Weekly Updates: MA Fanart, LL proj. START~

I decided to do the weekly update earlier.

Million Arthur Fanart; [ScholarvsOriginal] series

Decided to continue by doing the rest of the right hand man/woman for techno smith and sorcery king; Gawain and Galahad respectively.

As Mordred also has a scholar version, he will be the last version I will be doing for this series before moving to working with the arthur chibi versions. (will upload ltr this week~)

The 2 artworks are uploaded on my available social media; (insta&twitter) and art communities; (Deviantart&Pixiv).

Love Live Keychain Project

I've decided to give the go-ahead for this project:

 Link: https://carousell.com/p/20055227/

Of course, request can also be made at any of the platforms(social media/art communities). For now, I only accept pre-orders since this is like a trial out of whether this project will work; not going to mass produce until I see how this mini business will go.

I'm considering of selling as stickers as well(and if I can find a way to make badges, I will want to do it...) As it is, all I can do is wait and see. It's likely that I can only do this during my break; no time during my school time. In other words, I only gt about 2 months to try out before stopping and when my next break comes, see how is it before re-opening the pre-orders...

My Life so far~

In another 4 days, my results will be out and once again, I'll have to face my reality. While break gives me freedom from school, I can't be free forever... I can run but I can't hide away from the truth and the way to go is move forward, telling myself to be brave to face the future.

In addition, my mini job's starting next week as well. Just so happen the day of release of results is on my working day so I'll have be checking after work which means more time before truth sets in but I rather gets it over with... Oh well... Let's hope this job will run smoothly for me!

Moving from the slight gloomy stuff, good news that it is confirmed that I'll be going to Jap in July!(XD) It will be a short trip but nonetheless, I'm more than glad to be able to visit this heaven again!

And before that, there are the anime events lined up in June! Can't wait for them!

Lastly, recently watched RWBY volumes 1 and 2 plus Aldnoah Zero Season 1. I must say I wish I watched both series earlier; they are both great!

I now get why RWBY is famous; despite the animation, I think the story lines are interesting with much emphasis on char development and the music are great as well plus the humor inside(the food fight ep still get me laughing whenever I watch it!)

As for Aldnoah Zero, the plot is interesting and I find the theme of misunderstanding over used but I think that's the whole idea or concept that the show wants to convey.
However, despite the fact that Terrans are at a disadvantage, I find Inaho a bit too... Godly? I mean if he wasn't there, it will be an one-sided war yet just his presence alone is enough to get rid of so many orbital knights... He's much like Kira but a much... Stronger one...(At least Kira does lose a few times and not win in almost every match...)

Also, I think at the beginning when the princess and Inaho was talking about the reason why the sky and sea are blue, the princess said it was from the refraction of light(as said by Slaine) but Inaho said it was not; saying princess' friend(Slaine) was wrong. This very thing intrigued me since in season 2(I watched a bit of the spoilers) that in the end, what Slaine did was wrong and lost to Inaho who was right. (Plus the ep where Inaho and Slaine fight together, Inaho did say Slaine is his enemy...)

TBH, I prefer Slaine over Inaho even though Inaho's thinking amazed me but too much until it doesn't seem like a typical human... While Slaine's thinking is slightly towards the clever side but still within the human thinking ability, esp. in a battlefield. However, I think the show is towards Inaho and the princess instead and seeing Slaine's loyalty towards the princess is really admirable yet can't be seen by the princess herself while the princess kept being indebted to Inaho... This complicated triangle of relationship...

It's sad to know season 2 ending...But before jumping to conclusion, I will watch the season and form my own thoughts as to whether the ending is justified.

That's about it. Oh yeah, almost forget; for [Just A Dream], I am still busy working on it and as of now, I just reached the half way mark(20th page). The progress will be a little slow as I'm losing ideas of how to draw the story out(that's why choose to work on MA for a while...) Just need to re-think of how I should go about drawing the story. I'm hoping I can finish the drafts by (latest) the end of June. Once again, follow my twitter to follow this project's progress.

This is Yaiji signing off, ja ne~

Yaiji~    

Ramblings of a certain Uni student: Reason for choosing that course~

Not sure if I've talked about this before but recently, met with my secondary school friends to participate in one of my friends' graduation before having dinner with them. Considering that most of secondary school friends are either in University or going to University, we tend to talk about University's stuff.

I've mentioned quite a few times that I am now pursuing a degree in engineering and well... My friends who haven't entered University, will ask the same questions like 'how is it?' 'Is it tough?' 'What do you learn there?' and etc... And if you've asked the past me, I would say tough and that answer doesn't change even until now; after all, all the University courses have their own tough points; there's no easy course.

As for friends who have entered University... There was one friend(+ another who have yet entered) asked if choosing engineering was what I wanted. That one Uni friend who asked, continued saying I was the type who would have chosen an art course than a science course. I don't blame her for thinking that way(since I kept posting my artwork on insta...) and I sometimes ask myself that when some engineering modules are hard to cope.

Tbh, I really wanted to go for an arts course and that want intensified in that 1 year of engineering. I realised that my true passion lies in arts and not science but that is not saying that I've no passion for science; it's just that my passion in arts surpassed science.

However, that's how I feel b'cos I took the science path... If I've chosen arts... Would I have wished to be in the science path instead? That remains a question but there is one thing I'm sure(or you can say 80% sure) that if I've chosen arts course, I may end up hating arts due to the assignments and deadlines to meet.- And that, take away the joy of drawing in my opinion.

