Marlinx Digital Art Blog

Gift Packaing [Flickr]

2011-12-18T21:38:53-08:00

Sir Mao Mao posted a photo:

Package for my gift handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi cell phone charms

Handmade Gift Box [Flickr]

2011-12-18T21:38:34-08:00

Sir Mao Mao posted a photo:

from top view

Handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi Cell Phone Charms 7 [Flickr]

2011-12-18T21:38:16-08:00

Sir Mao Mao posted a photo:

gift handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi cell phone charms

Handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi Cell Phone Charms 4 [Flickr]

2011-12-18T21:38:06-08:00

Sir Mao Mao posted a photo:

gift handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi cell phone charms

Handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi Cell Phone Charms 5 [Flickr]

2011-12-18T21:37:51-08:00

Sir Mao Mao posted a photo:

gift handmade Angry Bird Amigurumi cell phone charms cute couple, isn't it?

Amigurumi Snow Bear

2011-10-28T02:42:00.000-04:00

Recently I started to crochet this Amigurumi Snow Bear for “Christmas Shoe Box” project from our church. I thought it will be nice to make something unique for the child, of course I also included some other toys, note pad, pencils and T-shirts. Too bad that I couldn’t include RuRu’s designed T-shirt… D:
It still in designing phase and might get ready around Jan Hopefully next year I can supply some for these kids. The Christmas Shoe Box project is created for children in other countries with limited or no resources to things that we don’t even care. Like toothbrush, candies, toys, pencils & note pads. We have more than enough resources to use and these children needed but couldn’t get enough. Our church is been sponsoring this project for several years now, I used to buy things but I want to make something special this year.
Well, I’m not yet finished but just to give a preview…hehe, I hope you liked my version of Snow Bear (not polar bear). When I finished I’ll post it with a nicer back ground!
Oh, talking about background, I’ve been looking for a good material to make walls and floor. Do you have any ideas that you can share with me? I absolutely have NO idea where and how to get it. I only been to Michael’s Art Supplies and Joann Fabrics. I got some miniature things but am puzzled about the walls and floors. I really appreciate if you can share with me (>_<)

Okayyyyy, here are the pictures

Just finished…but I missed 2 legs…arrh

Snow Bear head (~_~)

He’s looking at you kid <3

” Hmm, where is my body? “

” Yay, I got my body! “

I hope you liked what I did. I’ll make more Amigurumi dolls in the future and if you liked it, you may purchase in RuRu Victoria in the future. I’m looking at around Jan 2012 as well. BUT I do take custom orders if you want to get Amigurumi dolls for someone special for this Christmas PLEASSSSSSSSSEEEE let me know, I’ll be MORE than happy to take your order!
Thank you So much for reading my blog, May Mao be with you and have a great Weekend~~

Fun Mao Mao Bunny Tshirt Design

2011-10-15T23:48:00.002-04:00

It's been a while since I update this blog, sorry about that guys >_< I promise I'll get better updating my art progress more often O_O

In case that you don't know what's happening to me, LOL, I'm currently building another shopping site selling my stuffs; T-shirts, T-shirt designs, Amigurumi dolls, cute stuffs around the world. I'm going to open design studio taking projects/assignments for various design for T-shirt, logo, posters, eFlyers, photo editing and possibly short video commercial in the future. :)

Here is a cute T-shirt design that I did for my Nephew & Niece. They both love Mao Mao very much and wanted him to be on their T-Shirt, so I designed this for them. This is made with press on fabric. It looks better if I can get it printed on shirt directly (digital print or screen print). Well, maybe in the future I can print it out.

I LOVE the expression of this bunny...hahah, he looked numb and Mao Mao was running away for his life!

I'm going to put this in my new online shop blog; http://www.ruruvictoria.com
and http://www.sirmaomao.com and if you liked the design please let me know.

Later, I'll make it available to purchase if you wish to use this commercially.
So please don't copy & paste this one, I got a high resolution one and I charge reasonable price.

