/ the art enthusiast \

hello~ sorry for the short inactiveness. got quite a handful of stuffs to do & I can only post when I'm free.

I went on my Instagram's art account almost everyday and scrolls through my feed. looking at some of the amazing art, I felt kinda down because my negativity is taking over me. I kept on thinking "I'll never be able to draw like this". but things wouldn't change or improve if I keep on doing nothing and let my negativity overwhelm me. so lately, I've been doing lots of practices for my drawing. I think I made quite the progress throughout the practices, even if it's just a slight improvement. 

most of my practices were anatomies - eyes, hands, & poses. I used myself as a reference & a little bit from easy sources like magazines, mangas, observing people, etc. here's the outcome of the practices (taken from my instagram's art acc) : 

eye practice, using the medium color pencils, correction liquid & SAKURA Gelly Roll Opaque White.

sketches of hand practice pt. 1.

sketches of hand practice pt. 2.

some simple poses & light direction practice.

....aaaand that is all there is. there's like a whole lot more to do to improve my art skills.

I am also planning to try out a new medium - Koi Watercolors, product by SAKURA + Koi Waterbrush. I've seen artists use these mediums & I wanna try it out for myself too. I consider the watercolor & the waterbrush special because 1) the colors are really subtle, but not to the extent of looking dull (depends on how much water you use too), and 2) the waterbrush itself is unique; it has its own water storage so you don't have to do the usual stuff where you fill a cup of water to dip your brush into the cup. gonna buy it online, soon.

I hope I would improve a lot more in the coming future~ because there is always room to improve. until then ^∆^ 

so yesterday, I had quite the best time of the month (yes, month). I arranged an art meet with one of my ex-high school friend, Carmen @ Oceanus Waterfront Mall, though that wasn't originally where we intended to meet. what made us changed our meeting place from IMAGO Shopping Mall to Oceanus was this: -



- yes. coincidentally (was scrolling through my phone's gallery, saw this picture again & immediately remembered about it), our art meet was on the same day with the Japanese Cosplay Event!! heck, of course we're going!

so we meet up at Oceanus & went straight to find the event place. after spending few minutes of walking (and maybe with a bit of luck) we found the event place (the place was sort of hidden ._.). i regretted not taking lots of pictures (especially with the cosplayers!!!) but i do have quite a few pictures and a video of the event on my Snapchat Story. here's some pic from Snapchat of the majestic experience -

I hope i'm not mistaken, but the blue-haired girl cosplayed Mikaze Ai from Uta no Prince-sama..right?

small crowd.

 yeah.. totally regretted not taking lots of pictures, but then the event was really fun to watch at (though I was quite disappointed that the event space was TOO SMALL). some of the cosplays that I saw was Kaneki Ken & Juuzou Suzuya of Tokyo Ghoul, Sebastian Michaelis of Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler), Hatsune Miku, characters from Love Live!, etc etc etc. there's also stuffs that came straight from Japan, brought there to be sold like yukatas, sensus (Japanese traditional fan), stationeries, onigiri moulder, etc & also there's 2 Purikura booth! man I got goosebumps experiencing it, literally.

so after that short magical moment, we proceeded to Starbucks to do our art meet. we didn't get to do much due to the time where we only managed to see each other's art while sipping our drinks (with some small talk about life slitted in), also I gave Carmen some small gifts of my anime chibi drawings & she was excited to get to try my Copics :) 

Copic Markers, pens & the small Haikyuu!! chibi drawing gifts I gave her. Photo taken by her on Instagram, so full credits to Carmen~

Carmen trying out the Copics xD

I went home soon after that. it was indeed short but I still had fun. hoping to do this more in the future. 

also, I've been wanting to try to rent a booth during OTAFUSE 5th Anniversary Event held at Suria Sabah next month (more details below!!) & HobbyCon 2015 to sell my artworks, but idk I think its expensive and I might have not much free time to go the events.. so might as well forget about it. maybe next time I will. in the coming future. I hope so. but I think I'll go and check out the event anyway. okay bye~

OTAFUSE 5th Anniversary event with the theme; MAGICAL!!

hello~ I'm dead bored not doing anything so I guess I'll do the second part then (though I'm kind of lazy OTL)

hello again.

so I wanted to talk a bit about my form & history of art, and mediums/tools that I used in art making.

my current art style(s) are genuinely anime/manga, and also semi-realism where I incorporate some realism elements into an anime/manga drawing. in the early years of my art history (when I was still a kid), I didn't start off with an anime/manga style, in fact I didn't even know what an anime/manga were until I stumbled upon channel NTV7 & TV3 (we didn't own an Astro back then) which airs anime (if I'm not mistaken, every Sat & Sun). my first few animes were Fullmetal Alchemist, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Petite Princess Yuichi, Naruto, and these that were pretty much common & predictable as a Malaysian kid - Doraemon and Crayon Shin Chan.

the first time I watched it, ultimately & immediately fell in love with it. not only the plots, but at how amazing the animation, graphics, and effects were made. looking at it somehow sparked something in me, that made me said to myself, "I want to draw". and so it begins - my hellish (not really) practices to be able to draw like the anime that I've watched. the drawings that I made were only doodles & unfinished drawings, which pretty much satisfies the little me (sometimes) because I never knew what I'm capable of. 

even so, if my present self were to look back at my old drawings, I wanna gouge my eyes out (seriously) because its really.. bloody ugly. now, I am really grateful of how much I improved despite all of the hardships. my art improves little by little - reading Gempak Starz comics & translated mangas, used lotsssss of references, always referred to my favorite professional artists (instagram links below), endless practice (though I took a long hiatus from 2011 until mid 2013 for certain reasons and continued back on 2014) - it helps me a lot.

for now, I'm going to split this post into 2 parts where I'll talk about the mediums/tools that I used on pt. 2. will post the second part tomorrow..or might even be next week idk OKAY BYE


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instagram acc of my favorite pro artists (or should I say, senpais?)

 ~ acinaddanica, N/A 

 ~ reikanjuu, from Indonesia 

 ~ ima_chelz, from my own loving country, state & the same hometown - Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia! 

 ~ akii_ni, N/A 

 ~ caroandfruits, N/A 

 ~ heartlesskii, N/A 

 ~ Kimmy/artisticanimex, from UK 

 ~ my all-time favorite; Min/minmonsta, N/A 

 ~ hnkmrk, from Japan 

 ~ Nadia Hikaru Zerzawy/dialoguee, a Japanese-Swiss German artist 

 ~ Risa/riisasama, N/A 

 ~ San/sanartist, from England 

 ~ Yasamiiin/yassa_m, from Copenhagen, Denmark  

 ~ Yenko/yenichi, from Poland 

 ~ drawing_dalia, from Palestine 

 ~ cliven.z, N/A 

 ~ haruukaa_, N/A 

 ~ maichiku, N/A 

 ~ masuosaan, from Japan 

 ~ Shinji/artbyshinji, N/A 

 ~ Ryota Moriwaki/ryomadeinjapan, a Japanese currently living in Italy 

 ~ mitsumayo, from Japan 



...and more to come in the future!