Yet again, I think I mentioned before that I'm a type that require inspiration to draw.- If not, I may end up unproductive(which is part of the cause of why [Just A Dream] Re-edit was progressing slowly...) And if I've assignments that I may/may not like and deadlines to meet which take away my freedom, then I may no longer see art as my hobby anymore... That is something I fear the most as I treasure my drawing skills highly; to turn it into something I hate is the worst that could happen...

As to why I took engineering out of all courses besides arts, I would say I love creating stuff. DIY is my fave and when I see interesting DIY, I feel tempted to buy them and do.- It's a challenge to build and most important is the fun in doing DIY! And when I answered, 'b'cos I love creating stuff'', my friend just give me a slight 'eww' face(since she doesn't like such thing, haha)

Right now, I'm having a love & hate relationship with engineering; having fun doing experiments yet at the same time, all those theories to read and exams to do, stress me out; can't wait for year 3 when I will choose my specialisation and finally getting down to 'business' before working on my Final Year Project in year 4. Before I know it, I would have graduated and gonna step into the real working world till this body breaks(just kidding XD)

That's why I feel that one should treasure his/her time while it lasts and also with his/her loved ones- this is one of the reasons why I don't want to stay in dorm.(Another reason is the cost plus other reasons which I don't think I want to start another ramblings on that.)

Had wanted to pen my thoughts down since my meet up with my friends and just today, while working on a wip(will show final work here but get a hint from either my twitter/insta), I can't help rmb the conversion I've with my friends over why I choose engineering.
That's it then, this is Yaiji signing off, ja ne~

Yaiji~

Updates on LL Proj, [Just A Dream] Re-Edit & the days to come~

Love Live Keychain Project

Both front and back designs are done. About the extra Honoka char that I wanted to do, I have not thought of what will be good. 

Due to 'certain' circumstances(actually it's cos I spent much time on [Just A Dream] Re-Edit...), the project will be delayed and be done by only at the end of this week... So, the first batch of 9 will be completed latest next week if there's no more complications... 

Colouring should be done in later part of this week(likely to be Wednesday/Thursday). 

In addition, I've gotten some transparent stickers to add as the lamentation for the keychains: 

  

[Just A Dream] Re-edit

Current draft pages done: 14 

Planned pages: 17

To make things easy for me, I've splitted the chapter into a few parts;

• PART 1(Introduction) : Pages 1-7
• PART 2(The New Student) : Pages 8-17(planned; subject to changes)
• PART 3(Befriending) : Yet to decide the no. of pages
• PART 4(That which is a dream) : Yet to decide the no. of pages

The parts themselves are quite self-explanatory. 

This revamp version is close to the first version but with some changes that I initially wanted to add but like I said before, I rushed to finish and ended up not drawing what I really wanted(much like Haru...) 

All in all, I revamp b'cos I was unsatisfied with the first version...

From the progress I am moving, there's a chance that this break I've, will be fully used for this revamp project; Tales project Revamp may have to put on hold till my next break... 

FYI(& said before): all progress of [Just A Dream] Re-edit will be posted on my twitter; not going to post my drafts here...

Talking about my break...

I've seen my schedule for my next semester and well... I'm going to be very busy so this break could be only time to do my own thing; doubt I could 'work' when school starts... Even so, I think I can afford some time to work on some mini fanart when I am really bored from studying. 

Aside from the gloomy thing, next month(June) is packed with full of anime events; 

1. there's Gundam Expo that lasts almost the whole month
2. Funan Matsuri that lasts a week, with anime stuff and activities 
3. Chara Expo; 2 days and I think it is like a mini AFA

Can't wait for these events! Also, I am starting my small job next week. Going to be slight busy?
And, (Not sure if it is confirmed) I may be going on a 3 days 2 nights trip to Japan in July!-Going to there to do some shopping... And it's my first time going during summer; wonder if it is as hot as I am feeling right now...

That's about it then. I think I forget about working on my Million Arthur Fanart... Maybe I will work on it when I feel like it?- Since there's still a need of more fanart before I can make into a book. 

This is Yaiji signing off, ja ne~

Yaiji~   

Is being soft a weakness?

WARNING: Random ramblings- if you don't want to be annoyed by the writing of a certain low esteem person, please turn back now!

So then, is being soft a weakness? First, my definition of soft: I dislike hurt; tend to try not to hurt more so than getting hurt myself. 

One example is when I am being offered something and I don't want that thing. I want to reject the offer yet... I can't bear to from just thinking that the person who offered will be disappointed... And when I think if I am the one who offered, do I want ppl to reject me? 

However, I know I was being naive to be thinking this way... There's bound to be rejections, be it whether I normally don't reject or that I try my best to convince the person to take the offer. 

B'cos it's either you at the losing end or me at the losing end and naturally, ppl themselves choose the most beneficial way yet I am the opposite; the self-sacrificing type. And this act of me has caused a lot of regrets in my life...

In this sense, I was like Kaneki Ken from Tokyo Ghoul. And the scene where Rise was talking to Kaneki in Jason Arc that being self-sacrificing is not an act of kindness but an act of weakness. And thus b'cos of that, Kaneki's love ones may die from that. 