By the way, if you are interested to hire me do a design work, please note me in here, I'll be glad to send you information. :) Thanks!

Thanks for reading my blog, have a wonderful Sunday ^_^

Alpaca | Arpakasso plush pictures

2011-09-28T00:27:00.000-04:00

I recently got a lot of Alpaca plush from Japan. Please don't ask me why I got a lot, I meant at least like 9 plush... -_- I had none "zero" then I got desperate this is how it happened :S

I was in Taiwan back June and saw this "sheep" like Alpaca plush, I didn't pay much attention to it because I was not too fascinate with it besides I know it is popular before I went back to Taiwan. THEN, when I come back to US, I started to see a lot of people searching for it online. Go search any search engine you will know what I'm talking about then I thought "Geesh, what opportunity I've missed? I could purchase A LOT of it and setup an online store and sell it" Ouch right? Yeah.

Later, I found out there are plenty different Alpaca plush in Japan. Each one has different design, some with pastel colors then I thought "OMG!! I SHOULD BOUGHT THESE!!! They are SO CUTE!" double ouch right there. Ha!

Finally I started to search hope I can find someone selling but NONE! Later I found a girl selling from UK (-_-) In case you're NOT aware...UK British Pound is higher than US Dollar. D: Then I bought some from her. After that I waited almost for 2 months to receive my plush BUT before that I found my supplier and ordered several more.....hahaha, yeah now I got a lot and I want to find my alpaca a nice home and sell it.

I'll be posting more picture on my Online Store http://www.ruruvictoria.com but you can go to my Mao Mao's blog and take a look at the pictures of these cute Alpaca plush.

Here are few pictures that I edited for my Mao Mao's blog.


Cute Alpaca Plush <3

Aren't they cute? All the pictures you saw are belong to me ^^ I took the picture and edited. :) In case you don't know, I love taking pictures :P Hopefully I'll have my little amateur studio.


Alpaca Love

Aww, Aren't they cute? I'll be making some free wallpaper for my readers and subscribers. SUBSCRIBE ME! :D I hope you enjoyed today's cute article, I'll see you later this week, hopefully I'll meet my schedule and get my online store ready. Nite nite guys :)

Digital sketch? Wacom Inkling!

2011-09-16T01:15:00.000-04:00

When I saw this Wacom Inkling I was like "I want this!!"

This is a really smart idea! Putting sketches in digital format, it will eliminate a lot of scanning and re-sketch problem. I some times have difficult time to redraw something that I drew on a piece of tissue paper earlier of the day. Sometimes I just can reproduce the lines again. Thanks to Wacom now I can sketch on a normal paper and it will be transferred to my PC :D

This is from Wacom website, talking about Inkling:

" The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.

In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats. "

http://www.wacom.com

What's inside?

Inkling Digital Pen

Rechargeable Pen battery

Pen ink cartridge

Charging Case

Receiver

Rechargeable Receiver Battery

USB cable

Spare pen ink cartridges (4)

Inkling Sketch Manager Application (located on the Inkling receiver)

Quick Start Guide and electronic User’s Manual

It will be available in Mid Sep and now Amazon.com is taking pre-order...I'm going to order on myself tomorrow, Do you want one? Let me know if you have per-ordered already >_<

Have a Great Thus guys... muah~

Photmanipulation print giveaway! Freebie!

2011-09-14T00:59:00.001-04:00

I'm giving out 2 5x8 Mao Mao Fur Knight photomanipulation photo print to first 2 reader who comment on this article.

Yup, I ordered prints from my gallery in Deviant Art and wanted to make a nice gift for my subscribers and readers, SO if you liked my previous post about photomanipulation and want a copy print of my work, just leave a short comment in here then I'll contact you and mail the print to you.

I wanted to do this for long time...you know arrange competition, prize giveaway...etc but I NEVER got a chance to do that, finally I can do it. This will be the first one and hopefully many many giveaway will be arranged in the future.

