Work in process

So much work ._.
Especially when I don't have anything else I'd rather do. I spent half the day sleeping even because I was so bored!
Well off to art classes to get the remains of my confidence/ego destroyed =P

*edit: OMG 100th post! =D

Rgveta

@deviantart


Amazing art. Love the Japanese print-style inspiration

Art post

Personal character design. Assassian of some sort? Arm blades ftw *0*
Fun, but I don't have use for her =(

What about your characters you wanted me to draw, Kath?

*edit: Oh right, I remembered why I decided to draw her. I was stalking Dora's gaia forum posts (hehe) earlier this week and realised she did a lot of roleplay. I decided I wanted to, seeing that I already do so much work for other people's characters. I think I lost interest again when I couldn't even come up with a name, let alone a bio. Too much hard work. And most roleplayers seem intimidating cause of their high standards =_=

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Geek designing bikini for his beauty: "I didn't think this bikini bottom was very flattering so I decided to cover it with long division flash cards" (and paint it green)

OH it's so bad O_O
Never watch it. Never never never

Afternoon snooze

How weird is that haha! (I desperately need sleep. I thought lost my glasses case when I subconsciously put it in my pencil case by accident) Sorry Kath that I couldn't come this afternoon, I didn't give my mum enough warning. She'd let me go, but I don't want to cause another fuss.

And Veronica, don't forget to call your grandpa when you're staying back at school! You know I can't speak Mando! It'll be awkward if I just walk past him without saying anything. haha

Book Review (without actually having read it)

Bella: "OOOH THIS IS SOO GOOD" O_O
She was referring the Vampire Academy series.

Ok, I won't bash it up as much as the Fallen series.

Vampire Academy, from memory, was one of the first vampire novels that came out after the success of twilight. I couldn't really be bothered taking note of it, because it looked like the same old stuff.

Firstly, upon reading the plot synopsis, I figured that, despite it's gothic themed cover and titles, it was merely an ordinary fantasy book in disguise. The only thing that made it fit in the circle of trash-gothic literature was the fact that the characters were vampires and it involved a typical "forbidden love" storyline.
Which might give it bonus points, but once being an avid fantasy reader, I wasn't gonna be easily impressed. However, I could see how it would be interesting to readers unfamiliar to this genre.

Audience? Well, it says young-adult. Take away the violence and near-sex and it's pretty tame.

Well, about characters. Anita would be shaking her head. A guardian-in-training( Rose), a princess of a dying Royal family and a super-hot Guardian teacher/mentor are the primary characters. (They're so basic that you could pluck them into another simple setting and they'd work) . Guardians (on research) can be described as vampire slayers. Ironically, they need to be half-vampire to do that. Mediocre,yes, but passable. At least they're not too overpowered and perfect. Seeing that I haven't read it, I don't know how well the characterization goes.

The summaries of the characters on the wikipedia page are pretty laugh-worthy. It sounds like a 12 year old's badly planned OC sheet:
"Dimitri Belikov - He is a well-respected twenty-four year-old Dhampir of Russian origin, from Siberia, assigned to be Lissa's Guardian along with Rose. Dimitri has a slight Russian accent, and likes old western novels. He is 6'7", has brown eyes, shoulder length hair a few shades lighter than Rose's dark brown hair, and tanned skin. He is sometimes described as a 'god', referring to his reputation as one of the most 'badass' guardians around. He is also Rose's mentor and love interest. He returns Rose's feelings but attempts to stay out of a relationship with her for most of the series, since it would interfere with his guardian duties."

So far, I give it a pass. But the major thing that really pulls my opinion of it down is the utter lack of development in setting and character. As a fantasy novel, even if it's set in a parallel world of our reality, there must be good design and detail. Since there's powers involved too, there must be explanation or theory as to how the powers work, if not context on their origins. Too much information is assumed since it's set in the US and their powers are simply elemental (that's terribly basic, even if the author chose to use the Wiccan version of the elements which involves "spirit" I mean come on, even Sailor moon had that before you).

The second thing that screws it is that the point of the books being in a series is rather useless. The climax is basically that Rose finally gets to be with her love interest and she finishes her Guardian training.

The one thing the author, Mead, did very well is appeal to the market and the typical teenager's love for drama, especially with the romantic tension (as cliche as it is)

Well, I guess it's a 5/10

Happy Birthday Whitney!

hehe

Random Glee character: OH! You're Filipino! Don't speak english right?


Are you serious? The Philippines were a American colony. They even still speak their native language with an American accent! And you say they don't speak English?

If I were Filipino, I'd be severely offended )=

List of superhuman abilities in fiction
It's an interesting read actually, and now that I've read them...it makes a few of the books I've read in the past seem bad. xD As well as a whole range of characters that I've come across.
There's many more that aren't listed there, but they're already similar spin-offs of other popular abilities.

My favorites would have to be mental projection(Ability to project one's consciousness/emotions into reality/astral plane) or illusion casting, power mimicry, empathy, matter manipulation and probability manipulation(those two seem a little overpowered don't you think?). Haha, some of those could come in handy. ;P

Procrastination Wins

yeahyeah
I finished the rest with gimp. Who cares about homework. We shouldn't even have any on the first day of term four! x__x

Sai painter

is soo cool *__*
I just downloaded it. I still need gimp for accurate fixing though )=
I think the thing I like about Sai is that it has realistic brush textures of traditional media. It's a lot more basic than gimp/Photoshop though.

You should like it Veronica. It's popular with manga artists and like I said it has the realistic brush textures of watercolour, pen etc...

Happy Bday Carrie!

I tried my best hehe =)

Missed it all

Checking emails is not my thing Dx
Reading chains hurt my brain.

Butbutbut, I'll be coming tomorrow! (haha, watching Despicable me again!)
Why didn't you tell me today wen I came to your house Veronica? ):

Eeep

I'm getting a new art teacher (Jo: What! Again?) =PPP

This guy's studio is in the QVB: John Chen. His group of artists do custom portraits from photos or sittings. It's funny, because apparently my mum had an eye on him for while but didn't feel like she should ask. I would either cause I'm blown away by his pro-ness O_O
I'm not even sure whether or not I'm just a waste of time. He's gonna "look" at my skill levels. GAHHH. I only started doing portraits formerly...err...ed of last term! I only have one piece of art to show him! Cause everything I do is digital because I'm too lazy to hunt for my pencils and paints!

/stressstressstress

Funny side note: Mum tried to communicate with him in Canto cause his surname was Chen (spelling is significant here) He didn't speak a word of Canto. Haha!

Serious side note: Jo, don't tell your art teacher I'm leaving. I don't want him to get offended because he was so excited for me to start oil painting. Don't worry though, I might come back!

Today's lesson

Good children;
Don't waste your money on copics before you see what simple watercolour can do.




Credits: Ecthelian@Deviantart

My inspiration for the next commission I'm working on:
I'm going for something painty and colourful...I don't know how successful I'll be because these are done with traditional media

Same artist here:

Tribal

lalala~~~

Welcome back internet

and welcome back blogging. Will upload stuff after art classes ;D