And well, I do understand the different degree of kindness and there's a limit that one should go before he/she is too late and regret it for life... Yet it's also easy to misunderstood kindness... 

Helping a criminal who is your family to escape is not an act of kindness or an act of destruction.-You're not helping; you're just prolonging the criminal's misery... 

Remaining friendly to the girl when you know the girl likes you and you don't yet you feel bad rejecting her, is not an act of kindness but rather, rejecting her upfront is a form of kindness for her to move on from this never-meant-to-be love.

I know all these differences yet as the saying goes, action speaks louder than words; I can't (reject) do it or that sometimes, I try to reject but I think I was too soft; not hard enough so the one who offered tried even harder to persuade me when in my mind, I know I don't want but actions are showing another thing... And when I think about it, I feel kinda... Annoyed and also pathetic of how bullied I was by these ppl who offered. It's like my kindness to try rejecting you, is being taken advantage of and I hate it. 

However, this is how the real world going to be and in a few years, I will be stepping into it. I suppose I should become more 'hard' in my approach to reject; b'cos it's either me or you who lose out- there's no way for the both of us to win. It's how selfish the world is...

Aside from this part of me being soft, (I think) it was after my JC that I try not to kill living things, especially insects that disturb me when crawling or flying near my work space... In the past, I did not care; see ants- must kill but now I just let them go or flick them off. Maybe watched too many cartoons or what but I was thinking of if I killed this ant that just happened crawling on my table when I am doing my work, wouldn't its family be sad? 

You must be thinking I am cazy(and I think I am, a little) but it's quite similar to the concept behind Attack on Titan. Just imagine yourself as ant and the titan being humans; It's similar but of course with much differences like how cos Titans are eating humans so naturally humans have to fight back to survive.(which is very different from the relationship of an ant to a human; ants are just annoying to humans)     

I carried on this belief that each living thing is unique and they have feelings, blah blah for a while until I realised that maybe I should just kill... It's like despite letting the ants off, they kept coming back to the pt I feel it is a little out of hand. And once again, I feel that those ants are trampling on my kindness to let them live and I hate it! While they mean no harm, when there are too many of them, the situation may get out of hand and to control it is to kill when you see one. 

Anyway, insects like ants and cockroaches are known to reproduce a lot and so, killing a few do not change much. And once again, it's either me or the insects at the losing end and this naturally does not have to think about. It's time I wake up.

Yet on the contrary, coming back to the topic; is being soft a weakness? I read stories where soft can be a good pt of a person yet they are stories which are in fantasy settings... I think being soft to a certain extent is fine but there are times one must be hard on things or else you'll regret for life.

And that's pretty much all my ramblings. Need to pen down after thinking much on this topic. There's no straight answer of 'Yes' or 'No' to the topic question b'cos the world is not black and white; it is grey. 

Will be doing my weekly update tmr. This post is just random ramblings~

This is Yaiji signing off, ja ne~

Yaiji~

200th post~ LL Project & [Just A Dream] Re-Edit Progess~

LOVE LIVE PROJECT; ANIME KEYCHAIN MAKING~

Yesterday, I did my first attempt at making an anime keychain; doing a Kotori Keychain as per my friend requested. It was bad; mostly cos of my bad planning(-.-) But thanks to the help and support from my family, I (somehow) managed to finish the keychain. It's not well done but it's decent(to me that is) and I thought my friends would think so but I suppose I was expecting too much...

I asked the friend who suggested if I want to set up an anime booth like those in anime conventions, first to get opinions and... I was met with a (rather hurting) disappointment... My friend said she doubt it can be sold and that itself hurts b'cos it means all my effort put in is of a waste(since it can't met the purpose) I felt hollow when I saw her comments... 

Next friend I asked was the only one who felt it was alright.-And that gives a little encouragement that this project isn't hopeless! 

After that, the other two friends I asked gave similar responses as the first friend(the last friend just said the picture resolution should be better...) 

In the end, I almost lost my motivation to continue this project but failure and disappointment are normal; since I only just started not long, maybe I should try longer or rather test the market before quitting. Like the 2nd yrs in Love Live, they met with disappointment that not many ppl turn up for their first live yet they didn't give up!-And I should see through this project to the end! 

Currently, I've 100 keychains in stock(from a pack) so these 100 keychains that I will be making will be the pioneer batch that will either crave a path forth or stop the whole thing. I am betting my all on these 100! 

For now, it is on hold since I lack of some materials plus the fact that I still couldn't come up with the back designs of Eli and Rin.

Part of my poor planning, I didn't think that the back requires some designs(Kotori's keychain back design was done on the spot...) and so for each char, there will be a different back designs! 

From the current back designs you see, if you've realised, Honoka has two designs so maybe thinking of making another Honoka Ver. for it. With 10 different designs, maybe it will easier to sell them?

And also, realised that the initial front designs did not have any background designs...

It was too plain and once again b'cos of my bad planning... And yes, again, Kotori's was background design was done on the spot and I was surprised that it turns out alright.-I was wracking my head out of ideas, to do the background design since designing is not my forte... 

So, deciding on that background design, I edited the front designs:

I'm thinking of colouring them before scanning but fear that the printed colours will be bad...Hmm... 

Regardless, for now, I am putting it on hold till I gt the materials I have and doing some planning & preparation. I'm hoping this project will run well!