In the meantime I'd like to ask you to subscribe my blog or follow me in blogger. this will boost my confident and wanting to write and draw more good stuff on it. :D

Looked very big but actually it's about 5x8.

Just want to give you guys an update about my online store. I got the name already and everything else except MERCHANDISE! Oh my GOODNESS! I'm running around without my head to get the merchandise that I want. One of the supplier that I was interested to purchase items seems not that interested so I had to find other suppliers who are INTERESTED.

Another supplier in UK just took my money and telling me to wait for the merchandise, it's been 2 months already and I don't have my merchandise. =_= Talking about drama....here we have it all.

I'm also designing some stuff, so when I have it ready it should look really good. Hopefully the store will open at the end of this year or Next year, I'm aiming at Valentine's Day :D

Hopefully people will like my design <3 <3

Talk to you guys later and have a wonderful Wednesday~

Photomanipulation: Sir Mao the Fur Knight

2011-08-30T23:56:00.002-04:00

Hellllooooo guys how are you all doing?

Thank God that Irene didn't come to Florida BUT I felt sad for all other States who got hit by Hurricane Irene. :( I really hope people are all okay there, my prayers to you all~

Never lose courage nor faith, you know that Mao Mao the Fur Knight from Kingdom of Charm will protect your heart from evil!

This is the FIRST ever photomanipulation that I ever done! I followed an online tutorial because I SO wanted to learn how to do this, and the ONLY way to learn is to DO IT BY YOURSELF! So, I found a very good website: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photo-manipulation-tutorials/ which offers plenty of tutorials on photomanipulation. I'm going to start my 2nd assignment and hopefully I'll finish by Sunday and WILL share with you guys <3 <3

You can download this full version on my art page: Marlinx Deviant Art page

What do you guys think? I hope you liked it. I still can see little flaws here and there BUT I am very happy that I finished something and created some wonderful work for Mao Mao. He does looked real right? :D

I had to do some adjustment on the horse, because there was a "knight" sitting on the horse...LOL I had to "erase" the knight SPECIALLY his leg! Remember Mao Mao don't have a leg >_<

Also I adjusted brightness and contrast... I didn't like the light blue in the tutorial SO, I made it darker to have some dark feeling...yup, Mao Mao is GOING TO KILLS THE EVIL DRAGON! xD

I'm thinking my next project...hmm, I think I'm going to make an old attic with some antique toys and of course Mao Mao will be playing toys...with lights and smokes ( shall I say dust? O_O ). Wooo... I ca't wait to start now!

Ok, there is something that I need to spit out! I can't hold it any longer! ARRRRHHHH!
What is it????????? I'm going to have my own online store! *phew* I said it! xD

I'm still setting up websites and merchandises, when I the store is finally ready I'll let you know and PLEASEEEEE buy something from my store..LOL ^^ Joking! You don't have to buy unless you want to :P

Ok guys, thank you for reading my blog...when have time please visit my other blog :Cute mao mao
Have a great Wednesday <3

Magic Inspired Watercolor Painting

2011-08-27T23:38:00.001-04:00

Hi Guys long time no see!!! Yes I'm still around just being very busy lately.

Today, I want to share a very nice traditional watercolor painting by one of my friend on Deviant Art. I've posted a cosplay picture called "Magic" and this picture inspired him to paint the picture.

I really liked the way he compose the whole picture. If you visit my gallery (Marlinx Deviant Art page) you'll see the original character was lying on the floor holding a card and looking towards the camera. Instead drawing something similar, he drew a larger face and half body, you actually can see the expression from the character and it looked very interesting.

I am SO glad that he made this picture! I really liked it, specially with the little tear/diamond under her eye, simply BEAUTIFUL! <3 <3

I’m glad that my picture can be inspirational, I never know a simple picture can do this much! Hopefully I’ll create or have more “good” pictures to get people inspired OR can feel what I felt, see what I’m seeing. Challenging right? LOL, yeah I know but this is something that I want to go for it.

