Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Another year old! + Small update

Yesterday was my birthday and unlike the norm, I celebrated with my family members without any grand party or whatsoever. Had pizza for dinner as a celebration before ending it with a birthday cake as dessert! 






A small update on the manga project. Currently, the project is phase 6 where shading is added. As of yesterday, I finished the coloured page.
Had a hard time trying to colour or rather paint the girl's cape. Other than that, the colouring of the other characters with copic markers went alright without much problem. And so, this will be the coloured page for chapter I. The subsequent chapters would just have black and white cover instead. (Colouring really is tedious and hard when done traditionally so until the day I've a great software for me to add colour, I think I will refrain from doing much coloured pages...) As of now, the troubling thing is that I've yet to decide a name for this manga and the artist's note is not yet done...(Sigh...-_-)

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Tales Project Monthly Update: Tales of Eternia

And this is this month update of tales project, Tales of Eternia or otherwise known as Tales of Destiny II in the North American original release. A total of 5 characters drawn.

Reid Hershel リッド・ハーシェル




Farah Oersted ファラ・エルステッド
Keele Zeibel キール・ツァイベル
Meredy メルディ
Chat チャット (Sorry for the wrong spelling of her name...>.<)


Next in line will be Tales of Destiny II. Please look forward to it!

[FYI: the above drawings are all uploaded on DA and Pixiv.]

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Going to get busy in the next 3 months...

Yesterday, I got the news that I got a job from the job agent. I could not believe it and thought it was a dream when I woke up today. It was not until I signed the contract and received the hard copy of the job info that did I believe this is reality! I finally got a job! To some, maybe this is no big deal but it is to me since this is my first ever job!

As a result, I will be getting busy in a week time or so. As much I love to, I will try to finish chapter 1 of the manga project before my job starts. Currently, the project is at phase 5 which I will try to finish in a day before proceeding with phase 6; shading. After that, it will be proofread for any mistakes or stuff to add on before it is sent for computer editing. It is quite a lot of work but I will try my best to finish as soon as possible. Considering the job is for 3 months, I think chapter 2 of the manga may either be on hold or be released at a much later time than chapter 1. (Sigh...) There goes my plan to draw some one-shots...

Oh yeah, a wonderful phone game to introduce. It's called Million Arthur. It is card game where your strategic building of your deck and how you assign your stats points matter much whether u r successful in bringing down your opponents.  The art of the cards and the characters in-game is great. In addition, the storyline is not bad either. Not to forget, SquareEnix created this game!

Here's the opening song: Million of Bravery by ChouCho


I just started a while ago, thinking it was some mindless game since in battle, the cards fight on their own; players have no control over the cards. However, what cards are put and in what order are what the players can change to fight better. Each card has its own skill that may or may not activate in battle. Regardless, it is still players' own thinking that make up the deck of cards to be used in battle!

What hook me up the game was the art itself but as I started playing, the playing style is quite interesting and again, it is like brave frontier arena mode; you have no control over your units/cards but you do have control of how strong you want your units/cards to be

And so, I'll end off and till then, ja ne~ This is Will signing off!

Dark~ 

Monday, March 24, 2014

Tiring but awesome learning exprience and work update

Originally, I wanted to post this yesterday but due to exhaustion, I decided to shift it to today.

Yesterday was a great experience for me! It is embarrassing to admit but I can't cycle prior to yesterday... As of today's world, it is almost norm to know how to cycle among teenagers and to be unable to do it... I find myself a little pathetic. (sigh) However, as of yesterday, I finally learned how to cycle!

It was a gruesome process as I tried to balance on the bike while cycling. It didn't take me long before I finally was able to cycle! BUT! There is a fatal flaw in my cycling skill and that is that...I can't turn. I can't turn while cycling as I tend to lean too much to the side I was turning to and ended up needing to stop the bike before I fall and hurt myself. Thus, the whole afternoon was spent in learning how to cycle and in the end the probability of me turning is less than 10 yet it is not completely zero. In a way, I've yet to get a hang of it but I am not a complete hopeless case! This week! I'll get it in this weekend! And then, finally one of my goal or dream to ride my own bike as my main transport will be achieved!

