Yuumei

Hmmmm part 2

We're getting the Frey model ready to be released to Patreon for the $20 March reward and somehow it became really shiny lol. We're gonna fix that but in the mean time...

I got the flu Q_Q

Hi everyone, I just got back from Anime Boston and unfortunately I came down with the flu. I'm from sunny California and the Boston snow really did a number on me orz...

I've been recovering in bed and getting better, but I'm really sorry about the slight delay with sending out everyone's March rewards. Everything will be sent out in the next few...

Comparing the old and new Knite

Above is the new version, below is the old version.

When I decided to reboot Knite, I wanted to tell a different version of the story that's darker and with older characters. Chapter 1 will have the same exposition to introduce the setting and characters...

At Anime Boston table H-65

Woke up at 3am to catch my flight on Thursday, and then it was setting up the table all night. I'm so jet lagged and tired 😴 but I can't wait see everyone! 

Where the Stars Fall

Finally getting used to my remade brushes :D This one took about 1.5 hours.

This is another painting from the adventures of Fantine and Lala, my yet to be made children's book. One of these days... I'll get the time to paint the actual book. 

This will be the last painting for March. I'll be busy with preparing and attending Anime Bost...

One hour speedpaint

Still testing out those brushes that I lost... I never want to update my programs again orz

This time I tried using some flat brushes for the hair, which is something I don't normally do. I really like the result so far :D

And I was able to record the video for this without anything crashing! The video will be available for $10+ patrons in ...

Lovely Sunday

Another speedpaint to test out my new brushes. This one took about 2 hours. I actually recorded this video process but I found out after I finished that the recording program had crashed 5 minutes in ;_; so um, no video for this one, sorry!

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Testing New Brushes

When I updated my SAI program, it somehow deleted all my brushes, which has never happened before orz. I spent hours remaking them and testing out new ones as well. I also took the time to organize my Photoshop brushes and test those out too.

This was painted in both programs and you can probably tell some brush strokes are very different from ea...

I'll be at Anime Boston!

I'll be at Anime Boston for the first time this coming weekend :D Come hang out with me in Artist Alley table H-65! I've never been to Boston before so I'm super excited. I hope it won't be too cold lol

Because I'll be traveling and gone for d...

Hmmmm

The frustrating and hilarious thing about working with 3D is the all too frequent program glitches. And in this case, a lag caused by auto keying somehow made it so his eyeballs do not move with the head. 

It's not a real issue and won't show up in the render, but it sure is annoying but also entertaining XD

Neon Night

I actually drew this a while ago as a paintover test while learning how to set up lighting in Blender. I finally remembered to post it after noticing it hidden among piles of icons on my desktop XD

Below is the original raw render from Blender. The character model is made by Maika ...

"May I interest you in some suspicious cookies?"

I've been working on Knite ch2 for the past few days but now I'm going take a break from this and do some original paintings. I realized that working on just comics or just paintings gets boring after a few consecutive days and switching it up helps refresh my imagination :)

Robin Paint over test

Maika did some further updates with the hair and added some temporary place holder teeth (hence the awkwardness). Below is the raw render and above is a quick paint over test I did. Doing these tests helps me learn which areas of the models need improvement. 

The hair is purposely kept short in the model because it's actually easier for me t...

Knite Chapter 1 Sneakpeeks

Here are some additional preview of the Knite reboot. Knite is my very webcomic series from 2009, when I was still in college. Due to various reasons from a bad publisher to my hand pain, I never got to finish the old story, which I always regretted. 

When I decided to reboot Knite, I didn't want to retell the exact same story with new art s...

Refining models

This model of Robin from Fisheye Placebo was made years ago when I first hired Maika (the character modeler). We've both grown as artists over the years and now that we've finished enough o...

Knite Reboot Ch2 Sneakpeek

Even though Ch1 is pretty much done, I've decided to wait until a few more chapters are completed before releasing them all for a better reading experience. 

Here's a Patron's only sneak peek of one of the Ch2 panels :) I've also recorded the paint ...

More paint over tests for Fisheye Placebo

Up until now I had to draw the lineart for everything because there were some bugs with the V-Ray's lineart render engine that were causing problems. The bugs finally got fixed in a new update so now I can finish these even faster than before. The whole thing took less than 30 minutes to paint over :)

Some final adjustments are being made to the ...

Paper Koi Lantern Demonstration

Edit: Hmm looks like the video doesn't display properly on Patreon :/ You can watch the video on my instagram/facebook/2018-03-17 23:20:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Real Life Inspirations for Fisheye Placebo

In the latest chapter of the story, the very last panel showed the image detection software categorizing Vance and Frey as "person". This is based off of a real program called YOLO (the creators are pretty funny, you can watch their TED talk here.  2018-03-17 10:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post