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!
 

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!

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!!!

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!

2019: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

 

 

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新年快樂!豬年好!祝大家,出入平安,身体健康,恭喜發財!

A couple days late, but better late than never! Honestly not the best new year start for me, but it is just the beginning. There is still the rest of the year to look forward to!

With that out of the way.

Happy Year of the Pig! I wish everyone a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!

2018: Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I wish you all a wondrous and safe holiday!

2018: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

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I wish you all a wonderful new year! That everything you do will go according to, if not exceed, your expectations. Most of all I wish you all great health and safety.

祝大家新年快樂! 心想事成, 萬事勝意, 身體健康, 出入平安!

As usual the only way to celebrate the Lunar New Year is to make a drawing with the  zodiac of the year.  

Being the year of the dog I decided to make a more realistic drawing than previous years, as it lends itself better to it. I've been meaning to draw something with an animal as well, so this was a great chance.

Hope you enjoyed the drawing, and once again Happy New Year! 

For those interested in the main source I used for drawing the dog (shiba inu) in the drawing here is the link.

Link:
 

Ryuji's Instagram

2017: Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Although I really should have posted this way earlier, It's still better late than never.

I wish you all a safe and wonderful holiday!

2017: Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐

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I wish everyone a healthy, safe, successful, and smooth sailing year.

Though my wishes are modest this year, it's accompanied by a not so modest chicken. Haha.

Happy Year of the Chicken!

雞年好!    
祝大家身體健康, 出入平安, 事事顺利!

2016: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Another year, another "timely" Christmas drawing, haha. I wish you all a wonderful and safe holiday!

2016: Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!

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Happy Chinese New Year!  新年快樂!

恭喜發財! 祝大家身體健康 , 萬事胜意.

I wish everyone great health, prosperity, and joy; that everything you do this year would exceed expectations.

The meanings of the words to the left roughly translates to: "When flowers bloom, riches come", "Good things comes in twos".
                                                                                                                                                     


This is the first Chinese New Year drawing I've posted here, hopefully I could kept this up like I do with Christmas drawings.

Honestly this drawing started off a bit uninspired, but I slowly got more inspired as I continued working on it. There are actually some Feng shui elements in it, haha.

The colours and patterns on the clothing were the hardest portion of the drawing. Trying to mimic the clothing I see in Chinese period dramas needed more thought than I expected. Firstly, I found that patterns needed to be coloured only slightly different from the main fabric colour. This barely visible colouring variation creates an illusion effect that parts of the clothes is brighter than other parts; kind of mimicking the effects of silk embroidery. Secondly, since I was only using one shape for the patterning, varying the shape's size looks much better than just using the same size throughout. I wanted to cheat with just one size, but it just didn't cut it, haha. Also I felt that, after looking up more examples, a more mechanical patterning looks better and is more accurate. Mechanical meaning a set patterning order for example: 1100110011; as opposed to a more random patterning.

The second hardest part was the tree in the back. Its a plum tree by the way. I took a good amount of effort to mimic the traditional Chinese brush painting, but not nearly as much trial and error was needed compared to the patterning.

2015: Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

It seems like I still just can't get my timing right, but at the very least I didn't post this on Christmas Day.

My approach for this year's Christmas drawing is a little different. Playing Dragon Quest 4 and 5 lately gave me a new direction for inspirations, Dragon Quest 5 especially. The game's story gives off a very genuine, simple, and relatable feeling that makes it a joy to play. 

In my attempt to capture that spirit and feeling I created this drawing. I couldn't achieve the same feeling as I did playing the games, like usual, but I was able to capture a certain level of simplicity, I think, haha.

Artwork: Mid-Autumn Moon

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I drew this to commemorate the rare occurrence of both a Super-Moon and Lunar Eclipse this Mid-Autumn Festival. 

My initial direction was to make a quick drawing in a flat colour style, kind of trying to mimic ancient drawings in colouring(?), as shown in the right. I was able to finish the artwork on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but found that flat colours didn't illustrate the feeling I wanted. It was much harder to use flat colours than I thought. As a result I found that adding light shading helped, but the drawing felt rushed, so l decide to give it more time and thought. 

The result is the left, which I feel is a big improvement from the older version. 

The extra time put into researching and learning how to draw a better stone bridge and Japanese Maple made a big difference. But to me, the change in composition made the biggest difference. I discovered that the feeling I wanted actually came from the girl. So by pulling everything closer, I was able to show more detail and put the girl into focus; making it less empty and more expressive.

One thing l wished I could have in the new one from the old are the clouds around the moon. The new one is still good, but the old one is just better.

Merry Christmas!!! - Artwork: #Gifting #Surprise #Baby

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! 

A cute drawing to celebrate the holidays! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New year.