battle scarred ch.13 when life gives you a lemon

battle scarred ch.13 p.101 by ~myo-nk on deviantART


another manga updated in my deviant art gallery...it almost took whole month! i feel so bad but it's all because of my gov class...

this chapter was very hard to do because i couldn't do it continuously and i lacked of practices.

the next one is gonna be even harder, not in drawing, but in designing. i get to introduce ashton's house and its interior. i literally buried myself in a pile of archetecture magazines.

the process seems so slow everyday!
i get frustrated with my lines, but hopefully, that woudln't bother other ppl as much.

i'll try to finish the next chapter by the end of the year.......b(^^)d

frome dkny perfum ads

a different approach to color. i found it very fun to mix colors that i normally would not use.

the composition, outfit, and basically everything is from dkny perfume ads. i was happy to be able to add a little bit of city on the back.

this was more like a test so i don't not like it but i don't love it. XDD

saw eragon today

EDWARD SPELEERS IS SOOOOOOO HOTT!!!! HE MAKES ME GO OH-BABY!! AND SIENNA GUILLORY IS SOOOO PRETTY!!!!! I'M SO IN LOVE WITH THOSE TWO PEOPLE (THOUGH I LOVE ED MORE THAN SIENNA XDD)!!!!!!!!!!!

battle scarred vol.1 title page

so many things to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ch.12 one for all (colored)

battle scarred ch.12 p.81 by ~myo-nk on deviantART



finally, i actually finished coloring this!!!!
i never had enough time to but i could do it today cuz i really needed something for my school's literary magazine. hopefully they should add this one in the magazine!

it may look kinda crappy, cuz i was in a hurry -- i needed one more artwork done. but i generally liked the outcome and hope you guys do too.

used painter ix and photoshop vi.


i feel so un-burdened!!!!!!!!!!!!

dian, my love

Dian, My Love by ~myo-nk on deviantART



"Dian was cradled tight in her mother's arms, and I dropped my sword, tore the helmet from my head and fell to my knees beside them. 'Dian?' I whispered, 'my love?"...I waw the soul flicker in her eyes...She saw me, then she died, and i put my arms around her and around her mother and i cried like a child. For my little lovely Dian, I wept."


k, this is from an arthurian novel, Enemy of God, by Bernard Cornwell. i had to read this for my english class and felt that i was so lucky to have read such a book. it was full of emotions, battles, and just beauty of language, and i loved it so much!

in this part, a daughter of an arthur's warrior, who's the narrator in the novel, gets killed by bad guys (don't wanna give away too much!). but i remember screaming my head off, scaring my siblings, and just crying (not too hard tough). it was so sad! little dian died!

this book is definitely super-recommanded for those who love arthurian legend or any of those chivalry and romance stuff. i was so engrossed in the book that in my dream, merlyn came out and i had to protect excalibur and deliver it to arthur.

anyway this book is the second book of bernard cornwell's warlord trilogy, and i bought the third one! yeah! i can't keep my eyes off from the book!!!

i used painter ix, digital watercolor and oil, and then used photoshop vi for the effect.

under your shadow

i officially give this piece up TT i just can't continue on and it's so pressuring. i really liked the color utilization and composition in the beginning, but it just gets harder and harder as i go on. i'm so busy nowadays that unless i give it up, i'll die from stress!

maybe i'll work on it if i have like nothing to do, but i probably will. BUT hopefully, i should be able to produce something better than this one, because it was basically a failure and failures improve me.

oekaki

ok, i'm done. first of all, this is the first time i ever liked the result after using this technique, which requires a lot of brushstrokes and overlapping. i've tried this so manny times before but they all looked bad. but this one, i like it. i'm not as good as artists who only work with this technique though. i'll practice and learn.

well, her face is fairly long, yes. it's because i only focused on contrast and color choice -- which turned out to be okay. i like her hair, eyes, and lips.

when i first started drawing, i wanted naive, fragile, childish, and girlish atmosphere, but i guess the eyes turned it upside down. but i still think it's ok. i definitely need more practice.

alexander mcqueen 2006 winter show

from vogue paris

beautiful but cruel.

whenever i look at some artwork done by artists, designers, composers, etc, i think: where to such great works come from? where do they start? a lot of times, when i sit down and try to draw something, i find myself out of ideas and motivation. art IS a type of process that can not come so spontaneously, though intuitiveness do play a significant role. but just by looking at the design itself and trying to figure out how it was developed, i feel like i'm still far behind, so unskilled and unknowledgeable.

if you look at the pictures, the feathers so strongly catch one's eye. HOWEVER, it's not that it's just the feathers, or the birds, on the top of the models' heads that brings such great deal of interest and attention. the makeup, hairstyle, collar, and facial expression work all together to bring harmonious form that reminds one of birds. it's just amazing to look at the result of the designer's choice, because if i were him, i would have done something very gaudy -- but it's more subtle.

in designing, it's really hard to come up with a theme or a central object that, as the most emphasized part of composition, unites the others to finish the zigsaw puzzle. but developing on such theme itself is even harder, because there are so many choices, or in other case, none. in my case, there is no choice, because i'm so limited and i think inside the box. i know it's a bad thing but can't help.

i think these images serve as a good model for the harmony of objects that draws attention in the first place and that fill up the space to give more effects to the entire work.

to be beautiful........

too tired to comment.