[JUST A DREAM] RE-EDIT

• Started colouring the characters today; haven't decide the colours for the skirt and bag...
• Current progress: Pages 1-4 drafts & cover page done(quite a slow progress; mostly cos I was procrastinating too much-.-)
• All updates on this project will be posted on my Twitter; won't be putting the drafts here...  

[Just A Dream] Re-edit is moving slow(b'cos of me, sorry T.T). I kept putting it away and went to do other stuff... Will be picking up pace in this week. As for next week... It will depend much on the Love Live Keychain making project; if LL Proj don't prove too much trouble then I should be able to continue working on [Just A Dream] Re-edit daily!

That's about it; was thinking of making this post special since it is the 200th post but oh well... It's been quite some time since I started this blog and to think I managed until now; blogging 200 posts- quite an accomplishment I must say! Next milestone: 300 posts!(^8^)

This is Yaiji signing off, ja ne~

Yaiji~

New Project: Love Live Chibi Badges~

NEW PROJECT

Started this on a whim(><) to try earning money from my art...

Base Design

I made this base designs to make into keychains(after seeing someone demo one sample of his self-made keychain)

TBH, not all are great; personally, I find Nico, Nozomi and Eli were done badly, and that Rin was the cutest I did yet my aunt and sister think otherwise... My sister likes Hanayo in this and I must admit, I didn't expect myself to draw her cute(?) while my aunt(if I didn't rmb wrongly) she likes Eli and she finds Umi was done weird(so does my sister but she still find her cute though...)

And then, I asked my friend if she like one(I'm giving her for free- just this exception) and she chose Kotori-which I'm surprised since my sister said the Kotori I did doesn't look like the real kotori...

Well, the designs and now is the hard part; the colouring... Any artwork can be ruined by this simple act called colouring- a wrong choice of colour and your char is a new OC... Poor colouring and say goodbye to your artwork... Sigh...

About Honoka, apparently, I find ver. 1(the intial one I did) was kinda bad so decided to redo it into ver. 2 and I think ver. 2 will be better one to use in my opinion. 

All these designs are based on my interpretation of each char- what do I think when I think of [insert char name] and then draw accordingly to my interpretations. 

• I did Umi first- it was a random one since I was trying out so didn't really think of what post to give her(I was tempted to draw her thinking of Kotori something at that post but realised there won't be enough space...) 
• Honoka was next- again another random one cos I couldn't think of one but now that I think about it... I should have drawn her eating bread...(it was cute when she took one bite and said, 'today's bread is delicious!')
• Following that, I did Hanayo- this time I did have inspiration(mostly cos I did a birthday fanart before) from the time her eyes sparkle upon seeing her bowl of rice at season 1 summer camp U's members have at Maki's vacation house. That scene just screams 'KAWAII!' 
• And then, Rin- Cat is the first thing I think and so I drew a cat post plus added cat ears for her; I find her cute yet other ppl think otherwise(why????T.T)
• After Rin was Nico- Her Nico Nico Ni post is the thing to think of so ta da(though after I edit a little, I still find her hand weird doing the Nico Nico Ni post...I wonder why...)
• Maki...Crossing her arm is the only thing I think at that time but realised(now) that I should draw her twirling her hair instead...
• Kotori...This was the hardest;not cos it was hard to draw her but rather I've no inspiration... She just don't have any strong image I can think of that I could her into and so... I just drew her smiling with her hands behind...Random one like Umi and Honoka(realised the second yrs are all in random posts...)
• Nozomi's next- Her flipping her tarot card is the image to go but I think I drew her... Too young and not mature which is not in her character(?)  And I find her neck drawn weird(-.-'')
• Lastly, Eli- tbh, I feel like drawing her crossing her arms but Maki took that post so no-no... In the end, I chose that post you see there from her bokura wa ima no naka de post:

      Today, I did some shopping for this new project:

While colouring is impt, the making of the keychains is just as impt... I'm going to try make one(kotori's as per request from my friend) as sample to try out before 'advertising' online to see if this will sell well(hopefully it does>8<) 

That's about it then. This is Yaiji signing out, ja ne~

Yaiji~

After Much Thoughts...

So, I was thinking... There are many social media that I use like Instagram, Facebook(for personal use; not revealing-.-) and blogger. For art communities, Deviantart and Pixiv. And now, twitter is something new I decide to try, considering many the Japanese voice actors and anime that I love use that social media... In addition, twitter could be said a way for me to vent some thoughts yet it is still an online thing so I can't vent too much.

Maybe I was too hype up with twitter that I almost tweet my every activity; much like instagram at the start when I posted a lot of my SIF progress pic. However, twitter is different from instagram... For instagram, it wasn't so discouraging to see ppl follow and unfollow you ltr b'cos my followers are mostly my friends. While for twitter, b'cos I followed some jap voice actors and anime, japanese ppl just follows me...

Me being me, normally don't put my account private(except for Facebook which is really privately for myself...) and seeing the large number of followers in a few days... Hmm... How should I say this? It's like I gained some recognition from the public? At that pt, I feel like 'with more followers means I need to update more so that they will continue following' and thus feel or rather obligated to tweet in japanese(which I can but not very well with the limited vocab and grammar I've learnt><)  That period of time(about a week ago) was like I was enslaved to that social media... However, that was the wrong approach...

