Lady of Pharis

A portrait of Fleve of Record of Lodoss War: Lady of Pharis. A really nice comic, under the hands of Akihiro Yamada... it's a work of art than comic to me nia.... XD Done in pastels... after painting it, kind of made me feel that there's a lot about the human face anatomy that I still have to learn.... >_<

Went to Dor's house to discuss abit about the end of year event. Somehow, we are both gonna get caught up with the little responsibilities in life, but not gonna stop our plans for that! ;) Gossiped a bit about uni life too.... hope I'm just thinking too much.... Ngahhhhh.... Courage!!!!!! XDXDXDXDXD

Freshmen Orientation Camp '08

Yeap, just back today, home sweet home at last after the 4 days camp in ntu. It was a nice camp, a lot of planning and effort from the host group and all... but I didn't quite get along well with my pan clan teamates... Haha, maybe I was really anti-social... dunno.

The team was made of four guys and four girls, including me. The guys were pretty hyperactive, with their hormones running a bit too high for the girls to understand, I guess... I kept an eye close on that, cos it's pretty normal for guys to be speaking horny. No matter how dirty it is, it's just a joke. However, the insensitivity and rashness of the guys kind of went passed my limit. It really bothered me throughout the three days since the amazing race. The guys sped in the front, while the girls tried to catch up. They wanted to win, which is understandable, but given the physical condition of the girls, it was hard. While the girls tried to cheer each other on at the back, it became clear to me that there was no pan-clan, just indeed 'lost' boys and girls.

After that race, it felt as though the barrier was wider. Even the erotic jokes started bothering me. I just asked myself, is it really them, or is it just me? I admit, I have an attitude too. I am pretty antisocial, a slacker. I don't loosen up to people easily, especially guys and I like to keep things to myself. During the paint bombing session, one of the guys tried to sneak behind me and drip some paint over my shoulder. I sensed him beside, and shove my arm across firm, giving a sulk to the ground instead of his face. I have my reasons to avoid getting into the paint mess, but really find no point to tell people I don't know well. Yea... my stupid attitude. Haha... Had to be called a bitch in the last day performance skit... Felt really uncomfortable with that.. but guess the guy who had to act as a transexual was even more uncomfortable. It felt as though he wanted to back out in the last minute, but he stayed on, a brave muslim.

Ah well... the camp ended with the erotic-joke performance which surprisingly fetched the 'best show' prize. Shocked... but I was happy that all ended... Stayed over at my granny's house for the night and hey, guess her house isn't that hard to sleep in after all.

This picture was the only pic drawn of the camp.. It was after the amazing race, when we stayed over at Aloha Changi Chalet, the girls' room.

From the Esplanade

Went for a painting exhibition yesterday with HY. It was an exhibition of winning entries of the anuual UOB painting of the Year competition. Havign heard of it for sometime, we decided to head down and check out what it was about. Went in the morning, and not long, we left. It was a really small exhibition, showcasing not more than... 10 works? Haha... Since it isn't lunchtime yet, we decided to settle down outside the esplanade and do some life drawing.



It's been quite sometime since I did some on-spot drawings. Realised I've probably developed a slacking attitude towards my sketches. Spent an hour on this one.

Bunneh!!!

From a friend~~~

It came without the glass cap, and wasn't baked. I wanna keep it on my desktop but feared the dust will start clogging up the corners and edges, so went to get a tequila cup to cover it up. The circumference of the cup was slightly bigger, making the base of the cup squeeze the bunny ears, so fixed some strings around cork base to enlarge the base. Fitted nicely! Yay!!!



Bunny has a home now~~~ XD

Sunflower again

Nope, not that I'm loving van gogh..... I've been thinking if I should part with that sunflower picture I did sometime ago to the person who inspired the pic.. but after thinking a bit more, decided maybe I should just draw one new one instead. So there, for the lady who has been rather moody these days... Bought a small jigsaw puzzle frame to frame the pic up, hope she'll like it!

Two Goodbyes...

First, a goodbye to Scrawls... Yeap, that illustration was sort of a goodbye message to the people there. I was quite surprised at the warm goodbyes, despite my barriers. Almost a year has passed since I joined the company... Many things had happened, happy, sad, angry... Must say that I didn't quite like some stuff that I saw, yet, can't deny that I learnt a lot of things.

From Wush, I learned to remind my noisy self that quietness is a power too. Haha, and not to forget, the hearty laughters! XD The woman who sat beside me taught me many things too. From the many chats of music to personal values and ideas... an open mindset; from her, I really understood 'what ignorance is bliss' meant, and 'laugh in the face of danger' too. The disagreements with Hui Ching greatly reminded me to humble myself, same as Hwee Jun, who left earlier (haha, talks at Krabi with her told me that I'm really still young!). Ting er taught me to be more careful with little details, and also, made me realised how determined one can be....despite the size :p, Robin's zen, Ben's ^_^, Diana's frankness, and those who left Scrawls earlier before me, CC's observant eye, Donna's strong stand to her values and the very one helpful tip that I'll never forget of Wendy Jim's (although it's sad that I never got to work with her): ' bgs shouldn't be too contrasting or they'll catch too much attention'. Haha... The talk about your skills improving in the industry, seems like it's more of the people and living skills one will improve.

2nd goodbye... to my sis who went Australia for a year..... Gonna miss her... My bed is gonna be so empty...... But hell... she can attend that SMASH comic con in Sydney.... WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH T_T........ Never cried when I left Scrawls... but almost cried when we left the airport after she checked in... Yea, I'm slow....... Hope she likes that photo my sis and I did (or hope she doesn't kill us when she comes back 1 year later...).

Cosfest @ Downtown East~~~!! :D

YEA!! Went to the cosfest held at Downtown East today (and yesterday)! There was a lot of people (more today too) and saw lotsa stuff. Seems like this year's cosfest seems a bit more exciting in the cosplaying part than the booths. Went with Dorothy and we had some nice time looking and awing at some of the artworks and cosplayers. Gee, the mecha cosplayers are really cool! (Didn't take any pics there tho, gonna 'kope' from Dor the next time I visit her place XD) Bought some artworks that really caught my eye there. Saw Too-san's artbook on sale, but it was super expensive.... Kid-chan's was sold out.... T_T Ah well.... at least got her to autograph that print I bought XD

After that, the two of us went to mac-cafe at the White Sands mall (hope I got that right?) for a nice break. Discussed about the end of year comics event with her. YESH! We are thinking of setting up a booth and sell our artworks too! Tried to brainstorm some ideas there, and set our target. Wonder if we should do what the public wants, or do what we want? Keep seeing lotsa Reborn artwork there, but it feels very monotonous. Every artwork booth seems to have it! Is that what people want? But heck, just do what u like ba? Looking back at what I bought, it wasn't because of the character or manga the picture depicts, but how much the work appeals to me. So wonder if the others are like that too?


Esther Blanchett from Trinity blood. After I reached home, suddenly had the urge to move my pencils again >_< While filing the prints I bought, I found this among the stack of finished works. It was a watercolored piece, one that is rather faded and rough-looking. I was never satisfied with it.... and seeing my color pencil set collecting dust, decided to do something to it. Still looking rough, but more saturation, I guess. XD