I’m also looking into “Cinematography” at the moment. I’m amazed by these short films have “cinema” feels…I really want to make something like that! Maybe in the future :)

Well, I gotta go sleep now.. I’m DEAD tired –_- . If you liked my blog or drawing OR anything, do not be stingy about sharing your words/comments with me ok? :) I love to make friends~~~~ Nite guys have a great Sunday!

GBY~

Amazing Kitty Charm here, LOOK!

2011-08-13T00:46:00.001-04:00

Heyyyyyyyyy! I want to show you these wonderful kitty charms that I got from my trip in Taiwan. These are SO cute and colorful. I love all three colors, hehe it makes me really cheerful to see these colors!! They are JUST RIGHT for your purse, mobile phone or just simply carrying around using a hook and hook on your pants. These charms are not little, they are about a foot long (girlsssss, of course!)…like maybe 6-7 inches at the top. The fabric is very soft and smooth, possibly cotton with polyester? Sorry that I really don’t know how to describeon this but it is very smooth.

I right now ONLY have 3 kitty charms and I am not going to get anymore so if you want it please let me know If you are a cat lover, you should get one of these, it’s delightful! I swear you that you won’t find it anywhere. I even only saw few of these in one location and didn’t see it anywhere else.
If you know someone loves cat, you should get it for him/her as gift or keep one for yourself! This will bring their smiles on their faces!

Like I mentioned earlier, each items that I have in my online store are in limited quantities. I only bring small quantity items and these are handpicked items, they are very unique I, personally liked it very much. I won’t sell anything that I don’t like

Okie, these kitty charms are $12.00 each, Plus $3.00 shipping & handling.

You said WHAT? why $3.00 shipping & Handling? Well, I have to pack the item and personally and BUY packing board at the Postal Office, these boxes costs a lot of green ( you can see how much it cost on the back of the box ). I do not make any money on shipping.

SO if you’re thinking, please comment me with your Paypal email address and what color you want on my sir mao mao site.

Thank you very muc for reading my article! <3

Bath time - Mao Mao Comic

2011-07-29T01:36:00.001-04:00

Hi guys!
Long time no action, haha I know I know!! I've been very busy and didn't have time to do my favorite thing which is drawing! Finally I finished my first ever comic strip phew boy it was much difficult than I thought.

At first I thought it was easy, right... Just draw 4 little squares and then you're done. WRONG! It took me whole 30 mins thinking how to end this story, then another hour to finish sketch and color. I didn't finish the whole thing till tonight, hurray! ^_^

Well, this is my first try to make a comic out of Mao Mao OR anything. I might expand more character but for now it's the little girl ( no name yet! ) and naughty Mao.

If you find it funny or worth reading please drop me a note and let me know, this will give me great courage to continue, of course I will try to improve whatever is lacking but support and show some love?
LOL Thank you SO much for reading my blog and comic.

Please visit my other blog: http://www.sirmaomao.com
and Deviant Art page: http://marlinx.deviantart.com

Bath Time

I'm bacl from vacation

2011-07-06T21:04:00.001-04:00

Hi Guys! I'm finally back from my vacation.
Well, I'm still tired and trying to recover from the trip, I'm just writing to let you know that I haven't forget about drawing nor updating blogs...just I'm way to tired to do anything so, SORRY >_<

I think next week I'll be able to start writing and sharing some interesting things that happened during my trip :) Lots of love guys and see you next week!

It's been raining all day... I felt sad in raining days =_= Take care guys <3

Praise Team Polo Shirt finish product

2011-06-03T22:30:00.000-04:00

Hiya guys!
Finally I took time to pass by my church this afternoon and took MA shirt home, har har har!! I am SO happy that they really liked the polo shirt. The gray was a nice choice and the black printing just classic!

Overall, I liked it. It's crispy and all fine lines are really nice and clean! Take a look!


