2024: Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快樂!

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I wish everyone a safe and happy new year!

新年快樂, 祝大家龍年平安幸福.

2023: Happy New Year and Merry Christmas

 

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I wish everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

 

Procrastination won again this year...

2023: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

 

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I wish everyone a safe and healthy new year!

新年快樂! 祝大家, 出入平安, 身體健康!

2022: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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A little late once again, but I wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
 

Artwork: Otherworld Outing

 

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A casual outing in another world. Well I guess, a parallel world, may be more accurate?

 

It started out as an usual modern setting, but I felt like shaking things up just a bit. If I were to point to something I'm really proud of this time, it'd have to be the drink. It was quite the brain teaser to figure out how to deal with multiple transparencies and their interactions.

 

I can't speak about accuracy, but it's convincing; and that is what matters most.

2022: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

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Happy Chinese New Year! I wish everyone a healthy new year, and may your wishes come true!

新年快樂! 祝大家虎年, 身体健康, 心想事成!

2021: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Haven't posted much this year, but I hope to post more next year!

LightNovel: Humanity Ver. ? - Chapter 1

Written By: WrittenDusk

Chapter 1:

Amidst a lush forest, filled with life, lies a large foreign clearing. 

Circular in shape, the ground is paved with a smooth sheet of metal coated in white. 

A single, similarly sterile, tall rectangular building can be seen at the center. 

It’s two wings converge into a cylindrical tower, making up a third of the building’s length; 

towering over the rest at twice the height. 

Filling up the rest of the clearing are five circular depressions with clear seams; 

three in front of the building and two behind.

With its clearly defined edges and near spotless appearance, it is as if it was never approached by the 

surrounding nature. 

What little blemishes and dirt that remain are those left by its inhabitants; 

two pillow shaped robots and their wheels. 

Being only a little larger than pillows in size, one is upright on two wheels and the other is spread out on

four. 

Both are clad in the same white of the clearing with a simple display for expression.

As the sun rose to its peak, the two wheeled robot began patrolling the perimeter of the clearing; 

staying a comfortable meter away from the immediate edge. 

Activating its air vent, starting from the back of the building, it clears away any dust and leaves that have

made their way onto the metal ground. 

But as a stray leaf drifted beside it, it paused its activity.

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Artwork: Enchanting Spearman

Drawn By: WrittenDusk

This is my first character drawing in a while. Having spent time on other things and reflecting on my skills and approach to drawing, I was able to embrace new options. This is arguably my first serious attempt at cel-shading, especially since developing as an artist in recent years, as well as my first time using Krita.

There was much I had to get use to, but overall I was impressed with the results. I have much to learn with cel-shading, and I look forward to improving.

2021: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

 

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I wish everyone a safe, healthy, and fruitful new year.

新年快樂! 牛年好! 祝大家,出入平安,身体健康,身壯力健!

2020: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

 

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This has been a difficult year, unlike any other, but we will continue to look forward to a better new year as usual.

 

As such, I wish everyone a safe and healthy Christmas, and an even better New Year!!!

Fan Art: Mordred Alter - Fate/Grand Order

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Thinking about FGO lately, I got really into speculating servant possibilities again; hypothesizing and theory crafting cool stories behind their addition and lore. Having always felt that the interactions between Artoria and Mordred are intentionally avoided in FGO, I wondered if there can be an opportunity for the two to really confront each other. This lead me to think about the idea of Mordred Alter again; rekindling my desire to draw her.

I am satisfied with the results, but I do also feel like I may have gotten a little ahead of myself; trying to do too much at once. It became quite hard to keep track of everything as I finished the drawing. This is definitely another point of focus in my improvements moving forward.

Artwork: For Us...

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There are four main sources of inspiration for this drawing:  

1. Watching the Chinese Drama "Find Yourself". (Great drama, highly recommended.)
2. Listening to the song "過客" sang by "阿涵". (One way to translate: "Passerby" sang by "Ah Han".)
3. Seeing the view count on my "Reminiscence" drawing increase. Haha. (Definitely had influence.)
4. Watching G.E.M's music video for her song "Long After".

Watching the drama really put me in the mood, and listening to the song reinforced it and directed the mood towards a slightly different direction. Then seeing how one of my drawings, with a similar theme, is doing well recently made the decision to draw this easy.

To be honest I was going to draw this sooner or later since it's something I really want to capture. I am very proud that I accomplished it. It really turned out great. I do wish I could do more with the backgrounds again, but that'll have to be for next time.

I really hope you could feel the emotion in this drawing! I'll link all the references and inspirations at the end.

2020: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

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新年快樂!鼠年好!祝大家,出入平安,身体健康,事事如意!

Happy Year of the Mouse! A little late again this year, but better late than never, haha! It's been a tough start, but there is still more to this year.

So I wish everyone a safe, smooth sailing, and most importantly healthy new year!

2019: Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a safe, healthy, and wondrous holiday!

Fan Art: Arash - Fate/Grand Order

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After becoming enlightened to the power of Arash in Fate/Grand Order (FGO), I felt like I had to draw a fan art of him.

This was a challenge for me since I've yet to draw effects in my drawings, so I was quite nervous going into the drawing. I could have done something else, but it's Arash, so it just felt right to draw him using his Noble Phantasm, "Stella".

Seeing as how there are so many interpretations of Stella out there, I decided to take a different approach. Instead of drawing the moment he releases his arrow, I drew the moment he draws his arrow; capturing the power of the shot during it's preparation, as opposed to it's recoil.

Hopefully I did a good enough job getting the idea across.

Comic: Crisp

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Fan Art: Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers - Viera Gunbreaker

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A fan art to celebrate the release of the "Shadowbringers" expansion for Final Fantasy XIV. 

I planned for this to be posted before the official release of the expansion, on July 2nd, but things didn't really go as planned. My motivation to finish this drawing deflated a bit as a result, so progress slowed down, but it's done now. 

Although there are things I'm not as happy with, I think the overall idea and execution stands on it's own. I was worried I wouldn't be able to make the oriental cross cowboy style work, but it turned out more natural than expected. I think I can lean in even more on both aspects next time.

But most importantly there is someone I have to thank for this drawing. Sadly I don't remember who it was. I really should have written it down, or saved it somewhere. I tried to find the specific post again, but it's not as easy as I thought it'd be. Regardless, thanks that post on reddit I was not only given 1000+ views on this blog, but it also made me realize that my Viera Gunblader* fan art became a prediction of sorts; I laughed in disbelief quite hard. I wouldn't have done another FFXIV fan art without this post. If some how the person who posted that post sees this: 

Thanks!

Artwork: Reminiscence

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A quick illustration to give myself a break from my other drawing. Ironically it still took longer than I wanted it to.

I'm still really satisfied with how this turned out. Even though this took longer than I expected, this is still the quickest drawing I've done with this level of completion. This is a great confidence boost for me, as it shows that I'm getting closer to my goal of drawing faster.

Artwork: Another Moment's Appreciation

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While looking through my old drawings, thinking about what to draw next, I came across the drawing I named "A Moment's Appreciation". At first it didn't really catch my eyes, or spark any inspirations, but then I remembered that this was one of the few drawings, if not the only one, that I drew themed after myself. 

As I thought about it some more, I felt like it was the right time to revisit this idea. It was a great opportunity to compare and see the differences between the me, now, and the me, then.

The result is the above drawing. Obviously I'm better now then I was before... right? 

The main references I've used for this drawing will be at the end of this post.