DTF practise and review

Still planning on my Personal Illustration artbook which would be published for winter comiket....hmmmmm...any suggestions?

and some practice I done today after finally fixed my DTF-720 to the lap top cooler properly *it refuse to stick with the lap top cooler and keep breaking any seal that I made to bind them together with sticky tape.

you can see died sticky tapes everywhere XD

and here's the image

MADOKA!!!! - I finally drew something madoka related *tears....oh wait, I think I done a QB before...ah well....

the image was done purely with DTF 720... *the sketching stage was great, I almost feel the same sensation as when light yagami write his death note.

however...after I drew this half way...I found the pose to be pretty familiar(eg, when a lame love animation with main char crash with our female girl lead).... meh ignore that~

Now about the DTF-720 or other might call PL - 720. Regardless it's pretty much the same thing, You can look at it as a cintiq with only 512 pressure sensitive and less function key(although is actually is lots of key on the product it self I just couldn't found a proper driver for it OTL)

When I bought the product, the VGA line, USB line and stand was missing, luckily I have old replacement for lines, and a laptop cooler act as stand(although it took me ages to bind them together - the monitor was too heavy for the laptop cooler so I need to use sticky tape to strengthen  the holder, and prevent the monitor to slip down) on the bright-side, it provides extra cooling....not sure if it was needed though XD

now about pressure sensitive, I know 512 is rather small number compare to the current 2048 standard but it's enough for the job, but it doesn't mean the extra pressure sensitive a proper cintiq offer is completely waste. I do actually find my intuos 3 have much smoother line than this LCD input device. However this isn't the main issue with this device, as for Artist the biggest issue could be - the colour. When I was doing my last project, I have to keep compare the colour of image of two monitor to get the colour right, and It confuse you sometimes(it's mentally stressing to find white colour in your image looks yellow). But then again 171 for a lcd plus tablet...it worth way more the cost. (but as for original price, which is 1500AUD is completely rip off)

So in the end I would still hunt down a 2nd hand cintiq if I could... hopefully soon....

News and Updates

Wow, I haven't wrote anything on blogger and post anything in pixiv and DA for ages, if you wonder why that's because......I travel to the future, defeated few giant robot and got sent to the past and killed few dragons, found  the lost ring of justice, had few friends (died during boss) battle against the evil mind and comes back...

Ok I start to feel lame about this joke so I would stop here.

But! I do have some hardware upgrades since my last post, that is....

This baby in the photo, DTF-720, 17" LCD with pen pressure sensitive of 512 by wacom, was on market for 1.5k but bought off from grayonline for just 171 dollar~ (not for my self though)

Although this does look like a great cintiq replacement, It's decent but isn't good enough.... ah well can't ask too much for 171 isn't it XD

and then I Hi-Jacked 2 flex pen nibs off some friend so now the pen won't be that slippery~ YAY YAY


On the drawing side, there's few things I completed, but I still need to ask for permission to upload those pictures, one of them are CD cases for Kamicon

For more detail go to http://www.kamicon.net/dvd.php

*I didn't do the cover design...

I also drew a guest art for a chinese doujin group, and a image of touhou for something that I can't tell now~

Meh that's all for now, will update next time~

Oh and if anybody have a cheap 2nd hand cintiq please sell it to me~~~

Daily Deviantion and commission update

Woke up today with blurry eyes after drawing til 5 am yesterday, checked Blog, email, twitter and everything and realised I have unusual increase on Pageviews of DeviantART, and I realised why...It's Daily Deviantion!!!

Yay Yay

2nd one after my first which was reimu last year, I never thought I would be one for this year as well O w O, regardless I'm happy to see favs and comments and well as increase on blog view and DA XD. Thank you everybody.

As for the commission update, as suggested by Hatsune-Mika I will be lower my commission of sketch to 12 dollar.


Please note it's all in Australian dollars so don't get them wrong XD

as for contacting method try use the CONTACT ME button on my Blog please.(Just got it up recently and tested)

and overall

Thanks for the DD again~~~~

Updates on drawing and Internet issue

Sorry guys I haven't posted any drawing on pixiv and DeviantART so far for months already, it's pretty much due to the nature of my later commission that I can't really post them until they serve it's purpose XD *It would be rather pointless if you can view the image on my site before it even get to finish it's job don't you think~

Life wise like I said in my later post, I'm really really runnning low on money O A O, bank reached -18 dollars. Virgin mobile just gave me a bill of 600 bucks, yep 600 bucks for 300mb excess data no joke! - Even though I totally not going to let the money goes in due to their fault of not stating on the data purchase clearly.

I haven't had internet access for a month already if you didn't notice, was due to the fact while I register on TPG, after 6-7 days of installation they said there's not enough ADSL port at my place for them to complete installation. Ok now here's where the problem comes, I goes to iiNET, my original ISP for this unit, applied for a nice NAKED DSL 200gb + 200gb on and off peak plan, they did all the register for me using old exist account - the account that previously owned by a room-mate who moved away early this year. Everything went smooth except I didn't realise they totally didn't change the account owner detail when I ask them to.

