Sorry for not being so active! Haha. I started a new job at a production house. Been enjoying it so far since the environment is good. (I mean my boss and office mates are gamers and it's pretty much legal to play video games provided that the work pending for that day is done.) Plus I really like working on videos from conception to shooting it.

And that I live more in tumblr now. XD

Want to have more people to play with on ME3 MP? Drop your EA Origin/xbox gamertag/psn username here and I shall make a list. Also, mine is: invaderxim (Origin). I mostly play space medic...er.... infiltrator.

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Hi guys, I've created a society6 account. I'll be selling certain works there. (Mostly original... and Edric ones. XD)

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...because Edric ran away with Leliana. /blatant April fools joke

Lol. Srsly, my april fools joke last year was much more interesting. Anyway, just popping in to say the opposite of the title: New DW page soon. I have not abandoned it. Don't worry. As for those people sending me notes, I appreciate all the love, and I'm sorry for taking so long. But be patient. It's coming. I don't have an exact time frame, but new pages will be there.

So from this day on, I shall collect a few of my recordings and turn them into those sped up painting/drawing videos. This journal will be updated when there's a new one. Posting it because 95% of my watcher population wouldn't probably have the chance to drop by my stream live. And there has been a few people who are curious with my process. Hope you enjoy and pick something up. Don't be shy to ask questions.

LoK: Mako recording

Note: The file was broken, and I had to cut the last bits for it to be salvaged.
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Morrigan and Ellyn

Recorded during livestream
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This was originally posted in my tumblr. Posting this here since I think I should also share this here. And it also explains my absence and lack of activity as of late. I do apologize for the lack of updates. Poor Edric has been trapped in the fade for months.  And no. I haven't left DW to rot in the darkest corner of my brain yet. The story still plagues me to no end, and for it to stop bothering me, it has to be drawn. Haha. Thank you to those who are still in this with me. Thank you for all the love you have given my pet project.



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If there's one thing an artist is sure of, it would probably be the fact that every artist is caught up in a perpetual battle against one's own skill. The moment you first pick up that pencil is the moment you start competing with your self. An artist is caught in a life-long quest to improve his craft.

One might find this quest rather tiring. But to an artist, every improvement - even if it's just about having more control over their hand pressure - is a victory. One that is always sweet. And it's always rather amusing (and painful at the same time) to look back on your old art. Furthermore, there is this unquantifiable joy an artist gets while drawing. That feeling of the pencil's lead against the paper can be rather erotic to some.

Though it's easy to lose oneself in this battle like all the battles we go through. It's dangerous when it's just about the improvement.

And the artist forgets how enjoyable his craft is.

This is the part when you can start losing yourself. When you're falling into art blocks again and again.

Yesterday, I realized this is what happened to me. I used to feel this… excitement and thrill every time I get something done. Even if that something is just a sketch. I used to love every line stroke I did. Sometime in the past few months, I forgot what this felt like.

I experienced a huge jump in my technique and my art a year ago, and I thought it would be a waste to stop improving. So I tried to find ways to improve my art. I tried a lot of things, observed a lot of other people's art, and forgot what I loved about my own work.

My hands stopped.

And it was painful to see my folders collecting WIP files. The frustration multiplied, and the art blocks never got unblocked.

I was trying too hard. I was forcing myself to improve. In the process, I forgot myself.

To wrap it up, I guess I just want to share this realization. And if you're wondering, yeah I found the fun in my art again. I'll never lose hold of it again.

I know most of my watchers (if not all) are Morrigan fans, so shameless plugging of a tumblog I just launched:


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For each of the first  10 (or more) people  answering this journal entry, I'll put their avatar and the three deviations I like the most from their gallery on the list!


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(I have a thing for sunrises and sunsets. Hahaha.)

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I Won't Say I'm in Love"It's blasphemy! Everything you are goes against nature! I could deal with a mage, even an apostate, but you become monsters!" He cried, spittle flying through the air, coating anything that dare stand in front of him. His face was red with anger and his eyes burned with disgust. He was passionate in his beliefs; she was a monster, beneath him, and that knowledge broke something in her. Who'd have thought that the daughter of Flemeth was so fragile; so prone to breaking? Morrigan sure hadn't and she discovered it too late. She'd taken him to the Wilds and finally shown him the truth, changing from woman to bear. He appeared curious at first,

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Snow Days
Dragon Age Origins- Awakening

The snow slowly drifted down in large fluffy flakes around the fortress of Vigil's Keep late in the evening when the torches were being lit to ward off the oncoming night. Outside its thick stone walls a figure stood in a field of untouched snow, staring up at the lazy snowflakes with a smile spread across his face.  He did not turn or notice a smaller woman wading through the white field behind him, cursing quietly as she came. It wasn't until she was at his side huffing and out of breath that he took note of her and glanced down to offer his smile in greeting.

Aellerain or Aellie to her friends, Arl

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DA:O GiftedGifted

  

"Yllwen, I think you need more work on that fire spell." Noted Niall as the young elven woman blew dark hair out of her face. She and her mentor had been trying to determine her affinity without luck. She could perform fire spells well, which had given them hope, but sadly she was failing at putting force behind it. Yllwen didn't like being a mage, due to her being trained by her mother to hone her body to fight like a rogue. But apparently the Maker has a sense of humor by allowing her to smite Lord Vaughn with her fire blast....then letting the Templars to haul her away.

