Hi all. As promised, this will be the first monthly update of the Tales project!
[For all who don't know, Tales Project is a collection of drawings that I will be doing on the characters from the Tales series! The characters are mainly the good guys...(Sorry bad guys...>_<) This project is something I started 2 years ago to motivate myself to study but unfortunately it did not help, thus was stopped. Thinking it is a waste, I decided to continue it!]
The first update will be on the first series, Tales of Phantasia!
Can't say I have played this game but the characters certainly appeal to me! Considering that Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X is part of TOP, I also included the two main characters from that series!
Without further ado, here are the 8 pieces of drawings from TOP series!
Cless Albane
Mint Adenade
Chester Barklight
Arche Klein
Klarth F. Lester
Suzu Fujibayashi
Dio
Mell
All these are done 2 years back... I did not upload them, thinking I should upload all after I'm done with the project itself... However, there will be too many drawings by that time; uploading them at once will just require more than a day to finish... In addition, Tales series is a continual series; it will keep continuing, hence there will be no end until the series stop or take a break. In a way, this can be called a project that has no end? From my progress, I should be able to finish until Tales of Xillia in this year . And then I can take a break and await for the new series, Tales of Zestiria to develop!
Right now, my current progress can be seen on my DA account. Here's the LINK!
The next update will be on Tales of Destiny! Look forward to it, alright? Ja ne~ This is Will signing off!
Hi all! This week's post will be on some minor updates on the completed one-shot manga I did, The Price To Pay& The Guilt Within.
This is the design notes I made for the warrior char in the DN one-shot manga, the guilt within.
The following will be the full set for the one-shot manga, the price to pay.
I made a coloured cover and added a design notes for the manga. I know this manga had been uploaded before but for those who missed it or do not know, you can now read them with the full version!
To tell the truth, I tend not to do design notes. However, in conjunction with an upcoming project I am planning to do, I think it should be done and with the cover as well! Must be wondering what project I am starting? It is nothing much but simply a book, compiled with all the one-shot manga I had done and will be doing! Though I feel so enthusiastic about it, the book is far from done... With just this two manga, I only have 10 pages at most... It can't even be made into a book yet... Sigh...
Currently, I am working on another one-shot manga which will be much longer than before though I am currently struck as to how I should start and end it...Sigh...
Moving on to updates on Tales Project. First series of drawings(From TOP) will be uploaded in the coming week, both on the blog and Deviantart!.Please look forward to it! Currently, I am at the forth series with about one-third done... This series should be done by the following week before I take a small break.
NOTE: There won't be any updates in the coming weekends due to CNY...
See ya in the next post which will be in either of the weekdays. Ja ne! This is Will signing off~
Hi all! As said, I was busy in the weekend. In actual fact, with regards to the coming festival, I was helping my aunts making CNY goodies, pineapple tarts! It was fun helping and best of all, I was glad I was of a help to them!
After spending almost the whole day (from 1000 to 2000), the pineapple tarts were finally done and packed! Look forward to eating them over the week and during the CNY!
This is a small and quick update. I'll end off now and until next week, ja ne~ This is Will signing off!
A while ago, I was a lvl 45 swordmaster who finally reached the stage of my next advancement. Like any player, I get excited from being able to upgrade my character! However, unlike maplestory where a character only needs to choose once in his job advancement, dragon nest allows player to choose from two jobs under the swordmaster's next advancement, Gladiator and Moonlord...
Before this, I chose to be a warrior since I liked close combat type of char! Then, at lvl 15, it was a choice between swordmaster and mercenary. As a sword-loving person, I chose swordmaster without even researching on either of the classes. With that, I trained as a swordmaster until this level, level 45 for my next advancement! Okay, now comes the hard past: which one to choose? OR rather, which one is the better one?
To say the truth, I had no answer to my questions. I just simply went and did the quests for my advancement and man, the quest of 'Defend against Velskud' was the hardest.- (I was at loss at first when he attacked and then when I attacked, it did nothing to him. It took all my 5 lives at once since I did not know that you just have to damage him a bit to succeed...) After that quest, it was the last stage of the advancement. At there, my char met Geraint who was supposed to be dead(Great to see him again though...) and I get to try out the skills of both Gladiator and Moonlord! It was nice of DN to let player try out the skills of the two jobs before making a choice.
In the end, after much debate and thinking, this is my answer:
Not sure whether this is the right choice though I think there is no right or wrong choice; both classes are great in their own ways and also, this is a game meant for people to have fun. It wouldn't be too much of a fun if one being calculating of which job is better than the other... That's why though I feel a little sad that the class I choose was said as bad in the forum and the other was the better one, I won't regret my choice! I'm playing for the fun of Dragon Nest!
Considering the fact that the level cap is at level 60, I think I will keep training this char of mine until that level before moving on to the other char I created, thinking I can transfer stuff from char to char like maplestory... My other char's name is DesFate, a Kali.-since she's the other close range user after warrior until assassin class comes in!