CBCM Praise Team Polo Shirt

Anyone can guess the theme song that I put on there? For those of you can read music, you probably can guess what song that I took from, if you know the answer please note me or reply in comments area ;P

Here is another shot for the polo shirt:

Full shot

Another closeup

:) Hopefully when I come back from my Taiwan trip I can start design some cute shirt for teens and for those young at hear *wink wink* What do you think? :P If God willing, I want to start my own studio doing ad design, t-shirt, banner, logo and manga :D Yeah!

I always have love for manga! I read manga all the time, when I was young I wish to become a manga artist....but didn't do anything. I am determined to do it this time! arrrrrrhhhh... pray for me for those liked my art...your encouragement means a lot to me, thank you!

Ok, I gotta go now...I'll be flying to Taiwan on Sunday morning and hopefully I can post something interesting from there. Please take care and GBU~ <3 <3

Cipher digital painting

2011-06-01T23:23:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone!

I was going through my blog articles and saw Cipher -WIP and I sort of forgot to post the finished drawing on here >_< I'm SO sorry! LOL, I don't remember it at all! @_@

Ok, as I promised I'm uploading Cipher in here :D I hope you don't mind this late...lol
I've been busy doing other things, designing banners for our church and design shirts for
our Praise team. They told me that many people loved it! Also Coral Spring Church's Music Minister also liked my "Boy & sheep" design, she said she's going to order for her team. WOW! I'm really happy that they liked my design.

I was worried that I might not do a good job BUT, thank to God it turned out alright ^^ That gave me ideas to make T-shirt designs when I come back from my trip.

I will start to design T-shirts and some custom made stuffs with my Mom, stay tune for my announcement for our online shop ;P Hopefully this design thing will lead us into something more wonderful!

I might be able to update till July, before my next update I want to wish everyone a great summer and keep drawing!

Love your life and be happy, never, never give up!

Praise God T-shirt!

2011-05-25T23:26:00.001-04:00

Hi guys!
Just want to share the new with you guys, I got the T-shirt few days ago it was pretty!
Picture is very crisp and proportion is just perfect! I was worried that picture might looked smaller on the actual Tshirt but it turned out just right!, YAY!

I didn't have the polo shirt but this Sunday I'll get it, I'll post it on here with both pictures. I think Blogger has some problem, it won't let me post any pictures, it said "Server rejected", not sure why but I'll try it again on this Sunday. :)

OMG, I just uploaded a picture! This is great!
Ok, another closeup of the t-shirt!

:) Picture is nice, specially the sheep, SO cute! I know that our English Praise Team didn't like this shirt, according to what they said " it's too cute!" I guess since they are all guys... they don't want cute stuff on them... LOL

This Sunday I will receive the other shirt, since we changed the shirt color so it will be gray and black logo. My sister was asking me how come I didn't design black shirt and white logo? O_O yeah, heheh, I never thought of it! I wanted to give some color to the team I didn't think "black" is a god choice. Anyway, I'll update you on Sunday. Please take care!

Chibi Princess SAI and sheepy doodles

2011-05-07T02:10:00.000-04:00

I'm currently working on several illustration for my Facebook and Deviant Art pages. I was SO inspired by this girl on Deviant art who draws a sheep to tell bible stories.

At first, I was enjoying reading this one page comic and didn't realize that at the end of the story there was a bible verse posted! I thought it was a such nice idea, so I was gonna try.

It took me like several weeks and nothing came out. Why? Because I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DRAW! @_@ I thought it's easy but actually it's pretty hard to start!

I started to doodle...hoping by doodling I can come up with some ideas. Later I revisit the site and saw her Diary...she "PRAY" about the story... OHHHHHHHH no wonder! Haha, I should do the same. SO, I'm prayed about the story or song that God wanted me to draw >_< So far, I got a song " I need Thee every hour" ^^ I'm pretty sure this is the song BUT what to draw? (-_0) How can I draw a song?

