Code-R

Got home. Went to MangaShare. Downloaded Naruto Chapter 402. Was bored. Went to MangaHelpers. Lineart was available (Credits to Ziaja). So why not colour?

So here’s another Sasuke colouring (from Chapter 402, Page 17)……With his new Sharingan!!

Nothing much to say about this. But I think the shading of the hair is too dark, you can hardly see it (But I think that’s because I added a layer on top of it to not make the lines look too sharpened). The background is plain because I have no idea what to do with it. I added the glow to the sharingan because otherwise it’ll look really plain. Overall, this piece is pretty simple and plain.

I think I should buy a tablet so that I can try doing soft-shading instead of cell-shading, but I don’t know whether to buy it now, or after ‘O’ Levels or something.

Anyways, I really really hope that this chapter concludes the Sasuke arc and the plot will finally move on.

Oh, one more thing, Sasuke’s new sharingan looks so weird, like a flower or an atom or something. I think Kakashi’s Mangekyou Sharingan looks the nicest, followed by Itachi, Madara and then Sasuke.

Added this to the Gallery.

Two consecutive posts in a row? Why not just merge it into one?

Because the last post was specifically dedicated for GCE ‘O’ Level Malay.

Moving on…..
Thank goodness today’s Monday. What’s so special about Monday? Code Geass R2 subbed version comes out today! Yes, I’m a fanatic. So? After a week of not watching anime, Code Geass is a nice way to start things off.

*Waits patiently for download to complete*

Besides Code Geass, another way to get my mind off Malay is game. I went out yesterday to WestMall in hopes of finding the game “The World Ends With You”. (What was I doing out when I was supposed to be studying? Well, I just couldn’t take any more Malay.) Sadly, I couldn’t find it in Comics Connection.

So I decided to search for it someplace else today, but I need to go for some Barbeque Party thingy. Maybe it’s still possible to go to IMM after the BBQ, but that’s if my father is not tired. If today’s no good, then perhaps Tuesday, after my remedial, or some other day. If that’s no good either, then I’ll go to Parkway Parade on Saturday. Either way, by Sunday, I should have the game, if I find it. If not, then too bad for me.

Just took it today. And not feeling too happy about it.

Paper 1 was okay. I had something to write about and wrote quite a lot for Section 2. I just hope it’s full of content and not crap. I’ve always sucked at elaborating, so yeah.

Paper 2 was the same as every other Paper 2 I’ve done as practices (excluding Past Year Papers between 2000 and 2004 - those were rather easy). I think with luck, I can get a B and if by some chance a miracle does befall upon me, then an A. I doubt I can get and A though.

I won’t go into details because it’s troublesome and I don’t want to know how much marks I lost because it may erase what small flicker of hope I have of getting an A.

Anyway, I’ll save the worry of whether to retake this paper for a later time.

While I was waiting for my mother to finish checking a Malay Paper that I did, I had a sudden inspiration to create a signature. Well, I was browsing a forum and came across a signature that looks nice, so that’s where the inspiration came from.

Rendering was troublesome and so was searching for a render on the net, so I just used what renders I have.

Render taken from PlanetRenders.

Creating this was much more troublesome than I originally thought. I had quite a few problems along the way, the blending of the render with the background was especially troublesome, but I somehow managed to pull through.

Here’s the gist of the steps.
The background is mostly made up of a couple of Grunge brushes with distorted images of the render on Color Dodge on top of the brushes. Duplicates of the render on top of one another with different filters and on Overlay at different opacities and added a lighting effect. The first version was finished with a Color Balance adjustment layer. The second version also had a Color Balance adjustment layer, but underneath that layer was a white background set on Saturation.

I’m quite pleased with the overall outcome. It wasn’t really what I had in mind but it turned out pretty nicely. I’ve improved, I’d say. But that may just be luck.

Added this to the Gallery.

Well, time to study…..again.

Yeah, well, I named this post “Fillers” because I am currently taking a break from studying. ‘Studying’ here refers to the main ‘plot’ and this ‘break’ is something that is not included in the main ‘plot’. Hence, “fillers”. (This is a reference to a commonly used term for some plots in Animes that are adapted from Mangas.)