And, that's about it! I may not be posting in the weekend since I will be busy...Until then, ja ne! This is Will signing off!
At last, I had finished this manga as promised. This one of the few manga that I actually added the shading since I normally got lazy in adding the shading effect... In addition, I also made the coloured cover to add to the finishing touch of this manga!
Cover of the manga
First, here's the drafts I did before finalising the manga to the last stage!
The first row is the very first stage which I showed in my previous post in which the manga is drawn in a H pencil for easy editing to it before the inking start. The second row is after the inking but before erasing the pencil marks. After erasing or cleaning up the manga, the shading comes in and...
Ta da, the manga is done!
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3 (love this page with all the characters!)
Page 4
Artist's Notes:
Basically, this story is adapted from a MMORPG game called Dragon Nest. Inspired by the end of chapter 5 of the main quest in which Geraint died, I made this story according to how the player (in this case, a warrior) would feel guilty, being somewhat responsible for Geraint's death... This story talks about how the warrior could not move on and end up blaming himself too much that he fails to see what's ahead until a third party shows him the way. In a way, one should never be caught up in the past or else he/she will just push the present away and miss out the future! PS: Geraint may seem OOC in this manga...
This manga has already been uploaded in deviantart with detailed description of each page. Hope all enjoy this one-shot manga!
Hi all! I mentioned before that I was working on my Keyblade and yes, it is finally and kinda done!
With the chain placed, the Keyblade is done though it still requires some touch-up at the end. Due to my yellow paint had ran out, I need to buy a new one to finish up the touch-up before it is finally really done! This project is the first successful anime weapon I made but not the first weapon I made; rather the third one in line of my weaponry. Still, the first weapon I made, a black sword, is still my favourite out of all with this Keyblade being the second! I'm thinking of making another sword; a two-handed broadsword to be exact! However, due to the lack of materials, I may have to hold it back for a while...
Moving on, recently I've started playing a MMORPG game called Dragon Nest. It is a 3D type of game with a total of 6 jobs currently. After playing a while, I am addicted to it. The gameplay is great with nice graphic and monster designs. The music used isn't bad too. However, what really attracted me to the game is not the gameplay or the music, rather it is the story! Unlike Maplestory(in the earlier version...), Dragon Nest has a story that make the player as if he/she is the main character while he/she does jobs, helping the NPCs and unveiling the darkness lurking in the game! As the game name said, the bosses of the bosses are the dragons. I've not reached the stage to be able to go to a Dragon Nest but I can imagine it is not a boss I can solo on... Maybe it is my personality or something, just like Kirito in SAO, I am a lone player; going to dungeons alone to complete quests, even it means I've to go to abyss mode...Alone...
Just this week, I just finished chapter 5 of the main quests(still a long way to go...) and...
(SPOILERS TO PLAYERS WHO HAD NOT FINISHED CHAPTER 5...)
When I saw Geraint died, being stabbed by the beast and then it was revealed to be a plot by that fake bishop, I can't help but feel sad though I've long known about this; Still, the feel there is just... Too sad... In memories of that scene, I made a 4 pages long one-shot manga on the guilt I or rather my character has and how he move on from it...
Here are the drafts and as said, they are drafts so I used H pencil to draw them thus they are kinda light... I'll upload the completed ones by the next week, both in this blog and deviantart!
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
This 4 pages long manga drafts took me the whole afternoon and night to finish them since there were researches to be made on some parts of the manga itself... This manga was quite an accomplishment for me. First, I managed to draw a Geraint's sword in which the design is quite complicated but great and match Geraint well! Next, I was able to draw Geraint without much of a problem and lastly, this is greatest achievement; I actually drawn all current classes' characters! It was an experience and man, it is hard to find a good image of Kali in her oufit...(I got to base a little of my imagination to draw her...)
From Left to Right: Cleric, Academic, Archer, Warrior, Assassin(Newest Job), Kali and Sorceress
With the drafts done, the next part is kinda the most important and also the second hardest!-That is the the inking part of the manga! This part determines whether all the hard work I did in my drafts would pay off or not! If I made any small mistakes of inking or rather outlining the wrong parts, then it is over...(Though it depends on the mistakes since there are some that could be undone by correction fluid... Still, it is a bit ruined...) Also, in this stage of the manga, the most tedious job is in it and that is to erase all the pencil markings... Yes, it is simple but tiring... Sigh... After this stage, it will be the touch-ups of shading which is also tedious...
In addition, I'm thinking of making a cover for the manga with colours on but no promises... This manga should be done by next week! Please look forward to it!
Last but not least, the Talesproject! Not sure if I've mentioned this, I decided to continue this project that I started 2 years ago... This project is basically a collection of drawings done by yours truly of all Tales series' characters. Currently, I've only finished two series with the third series three quarters done! Considering that the drawings done will accumulated to a lot, I decided to upload each series' drawings monthly, on the last week of each month, both on the blog and deviantart! Again, look forward to it!
