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!

Artwork: Enchanting Spearman

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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!!!

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!

Comic: Crisp

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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.

Artwork: Swordsman Toa

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I finished this in late January, but because I was really late with starting the Chinese New Year drawing I decided to hold on to this post until after Chinese New Year.

For this drawing my main objective was to include more perspective in my drawings. I didn't want start with anything too fancy yet, just something simple and effective. My other objective was to continue with more character design. I'm quite happy about the colours and the details on the clothing, but I would want to change the design of the collar next time; it just doesn't feel as cohesive as I wanted it to be.

As I finished the drawing I found my composition lacking impact, so I decided to change up my framing a bit. The one I prefer is the top one, while the bottom one is the original composition. I felt shifting the emphasis more on to the sword made more sense for the drawing and adds more impact.

What do you think?

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!

Artwork: Snowfield Resolve

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Another theme I've been wanting to tackle for sometime now. The image of a knight with a stern resolve against adversity; inspired by Sabre from the "Fate" series. But I didn't want the character to be just a generic knight, I wanted to give her more identity, so I decided to do a modern medieval cross over. The results turned out much better than I expected.