News feature

My previous collab work with k3 has been featured again in deviantART news :)


Big Big Big Black and White Feature


Thank you googly-googly2 for featuring my work!



Hmmm... now... about my works.

There was an issue of clarification that happened again in my manga page so I might fix that a little in the next page or two. Just a little since I don't want to reveal everything in my manga just yet.


I worked on 3D CG for my next ilustration last night and rendered until morning. However, there were several things that I need to fix so I might do that tonight.

Manga: TLOF Ch.3 p.9

English:

TLOF Chapter 3, p. 9 English by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Japanese:

TLOF Chapter 3, p. 9 JPN by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Now, off to do some illustrations.

Photo

highway by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Picture
Make: Panasonic
Model: DMC-TZ7
Shutter Speed: 150/10 second
F Number: F/3.3
Focal Length: 4 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Date Picture Taken: Apr 27, 2009, 7:25:42 PM


15 seconds exposure at Starry night mode.



Yaaaaaay!

I got permission from the publisher and the author of:



to use his font in my next illustration!!!! Yaaaay!


I asked them yesterday and got a reply today! Thank you so much!!!

My dog who stole/ate butter that I dropped from fridge (last night):

He felt sick for a while from having too much oily butter in his stomach. I thought he learned a lesson from this but stole a piece of bread this morning from kitchen table.  Ugh.

This is a story I worked on for 2-3 years while I was at high school. Random fantasy. I think I went up to 200 pages of (mostly intros since I couldn't write properly) stories, but most of them got lost somewhere since they were written on scratch paper.

manga progress

For the past few days, I've been working on a site, so not much progress going on manga. However, I am now ready to draw a page, so I will try to work on it tonight.


The next illustration would be something in lines of subway- which I wanted to do for the past few months even before I watched the following music by Ajikan:



However, I will be working on it in the future while listening to this album track so it will be influenced by this music.

3D CG+ illustration: h20

h20: version 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

And it's wallpaper version:


Wallpaper pack: h20 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

This is for personal usage only. You may not sell or share this work without my written permission. Other than that, enjoy.

Two other versions available for viewing:
h20: version 1

Rough version:
h20: original version


Click on the each link or image to see further description about the piece.



Softwares Used:
Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Photoshop CS2/3
Corel Painter X
Cinema 4D R11 studio

Time it took:
10-13 days

Illustration progress

Still need to edit, but basic structure of a glass I will be using for illustration is this. Total of four types of 3D models were created yesterday. I need to create more for the next illustration, but the major part of 3D modeling is almost done.



Glass shape was created entirely by my imagination, but I thought the glass similar to iittala design was nice since it fits into the palms of the hand easily and is very stable when placed on a table. In addition, it is a simple but gives out nice atmosphere. In addition, nice for anyone of any age instead of a wine glass that's seen on the back of the graphic above.




After a year and three months of being registered at deviantART, I finally figured out how to make my prints into something other than normal prints (i.e. mugs, mouse pads, post cards, and etc.)

You can purchase them here。


Sample pages are:
this and this


I will try to adjust all of my prints eventually and add more so more varieties are available. Mostly- for myself so I can get stuff for my friends' birthday gifts coming up.

3D CG practice and a snap shot

Bottle I made last night:



Taken with my new Lumix DMC TZ-7 camera and edited a bit in Photoshop(since there were reflections and dashboard)



Although my new camera does not produce really high quality photos, it's enough to create textures for my future CG. So, I'm happy with it.

Stock images+Photoshop Brush set

Checker texture for UV editing by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Five Brush set by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

You're welcome to use them for noncommercial or commercial illustrations/CG/3D CG as long as you don't sell these very files.

Illustration progress 2: 3D CG

I'm currently making 3DCG models for my upcoming illust.

For the first time, I did something similar to UV editing, using kind advice from two 3D CG artists and tutorial about wine glass and bottles.

Before:


After:

It's not the best, but this is the best I could do now with editing splines and etc.

I'm planning to create a bottle tonight according to the tutorial, and modify it so it's my fav. shape and not necessarily wine bottle.

You're free to use this for UV editing:


It's because I couldn't find it in Cinema 4D so I made it in Photoshop other day.

Progress diary

So... my illustration is going very slowly right now due to my real life being quite busy and having lots of distractions. However, it's progressing nevertheless.


The only problem is the longer I take to make stuff, the reference materials tend to disappear on their own. Yesterday, mineral water I was planning to use as a reference just got into my stomach (since I was getting thirsty). Of course, I filled it back with tap water since I need to use it as a reference for my 3D CG.


Lucky that it wasn't food.

Where to buy my prints

I recently added banners linked to where you could purchase my prints.

deviantART：

and





I recently got permission for registrating @


where I will have only high quality CG displayed in the gallery.

I will be replacing graphics there as I improve to provide even better CG than now.


I think I will work on illustration before producing next manga page since I feel the need to practice more. I recently started talking to one artist from UK who kindly gave me advice on human figure drawing which I'm still bad at. So, I found out that I should practice from the basics.

I will be focusing on clothing folds and lighting slightly more on the next piece. Hopefully, it works out.

HDRI practice

Just HDRI practice using HDRi Pack by zbyg. Thank you.


4 lightings of diff. colors used, 2 different materials.

Cinema 4D R11 studio
30 min.

Doodle

Quick doodle so I can get back to doing manga. Yeah- hand is messed up.

Illustration: City

City by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

I incorporated different genres. Please click the image above for more details.

Since angles and lighting are weird in this one, hopefully, I will improve on the way.


Softwares Used:
Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Photoshop CS2
Corel Painter X
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Stocks:
2 images, rust and marble from commercial stock, Sozai Jiten
Tree Stock by ~slave-screams-stock
I just scanned a doodle I did in pencil this time and drew line art.
Time it took:
3 days

Illustration: Black

Black by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Huh? Can't see it?


LOL


Happy April Fool's Day- lol

Manga: TLOF Ch.3, p.8

Japanese:

TLOF Chapter 3, p. 8 JPN by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

English:

TLOF Chapter 3, p. 8 English by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

I tried to use perspective drawing a bit on last two koma (although it's not that obvious). I also used more screen tones in this page.

Softwares Used:
Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Photoshop CS2

Time it took:
2-3 days