My laptop back light on the monitor broke and it's really really hard to see stuff on my laptop. Sooooo I'm gonna move some psd files of my current art on to my sister laptop and try to draw from there. Dunno when I will ever try to get that laptop fix.

I won the CLABTRAP Art Album Cover Competition

And today is my birthday :D

And I finally finish a picture

I'm really lazy when it comes to updating a news post, but I might as well update it now with something.

I want to share the interesting input of how this art process video worked in my view point.

There is a second part to this video too

In the image below I did half the job done to get an idea on how coloring line art work to understand through the artist of that video.

A first step would be a small canvas size (I started 833x1000 pixels) sketch to get your general idea down and anatomy too. You don't have trace exactly what your sketch is in your lineart unless you want to.

Second step is to increase the canvas size to a large scale ( I personally increased it to 6000x7200 pixels). Then I use a hard round brush with a size of maybe 2-6 pixels to trace over the sketch. I didn't care on the line art being smooth, but being focus on making sure the lines connect. I never finish the whole lineart process because it was boring for me but I got what I wanted from what I got so far. I use a magic wand tool to select the outside side of the lineart then reverse the selection and filled it with a purple color in a new layer.

Third step is to lock the transparency of the filled layer since it got the shape of the form I needed. Using the line art as guidelines now, I shade like I always do and even shade that does not follow the guidelines of the lineart. You'll eventualy notice that in some areas that you made of left tiny white pixels that surround your line art is an eyesore, but it won't matter.

Last step in to reduce the size of the image (I went 833x1000), the crooked lines and little pixels wouldn't matter because of how the viewers first impression would be the overall composition of your art and that the removing and reconstruction of certain pixels when you've reduced the size would make it unnoticeable.

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Credit of the videos go to Genzoman for his skill anime works and coloring plus his awesome go about way with photoshop.

Imaginefx is a great video source on observing how a professional artist do their work in either real time, step by step explanation of their process, or breaking it down for us to understand.

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The program I used is photoshop cs3
Any art program that worked generally the same as photoshop would be fine too.

I'ved used 5 layers on what i=I've drawned

1- the pre anatomy form to get the pose and body shape right

2- the sketch of the knight warrior would look like

3- the line art

4- the filled locked transparency layer that I shaded and detail in, which goes below the lineart.

5- an effect layer called "overlay" in which I used a yellow-green color to color over the light hitting surface of the overall art itself.

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Always wonder what the real size of certain amazing artwork......because some artists may of did similar methods or because they don't like art thief.

....along with the other Art Regs.

Read it here

I like to share what I happen to come across, Nitro-killer art vids is a nice find on awesome speedpaint vids.

I enjoy watching how FF13 feel like one big cinematic movie during the whole time when I began watching, especially since the guy who was playing skipped minor repetitive battles and dodge battles like a boss.
Watching the boss battles was intense and looked difficult unless you know the a pattern to beat them.
Graphics were gorgeous and this game sense of technology is advance.
Took me a long while to realized the actual setting that the party was standing on (a planet with a mini floating planet station from above the skies). Unfortunately the game as a whole doesn't seem to have any replay value to it, you beat it and be done with it since it's one big road of a game and it has about zero npc interaction.
As a artist though, I really really enjoy the graphics of the game, it even happen to influence me a good bit ;)

After finish watching FF13 walkthrough, I notice the guy did a FF13-2 walkthrough, nice coincidence huh.
The introduction started awesome and the introduction of the action sequence was pretty cool too (even though it does suck that you'll be too caught up on smashing the right buttons instead of taking in the visual action scenes fully). Afterward they drop the "time-traveler" bomb out of no where, I was in the awe of ".....ok".
Afterward Serah's clothes suddenly transform into a poorer choice of design, I would be fine with her modern society stylish clothes but that time traveling clothes is stupid. I'm impressed that the combat system has some new minor changes on your 3rd party member which is a "monster" with a few of it own abilities, the reasoning behind having it though is just too simple and brush off as something to not think about much later.
The "Live Trigger" is a nice put in the game that gives interaction in the game but you can make Serah look like an idiot which is a fun laugh (though this will usually take away the game's seriousness a ton of time).
The game has replay value in a way since it has multiple endings based on the choices you made but the real ending basically does not "end" the game.
So I guess there could be a dlc to further the story for FF13-2 or there could be a FF13-3. Kind of a "Hey! Pay more for this series".
Oh and plus this game has too many repetitive puzzles, god, so many repetitive puzzles and a stupid idea for a merchant.

We all bound to have one but I'm surprise I'm lucky enough to notice it :3

That was mailed to my house.

That was meant for somebody else who once lived at my house.

And it got service in it :3

Commissions

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Yesterday the police call my dad and said that my mom was arrested.

Apparently the charges were "shoplifting"!? My mother don't steal!......well she steal changes laying around in my bedroom but she don't actually shoplift!

Plus the timing of the arrest was way off from the time she left off from work.

But at the end apparently the police called the wrong family of whom they arrested, the ordeal got me stressed when the thought of my mother being arrested linger in my mind.

There was another mother going by the same first name and last name as my mother BUT my mother middle name is "Thi" the other mother was "Tranh". My family have no relations with the "Tranh".

So yeah, thank goodness my mom isn't arrested. Suck for that other family though, but come on......shoplifting?

I accept payment in USD only through PAYPAL. PM me if you are interested.

I paint in a semi-realism manner. You can look at my NG Gallery DA Gallery or Facebook Gallery

$20- Head portrait

$30-Full body

+$10-Given a background

+$10-For another character

I DO NOT do nudity/porn based art.