The followers still left and I'm like, 'Why???' After that, I kept a close watch on my followers and see them decrease as the days go... In the end, those followers only follow for fun or on a whim from who I follow... And I who went back to read my tweets for past 2 weeks, feel like a dumb person for tweeting all those stupid tweets...Sigh... During the time that I kept a close watch on my followers, I was surprised that my friends continue to follow me despite my spamming of tweets(I feel sorry for them to have to endure this crap from me T.T)

In addition, realised some followers of mine are a bit inappropriate and I kinda regret not putting my account private...Sigh... For now, I've decided to make it private but I won't be as strict like my FB; I will accept followers so long as they r decent since I did reveal my twitter in my Pixiv account...
EDIT: realised that private acc can't be displayed on blog... hmm... I suppose I could not put it in private and not post too many personal thing...

And so, I've decided!-Decided the use of each social media and art community!
Lastly, on the topic of twitter, I recently changed my twitter name; @Yaiji_Dark and not just that, I've also changed my Pixiv name to Yaiji as well. And now, I've decided I'll change my 'name' from Dark/Will to Yaiji as well!(The new name is a play of my real name...Wonder if my friends figured out...) I will be signing off with Yaiji from now on!

SOCIAL MEDIA

1. For instagram, like always, post photos of food, beautiful scenery and my artwork plus screenshots of SIF- if I feel that it is considered an achievement to myself. 
2. For blogger, no changes; posting updates when I like it and blogging when I need to pen down my thoughts(like now) 
3. Facebook; it is off limit yet I wonder if I should make a open art page(nah, I think I've too many things at hand~)

ART COMMUNITY

Regarding this portion... There is a 'slight' change. I've decided that all artworks will be uploaded to Deviantart; be it doodles or simply normal artwork. While for Pixiv... I have decided to only upload 'quality' artwork instead... Simply put, artwork that I see that it look's fine to me. And with that said, you may have not realised this; I've deleted all Tales Project work.- I've decided to revamp them so I will. Since Pixiv now allows multiple illustrations in a upload, I will compile each revamp versions accordingly to their series.

Currently, I'm working on [Just A Dream] Re-Edit so the revamp of Tales Project will put on hold(but I will try my best to finish before my break ends!) 

Rest assured though!-If anything is deleted from Pixiv, my Deviantart acc will still have it; like Fuhen No Unmei chapter 1(I know I promised that I will upload again after I re-edit but after looking through it again... I find it bad so don't think I will upload till I decided I will revamp; there's chance I'm giving up on this... On a side note, you can still read from Deviantart.)   

And that's about it then; great to pen down my thoughts and reflect on both the past and present, and not to forget; think of the future.

(Making another post ltr for work progress~)

Yaiji~

[Just A Dream] Re-Edit project START!

Page 1 draft

Character Design

As said before, I'll be revamping [Just A Dream]. And I (finally) decided to use this:

Bought this manga paper like a year back and don't bear to use it until now. It seems like I bought the wrong size as it said it is for B5... Nonetheless, it is a great paper to be used for manga; partly from how there are ruler markings to help artists for easier measurement!

I will be working on [Just A Dream] again. This time(from the char design), it will be slightly different. Different in the sense that...

1. Char design changed but names remain the same. Changed the eye colours to match more to the story. (If you've realised, some of the char designs are based on certain characters from various animes that I watched...)
2. The concept is the same; Haru meets Yuki, become friends with her before an incident and everything is treated as though it is a dream. However, how the story goes may differ(or rather the original one that I did was differ from what I wanted to do; couldn't find the inspirations to draw the story the way I wanted...

Basically, for now that's what I had in mind. In addition, I may be changing the title name.

Regarding the second chapter, Her and I(name subjected to changes), unfortunately since I am caught up with revamping [Just A Dream], I won't be able to work on it. But I did mention before I will give a teaser for it plus another teaser for the final third chapter(name not decided yet). I will do that after the revamping part is done.

Aside from that, just this week, I started watching idolm@ster.- it's a great idol anime with its own share of humor. Each idol's unique personality with episodes focusing on each of them is interesting and gives more insights to the audience. Right now, I stopped at episode 21 and even though I've watched before(this ep), I still can't help feel amazed at Chihaya's performance of the song Sleeping Princess. And from that ep, I found this screenshot:

I'm thinking of drawing this scene.- it's a great pic with the three smiling and having fun. Somehow, these three remind me of the Cinderlla girls, Rin, Uzuki and Mio(though it should be the other way round if I've watched this series first...) Maybe I could drawing both grp?

I know there's [Just A Dream] Re-edit project going on but that does not mean I won't be making any fanart- drawing fanart is a way to improve myself as I am exposed to more art styles!

Lastly before I end off, I managed to get a job!- won't be working for too long but thought that I could earn some money then why not?(hehe~)

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Bored~ [ScholarVsOriginal] Sorcery King Ver. & First Anniversary of En SIF

It's only been about a week since my break started and (despite saying I got many things to do) I feel bored... Okay, I'm not lying that I've many things to do; there are many revamping of stuff (like Tales Project and Just A Dream) to do but somehow I don't have that drive to do it... Also, there're manga and novels to catch up but I don't know why, I just feel lazy to do them. It's more like I want something even more exciting and for the past few days, I kept thinking of the future...