With that, it's time to end off with Dragon Nest music! This is the new BGM for Saint Haven! It is called Day of Destiny! Enjoy~
See ya in the next post! This is Will signing off!
Regrets... I'm sure everyone has at least one in life and I am no exception. Regrets are matters that we fail to do right(in our opinion) in that particular situation and in that particular moment or time. These regrets tend to haunt us back in some point in time, reminding us of the failures we had that we wished so badly that we could rewind back time to set them right; they eat us up and make us bitter people yet at the same time it also makes one a better person by not making the same mistake(assuming the person really learned his/her mistake...).
Life is full of choices and a choice has no straight right or wrong; all choices have their pros and cons. And, this is where one has the duty to choose the choice they think is right or the most sensible in their opinions. As the saying goes, it is the moment of decision that shapes one's destiny. Considering one can never go back but move forward, every choices made could easily affect how our future routes will be and the choices that we felt we made wrong due to a moment of impulse, lead to regrets that in turn eat us up.In a way, it is vicious cycle once a person made a wrong choice...
I've many regrets due to the wrong choices I made along the way and when I look back and think about them, it kinda made me feel all stupid, frustrated, annoyed, sad, depressed, angry of what me at that time had done...Sigh... It sucks to think back yet these are all part of my past memories that I've accumulated over the years. Given a choice to forget them all to save the sufferings, will I make this choice? I doubt so since such a choice is just a form of escape; it does not resolve the problem that I feel regretful of the wrong choices I made along the way.
One may feel regretful of the things he/she did and the choices he/she made yet at the same time, this is a part of growing up to weight the options available before making a choice and be proud of it; make the choice with no regrets of whatever so as we never know what the future holds!
Okay, that's was a random thought I've on regrets while I was thinking back during my ride to my relative house. This is just a small post to pen some thoughts. Next post will be the updates.
This will be an additional post before I take a break. Together with the magazine, I also bought a Gundam Stand for my Build Strike Gundam, seeing that Gundam Age 2 has one, I guess it is fitting that Build Strike has one too!
The parts...
Came along with the box. Some campaign in which if the code on the card is chosen, the prize that the owner of this card chose will his/her!
The stand is the GP base which start the technology that enable players to use their Gunpla like Gundam to fight! And after finishing it...
It looks very similar to the one in the anime!
GP base is set as a base for the Gundam that allow the Gundam to pose any way as if it is flying!
I kinda regretted not buying this stand in Japan though the fact that if I bought in Japan, I wouldn't have the New Year Campaign card to enter!
And here's another display of my Gundams with the stand placed! Now Build Strike is the tallest...
In addition, the GP base can also be used to store the card I gotten in my Build Strike Gundam Box!
Remember this card?
Lastly, if I ever don't want to use the base as a stand, the GP base still looks cool and similar to the one in the anime! It is as if I got a stand for my Gundam and an anime merchandise from Gundam Build Fighters!
With that, I'll end off now and see ya in the next post which will probably be in the weekends. What to expect in the next post will be likely be on my Keyblade project I guess...
魔法少女リリカルなのは Innocent 12話; DUEL 12: Growing Elements
Nice to see Nanoha change her hairstyle from twintails to her side ponytail in Strikers! (Kinda make her look more mature!)
Precia being Precia, taking photo of her daughter, Alicia... I think Lindy going to get her soon...
Alisa and Fate training with Signum
Got a feel of VitaXAlisa and FateXSignum...
Suzuka is playing chess with Hayate to improve her strategic thinking!
As expected, Hayate won! (After all, this girl is a future commander!) Nice to see that Suzuka more fired up to learn!
Training paid off!
Rematch!
Nicely done by Alisa to separate the opponents! I see that Fate has improved her speed much better!
One down!
Got a feel that the large sword will be something that trigger off Zanber Mode in Bardiche...
Moving on to Nanoha and Alicia's side... As expected of Alicia, giving the final blow to the dying opponent!
Nanoha has something planned! Nice to see that she is picking up things again from Fate! If I was Alicia, I would also be surprised; letting a direct hit to yourself...
When I saw this, I was like stunned. Nanoha is really full of surprises, huh? She actually changed her elements from sacred to lightning! Badass Nanoha is here! Though black outfit made her look a little evil... Wonder if the other casts can do the same?- Maybe Fate in sacred form?
As the title, growing elements, suggested, Nanoha actually managed to acquire a different form! As to what changes the form will have, need to see the next chapter to find out! Maybe Nanoha would have lightning speed like Fate and with her strong defence... I think she just became a near prefect mage without much flaws... This is quite an interesting idea! It is as if Nanoha just absorbed the lightning element magic and managed to acquire lightning form which probably could use lightning magic. I must say the author is starting to make this series much trilling and pumped up than ever for me as a reader to look forward to in the next chapter! I think this design of Nanoha's barrier jacket in black is inspired of the one of the MGLN innocent game card!
And, this post concluded the 2-parts special for all MGLN fans! Hope all enjoy! There will be an additional post of a showcase before I bid all farewell until the next post!
