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A kid playing Dodgeball. Just playing with solid blacks and details.

Wanted to show a girl all dressed-up and ready for a dance show. Top hat, wand, and a lil’ touch of burlesque.

Wow, gosh darn, I haven’t uploaded in a while.

Done over the weekend, amidst open houses and meeting up with old friends. Really need to get into the art groove again. So here goes.

Started and done in one day. Was supposed to upload this yesterday, but there were issues in Wordpress that I only managed to solve today. Felt really dumb coz it was just a simple fix I should have thought of earlier.

Only today I realized the shadows on the clothes are off if he’s facing the sun. Oh well. Error noted. NEXT!

Wanted to try an action pose, so why not a flying kick? Also trying out the method where a texture is placed over the piece to give it some grittiness. Easiest thing to do is to scan a blank A4 and see how it works.

Moving on, moving on.

Finally finished this piece. Not that it’s really finished, but I just know that if I keep picking on it, it’ll never see the light of day.

It just started with the guy in the suit at the far left. Then started with a girl on the opposite page running in the opposite direction… which was then I wondered what if I just keep adding people rushing towards each other?

Took me a while, but at least it was a good exercise in figuring how to create different characters doing different movements.

This image is large: 1799px × 620px.

Next stop, smaller pieces.

Rites of Spring is an annual musical event held in my alma mater, Vanderbilt University. Happens every spring, which is around now. It’s surprisingly a pretty big event these days; back when I was there it was a modest affair with only one guest singer a year. The students organizing the event thus advertised any way they could.

This was one memorable example. This guy was just standing next to the dining hall (so people would definitely see him) with three fire batons wielded Zoro-style. All to attract attention to the writing on his chest.

After a cold winter, shenanigans like this was a welcome way to greet spring. Rites is Coming!!!!

What started as a simple movement study ended up into something fun.

One side done. Other side next.

Something simple I started working on turned into something fun. Putting up some parts of it first, hoping to put up the complete version soon.

Found this DeviantArt account, whose artist has recently passed away. Found it while browsing other artist whom pointed out her site.

http://hakubaikou.deviantart.com/

It is sad to hear someone as skilled as her being gone (her Pirate “vs” Ninja with rum and sake? Inspirational.), yet it is heartening to note that an archive of her work lives on, accessible to anyone visiting her site. There’s no question of what she loved and lived for because it’s all there for anyone to see. Nor there’s doubt who loved and enjoyed her works; it’s all recorded and visible as per how DeviantArt works.

As Wired puts it when Randy Pausch died, the Internet has created a new phenomenon: a distributed funeral. Being a DeviantArt account means that not only Hakubaikou’s lifework is as permanent and accessible as the Internet itself, her family will also be able to see how people around the world mourned her. On DeviantArt and on the Googleverse.

“Still, at whatever scale and medium chosen, all these death rituals retain their universal purpose. They all provide convincing evidence that though the star may die, the universe continues. Though the Marine is gone, the corps lives on.” – The aforementioned Wired article

Sad news and yet, a pretty cool outcome.