Anyway, I just doodle till my brain tells me "THIS IS IT!" LOL. Well, we gonna see. Once I finished for sure I'll post on here (*_0) Until then...

I'm almost finished sketching the sheep & the shepherd, I wanted to create this drawing with a bit of oil painting feel in it...but I don't want to make too realistic since the sheep has very cartoonish face..haha.

These 3 drawings have three different styles... SO hard to decide what to draw!!!! Arrh... -__-
Shall continue tomorrow...thanks for reading! Have a greeeeeat Saturday!

Speed paint- with Painter 11

2011-05-06T00:30:00.000-04:00

Today I'm in playing mode! :) Didn't want to draw anything specific but do want to draw something silly. I ordered a guide book from Taiwan, too bad that you can't find it in U.S. This great artist is one of the Painter Master! He's SO amazing!

I do this jaw dropping movement throughout the DVD and couldn't take my eyes off his painting! I was following one of the example that he used to draw a robot.

Can you tell? hehe, my robot is too feminine... using too much "soft" colors BUT i must say that I do enjoy creating this drawing and looking forward to learn more from this painter master :)

There are So many tools, brushes in Painter 11, endless possibility! One day I hope/wish that I can draw like him.
Here is his Youtube channel if you're interested to find out more about this artist from Taiwan :)
Liang Yue Enjoy his art and be prepared to drop your jaw :D

Enjoy and have a great weekend everyone!

Praise Team Logo Design

2011-05-05T00:55:00.000-04:00

Another design for my church's praise team, this time is to be printed on polo shirt. This shirt will be wearing for more formal occasion such as Evangelical Meetings or church retreat. I know that praise team leaders are planning to wear this in the upcoming 2011 retreat this year!

I'm very excited that they are going to wear my design and walking around the campus :D Its almost like dream ~~~~ People wearing my design shirt!

I was thinking that I should design some unique shirt...maybe for personal indulgence ;P what do you think? I have something in mind but I need to actually do it >_< Hopefully this will be my next project! If you have any good idea, let me know please!

For those of new visitors, I have an art page in Deviant Art, if you liked my drawings please visit there and leave comments. Constructive and kind comments are welcome! ^^

Well, here is the polo shirt design, note that pictures rights belongs to CBCM & myself.
I'm also accepting projects and jobs; logo design, t-shirt design, concept character design and illustration <3

Thank you for reading, have a great day!

"Praise God" Praise Team Tshirt Design

2011-05-04T01:11:00.000-04:00

Just finished a T-shirt design for our church's praise team. They asked me several months ago and I was honored to accept the job :D

I was very happy that I can use my talent to do something good for God and my church friends. I was sketching on my sketch book during Sunday service and got this image in my head, I tried to grab it before it's gone.

After I finished few sketches I showed to Praise team leaders Sandy and Rebecca, surprisingly they all liked it! It was the quickest approval I ever got! :D I'm glad that they accept the idea being "cute" for T-shirt design.

After got approval from the team I began to work on digital inking. I was quiet fun creating this sheep. It's Awassi sheep, a typical sheep in Israel. I didn't want to draw an ordinary sheep like everybody else, so I drew Awassi sheep, with cute curly hair. :D

Then I created a little chubby boy singing. He's actually King David, can you tell? LOL. Anyway, I made a staff for him also a modern t-shirt with a music note on it emphasis that he loves music.

On top of the Chinese words are "Praise Him", on the bottom is the bible verse from Psalm 96:1 "Sing new songs to the Lord...." ^^ I even picked the verse! I really liked it and I thank God to give me this privilege to design something useful!!

The printing company love my drawing, I'm surprised too! @_@ Never thought this many people liked my drawings....usually people don't say anything about my drawings...(-__-) Yeah I know. But!!! I'm happy.