I think of what happen after I graduate from University; it will be work all day long with only weekends to spare(maybe those days are not even spared...) until one finally crumble before this 'illness' called ageing... Wouldn't that make life so boring? Compared to those fantasy settings I read in books and manga, my life is boring yet I think the characters in those settings rather change places with me; a place without too much fighting and life is not put on the line everyday... Sigh...
Maybe I should start working a timetable for myself to spend my break well...

To add on, it was a time after my last paper; I went to try stay alone in my aunt's house and while it was nice that nobody will be there to judge of what you r doing...Yet, I can't help feel unsettled... And I can't help imagine if this is how independent living is, it's not much of a surprise that ppl may grow 'mad' from staying alone.- You had no one to talk to and that as I grew, I realised how impt it is... In the past, I used to feel that I am fine being along. However as time passes... At some point in time, ppl need someone to talk to... It's like there's this need to pour out one's feelings and thoughts yet if there's no one one to pour to, then the person would just keep it to him/herself; b'cos you can't hear a response from pouring to yourself... You need two hands to clap and not one hand...

That's y I always envious those characters in books and manga where they have childhood friends or even friends who will always be there for them... I wish I have one as well... And that's how I also feel whenever I see my Twitter; I wish I can find someone with same interests as me so that I can talk to them and pour my thoughts to them for a response that I yearn to hear...

Okay, sorry for the ramblings... Solitude is quite a touchy and sensitive subject for me; I tend to think negatively, and I get carried away from writing my thoughts out...

Finished [ScholarVsOriginal] Sorcery King Ver. a while ago. Like always, mechanical pencil outlining; no colouring or marker outlining...
Again, I find Sorcery King rather hard to draw from his slight detailed clothing in the original yet it was a great learning experience in drawing such a posture. As for scholar sorcery king... I screwed up a little and he's hard to draw from not just his posture but also his background...
Here's the sources I took references from:

Oh yeah, if you did not realised, sorcery king ver. has a different format from the usual one where I divided the page into half, leaning to the right but this time I divided the other way round. This is mostly cos of how his postures are in the Original and Scholar ver.

With Sorcery King Ver. done, I wondered if I should continue with this series or move on... Maybe I will work on the Chibi Ver. of the arthurs first before thinking of whether to work on Gawain and Galahad Ver. In addition to that, I was thinking of working on the cover for the fanbook, depicting the 3 arthurs in normal clothes. In other words, an AU where the arthurs are normal ppl like you and I, and they are friends yet also rivals. For this, I may be colouring it for the first time(hope I don't screw it up...) Beside this, there's also the idea of a short manga of the 3 original arthurs been sent to the scholar AU due to an experiment that went wrong... I think I am being ambitious here... Those are just passing ideas.(Haha...)

Happy First Anniversary for the English Server of SIF!-Free Love Gems(though it is gonna makes ranking hard for Umi Scorematch...Sigh) and even better is that new b-side songs plus the availability of expert modes of b-side songs!

That's about it then. This is Will signing off, ja ne~

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[MadoHomu] Parallel Lines (Additional info/news-Forget to add in last post~)

Much delayed and promised, MadoHomu fan-manga:

  

It's 6 pages long but I managed to reduce(and compress) into 4 pages.
About this fan-manga:
As said in the message left at the end(and in my earlier post), it is inspired from Magic Kaito 1412 opening 2. But the story plot is based on the concept of parallel lines.-Not sure how I get it(must be doing too many maths...) but it fits plus there was a fanfic I read saying Madoka and Homura are like parallel lines as well; get very close but never meet...
The art isn't very good cos it's my first time trying to draw Madoka and Homura. And I think I screwed up with the colouring at the cover page... Also, I think I should go back to practising my shading; losing a little of my touch(--.--) Sry for the bad quality of the images...

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Forget to add this in to my last post:

New songs in conjunction with the movie that is coming out in June!(Need to wait till October for it to be available in my hometown>^<)
Here's the samples from the 3 sub-units:

Found Lily White's song to be interesting~

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Million Arthur Fanart_Techno Smith, Gunslinger Stratos Fanart idea~

Draft-Not yet cleaned up and haven't drawn in the eyes...

Finished this Fanart yesterday. This will in conjuction with the ScholarVSOriginal series. I had done 2 before; one on Blade Protector and the other on Lancelot. (See from the link)
TBH, I wanted to do this series with all the arthurs but apparently, I gave up after failing at drawing Scholar Techno Smith. However, after exposure from the last MA fanart, I found her not that hard to draw so try drawing her again.(The hardest to draw was her hair...) This time it was manageable so ta da! Going to work on Sorcery King Ver. next! Not sure whether to work on Gawain and Galahad- the two right-hand 'man' of Techno Smith and Sorcery King respectively.-Considering that I did make one on Lancelot(mostly cos he look's cool to me and plus I chose Blade Protector Faction when I played so a little biased...)

Here's the sources where the fanart is based on:

A better quality will be uploaded after I compile all Million Arthur Art into one book!(Take it like waiting for the 'BD' quality and for now, make do with this 'HD' quality)

Moving on, the MadoHomu Fan-manga... Well, I know I went off course from working on other works...
Basically, the current progress is that... I've done the touch-ups for all except one page... The cover page... I was debating with myself whether to colour or shade. In the end, I decided to shade. However, b'cos I was working on the MothersDay Fan-manga, both yesterday and today... I will work on it tmr instead(\'>-<'/)

Recently, I started watching this anime. It has quite an interesting plot; a battle between you and yourself in another parallel world. I think parallel world concept is an intriguing matter; it is quite similar to the concept of doppelgangers. At this same time, somewhere, you who are blogging right now, there's another you fighting hard to survive. When the two of you met, will you kill or be friend with each other?- in this anime's case, it is fight to the death with your other self.
The art is fine though many said it's not that good. The action is alright but I'm watching it for the plot.
I'm thinking of making a fanart on it(or more specifically, on the main character, Tohru):

Find this version of the right Tohru much cooler than the anime version...