Moving on, update on my new manga. As of now, the manga is in phase 4 where darkening of the draft work is done and about a few more pages left to do. At the same time, phase 5 will commence for pages that had underwent phase 4!

Page 1 with phase 4 done plus a trial computer edit
Today, I find out my computer is able to edit the pages so I think I will type out the speech than write out. But there are some parts that I could only write out... From how the work is doing, it is hard to say that it will be done by end of march but I'll try my best to deliver it as soon as possible. After chapter 1 is done, I'll take a break (About one month's time?) before working on chapter 2. In the meanwhile during the break, I'll go and work on my Tales project which I kinda(?) neglected it...(awkward smile) Not to forget, please look forward to the monthly update of the project! This month will be Tales of Eternia!

This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Is being an Introvert a bad thing?

Since young, I see myself as soft spoken and shy who can't open up to people easily... In other words, I can be said to be an Introvert. I dislike interactions since I will get all sort of inner thoughts like 'does he/she(the one I interacted with) dislike me or find me weird?' 'Ugh, I messed up. Now he/she will think I am like some weirdo...' More than the fact that I hate the crowds, I hate the fact that I will be hated by people and that... Will just simply end with me having no worth value. I don't have much self-esteem... I only have one wish, one dream, one goal. That is to get accepted and be needed by people. I want to be remembered and not forgotten even after my death. Somehow, not being needed seem worse than dying...

I still remembered a certain incident in my secondary school or middle school. I was shy; very shy that I find it hard to start a conversion... At that time, I was and am still a fan of manga. I saw a manga called vampire knight on my classmate's desk. I can't helped but stared at it, wanting to read it. I thought of asking that classmate of mine but... She struck me as a fierce person, thus I didn't dare to approach her; let alone talk to her... The whole day in class, whenever I saw the manga, I can't help but wanted to read yet pondered how to approach her. In the end, I decided to give her a note but... My inner thoughts came in, telling me, 'what if she think I am some weirdo for using a note when she's just sitting in front of me...' Hence, it was after school ended and my classmates are all preparing to go home. I give the note to a close friend of hers who I somewhat become acquainted during my orientation due to some circumstances that I still feel thankful. (Since if that meeting did not happen, then I wouldn't meet her. And then, I wouldn't have friends I have today!) The person I was acquainted(and is now my friend) passed the note and without much thoughts, she lend me the book and I was like, 'Oh gosh, it was that simple and here I was worrying so much...' Since then, my opinion of her got better as she wasn't that scary at all but rather a kind and gentle friend I have now though I still feel bad of a certain accident I had with her due to my haste...(Sigh...)

I don't know why, how but I think being an introvert isn't a defect but rather the society sees it as bad, especially in the eyes of the extroverts... I researched a bit on introverts and see their good points. It is not all that bad since introverts may just have some characters or personalities that employers nowadays can't find like being polite, respecting their elders and etc. However, like always, it is hard for introverts to present themselves and allow people to see them when they can't interact well. (Sigh...) Like one of the pages I saw and read, introverts have their own ways of interactions; different from extroverts. And they may have a few friends but those friends they have are close ones that they will be loyal to! Also, sometimes people only just see the surface, thinking introverts are anti-social when in reality, they simply interact less; much less then extroverts but that does not mean they don't interact at all. For my case, I interact when needed to. If it is on a topic I like, even if it is strangers talking to me, I'm sure I'll enjoy the interactions.

As a person who get easily swayed by comments, sometimes I force myself to do something I hate. There are times when I feel that I have a choice so why should I force myself? Forcing myself will bring no happiness yet... Another inner thought I have is that, if I use that excuse, won't I just be running away than facing it? That just simply stop my excuse and thus force myself even though my heart told myself not to while my brain says otherwise... In other words, I am in conflict right now as I have a group interview tomorrow. I don't mind an one on one but a group... It never crosses my mind. I just can't do it and then the conflict begins. This time...I wondered if I can be a little selfish...

Sorry for the much ramblings. With the interviews I have to do, I can't help but pen down my thoughts. In addition, there are the University application forms to fill in. It's kinda hard to keep my emotions in check. A little update: the new manga phase 3 is now done and phase 4 will start tomorrow which may last a few days.

That's all for today then! This is Will signing off, ja ne~

Dark~