A new art piece added to my portfolio today!
Heart from Light
It was a wedding gift.
A reflection in Applied Human Anatomy
It has come to my attention that my form in human anatomy is… rather lacking.
Without reference, it is weak.
Thus, I am taking a journey for the coming of weeks that I will attempt to learn about 600 to 800 muscles, hard grinded into my head, so that I may applied the human anatomy in drawing at will.
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Those Obnoxious Aliens…
What the hell?! The past just jacked my idea for a serious story.
Actually it isn’t anything I thought it would be. The gist of the story is very closely to what I want to write:
An alien race known as the Oni arrive on Earth with the intention of invading the planet. Instead of taking over the planet by force, the Oni give humans a chance to fight for the rights to the planet by competing in a competition.
Basically my idea is: “Man has to save his world in a game of competition held by Aliens”.
I thought of a big premise on how to write this in a serious matter, and I thought it would be a lot of fun. But until then, I am going to use this as a foundation or reference to what I will write.
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Planters and Pay Offs
Two men are arguing at Home Depot. One man, Letter A, insist that it will go his way, and the other man, Letter B, tell him that it won’t fly. Letter A becomes extremely furious when suddenly he grabs a brick and throws it out of the depot.
Elsewhere…
An older women enters a bus with her poodle and sits down next to a man smoking a cigar. The women politely asks him to stop smoking. The man refuses. Both of them gets into a heated argument. Suddenly, the older women grabs the cigars out of the man’s mouth and throws it out of the window. The man becomes furious! He grabs the women’s poodle, and throws it out the window.Suddenly, the dog jumps back onto the bus, but he has something in his mouth. What is it?
This is a story that my teacher told me when I was pitching him ideas last Friday.
One of my pitches was unfinished. Imagine if I told the story above, but without the ending: the part where the dog jumped back with a brick in his mouth.
What the…? A brick?! Shouldn’t it be a cigar?
I thought, initially, the dog would jump back with the cigar in his mouth, but what my teacher did was “planted” the first scene where Letter A threw the brick.
At least, you have to asked yourself at that point, what happen to the brick or why did he throw the brick? It was then in a later scene that it would be used for the dog.
Although it didn’t make sense…. somehow it did.
The first scene had the brick planted. The second scene made use of it at the payoff.
The brick had finally served its purpose.
There was one and then there was another
In April, I submitted Girl to my School’s Gallery for potential scholarships and awards.
I got two.
I would say I got first place in one category of the program. Basically, I got the Art Department Award for “2D Design”..
Then I got another one after that. The school seem to like my painting so much that they purchases it from me! Apparently the “Purchase Award”
I have mix feeling. I am excited. I am sad. I am confused. I am grateful and flattered. In the end, I was able to get over the fact that I was leaving a part of myself to a place that will hopefully take care of a masterpiece I made.
Yes, I consider it one of my first masterpiece and now that it received two awards, it has become worth more to me.
But I believe, as told by many of my mentors, that this will be good for me in the long run. More masterpieces will come and go.
I poured my heart, my soul, my tears, my sweat, and blood into this piece.
My spirit was broken before making this. When I had gather myself up, I had fixed it. I had risen.
Going off topic a bit. In an anime called, “[C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control”, the ending song may have been lost in translation but the lyric I caught from School Food Punishment:
It’s your spirit that attracts me
I love this quote.
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Keep Working Hard
Not many people like working hard, but how does one like to work hard?
I believe that working hard on a task you love to do may make the task easier. Though, it doesn’t stop the exhaustion and the fatigue that tolls the body. Thus, we’ll be focusing on improving our stamina in working hard for the things we love to do.
I have recently realized this semester that working hard eventually become working easy.
There is a prerequisite: you must have work hard on a task beforehand.
I say this because we need it to “compare our difficulties” which should motivate us on future task we may be dealing with.
There may be a negative effect though, where as the task you may be working on may be harder than it seems to be. If so, think of it as a challenge and take it on anyway!
“Dai Gurren Lagann! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!”
Moving on to a real example.
I love making manga, and I hope to make it as a career. Making a single comic page takes a considerable amount of time. It is tiring and exhausting.
Just recently, I took on a challenge. “15 paintings in 15 days”.
I failed that challenge. Miserably.
Please learn from each fail, and use that as a excuse to pick oneself up. It makes everything feel better rather than to continue dwelling on it.
Thus, I use the “15 paintings in 15 days” challenge as the most difficult thing I have done in my life. Would I do it again? Hell yea. But not after until I finish my first 15 paintings.
In conclusion, when I look at making a manga or comic page, I look at my hardest challenge, and all of a sudden… working hard on my manga… became so easy.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica Episode 7
This is a debatable character development note.
First off, Deus Ex Machina can exist in life and can be used in a subjective way, but I find it to destroy my suspension of disbelief in stories. However, it can have a fallibleness that we can “relate” to.
Puella Magi Madoka most recent episode (number 7) used this device to develop a character. Her name is Sayaka.
Warning; the following content will or may contain spoilers on the Puella Magi series
I will try my best to lightly spoil.
Sayaka Miki (left) and Hitomi Shizuki (right)
Above. We have Sayaka Miki (left) and Hitomi Shizuki (right). Sayaka plays a stronger role than Hitomi. She has been developed as a “nice, simple, and shy” character. However, the scene I am describing above is a “button pusher”.
Hitomi Shizuki is a device. She is a character made to push Sayaka to become a cliche. That cliche is a Yangire.
And for some reason, I feel extremely irritated.
Here is my reasoning:
1. Sayaka character development was smooth.
2. Hitomi was not developed; She is a sudden character developer for Sayaka.
3. This made Sayaka character development rough and uncomfortable. She became a Yangire.
However this could be all smoothen out if looked into. It was foreshadowed that Sayaka would become a Yangire, but the development felt sudden despite all the warnings.
Unfortunately, I forgot that this series would be sad. I had hope that it would lighten up a bit, but it seems like it is only going to get darker. I may be dropping the series because of this, but I will hang on for a bit longer since it’s a short series.
Anyhow, the development of Sayaka as a Yangire would have been very smooth if the development lasted longer. The series is rumored to only go for 12 episode. We are on 7. Things may be getting rush.
All in all, the rush development for Sayaka is still fallible. I am sure people can relate to the situation that had occur to her. However, I don’t ever want to be reminded of that suddenness.
What would I do to make things better?
Lighten things up!
Where is my little glimmer of hope 
?
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Girl
This was a commissioned project done for my sister. It was also the first project done for my family. I was able to finish it within 3 or 4 months.
My main references was from Klimt and Picasso and I wanted to understand how it would feel to mash “them” design together.
Here is a modern result of it:
I plan to make a series of this “style”.
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[May 27th 2011 Revision]
I have manage to grab 2 awards with this masterpiece:
Art Department Award for 2D Design
Santa Ana Foundation Purchase Award
My sister was okay to let this go to raise my reputation. Thanks to my sister very much.
The Rule of Thirds
If you do not know what the Rule of Third is, then I suggest reading more about it over at Wikipedia.
Of course, Wikipedia may not be enough, and I may need to cover the issue.
As you can see from above, there are 2 lines that cross each other (2 verticals, and 2 horizontals).
The 2 lines intersect to create 4 point of interest.
These 4 points are where the “viewers” choose to find interesting.
Using the Rule of Third may create strong composition in design. Try it yourself.
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