I hope you like it too. If you are also designer/artist who designed for your church, drop me a note I like to know you! :)

GBU~

P.S. Sorry for the water mark...this picture belongs to my church... so I gotta put a mark on it to protect their property. >_<

Murakami Versailles

2010-10-07T01:16:00.000-04:00

Murakami Versailles

One of my favorite artist Takashi Murakami is having an exhibition in Versailles Paris. The works and the layout with Versailles are very unique…from looking at the pictures I feel the total harmony in it. Even though one is modern and one is very classical styles! I really liked Murakami’s art, I was one of the person collecting his LV purse! hahaha, yeah, I got little purse and a small bag BUT I’m very happy that I got.

Mr. Murakami said something about this exhibition:

“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of.
Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.

But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality.

So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition.

I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château.

With a broad smile I invite you all to discover the wonderland of Versailles.”

Takashi Murakami

Well, the exhibition is running currently running and it will end at Dec. 12th, 2010. If you happened to be in Paris, please visit there and… oh, please bring some souvenir for me will ya?

Illustration thoughts

2010-10-06T00:22:00.000-04:00

I was suppose to post my work in here at least once or twice a week but I failed -_-
I should take the most of blame because lack of motivation...not that I don't like to draw but too much going on in my life >_< Oh well, who doesn't?

Thought I should keep my promise... it's for my own good! Oh yeah, I found a wonderful program called Illustudio! It's combining Photoshop, SAI and Managa Studio! I can't wait to try it xD

This is Moon. She's an adorable girl with an amazing ability! She should save the world! xD Well, I'm still working on my first manga, hopefully I can get started draft soon ^^ Cool guys + cute girl = AWESOMENESS! :P

Thank you~~

Illustration - Love with no reservation

2010-09-25T23:13:00.000-04:00

Just finished an illustration fro our church's Home New cover. We have this publication since 1969.. it's been there for long time :)

Members will write various articles about bible, life and health related issues and we publish on quarterly basis. This issue's theme is "Love with no reservation"
So I was thinking to find some simple clip art then put it there... but I couldn't find anything fits my thought, so I drew a picture.

Not sure if anyone will notice these details but.. it's my intention to tell people;
The white lily symbolized purity of God's love, and under the lily there is a hen/bird.. whatever it looks like.. xD and chicks hiding under her wings.

There are seven chicks, again, symbolize perfect. Also if you look the white lily from far, you'll see a cross shap...it's God :)

Well, I hope they will like it. I'm kind of nervous that they will say something like "childish" or "Too cartoonish.. not serious enoug..."... Oh boy, I hope not. >_<

I really liked this... this is my favorite! Hope you like it too!

Doodle with DeviantMuro!

2010-08-17T22:30:00.000-04:00

Recently DeviantArt luanched a new online program called Muro. It's like online drawing application but you can set different layers and use diferrent brushes to draw picture, then you can publish it into your art gallery.

I was trying out and having fun with it...I found it's very interesting and fun to use, despite that the program isn't responding to my pen tablet very well...they might have to improve that over time.
Other than that, it's a fun program to use and I really enjoy it.

If you're interesting to find out more, you may join Deviant Art and create an account, it's free :) then you can use the program!

Awww. I really liked the cat ^_^ MEOW!!!
Marlinx Art Page
Mao Mao pet

Vector design

2010-08-10T19:42:00.000-04:00

Hello guys!
How was your Monday treating you? Mine was pretty busy even today!
Well, today I'll be sharing one of my first ever vector creation; Panda head!

I was following up with a very useful tutorial on internet and I thought it's very cute to try it out. I must tell you, it's kinda hard to figure where and what to use, but after my first creation I must say that I've learned A LOT and now I'm more comfortable to get familiar with illustrator.

It is very useful and powerful program, and I recommend all of you vector lovers LEARN it!!! :)
Hopefully one day I'll be able to create many cute arts with illustrator ^___^
Well, enjoy my panda and visit my art page in Deviant Art : MarlinX Art Page

BYE~~~ ^___^

Pink Sweetie Commission OPEN!

