Wow wee, time for random post. Some of my artist friends who knows me well should have heard this from me before. I have made an oath to myself, that after I graduate and earning income by myself, I'm gonna buy an artbook every month. And since I'm earning some money even before grad (by internshipXD), I start fulfilling my oath before then :D. These are my personal collection


1st and 2nd are "Digital Art Master" series 1 and 2 by the famed 3dtotal.com. It cost me around 200+ (after discount :D) in Basheer Graphics Bookstore for both. Though my father's the one sponsored me. Perhaps he saw how passionate I am on digital arts and I told him that it may suddenly out of stock. I wanted to ordered online previously and it cost a total of 500+ bucks including shipping. So, it was a smart choice to grab it as soon as I got the chance.

It features currently some of the not-so-famous but reputated digital artist of the industry. Besides featuring their works, it includes some brief description on brainstorming and the artistic procees by those artist. It is definitely worthy piece of collection.



Next are artbooks from my idol, INOUE TAKEHIKO SENSEI!! The 1st one is actually a pirated copy (I think) of the "Vagabond" artbook, "water", which I bought in a manga store costing me around 30 bucks, and I actually thought it was original, crap =_=. The quality's not bad though, lucky me. The 2nd is another artbook from "vagabond" as well, titled "sumi". I actually got this original copy from kinokuniya which cost me 150 bucks. It was a tough 1 to find. Unlike "water", "sumi" featured a lot of the same work taken from the manga itself, kinda let down. Well, his my idol, so I can't complain so much bout it ><.

Well, recently I have make up mind to buy not just artbook, but any accessories that has to do with art as well, such as BENDABLE, POSABLE toy figure unlike the Ikea's stupid wood figure. Since I do not plan to waste all my money on useless artbooks which done by artist I'm not interested of.

Anyway, if you are interested, I would be happy to lend these books for you to browse. But if anything happens to them, you just replace a new one for me, simple as that ^_^. "Sumi" is officially the 1st artbook I bought with my salary, and I'll be doing 3 months intern. That means I have 2 more artbooks to buy by the end of my internship. Well, which one should I get this time (´ー｀).

Here I am, taking me 3 nights to get the lineart done. Like what I mentioned in my last post, it's a collab work between me and my friend Agito (you can view his uber-gay artwork here). The initial design was done by him base on a new design of Saber from Fate/Stay Night, which the developers call it "Saber Lily Version".

Well, I wanted to collab with Agito for quite a long time, since both of us are quite fond of drawing and painting. So, recently he suggested me to take his new piece of work to do my own tweaks. At first I thought of doing minor tweaks and modification, but got carried away and did A LOT of changes, sorry bout that ><.

He can really draw figures, characters and stuffs like that with super details. Though sometimes his detailing are too much and caused imbalance in his drawings, and now I'm there to "balance" it out :D. I did some changes on the armor part. For the upper body, I kept most of the design intact except making Saber more "expose" XD. For the skirt, well I changed a lot because of the extreme details and to make the flow better. Some minor tweaks on the armor boots, hands, and eyes, and posture, and I added more depth on the perspective as well. Finally, I changed Agito's badass sword to a more elegant and slimer sword to suit Saber's personality.

Well, for minor details and inscription on the ornaments, I'm going to add it only during painting process. And yes, I'm gonna paint it after this. Hopefully I don't screw up like I usually do =_=.

Nope, I'm not dead yet. It's been quite a long time since I posted here. Well, I got myself messed up quite a bit. I don't like making excuses, the truth is whatever happend, I just failed to do what I should. But anyway, I'm here again to post some stuff, I mean artworks.


Here's an experiment on custome brush. I'm trying to acheive calligraphy brush style. But seems it ended up as something else =_=. Nothing special, like I said, just an experiment. Reference from Inoue Takehiko sensei's Vagabond.


As for this one, it's a collabaration between me and my friend Agito, re-imagining Fate/Stay Night's Saber(Lily version). I'll do the explanation later when I'm done the lineart. It's still in draft stage and I'm kinda lazy :P

I know some visitors left because of my recent lack updates. It's kinda obvious base on the pagehits XD. Anyway, don't leave for good yet. I promise I'll be good boy and do my work properly from now on XD. Shinpai nai yo. Ima kara, ore ga zutto zutto ganbatte da yo.

And here's a great quote from Batman Begins

"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up"