Well, even if you didn’t get it, all that there is to know is that I’m taking a rest from studying for the GCE “O” Level Mother Tongue paper that is to be taken on Monday the 26th of May. I did a bit of studying in the afternoon though, before going to sleep that is.

I haven’t really been updating because I’ve been too busy and tired. Since I’m resting now, why not post something? But there’s nothing much going on, really. I didn’t even watched any anime. Okay, so maybe one or two episodes just now, but that’s all for this week. Okay, so I watched Code Geass on Monday, but….whatever.

So what did I do?

I watched videos of Pandas on Youtube. Don’t ask. They’re cute. Especially baby ones. When they’re running. And standing.

I also sketched a couple of pictures. I think I’ll upload them, along with the one of Kyrios I did about a month ago, if I have time at a later date.

I also received my Report Book today. But I won’t bother rambling about them because it’s more or less the same as my Results.

Coloured this one pretty fast. There was nothing much to do today (I didn’t go out today, so couldn’t buy the game…) and coincidentally, the cover page of this week’s Naruto was rather nice to colour. In addition to that, there was already a lineart available. So might as well colour it.

Lineart by Shade. Much thanks to him.

Here’s my colouration, featuring; Itachi, Sasuke and Madara Uchiha (otherwise known as Tobi).

I prefer version one to version two. I wanted to give version two a blue-ish hue, but it didn’t turn out as nice as I pictured it. Still looks okay though.

I hope Kishimoto will move on to the next part of the story already. The recent chapters about Sasuke, Itachi and Uchiha stuff are all so boring….

Hmm….nothing much to say….

Added these to the Gallery.

To buy or not to buy. That is the question.

It’s been a long time since I last bought a game, so I was thinking of buying one soon. Soon - as in, possibly today, or in the next one or two weeks.

The game I have in mind is “The World Ends With You” by Square Enix, the creators of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. It looks very promising and the ratings are quite high. Reviews agree that it’s a very nice game. So why the hesitation?

You see, Malay ‘O’ Levels is just a week away, and I do not want to get distracted by the game. Even though it’s Malay, ‘O’ Levels is ‘O’ Levels. Can’t afford to get a low grade. However, this is only if I get the game today because I may be going out later.

Another problem - is homework. I have a couple of Malay homework that needs to be done. I still have tomorrow and Monday to finish them but if I were to get the game today, or maybe tomorrow, I may get distracted and not be able to finish them. This only applies if I get the game today though, and it’s not as serious as the previous.

Third problem, and possibly the main reason why I’m hesitating, is getting distracted from my studies. My one month school holiday has literally been reduced to only a week. Blame remedials. But that’s beside the point. The point is that I need to concentrate during lessons, else my results will not be great. If I were to get the game, my concentration will most likely waver and….yeah. This might continue after the “holidays” and history will repeat itself (referring to my not-so-good grades).

The good thing about buying the game is that I’ll be able to get my mind off things and relax. But if I were to buy the game, when I buy it is also important. I don’t know if I should buy it this week, or wait till at least Malay ‘O’ Levels is over.

The most logical and rational choice, is of course to not buy the game at all. But I really want it you see because this is me we’re talking about. It’s already hard enough to resist the temptation of buying games for the past months. And now that I found another good game, I don’t want to let this chance slip again. It is the holidays afterall, even though there’s Malay and remedials and stuff.

Teachers keep going on and on about how our studies are really important and all, not that they’re wrong, but they need to remember that, technically, we are still young. So we need to rest and play every once in a while. But that’s just part of me talking.

As the title says; My MYE Results. I couldn’t think of anything else to name this post, so yeah. And I didn’t posts this yesterday because I was too tired and lazy.

Generally, I’m not too satisfied with my results. Sure, I got As and a few Bs, and to some, they may think that that is a good achievement. I think that it’s a good achievement too, but not great. Satisfactory but not something that I can be proud of.

English was okay, an improvement from previous tests. I managed to get an A for Paper 2 but Paper 1 pulled me down to a B grade. I only need 1 more mark to attain an A2 but that was not meant to be. Sad, but true. I’m happy, yet not too satisfied with the overall grade.

