Lost of artwork source files

Hello, here is me again after a month since last post. So my past 2 days reveal my deepest nightmare, which is the lost of my latest artwork source files PSD. Where did I put it? Last time before purchasing new Hardisk I burned almost all the files and also numbered them. But last 2 days I just want to re-check my previous artwork on the DVD cake, I've count atleast 4 DVD are missing. This I notice after the I decided to do a numbering scheme! how about those hundreds of DVD burned before this?

Damn, if the DVD which is missing are not so important, or at least anime which I already watch then its quite okay, but unlucky me, the one which is lost is my own artwork which can never be re-download back!.

hah but something similar has happen to me before, which wipes a 400GB worth of many precious files and my own flash source code just because of faulty SATA power cable. Some says "backup your files!", but what if the backup itself gone missing?

My Favourite Food

This is my latest work done in my computer modeling class, which teach me how to use Adobe illustrator. In the lab we learn how to make apples, but I do my own favourite food instead. The green fruit there is Guava, the small dark purple is blackcurrant and the pink colored fruit is..... err I dont know what its name in english, but in Malaysia we call it "Jambu air" which direct translation to english is "water guava" <- haha...

Currently I'm not doing any anime type of work, as I'm focusing on learning 3D modeling and OpenGL programming as I'm taking those class this semester. quite boring and frustrating but this is essential for my future I'd say.

By the way, my fan art wallpaper is little outdated as I've modified somethings after several critique on animewallpapers. But I dont finish it yet (since May) as I suddenly lost focus to my work and instead I do many unnecessary things.... haha quite long to explain here.

The thing is I will always do something else after I go hometown when each of the semester ends (I live in my college hostels every semester). I do enjoy it but after the semester start, I always end up frustrating on what I've done before.. which is wasting time. Now I only have 1 semester left to study and I still dont have enough knowledge to reach my ambition. The university failed to teach me anything useful instead of stupid subject which is unrelated to graphics and multimedia at all.

What's the use of "Management information systems", "System Analysis and Design" and "Digital Logic" for me? Does that useful for 3d modeling? photoshops???

Hah nevertheless I know the truth is cruel enough and I've decided that I need to learn all those things myself. And now only 1 semester left.. which is exactly 4 to 5 months left. Can I learn all that I want myself? I afraid to doubt anything, so I just do it the best I can.

Fan-Art Wallpaper - Inuyasha- Waiting for a new journey

Inuyasha- Waiting for a new journey

Here is my latest fan-art wallpaper which I done after watching the 93th episodes of Inuyasha anime. Quite a good anime I'd say, although the story plot is quite simple, unlike Eureka 7 and Gundam series. At some point if I were to watch 2~3 episode in one shot I'll feel abit boring because the story pattern (on some episode) for each episode is quite the same. For rating I'll give 3.8 over 5.

I really impress on their background paintings, very well done and beautiful. The grass blades is painted in great detail, rocks and slides shows their characteristics while sky shows the beautiful scene when the sunset came.

The grass blades are painted in great detail

Beautiful scene of sunsets

I wish I could draw like that too.

So to potray their journey and their world, I create this wallpaper. The wallpaper is designed so that they just take a break from an event (let it be,say, after fighting with "Naraku" people). Inuyasha is tired after fighting so he decide to rest just here, and his friends agree. Inuyasha just about to sleep, while Kagome and Sango watch Shippo and Kirara playing together. Miroku watch the sky dreaming about new girl she just recently met.

Heh hows my story? Pretty good eh?

Supposely Shippo and Kirara is chasing a ball while Inuyasha suppose to hold his Tetsusaiga, but I just let it be.

Below is a step by step progress on how I did the characters and the background.

Sketching the character pose and locate best position for them.

Drawing the characters base on various screenshots

Color the characters

Roughing out the background

Add details such as grass, clouds. I'm using normal round brush with opacity and flow set to 20%~30% to color the background. This will result some blotches and textures similar to watercolor/pastel paintings.

Final results as the first picture above.Color level tweak was done, add some haze below the mountain, add some shines over the characters, and add some sunshine between the clouds. If you look carefully the character pose and lineart is slightly different in the final result as I fix them after I've been commented about the unnaturalness of Kagome and Sango hand pose. I've also re-draw the lineart of all the characters except Kirara (the cat) to make it look crisp and sharper.

I think that all about it. Until my next artwork, bye~

Fan-art | Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess

Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess

Hi~
Thanks for reading my blog.
Its been a while since i've posted updates in this blog. Although is that, I'm still actively
working with my artworks, which you can see on my deviants.
The update for the blog and in my deviantart is somehow repititious
but I'm using deviantart to post my latest artwork, where else i'm
using this blog to tell a step by step process on how I do
my artwork.
Updating both takes time so there will be a gap of update
time between this two sites although the update is about
the same artwork.

Okay~ enough about my personal problems, now its time for the artwork.
Introducing my latest artwork; Dark Keiichi - Bleach X Ah! My Goddess is
my second (sorry for my mistake in deviantart that I said this is the first, actually my Cloud VS kratos artwork is the true first)
crossover fan-art.

Draw in photoshop using tablet, then vectoring in SAI paint Tool and coloring in photoshop.