"Yes, more work will definitely make more thin DA:O - Flirtly Drunk"Commander....what in the void are you doing?" Anders had asked, staring down the Commander of the Grey. The Commander had taken the opportunity to sit down with her recruit and friend, Oghren, and drink his home-brew ale. Truthfully, Oghren had passed out some hours ago, when they had first started drinking, but the Commander had continued to cradle her mug in her hands.

"Enjoying a mug of ale, Apostate." Her voice had always made Anders think of the Tranquil back at the Circle tower, no inflection or any emotion.  Well, that wasn't strictly true.

   Devene Amell had always been distant from the other apprentices at the tower, i

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AND BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO. I'M ADDING 5 MORE SLOTS.

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No. This does not have any connection with Anders and his Manifesto. Haha.

I didn't really travel last year, so this year I'm planning to travel A LOT. Hahaha. Here are the places I'm planning to visit this year. Not in any particular order.





Anawangin and Nagsasa Cove, Zambales
I've always wanted to go here. Trips never pushed through the past 2 years.



Mt. Pulag



Coron, Palawan



Puerto Princesa Underground River, Palawan




Misibis Bay



Singapore


Also, I'm planning to visit Europe. Haha. And I'm too lazy now to get more pictures. XDDDD

I hope you all had a wonderful start this 2012! Manila was really smoggy since everyone is practically allowed to fire their own fireworks. Ended up having a cold. Haha! Anyway, I just want to thank all of you who were with me in my deviantART life last year - whether you found me early the year or late.

Plus, I wanted to ask what new thing are you gonna try this year? I want to do lots of stuff this year, and I'm making myself a list. As of now, I'm planning to get back into sculpting . And then I'm planning to learn French and Spanish.

So what exciting thing are you planning on doing this 2012?

I was planning to draw a lot this holiday season, but I ended up being eaten by skyrim. (Can anyone share to me their favorites mods? Thanks.,)
Hahaha.


BUT DON'T WORRY, MORE DW IS ON THE WAY.





Belated merry christmas to all of you guys. My new year pose will be more substantial. Haha.



P.S. Anyone out there on BBM? I'm on BBM now. Add my pin: 2882CC77

And my LAN card was busted so I haven't been around. Haha. Hopefully I'd be able to draw more in the coming days since I also have to work on Edric's August drawing for :iconSoniaCarrera:'s project. (Will write a more detailed entry soon!)

Two weeks ago, we went to a beach resort for team building. I just want to share with you a couple of pictures!

My roommates and I slept here:



When you open the door, you'll see the beach and the sea. The shore is only a 1 minute walk away. haha.




And you can lounge around like this:



It was a very fun experience. Haha! Especially since the resort was exclusive to our team for those 3 days and 2 nights. I don't have many pictures of myself since I'm usually the one behind the camera.


I hope you're all enjoying your days and taking care of yourselves!

Welcome to all my new watchers! Thank you for all your support!

Rest well. You did change the world.


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Some Steve Jobs quotes to leave you with:

‎"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.."

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."  

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Somehow.

Been really busy at my job. Like. Really busy. I even sacrifice my weekends nowadays. *le sigh*

In other news, I didn't have to go to work today because there's a typhoon (International name: Nesat) again. Please pray for the Philippines since we were hit rather harshly again. Don't worry, I'm fine. I live far from the coastline so I wasn't that affected. (Though the electricity just returned. Lots of outposts were down because of the storm.)


Some pictures:


This is along Roxas Boulevard. The seawall got destroyed by the huge waves. Apparently, water overflowed because of the strength of the typhoon.



This is a picture from the biggest mal we have herel, The Mall of Asia.




^ Taft Ave. pretty far from the bay area and it's flooded to that degree. The rails is a part of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system.

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Stay safe everyone. Wherever in the world you are.

Ohdeargod

It's 11:28 pm as of the moment I am typing this sentence. And I just got home.

Hahaha.

My team brainstormed for 3 clients today. We have presentations within this week. It makes me think clients have some kind of evil plan to schedule presentations in the same week to torture advertising agencies. Anyway, I feel totally drained. After brainstorming for the 2nd client, I went to work on another account that is not part of the 3 I have mentioned. I worked on designing 5 merchandising and/or promotional materials that needed the layout itself and some kind of simulation of execution (i.e. Shelf talker - the designs on the grocery shelves - simulated on a grocery shelf). Then while I was doing that, we received a call from a client who requested a meeting tomorrow. Then we discovered we had overlooked a job order, so I HAD to do it within the night. After working on the materials, I worked on designing and simulating coffee and chocolate drink packaging. AFTER that, we went back to the drawing board to brainstorm for the last client. The thing is we didn't even manage to finish the campaign plan, so we're definitely going to work on it tomorrow. PLUS, I still have to revise a website design tomorrow.

*le sigh*

My brain is now seriously drained, and I just really want to share this. Have you ever experienced that moment when you have to finish a whole lot of materials, and after a few hours of work, your workflow is starting to lag and your brain is starting to shut down.


I really, really miss drawing DW and Edric/Morrigan shennanigans. Alas, I have been totally busy the past few weeks, so forgive me for the lack of updates. All I can do now when I log into dA is to comment on a few pieces, thank new watchers, view new deviations, and clean up my message centre. (I don't like deviations, journals and comments piling up in there. )

I don't even know how to end this journal entry properly so I'm just gonna live you an ellipsis.

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I don't know how new this facebook app is, but it's the first time I encountered it. XD I'll play around with this and then maybe we could all share the same public doodlescape space.

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WACOM Y U MAKE ME WANT TO SPEND?

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