I know I've many other 'projects' at hand but seeing as now I've a rather long break, I think I can afford the time.
Talking about my break, I feel like I should get a temporary job yet think that I should take this time to really rest and do the stuff I want before school starts again(which will be hell -.-) I mean after I graduate, I think even if I don't want to work, I have to and by then... I may regret again to work during my breaks when I'm going to work till my retirement age after graduation...Sigh... Yet the money to earn for my own personal use is tempting... Maybe just this time, I will rest and maybe just work for short jobs like event jobs?

A little 'sad' news: I may be cancelling my Tales project... I think I've too many things at hand right now. But the current ones I did for the project will still undergo revamping. As for the other Tales Series fanart... I may not be working on them anymore.(Keyword: May) It is same with the Love Live School Idol Festival Fan-manga idea; I MAY cancel... The cancelling idea was mostly cos I lost my inspiration after seeing the new Love Live Sunshine Project.
I'm hoping to clear all my existing 'projects' before I graduate. Not sure if I can still be so free to draw so much after I start working. That's for the future me to decide then.

EDIT: Went cycling today with my dad. Though I know how my dad is; 'commenting' on my cycling skills like as though throughout the whole ride, I am being judged, I still love to cycle with him.(I am not a sadist or masochist, thank you) It is simply the act of spending time with him even if throughout the trip, we don't talk much; there's no need for any words. (sry if it sounded a little mushy...)
I know today is Mother's day but I can't help to pen down my thoughts when even though I disliked being 'commented' of my wrongs, I still want my dad to cycle with me.
With that said, I think I am more close to my mom; I talk to her more. Also, I do help in her cooking like making sushi and spring rolls! Though I don't show it out, I do love both my parents despite their annoying traits(which I inherited a few...)-Nobody's perfect~

I suppose that's it for now. (Going to go watch Gunslinger Stratos The Animation ep 5-Missed it and went to watch ep 6...Facepalm...) This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Happy Mother's Day!-5/10/15

To all Mothers, Happy Mother's Day! A little fanart or should I say fan-manga for this day. Initially, the fanart was either based on Madoka Magica or Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha but seeing the amount of existing MothersDay based on these two series...
So I switched to Naruto series and wanted to work on Bolt's family but seeing as there are 2 to draw plus Hinata to draw as well... And in the end, work on Salada's family instead and it is a good timing, seeing the conflict both the mother and daughter have over the father(Sasuke...Sigh...)
I've written a short message at the end:(if you couldn't read...)
"With the current chapters, not sure whether Salada is Sakura's daughter(Pls Sasuke!-Don't make the fans hate you even more...)
Nonetheless, both Sakura & Salada have great mother-daughter relationship!-And that's all that matters!(Ganbatte, Salada!)
To all mothers, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" 
To kinda cater to both Jap and En readers(and also practise my Jap), I wrote the dialogue in both Jap and En.(The dialogue is simple so no problem translating into 2 languages but the message is another thing...)
About the art:
-Had a hard time drawing sleeveless clothing(why do Sakura and Salada have to wear them???)
-Full drawn glasses(@=@) are not simple to draw- Sorry if I made Salada look like Robin Hood...
-Flowers are not my thing-I think they look more like egg yolk than flowers...
-Salada proved to be easy to draw yet I can't say the same for Sakura... Sorry if I made Sakura look's quite old... I think I screwed up Sakura's face, especially the eyes(\">8<"/)
-Lastly, I'm too lazy to shade(-__-)

Hope all Mothers out there, have fun with their children and enjoy this special day!

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[SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT] Changes made to blog~

If you've realised, I've included the various social media and art community I used at the side. So now, you can access all from the side bars. 

With these many platforms, I will update either one of them(most of the time I will update all~) 

This blog will have most updates but from the looks of it, high chance that insta and twitter will be the one being updated most; blog will be more of a concluded update for a week or a period of time~

And with that, hope these changes made everything more convenient! 

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark 

Exams over!

Yesterday, my final paper for the semester is finally over!

As the last paper is an evening paper, after having dinner with my friends, I only managed to reach the bookstore with 5 minutes spare before it closes. My friend and I had to rush out of the train to go to the bookstore and I'm glad that I heed my friend's advice to go check out the store for the magazine!(Good thing it is in stock!)

