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Fruits of our labour...

2008-05-16T13:27:00.000-07:00

I made this graphic(s) for cartoondollemporium over a period of a few weeks earlier this year, and this week it is live thanks to the hard work of the programmers! I am so damn happy, cos it was a lot of work if you can't tell LOL!

Original art was done in flash, and the animater store owners of each store is done by other talented artists :) You gotta sign up (it's free!) to view this, and the stores closer up ^^

In the mall, you can buy stuff for your avatar, I contributed to some of it too! :3 Gotta work on the boys stuff sometime (oops)! I am most proud of the bakery items, they make me hungry when I look through them ^^; Okay time for lunch... more later!

Original characters

2008-05-14T00:44:00.000-07:00

I was often asked "Who are you drawing?" whenever I draw a person (Mostly girls), most of them are nameless characters except for a few... I quickly sketched this doodle out, and coloured roughly on photoshop. ^^

BBlue is probably one of the first characters I ever created (and actually remembered) for an online chatting site. She's probably eternally 19 years old, gentle and smart, very girly but a bit stubborn.

Paw is boisterous and silly, loud and sometimes a bit annoying. She's the most tomboyish of the lot. Her hair was sometimes reddish rather than dark blue :) I think I draw her the most.

Red is a character I almost scratched, but I do like her mature and curvy design. She has a mysterious occupation (a spy maybe?) And is quite athletic despite her feminine look.

Ahmin is probably the most exposed and long running original character I have created so far. In fact I cannot even remember which year I created her o_o; but it is a long time ago ^^;
The funny thing was she was initially supposed to be a male character but I asked for her to be a tomboy instead since girls are cuter and have more fun with fashion (and they accepted the idea). You may still see her reporting on anime/manga/comics related news about once a week on the Chinese Daily paper Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore.

Of course there's also the character, May, whom I created as the cover girl of my first book, from Puppy with Love. I hope to some day revive her if I settle down on a good storyline :)

Hmmmm I put a poll on the side of the blog for this entry, not sure if it's working, sooooo if it's working for you.... which girl you like most? *puppy dog eyes* LOL

Old comic art revisited

2008-05-13T18:46:00.000-07:00

So I been quite busy with work, but I had been meaning to put some older work up tho (Like REALLY old stuff). Pardon the quality of my old art ^^; ), and I also wanted to test out some flash related coding ^^; I hope it works without breaking anyone's internet :P

This little story was from one of the Manga Doomei publications (kinda like a group collaboration) and the story happened to be one of my personal favourite (other than that my artwork is really not up to standard LOL) I should be putting this file into gallery later on :)

Question: ^^; Should I put comics on a flash template?
Anyone cannot see anything under this sentence?

Spring is love

2008-05-11T19:59:00.000-07:00

Wow 2 posts today LOL

Spring = critters in parks XD
See more on tumblr entry ^^

Quick sketch of a memory

2008-05-11T12:12:00.000-07:00

One of my husband's favorite past time is to reorganize and optimize our living/working space(s). That was what we did yesterday on a grey and rainy afternoon (after bringing some stuff to recycle and donate). So this was my sewing corner, the "before" state -- forgot to take a photo before moving things around LOL so did a quick doodle.

Curious to see the current look? It is on tumblr :)

Happy Mother's Day!

2008-05-09T17:01:00.000-07:00

So what was I soooooo busy with this week? A mother's day related flash doll card game for cartoondollemporium, I take no credit for the coding (done by the programmers in the team :)). Coming up with ideas, drawing, making change after change was very time consuming ^^; Haven't had this little sleep for a long time XP! Really wanted to draw something else for puppy52.com but now I'm kinda burn out for ideas, so don't mind this screen capture from the game ;)

However I would like to share a fuzzy childhood memory I had when I was probably less than 5 years old, I think we were told to draw a mother's day card, and for some reason I did not know how to write "Mama" (in mandarin) properly, I ended up writing "horse horse"(In the chinese character, the "Ma" character in Mother (Mama), has an extra part which means "woman") instead ^^;;;;;; remember it cracked my mom up :P

And my mom was a hottie in her younger days :P LOL

On a slightly non related note, one of the flash game -- Runway Challenge, where I was involved in with a lot of the graphics was also out a little while back. This game kept me really busy for a long time as well, but the time crunch I did not feel as much as the mother's day game ^^;

I created most of the graphics -- Models, clothing, backgrounds, some buttons, and there was an animator involved with things like the model walking down the runway (poor guy had to animate all the clothing being animated :O), and all the coding is done by a flash programmer.

