• Inktober Day 26: Connect

    I’m learning using a bigger-sized brush pen and I really love it! I learned about shadows and creating contrasts — and it’s quite a challenge to have a high-contrast drawings (usually reserved for dramatic effects) with cute models (THE FROOOOOGGGG)

    Landscape-wise, I also learned about swamp and marsh area.

  • Inktober Day 25: Splat

    Being Lord Wolfsbane’s attendant for nearly half millennia makes Bartholomew understands and always ready of his Lord’s whims and inquiries.

    Recently, Lord Wolfsbane is learning this thing called “healthy lifestyle and take care of what you eat and drink” and Bartholomew decided to not comment anything on it. It’s good for his Lord to have interests and actually stick to it — last time his Lord trying something that the youngsters refer to as “yoga”, they had to do an extensive memory manipulating on half a dozen of mortals because how does his Lord know that “flying among the clouds” is actually a figurative expression, not actually flying?

    His Lord’s new lifestyle is low risk too. It makes the tomato seller on the farmers market really happy, so it’s a win-win solution.

  • Inktober Day 24: Extinct

    One of my childhood dreams was to be a palaeontologist— the first one was being an astronaut (this is one of the many reasons why I love drawing space — especially Moon-related — scenes.)

    When the Earth was young, when the fire was forged, when the soil was rich with whispers.

    It’s kinda a long lost dream, I guess? But there are times I’m glad I can live it through the Little Cat.

  • Inktober Day 23: Leak

    I think my medium-nib brush pen got slightly frayed. It keeps getting this “feathery” look, and it annoys me.

    This is one of the drawings that I feel “meh”, but I’m glad I took the courage to try drawing rain and the water splash when it hits the earth. I still need to learn a great deal of capturing natural elements and details, but I feel this is a good start.

  • Inktober Day 22: Open

    … and now I want pancakes and a cup of coffee.

  • I rarely saved post drafts when writing a blog post because I usually able to ramble in a short period of time, until today, I decided to write about how I designed this blog (sidebar, cute background, pixel-thingy, and the likes.) Suffice to say, it’s, uh, long. My dormant Happiness Engineer-soul came back in full force, hahahah!

    I’m still working on it. Hopefully, I can publish it by this evening (Malaysia timezone).

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