Kurosaki Ichigo - Bankai wallpaper

Introducing my latest wallpaper from Bleach, Kurosaki Ichigo - Bankai.

Currently being up at Animewallpaper forum for critics, a simple wallpaper showing ichigo in Bankai form.

The character was drawn from scratch using a tablet in photoshop, inspired and referenced from the series itself, when Ichigo first met with the Arrancar, in an attempt to save Orihime and Sado in a fight. See screenshot below :




Here is stage by stage drawing of the character :

1) Skeleton draft for defining the pose


2) Sketching body figures

3) Add clothings

4) Cleaning up


5) Filling up base colours


6) Add shades, finish!


(you can view the wallpaper on Animewallpaper forum in higher resolution 1600 x 1200)

The wallpaper and the character was created on Sunday 27 january 2008

My Artwork ~ Evening Landscape

Created on 19 january 2008,
Take about a day to finish it, my first digital artwork created with Corel Painter X using Wacom Intuous 3, and some lighting tweak with Photoshop CS3.

Originally created for an anime wallpaper (Ah! My Goddess - Tatakau no Tsubasa, on Animewallpaper.com forum )
but it does not really matched with the characters.

At least I'm starting to do digital art after about 2~3 months keeping the tablet without doing anything ahahah~

posted on my deviant too (link up there)~

Useful Article - Overcoming Loss Of Motivation

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/overcoming-the-loss-of-motivation-that-follows-a-surge-of-productivity/

How many times have you started a new activity (such as a personal project or exercise routine) with a burst of enthusiasm, only to see that initial momentum evaporate? This often leads to depression and causes us to give up prematurely. I’ve experienced this letdown dozens of times myself. But fortunately, with a bit of thought and reflection you can turn this negative emotion around.

Useful Tutorial - Adjustment layers in photoshop

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/adjlay/adjlay.htm
is a tutorial about how to use adjustment layers in photoshop to enhance pictures.

Adjustment layers can be used for making many types of adjustments to your work, without actually doing anything to the original layer. It is akin to laying a sheet of clear colored plastic overlay over your work. Your picture will look colored, but then when you take off the plastic overlay, your picture is unchanged.

Useful Tutorial - Digital Landscape Painting

http://tutorials.epilogue.net/tutorials/digital-landscape-painting-the-making-of-elenquilde

This tutorial explains how his "Elenquilde" background, a landscape of mountain are made with Photoshop.

A really useful step by step tutorial by Elin Josefsson.

Many changes~!!

Hello and Happy new year, I hope its not too late... ahahahah

Many month have gone since my last post, due to my stupid timetable arrangement.. I didnt manage time for my blogging..

So many thing has happen to me, firstly, I got my first scholarship in my life, which is YTN (Yayasan Tenaga Nasional) for my studies, then after half-ing the money with my mum, half of my share was used for repairing our long serving Proton Saga car (since 1990 I think), and thats now my car. Half more plus my wages for doing a project for my college I bought my Wacom Intuous 3 9x12 PTZ-930 tablet.

Wacom Intuos 3 Tablet (Samples from Internet)

To tell the truth, my mum was very mad at me when I bought the tablet because at that time my family has a financial problem, which is caused by our sibling want to borrow our money for their son wedding (which I hate most). Till today my mum still asking what is the purpose of the tablet and what I've done with it. Of course I use it but it takes time to produce something good with it..

Naaahh now about my car.. After send it for service(cost about RM1500 plusplus), driving the car feel as good as new car. But some problem occur including overheating (caused by malfunction radiator), Radio sounds like handphone speakers and some minor problem.
For the radio, I bought a second-hand amplifier which cost me RM50 only and install it DIY. The result, my radio now sound boom2 abit.. ahahahh..
For the overheat problem, just last week the radiator has been send to service and uninstall/install it back DIY. Now no problem.

Wahahah but at that day I gatal tangan and want to open the car spark plug. But because of using wrong socket (the thing like to open a nut but has longer grip which is called socket and a twister), I cracked the spark plug. The result? my car can only go near 60KM\h only and to climb bukit I need to switch to gear 1.. same like jalan kaki...

Back to the project...
Now after I bought the wacom (which is second day before Raya aidilfitri 2007), I still learning how to use it. Currently playing around with Corel Painter 9.5 Sofware to create drawings, but still at very low level..

But just recently (2 weeks ago) My 400GB Samsung hardisk PCB burned because of the faulty power cable. Too much valuable things in there, so I planned to recover it by sending it to RMA. My current OS hardisk only have 1GB left so its damn hard to do work especially using heavy software such as Photoshop and Painter. Till my scholarship for this semester banked in I can only proceed my work very little at a time.

Meanwhile, last week I just finish watching a 50 episodes fansubbed Eureka SeveN, very good anime, I could give 4.9 over 5.0 ratings!. It has very high moral values, science fiction anime that can be very touching to those who watch it. I recommend watching it! It really inspires me to my project and could be my greatest project guidelines ever.

Eureka seveN