Brief information about the game: you can choose to model, judge or just watch the game. I guess due to that there's only 2 spots for models, that selection almost always full ^^;
Being a model allows you to dress up with 2 rooms of clothing selection in a time limit, walk down the runway, and being a Judge, you see the models dress up, walk the runway and you get to give points, Watch will allow you to watch the game without having to take part in the dressing up or judging :) We're probably going to add more features to the game in future, so I'll probably blog about it when that happens :D

Curious? The direct link to the game is here, but remember, you need to sign up for a profile (free) to view/play with it! Also there's music and sound effects, so you may wish to turn down the volume if you try to play late at night ^^;

Ranka quick sketch

2008-05-07T21:11:00.000-07:00

Watched Macross Frontier with hubs and decided okay gonna sketch Ranka Lee, I don't super like her but I thought her hair style is kinda unique in a funny way... anyone think they look like floppy ears?

Anyhows here is the super (duper) quick sketch, done in 10-15 minutes ^^;
Not sure if I am gonna colour her tho, but if I am to do that, definitely not this week, too busy :P

On a totally random note, Meowmeow got the corporate cuddling punishment for being naughty :P (tumblred)

Pin up Mirai

2008-05-06T23:46:00.000-07:00

I'm awfully busy this couple weeks (have a deadline before mother's day (ack!)), so thought to upload some older art ^^; Well this "other version" -- created in February, is somewhat a slightly different version of the other one I had uploaded a while back (where her expression is more confused?)

Click here or on the image below to get to the super huge version ;)

If you want to see her without the bikini (yes you didn't read me wrong) check out dannychoo.com ;P Okay, back to work ;_;

Lady Emerald - gift painting

2008-05-05T08:44:00.001-07:00

As some of you may know, I am pretty into of dolls, namely a kind called blythes, some people may not like them or find them creepy, which I can understand (since the first time I came across them it wasn't a "love at first sight") thing either :P And by the way puppy52doll.com is unfortunately a little neglected these days as I am really able to sew very much :( I miss sewing and messing with my dolls (wah!)

Anyways I had been so busy that this piece of water olour was the only thing I got to finish up as I needed to meet a dateline to send it out (oops) it is a portrait -- in my drawing style, of a world travelling blythe doll ^^

I think it turned out okay?

Anyways this weekend had been rather busy, we had a garage sale at our old place
More details tumblred XD

Water colour art from 2003

2008-05-02T22:00:00.000-07:00

dannychoo.com recently implemented a new upload feature, I had been mucking around with it every once in a while :P Today I found a piece of water colour artwork done in 2003, a gift for my hubby actually ^^

I still quite like it, so I asked if he would mind if I share it on the internet, he said go ahead, so here it is ^^
You can find a higher resolution here on dannychoo.com ;P Of course I won't be uploading all my artwork on dannychoo LOL but I hope the viewers there enjoy it :)

Have a great weekend, it's gonna be another busy one for us (phew!)

Bikini girl Wallpapers

2008-05-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

I must apologize for the delay in making these since I promised a while ago ^^; these days it has just been getting busier and crazier by the minute :P So I bring you 3 versions of the Bikini girl (click to view past progress) wallpapers :D She was initially going to be a blond girl, so I included a blond version as well. Thankfully it is relatively easy to change the colours if you have all similar colours in layers ^^

Bikini girl original
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Blue bikini on pink background
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Pink bikini on blue background
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Meanwhile, tumblr has been updated... dechu :3

Cat and Bunny girls

2008-04-30T01:25:00.000-07:00

Felt like drawing this, ended up inking and coloring it ^^; Full view in Gallery page :D

I am not sure how I am going to make a go to previous pages link at the bottom, since I am not hosting on blogger (oops) think it is a sticky matter to deal with, as I am not good at coding... ;_;

So, I am going to at least try to link to wallpaper I created with my artwork on the side, under the navigation buttons :) Currently Mirai wallpaper is linked there ^^/ Need to find time/inspiration to make the bikini girl into wallpapers :P

I have also updated a few links into Links page, gotta find some ways to categorize the links properly ^^;

Okay it's way past bed time... goodnite!

from Puppy with Love - flash back

2008-04-28T23:56:00.000-07:00

Last couple weeks I got a few people asking me why 52 in puppy52?

The short: Puppy= Xiao gou 小狗
was my pen name when I submitted comic strips to the papers in my teens,
52 looked like a heart shape so the meaning = puppy love.

The picture above is the scan of the cover of my first book, drawn in my late 16, published when I was around 17 years old. It was entitled "from puppy with love" and designed such that to look as if it says "Puppy Love". It was my first attempt to draw something that over 100 pages, and there is countless mistakes in it which I am embarrassed to mention!

I'm not very proud of the standard of my work inside, but I am still to date thankful for the chance to have it published at my tender teenage years. I must also thank the countless people who helped me made it possible then, it was definitely an experience of a lifetime!

The long of it, and the foreword which cracked me up still...

Thank you gordon for helping me with the script (which I hope I am using correctly!)

Out and about

2008-04-27T00:18:00.000-07:00

One of our favorite things to do during good weathered weekends is to check out other people's neighborhood. Often enough we will come across plants/sightings which we don't have at home ^^ Tumblred ^^/

Updated Artist page with a new photo :P

Clannad Fan art completed!

