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￫ The Tree Goats of Morocco (with video clip!)
￫ Project Indigo (working title): Design of a vertical seaside metropolis (cool conceptart someone need to use that in movie or games)
￫ Classic Doctor Who theme (thanks to my good British informant)
￫ xkcd: Imposter well, some people just need degree for the sake of degree.
￫ Fatal Frame: Mask Of The Lunar Eclipse Trailer, I’ll probably get a wii in 5 years, hopefully I can still find this game then.

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The Hungarian “Gloomy Sunday” is an infamous song. Hauntingly beautiful, the story goes that the song was so sad, so depressing, so completely soul crushing, that upon hearing it even once, Hungarians were driven to suicide. And not just a few, during its era, hundreds of suicides were attributed to the melody.

Part of English translation of the original Hungarian:

The world has come to its end,
hope has ceased to have a meaning
Cities are being wiped out,
Meadows are colored red with human blood,
There are dead people on the streets everywhere.
I will say another quiet prayer:
People are sinners, Lord, they make mistakes …

The world has ended!

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I wasn’t going to post this, but I felt strangely motivated today, like I could walk on the moon.

This is probably the cleanest pencil I’ve ever done. I’ve never done quite detailed pencil like this before, but last inking job inspired me to, and damn right it looks cool. I usually did a very rough pencil and make a lot of decision regarding lighting/shading in inking state, I don’t know yet if detailed penciling will be faster way of working for me or not, I’ll report back.

I also change my mind regarding MIMC3, I already finished script for it. It was quite different kind of story than what I used to do. It will be fun, I’ll post the pencil regularly here. I’m in showing off mood :D

A lot of people told me that I perform best under duress, I tend to agree, it’s not a good trait, but it helps me survive this far. This is my worse year yet, I have a feeling that something very good will come out of it.

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watching Amy Reeder Hadley Inking Demo made me wonder if I can still ink on paper, I haven’t done it for like a couple of years, turn out I still got it in me, I guess inking is like bicycling, you just don’t forget it :)

Maybe I should do my next comic like this? I don’t think inking digitally really save me much time, mainly because I tend to wander off surfing while inking (the temptation was just THERE, I can’t help it), but I don’t know, I get used to do everything digitally… ARGH

I’m working on new plot idea, hopefully I can finalize it in a couple of day and get some test pages going. Also, I might not enter MIMC3, to be honest, looking at winning/finalist this year, I don’t know what it takes to win, and if you don’t know where to aim, how can you hit the mark? I guess I’d better reserve my energy and doing my own things, compete with myself.

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Got new comic to show you guys! This one is 11 pages short, in full colors!

Give it a read, let me know what you think, this might be last piece in this style for this year, it was fun and challenging to do, but terribly time-consuming and the outcome isn’t worth time and effort.

I also put Das Ich, which was done for MIMC2 fully online, altho if you are on my lj friendlist, you already read it, if you are not, give it a read too :)

My next comic will be something to test new style and speed. I actually have no idea which way I will go yet. Gonna have to wait and see where the experiment will take me.

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You know you are big when someone accuses you of single-handedly destroying comic art.

People can be so narrow-minded sometimes.

Frank Santoro, whom I have never heard before, blogged this:

It’s not just Ross, it’s this culture of photo-referencing in comics that grinds my gears. It’s true, I hate Ross’s work. He’s got great technical ability, but big deal. Why is copying the nuances of a photograph such an achievement? That’s not drawing! He’s the worst example for a young artist to have, the worst role model. No one has done more harm to the form than Ross. It’s not comics he makes. It’s fumetti. There are no real panel-to-panel transitions as there are in “pure cartooning”; he’s just putting photograph next to photograph in a way that some find pleasing. But it’s not comics.

Two instances that made my eyebrows hit my hairline. [1] That’s not drawing. [2] it’s not comics.

Who is he to judge? Is the definition of comic/drawing so narrowed that it must be confined to handful of ways to do it? Do you want to know how many time my eyes roll heavenward when I heard ‘That’s not art!‘

I’m not a fan of Alex Ross, I’m also not a fan of hyper-realistic style, but you know what? I don’t go around accusing any style I don’t like as ‘not comic!’ There’s something for everyone, and there’s certainly enough people that enjoy this style. Why would their opinion matter any less than yours?

You know what I hate? I hate stupid 5 minutes chicken scratch that people passing it off as ‘indie’ or ‘artsy’ comic, What an insult to other artists who spent hours over their pages. But yeah, that’s comics for you, should I go running around screaming ‘That’s NOT COMICS!!!!’?

Just a thought

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Dead Sunflower Field 2, originally uploaded by Marshed.

I was looking for a reference for flower filed when I stumbled upon this, and my mood took a drastic turn, deliciously depressing.

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(yes I hotlinked image, just for kick, bahahahaha)

The result for 2rd Kodansha’s Morning International Manga Competition (M.I.M.C) is finally, *FINALLY*, announced.

Winner
Fairy tale by Meng-Li Yu (Taiwan)

Second Prizes
Joe’s Teeth by Liu Ching Lun (Taiwan)
Puppet Eyes by Kathryn Chong (Malaysia)

Finalist Entries
Hermes by Andrea Lovinelli and Massimo Dall/oglio from Italia
[Title and name are in Chinese] (China)
The Last Werewolf / Flying Freeman (China)
Giano/ Notturno by Mario Mazzo from Italy

As you see, I don’t place, but I’m honored to be 1 of 31 entries of initial screening, maybe I’ll have better luck next year :)

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First, this month’s books! I’m a book hoarder.

The ‘how to make webcomics‘ is a signed copy, my friend got it for me from Emerald City Comic Con. She admitted that partly reason why she got this because the guys are good folk and charming XD. I’m slowly working on this, maybe it will help me maintaining my webcomic project more successfully XD. A caution note, this book isn’t about how to draw webcomics, but more of how to get it up and running and then maintaining it, which is a hardest part of webcomics, I should know, I had several that failed :P

‘The Happiest days of our lives’ by Wil Wheaton is also a signed copy, I actually saw real him in PAX last year, attending his panel and kinda stand next to his table gawking XD

Now onto work related news, I got a job! oh yes, I’m inker for this manga project called ‘Dog Eaters‘, They expected to debut 22 pages ‘episode 0′ in San Diego Comic Con. The rest of the project is about 160 pages long, so this is what I’ll be working on for a while.

Also next month, I’ll be working on another 10 pages colored comic, the script was already written, and partially drafted, should be interesting, it will be online here when it’s done. After that, I’ll be working on a book project, which hopefully I’ll be able to finish before the end of this year and hopefully I can find publisher, but nothing is set in stone yet.

There’s also M.I.M.C 3, I’m not positive I’ll enter, the result for MIMC 2 still isn’t announced except for grand prize, I wondered what went wrong.

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I just tidy up my workspace, now it’s pretty!, I sold my pc, making room for more books and stuff, I need more bookshelves.

I bought parallels yesterday, because I need to use some program that only available on pc (the usual story) it works out nicely, altho not very idealistic, I wish I didn’t have to resort to this, but inking on photoshop just sucks major arse.

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