Hounds

Have you heard about the recent Greyhound racing investigation conducted by Animal Liberation Queensland and Animals Australia?

Which side am I on?


Completely with the hounds and ALQ. I don't mind if I'm labelled as an animal/vegan nut (fyi I'm not vegan...but that's a whole different can of worms for another day.) No, I haven't been brought up in an environment where greyhound racing is more familiar to the community. I don't have first-hand contact with the trainers and other related people. And no, I haven't been able to physically help the campaign besides drawing little illustrations for ALQ.


But I do think it's completely unnecessary.

Whatever side you're on, you can't justify the unethical treatments of the 'live baits'. Not to mention the thousands of euthanized dogs every year.


Read more of the investigation, and sign the petitions here:
http://www.GreyhoundCruelty.com/
https://www.change.org/p/senate-committee-stop-ag-gag-now

Winter Clothes (even though it's the middle of the summer here)

Oh hi. Its 2015 already?

Happy new year :P

The top picture is just the gif version of the previous post. I truly love illustration. I love how you can set the entire story, and scene, and characters, and mood, and everything in just a picture. But I do love animation too. Being able to move the lines you've created from nothingness is pretty amazing. It also requires different set of skills from still drawings. Much more to learn.

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I was in Japan for the past two months and a bit!
Will post about that a little later...

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I've been reading a lot of psychological thrillers lately. Both novels and manga. One of the stories that struck me deeply was 'Nijigahara Holograph' by Inio Asano. (A random buy while waiting for the train when I was still in Japan. Best, buy, ever.) I had to read it at least 3 times to truly understand what on earth was going on, but boy oh boy. The story is set in two different chronological orders, which gets mingled and tangled up as the story progresses. Just describing in couple of words, the style is mesmerizing, the story is confusing, and content is plain disturbing.

So obviously, I needed a break from the depressing/disturbing stories. 

How do you get a break from it?



...Draw little mice in fluffy winter wear. 



Yeah.

Also, I really don't know why I hadn't used gauche acrylics before. Because honestly, it truly is the ideal consistency I've been looking for. I guess the years of practise with acrylics, markers, pencils, and water colour really have helped my skills over the years...and I can appreciate the wonders of gauche only because I've found the lacking element in those said medium. One thing to note: the colours don't blend very well, so you need to get a paint tube of exact hue you're after.

Staggering,

Aahaha whoops, the previous post was from the beginning of this year!?

Ah, I don't know if that's funny or utterly sad. I've been active on my Facebook page and on Instagram... but you know, blog requires writing. And writing is one of my insecurities...

Along with my arms and accent.

Anyways. I'm going to keep on writing even though there is a 9 month gap, it's nice to look over the things you've posted when you were younger :P

I actually haven't really drawn many 'full' illustrations this year. It's been more of a learning curve so far, and little commissions here and there. And been in so many new+uncomfortable setting, I've been little bit lost again haha. Rather than recapping what has happened, I'm just going to keep going with what's happening at the moment!

I've been finally moving images, yay!! Haha okay scratch what I said on the top, I'm going to upload the older drawings little by little over this month.

This picture is a frame by frame shot of staggered action. Feel free to use this as a reference, although this is missing 4 more stills. I'm making the GIF right now, hopefully it'll be...some what smooth P:

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HAAAPPPPPPY NEW YEAR!!