2008-04-26T00:45:00.000-07:00

Fan art of Kyou Fujibayashi from Clannad coloured :3 Simple background this time ^^;
Full view at Gallery page ^^/!

Spice and Wolf Coloured

2008-04-24T00:12:00.000-07:00

So, I coloured Horo :P Spot the photoshop tweakings LOL!
Full view is available in Gallery page ^^/ And yes she's naked, nothing important is showing tho, but I'm sure it is probably not safe for work (NSFW) ^^;

Okay time for bed, thanks for checking this out, it was rather enjoyable colouring her ;)

Spice and wolf sketch

2008-04-22T23:16:00.001-07:00

Recently finished watching Spice and Wolf, the background and ending illustrations and music are rather nice. I am not sure if I like the story telling, it really could had been better. They had focused a bit too much on Horo and Lawrence's flirting I think :P Some critical scenes were unfortunately too lightly touched on, leaving me going ??? even now ^^; Maybe I should rewatch those episodes :P

If I get around to colouring her I'll post the full body :P I think I drew her left ear a bit too long tho ^^;
This time I used ball point pen to "ink". The problem with using pencils/ball point pen is that the lines tend to break when the image is scanned.

Almost forgot, tumblred some photos taken mostly over the weekend ^^

Photoshop, when how much is too much?

2008-04-22T15:11:00.000-07:00

One day I was checking out del.icio.us I came across this site by accident.
PhotoshopDisasters. Can you believe some people actually get paid for doing this kinda work? :P

Mind you, I myself do a little bit too much tweaking on photoshop sometimes, if not all the time!

A recent example of my over tweaking below:

The one on the left is the original art, and one on the right is tweaked in photoshop.
If I could choose, I would rather to not have to do so much tweaking, as it seems to make the original art kinda blah. So these days, if I have some artwork sketched out without feeling that I need to do too much photoshop tweaking to it I would be quite happy! ^

Many years ago, I remember having carefully coloured an artwork before in photoshop, posted it up (being quite satisfied with it) and having someone tell me that I got the thumb on the wrong side on one hand LOL (oops!)

While visiting some artist friends in the states earlier this year, we were also talking about the over-usage of the photoshop filter "lense flare" probably when was just introduced into photoshop at the time -- finished your artwork? Let's add some "lense flare"! :P Eyes not sparkley enough? Yup "lense flare"! LOL

There's probably a fine line between what's enough and what's too much no?

Good hair day

2008-04-18T21:31:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch, low resolution scan, turned into a quick CG ^^; (as in coloured in less than an hour) Computer is not cooperative with printer at the moment so will probably be a while before I can scan it at a better resolution :P

Have a good weekend ^^/

Clannad Fan art

2008-04-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

Fan art of Kyou Fujibayashi from Clannad ^^ Had to do a lot of editing to her face in the original sketch (oops!) Hope to have time to colour this eventually ^^;

Bikini girl completed

2008-04-16T17:01:00.000-07:00

Had been feeling under the weather, due to a flu bug possibly o_o; so art has been slow. Also need to catch up with work (eek)

Updated full version (full view with legs uncropped) in Gallery page ^^/

On a non art related note, mail loot made our evening last nite :3 Uchi posing with the loot ^^!

Bikini girl progress

2008-04-12T23:54:00.000-07:00

So came home and meddled with the art a bit -- editing the line art removing artifacts, colouring/shading. I felt that the hand nearer to her head was a bit small (It was bugging me since I started colouring it) so I edited it in photoshop ^^; Hopefully it looks a bit better now?

Also coloured her bikini, wanted it to be a dark maroony colour but changed it to this colour instead, maybe change the colour again later tho :3

Tumblr is updated with springish outdoorsy pictures :)

Bikini girl in progress

2008-04-12T11:01:00.000-07:00

ok gotta get ready to head out soon, so here's whatever I did so far :P Almost saved over the wrong file while resizing and wasted whole morning of work o_o;;

Sketches on a day without internet...

2008-04-11T23:04:00.000-07:00

I did not have internet most of today, so during slower times I busied myself with sketching ^^ It was actually quite fruitful :)

So... which one do you like best?
Girl in bikini?

Girl and cat?

or girl and cookies?

If you could pick which order of preference would you like to be coloured first(second and third)?

Konoha Amagi (ZETMAN)

2008-04-09T23:38:00.001-07:00

Felt like drawing a fan art from one of my long time favourite Mangaka, Masakazu Katsura's works for a while now, and did this sketch somewhat quickly in between a break from work related stuff.

I liked it better when Konoha has longer hair, but somehow picked this version (younger version) to do a fan art instead :P End up heavily modifying the sketch in photoshop too, so I guess I'm not too satisfied with this piece ^^; May end up not colouring this but try to sketch the longer hair version later I hope!

Also Tumblred a bit, mostly food related :P
Okay back to work >_<;