For this month issue(June issue/vol.13) of dengeki G's comics, the chapter for Love Live School Idol Diary(SID) manga is already translated in chinese. You can read it here: Love Live SID chapter 13

For non-chinese and non-japanese, I can give a rough summary of the chapter. Basically, it is from Eli's SID and it is about Eli-Umi sistership(is there such a word?). If I'm not wrong, Eli SID for school idol festival(SIF) will also be on this part of her SID so players can also read from there.(>8<)

Okay, for the summary... The chapter starts off with Eli witnessing Umi getting a love letter from a kohai or junior. And then, Eli asked how is Umi going to reply until Umi said she won't and account her ignorance and naivety of such thing... In the past, Umi mistake love letter as letter of appreciation from her junior and ended up replying that she's happy to be the senior she is to the junior. As such, it created the misunderstanding to the junior that she accepted her feeling and the junior made the effort to hang out with Umi. The misunderstand escalated further when there wasn't just one love letter received but a few and Umi being Umi, reply with the same replies, thinking they are letters of appreciation and ended up with all the affected parties coming to see her, asking her, who does she really like... You can imagine the amount of shock Umi had and trauma resulted from this incident.
To help Umi, Eli told her to response in this way:(I will translate the best I can)
"Thank you for liking me. However, I will have to give my apologies. Because I have someone I really like and that would be my childhood friend, Kousaka Honoka~" 
And again you can imagine how red Umi get from that. To add on, Umi didn't deny though...(I find SID and manga shipping Umi and Honoka much more than Kotori...Not that I am particular with KotoUmi pairing...) To get back Eli for teasing her, Umi asked if Eli used the same way to reply to the love letters she got(heard from Nico)
"Thank you for liking me. However, I will have to give my apologies. Because I have someone I really like and that would be my best friend from the same year, Toujou-" (I'm sure you know who Umi is saying~)
In the end, Eli and Umi situation with the love letter is similar. At the end, Eli asked what if Umi and her is a pair?- making Umi red again.(haha~)
This chapter was a little surprise for me, considering Eli's strict and cold personality in the anime; to think she's this playful in this chapter... Also, this chapter has a lot of pairing hints but the most subtle is EliUmi since this is like their bonding chapter. In my opinion, I don't have any ideal pairing; just like Umi as she is and her pairing with anyone is fine with me; so long as it is her pairing and that's how I see it in fanfic and fanart.
Hope the summary is of help for english ppl to understand the chapter.

Moving on, I finished 2 SD gunpla(this morning) that I found a month ago when packing my stuff...

This is like a long ago series, based on the romance of the 3 kingdoms novel. At that time, being the youth I was, spending much money on this series... And now, there's some regrets for spending the money...

With exams over, some plans made(with regards to my work/project):
-I will be revamping my Tales Project and continue it until my break's over
-I'm thinking of redoing the manga, Just A Dream. To make up for the loss of working on the second installments, I'm thinking of doing teaser for each chapter(there's a total of 3 in the current plan I had in mind). The teaser is like a few pages of the chapter to get ppl hype and hopefully it helps me not to lose my inspiration for this manga project~
-I'm thinking of dropping the SIF fan-manga idea that I had, seeing the amount of time I have...

I will also be working on some Million Arthur fanart for fun~ Regarding the current small project- MadoHomu fan-manga, I had just finished the outlining. Will be working on the touch-ups for this week and should be done by this week.

Here's a little fanart of Love Live Sunshine X School Idol Project:

I screwed up the hi-five(-.-)

Lastly, after much thinking, I decided to make a twitter account~ You can find me here: @Dark_Lockhart
With this twitter account, I think for those random fanart I did, I will post them in twitter and insta; pixiv and deviantart will be more for 'serious' work~

That's about it but before I go, a video to share:

Can't wait for it!(The hype is here like LL Sunshine project!)
EDIT: just found out that it will turn into a 6-parts movie... Sigh... Means have to wait much longer to watch each translated movie part...

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

MadoHomu Fan-Manga drafts done~Million Arthur Fanart~

MadoHomu fan-manga drafts done~

This will be the final drafts and just drew the last page a while ago.
Updates from last post: -Dialogue added in
                                      -Language used changed to english instead...
                                      -More pages added; with a short artist notes added~
As promised from my insta(if u r following), the final drafts with more readable version... Will be doing the outline soon(most likely after my monday paper~)

Next, the million arthur fanart I did a week ago:

In the end, I decided not to colour for fear of ruining it. Went to scan it for a better quality. Had already uploaded on both pixiv and deviantart. Debating whether to upload on insta...
Also, (random thought) thinking of whether to put all my MA fanart into one 'book'... Well, there r not many to make into one decent one; about 4 pieces... Maybe I should draw more before making into one or until MA finally close down, I will compile all my MA art into one 'book'.
EDIT: Thinking of making chibi Arthurs for the next MA fanart; inspired from the recent(or should I say the current) event~

[New Idea] I'm sure most LLivers would have heard of the new Love Live Project called Love Live Sunshine with complete new 9 members; just like U's.

And, I've read each member's profile(you can find the translated at animenewsnetwork.com) and find Riko to be my fave, given her design and personality(she likes art!). And Chika(the leader) to be my second fave!-From her profile, it seems like she met Honoka at some pt and I'm thinking of doing a fanart on this. Again, likely to do it after my monday paper or my final paper...
Right now, fans can suggest the new Love Live grp name and well, I'm not good at giving names so I think I will pass... Can't wait for this new group's first single!

That's about it then. TBH, studying for exams sure is boring yet it can't be helped(lucky I gt drawing to lift off some boredom~)
Oh yeah, realised that coffee kinda offset my body; in a way that sometimes I drink coffee, my heartbeat increases which I had no idea of whatever so since there's nothing that is making me nervous or scared, and I never did any running... Hence, shall restrict myself from drinking coffee; once in a while is fine...
This is Will signing off, ja ne~

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