As for Physics, I did better than what I thought I would get. But even so, it doesn’t make me happy. Afterall, a ‘B’ isn’t something to be happy about. Enough said.

Biology came as a surprise. Honestly, I thought that I would get a B4 or C5, but as it turns out, I got an A2! Seriously, it was very unexpected. But hey, who’s complaining? However, my target for the ‘O’ Levels remains unchanged; an A1.

Malay wasn’t a surprise. Excluding Oral, if it’s purely Paper 1 and 2, I got a C5. But if it’s including Oral and Listening Comprehension, then I got a B4. Malay ‘O’ Levels is about 10 ten days away and I’m trying my best to motivate myself to study for it so that I may get an A1, but we’ll see. I hope I do get an A1 though.

Maths was the only subject that I’m happy about, both Elementary and Additional Mathematics. Even though careless mistakes were present in both, more in A Maths than E Maths (I forgot to do an entire part of a question for A Maths!! and made a really stupid and careless mistake….[2x4=6 What the hell!?!?] ), I still managed to do well. Considering the time I spent on revising for the two (30 minutes for E Maths and maybe an hour for A Maths), I think I did pretty good.

Moving on, Chemistry was okay. I did relatively well for Paper 2 but my Paper 1 was a disappointment. I got much lower than I what I thought I would get. I still got an A1 in the end, but only narrowly. I think I can do much better though.

Geography was pretty good. I managed to, once again, surprise myself for Geography. I thought I wrote rubbish, but turns out it wasn’t. Lol, interesting.

I haven’t gotten my Social Studies Paper yet, but I hope I do well for it.

Well, that’s all of it, I think.

I think that, if I’m more serious about studying, I can do much better. Hopefully, that won’t remain as wishful thinking. Having said that, I hope I can somehow be motivated to work harder because the way I am now, honestly, I don’t really care about doing something to improve myself. Haha, there’s going to be a “Motivation Workshop” at school during the June Holidays. Interesting, let’s see if it helps. I doubt it though.

Well, today’s Marking Day and school’s out, so what did I do? Some people may spend the day hanging out with friends, watching movies, sleep, play games, watch anime, read manga, etc etc. As for me, as much as I’d like to watch anime and read manga, there’s really no new releases to watch. Conveniently, I had a sudden inspiration and motivation to create some avatars. So, I spent almost the entire day creating icons.

Click on the Avatars/Icons for the textless versions.

Well, that’s all for now. Who knew creating one avatar could take quite long (about 15-30 minutes for one).

Credits goes to Minitokyo for the Stock Images. Much thanks to the users there. There’s just too much to credit individually, so I hope crediting them generally will do.

I’ve created a Page for Avatars/Icons at the Gallery. Already added these there.

Well, I did say I was going to colour this page after the exams are over. I would have finished and posted it yesterday if not for the Inter-Class Floorball Competiton. Well, that doesn’t matter anymore, at least I finished it.

I won’t post all the stages like I did with my previous colouring because it’s too troublesome.

But might as well share the lineart. It took me about 3 hours to clean the page, especially the pants because it’s too black and I had to guess where the line should be. Hope it doesn’t look too off.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Chapter 191: Featuring Tsuna & Reborn

Two versions once again. I really don’t know which I prefer. The first one looks simple and nice but a bit too plain. The second one blends in pretty well with the background but some parts look a little too dark, even though that was kinda intentional since I wanted the light source to be from the top right-hand corner. But still, both are okay.

I debated on whether to colour Reborn’s hair black or brown because I didn’t know which would be better; his original hair colour or Tsuna’s as he is impersonating him. I ended up using his original hair colour. I had to scale down the image quite a bit because the original file size was too big. The original colouring was the size of the lineart. I spent about another 3-4 hours colouring this.

Anyway, you would have noticed that Lambo and I-Pin are missing from the coloured version. Lol, that’s because I thought that they were “in the way”. I wanted it to just be Tsuna & Reborn, Student & Tutor. Yeah well, and also because I was too lazy to add them as well.

Added this to the Gallery too.

Well, now that that’s done, time to create avatars.