... It was interesting to see many people who are so into anime and manga gathered in one spot. And with so many people like that around, it's finally normal!

Geeks galore. I like that.

Plenty of artists. It was pretty cool to meet some people I've saw around DeviantArt in real life. It was even cooler to find out that there are plenty of people who are JUST LIKE ME! Whee~

Plenty of cosplayers.

The Kingdom Hearts group were COOL. Very COOL. Awesome costumes, awesome props.

The FF7 group were also COOL. And they make great art too. I think I spent the most money on their stall. And their mock FF style battle was hilarious.

The Naruto group was not bad too. Rock Lee was female, but also very very cool, especially on Day 2, when she did an individual performance that involved doing martial art moves to music. That was awesome, and beats the official martial arts presentation anytime.

And I was like "!!!!!!!!" when I actually recognised the techniques that Rock Lee used. It's been ages since I saw my style of Taekwondo being presented so neatly.

It was kinda like watching Rock Lee's match against Gaara in the Chuunin exam and feeling as if I understood the logic and philosophy behind it because I used to do martial arts.

And whee~ I entered the Impromptu Art competition on impulse, and got Honourable Mention (2nd place. The prize was a Gundam Seed Destiny DVD, and a Wai-Con cap. Hehe, happy happy. Didn't expect to even get that, because there were quite a few kickass artists there.


To check out all photo sets, go to my Flickr sets here:
Wai-Con Day 1
Wai-Con Day2

A variation of this post has also been put up on my main site, with thumbnails from my Flickr.


Going to Wai-Con really inspired me. I want to be a better artist and really focus my own work. I also want to be a better (and more organised) writer, so I can do a proper write-up on the next convention, and maybe get that pitched for publication.

And next year, I'll be prepared with batteries for my camera, so I won't be like "ARGHHH" when they die on me because I forgot to recharge them.

Also, I'm thinking of trading with my friend at next year's Wai-con. I'll probably just do prints (not of any of my stuff that I have here at the moment, because they're all really unfocused and unpolished), and my friend is thinking of selling minature display props.

I asked about it on the forums here, but I wanted to know if there would be a market for this minature props. He'll be making stuff like minature weapons from games and animes/mangas, and he's up for commission too. I've taken a look at some of his old props, and he's not bad.

So haha, do you all think that there would be a market for this kind of thing?

So I disappeared for another few months. Been awfully busy with uni, clubs and all, especially since I had a few shit-hit-fan things happen, and had to overload in uni. But all good.

Andandand, I went to Wai-Con 2006! Twas my first ever convention (coz I hail from a city that's pretty lagging behind in stuff like this), and it was a pretty awesome experience. I'll post up a link to the pictures soon, and a post on it, once I get down to getting those done.

The only place I've been active online is my main site, but the template for that is entirely gone now that I've upgraded to Blogger Beta. Am doing the background graphics for it right now, so hopefully the site will look just as pretty as it once did on the old Blogger.

I'm just happy to be back on DA. One awesome thing about going to Wai-Con was that I get to be surrounded by people just like me! It's just great to be around people who dig anime, manga and drawing. And that made me miss DA so much that I decided to make time in my busy life to come back.

I've been experimenting with a lot more inking in the time I was gone, but I haven't really produced any fantastic stuff worthy of posting up lately. But I'll upload some of the better ones in a while.

And I'm SO GLAD TO BE BACK!