2010-08-05T14:39:00.000-04:00

Recently I wanted to learn new style of drawing. Well, NOT that new...it's be IN for a while but I never had a chance to learn it. It's Anime style of CG. Have been searching everywhere and didn't find anything really helpful to my problems/questions.

Well, I found a lot of useful tutorials in Deviant Art website and from there, I got a lot of help! Thank you Deviant art and talented artists! :D

This is my character Pink Sweetie :) She's SO pink and SO sweet, you almost can smell her from miles away! I'm planning to draw whole series of Loli Chibi collection to sell. Hopefully I'll make my first sale soon!

You are more than welcome to visit my Deviant Art page and leave comment if you like.

I'm open for commission at the moment. Chibi Commission:

CHIBI:
No BG
* 1 Character: $8.00
* Additional Chars(up to 4 chars) $5.00

Example:

W/BG
* 1 Character: $10.00
* Additional Chars (up to 4 chars) $5.00
Example:

Will you commission me? :D I accept Paypal only, so please note me if you're interested!
I'll try to put on Ebay from time to time...or you can visit my page later.

I'm going to Anime Expo in Orlando tomorrow, WOOOHOOO!!! I'm excited BUT, I gotta drive 4 hours to get there...arhhh... -_- I do it for the love of Anime!!!

Take care!

Digital drawings - WIP

2010-07-24T01:39:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone!
How is your weekend? I'm very excited because tomorrow we're going to attend a baby shower! My very dear friend is going to have baby soon so we thought to arrange a baby shower :)

I feel lazy recently, not sure if the weather playing a big part or what... I don't feel like doing anything at all. Maybe because of my exercise...my whole lower legs hurts like... -_- I gotta stop this laziness and have to get back to whatever I'm doing...its important! :) Ok, enough of my rant, I'd like to share some sketches that I did while a go...oh well, maybe 3 months ago? Not so bad. wish to color it soon.

This suppose to be one of my "Alice in Wonderland" concept drawings but decided to draw simpler version of Alice. Well, after I saw the winner, I thought I should do this one instead of the other version. Hmm, maybe take more time next time?

Another one is like speed paint. Believe me, I didn't know what I was drawing and didn't like a bit BUT I did learn something from the class. At least now I know how to use markers ;]

I've been searching information on Anime Conventions and found out that Anime Expo is the largest Anime convention in the U.S.! Also this Comic-Con...and Boston Anime Expo. I've learned a lot from watching Youtube, pictures and these sites...Now I know more or less what shall I prepare for the show and it's NOT easy.

I need at least several dozen good drawings to make posters, cards...I was thinking to make some ACEO cards so I can sell it. Also some sketch books, color books...dojinshi might be a good idea but I need to learn the tool first.. ^___^
Well, I'm starting little by little, hopefully by the time I have enough to attend the show.
Take care guys~~

Kuroshitsuji II

2010-07-23T00:51:00.000-04:00

I was at my usual web surfing and visited my Deviant Art web page found out a journal talking about one of my favorite manga book; Kuroshitsuji; The Black Butler.

I liked the drawing and the whole story about Sebastian and Ciel's weird relationship but I was shocked to find out that their relationship will be OVER! WHAT? I couldn't believe my eye, why????? D: They both make such attractive characters with lots of chemistry (not the one you're thinking...hahah).

As I read through the creator's blog found out that she was also sad to see Sebastian and Ciel separating but ensure us that the second part will be even more intriguing and Ciel won't come back this easy.

OK, I got it :( poor Ciel. So I found out the Anime series link (some people uploaded and translated the subtitle) and watched the last episode...I was very sad to see Ciel's soul got eaten b Sebastian. :(

Kuroshitsuji II, uhm, how shall I say it... I can't say that I liked it because I only watched the first episode. Second, I really don't like the kid who replaced Ciel. This is one of a psychotic kid, who was tortured by some sicko. -_- Oh well... I must admit the second Kuroshitsuji was pretty good because you couldn't forget the psychotic kid :S

Let's see...how this is going to lead...I'll looking forward to it.