Below is a step by step on how I do the drawing :

Sketching Keiichi Skeleton

Sketching Keiichi Body

Adding his clothes

Keiichi sketch finished

Sketching Grimmjow body pose skeleton

Fix Grimmjow skeleton pose

Sketching his body and head

Draw his hand

Draw his clothes, sword and detailing several parts.

Combine Grimmjow with Keiichi

Vectoring using SAI paint tool
Base coloring
Add darker / lighter color shades using soft shading method

Why I choose Grimmjow as his angel? because he's my favourite character in bleach and I thought he is more suitable to become an angel for keiichi instead of Ichigo (as I shortlisted to those 2 as his angel).

So the drawing took 2 days I think.. and the coloring takes about 3~4 days. Before this drawing I used to finish coloring my drawing in a days, but the result is a bit sloopy so I decided to relax my coloring time a bit to increase precision and quality.

The background is created in 4~5 hours, without any idea in my head I just keep playing around with plugin while experimenting stone textures as its base. After several trial and error the result is the one you see there..

The character did not blend well because the bg color theme does not match with the color mood of the characters as they was colored with a bright environment in mind. I'm still searching a workaround for this.

I hope you enjoy the wallpaper. Comment and critics are always welcome~

Tools of Trade : Photoshop CS3, SAI Paint Tool, Stone textures from http://photoshoptextures.com/, Tablet.

Interesting Article - AMD user are smarter than intel users

Two brain but still stupid

Pasted from http://www.maxitmag.com/loose-wires/articles/intel-users-less-intelligent-than-amd.html

In a recent survey, a study of over 5,000 computer users concluded that people who use Intel powered computers have a lower IQ than their AMD counterparts. The study took place over a six month period and involved computer users with Intel and AMD powered computers of various specifications.

The test subjects were asked to complete a series of written and hands on tests covering basic computer skills up to more advanced tasks. The survey found that over 69% of people with Intel powered computers had greater learning difficulties and found computer related tasks more difficult compared with 31% of AMD. A whopping 78% of novice computer users with Intel processors inside their computers could not transfer and resize an image from a digital camera even with the the step by step instructions in front of them.

AMD user smarter hehehe

The survey concluded that AMD users tended to be more 'computer smart' and 'enthusiast' orientated having researched the market before purchasing their computer. Most people recognise the Intel brand and tend to purchase bog standard off the shelf computers knowing little about the details of the hardware. People who buy AMD are more creative and willing to adopt new technology more easily.


See my PC spec at the right corner of this page, I am an AMD user.

Fanart wallpaper - Kaze no Stigma Kazuma Yagami

Just finish watching Kaze no stigma, I really love the story and the characters, so I planned to do a wall with one of my favourite character in the series.
Kazuma Yagami ,a Fuujutsushi (wind art user)

the character was fully handrawn (fanart) by me, including the wind all around him. The wall not turned out as what I was planned, but I managed to at least show how his power looks like.

Below is a step by step on how I draw him.

Character Pose was defined with Poser, and the skeleton was traced.

Sketching its clothes

Draw his face, eyes, and hair

Detailing and cleaning his clothes

Coloring with base color

Shading was added

Add some winds effect plus its winds attack
Finished!

I hope to do more fanart wallpaper to brush my skills even more.
As usual, I used Wacom Intuous 3 tablet to draw on Photoshop CS3, and Poser for defining the character pose. The characters takes 5+ hours to complete, and another 3~4 hours for wallpaper it. This was created on 22 February 2008 at night about 9.00pm+ and finished on the next day (because I sleep) 23 February 2008 at about 10.00am.

The wall still need some refinements so there might be some changes to the wall later.

A fan art wallpaper - Kratos Aurion VS Cloud Strife

Kratos Aurion Tales Of Syphonia VS Cloud Strife FFVII

Takes about 2 weeks to complete.. this wall was on request by a user in animewallpaper forum.
I just new in hand drawn wallpaper so I try my luck to do this.

Using Poser 6 software to do the pose of the character, the job difficulty was cut into half. Save it as JPEG and load in in photoshop. Then I trace the skeleton of the character with it. The reference for kratos was great, so it didnt took much time to draw it.

Unfortunately Cloud character is a big headache. the official character itself has 3 version, one from the original FFVII, one from Kingdom Hearts and one from Advent Children. You can count it as 4 I guess if you count the latest FFVII series "Crisis Core".

First I try to refer from Advent Children. the clothing turns out fine, but the face was a bizzare..
He looks like Trunks Dragonball in Cloud Advent Children suite.

Cloud looks like Trunks Dragonball in his Advent Children suite

Not satisfy with how it turns out, I use Dark Cloud from Kingdom Heart for his head. Instead of drawing from skretch, I trace it out from the original picture.
Luckily I have a great reference for his weapon, so I just trace it.
Kratos sword is simple so no big deal for it.

Cloud and Kratos with their weapon completely drawn.

For the background, it took many days for the inspiration, but the drawing didnt took even a day. Referenced from Tales of Symphonia OVA screenshot, I just move it in a suitable position and trace it with Painter. Then I added a big block of rock for them to stood on. The rest is just a simple photoshop filter.

Its not being critics yet by forumers right now (the day this was posted), but I feel great because the wall is accepted by the one who request it. He even give a rep to me, which I not expected.