Ok that wasn't a major problem until they finish the installation, I contacted them, wasted some mobile credit and problem solved and here comes the bigger problem, they told me the installation was completed, yep completed, and so I happily connected my router to internet, expected it to work. and well it didn't... So, I wasted more of my mobile credit try to trouble shoot the issue with my ISP and nothing seem to be working. So then I inserted a phone randomly into the socket and before my next point remember I asked for a Naked DSL, ok this is what happened.

THERE IS RING TONE!!!!

Ok so for people who doesn't know, naked dsl not supposed to have ringtone due to the fact it doesn't come with phone service and any typical phone related service should be disabled on the line, in other words there's not supposed to have ring tone!!!

So I quickly called iiNet, I got to say their customer service is rather great except for one person who I contacted earlier during middle of installation where he just couldn't figure out what I'm saying, I mean come on he need me to spell out my username letter by letter 4 times, yes 4 times in a roll and he still fails it. Oh yea and another funny thing is my title is MRS in their registration so according to them I'm a married housewife. (Do I sound like a girl or anything?) Anyways ignore all this. in the end they told me there might be 3 physical lines at my place and they installed ADSL on the wrong physical line and I need to ask a private technician to come over to fix that - which cost 100 bucks ish.

Well, I do need my internet asap for jobs and such, so I trusted iiNET and contacted a private technician. He came over and we can't find the main switch board in my unit... and the house owner doesn't seem to be helping so we decided to access the mdf room which doesn't similar job, but that's a later story.

So the technician went into the mdf room and found out this, there's only 2 ports in my exchange and single line goes into my port 1 - which is the one that have ringtone. Ok simple maths here, there's 2 ports 1 line and that line have ringtone, get the picture? Yep a simple conclusion TELSTRA FAILED ME.

OTL..........

We Identified the problem and iiNET refused to give us the right vertical number for my ADSL port, but they do agree to ask Telstra technician to come tomorrow to fix it for me, but I might need to pay the 144 installation fee again...WHAT? and Private technician charged 110 bucks on me too....and now my bank have less than 0 dollar balance yes less than 0.

but the good thing is I'm back to internet!!! yay~~~~ *I guess it's not that happy after all this but still...

and on the other side my mobile data usage excessed due to this like I mention before, so Ima post about that too later~

Running low on money + 20dollar sketch commission

OTL financial problem occur,

hmmm anybody interested on 20 dollar simple sketch commission?

The quality of sketch will be similar to the test drawing I done below


Method

simply donate 20 AUD - Australian dollar onto paypal (from the button on my blog) and message to mail@cloverworkshop.net with detail of the commission and email address you want the image to send to.

Due to the nature of this quick commission, I won't be reply lots of message and ask a lot about details, so please fill as much information as you can.

Commission content should be.

A character you want me to draw - Perfer Fanart due to easy access of reference, although original character is fine too, the pose you want him/her to do, the clothing you want him or her to wear, (perfer casual wear)

I don't do

*multiple character on a same image
*background
*colour

for this quick Commission XD

Thank you very much, every cent will help my current situation XD

Also consider buying dakimakura on the left tab of my blog

practing

hmmmmmm

Test pose with 3D custom girl

Pose originally from 3D custom girl, well end up failed XD. the detail wasn't enough for referencing OTL

but yea turn out like this

Testing a New program

Clip Paint Lab 64 Bit 0.8

Using this program at the moment, seem to work fine at the moment, although it doesn't feel as good as sai *well as in smoothness of the drawing feel, it's certainly a nice program, 64 bit support gave me a good reason to practice on it. But yea, still getting use to a whole new program does feel hard XD *espceially after you remember all the hotkeys of another.

link for Clip Paint Lab

http://www.clip-studio.com/site/pr/pl/


here's a test drawing.

New computer Roar Roar

--------[ Summary ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  

    Motherboard:
      CPU Type                                          I3 2100 DualCore , 3100 MHz (31 x 100)
      Motherboard Name                                  Z68M-D2H
      Motherboard Chipset                               Z68
      System Memory                                     16301 MB
      DIMM1: Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5N-DG                    4 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM  (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz)  (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz)  (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz)  (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz)  (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz)  (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
      DIMM2: Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5N-DG                    4 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM  (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz)  (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz)  (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz)  (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz)  (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz)  (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
      DIMM3: Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5N-DG                    4 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM  (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz)  (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz)  (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz)  (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz)  (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz)  (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
      DIMM4: Nanya M2X4G64CB8HG5N-DG                    4 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM  (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz)  (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz)  (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz)  (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz)  (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz)  (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
      BIOS Type                                         Award Modular (07/20/11)
      Communication Port                                Communications Port (COM1)

    Display:
      Video Adapter                                     Intel(R) HD Graphics Family  (3955292 KB)
      Video Adapter                                     Intel(R) HD Graphics Family  (3955292 KB)
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250  (1024 MB)
      Video Adapter                                     NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250  (1024 MB)
      3D Accelerator                                    nVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
      Monitor                                           BenQ G2420HD  [24" LCD]  (N9904381SL0)
      Monitor                                           Dell E193FP  [19" LCD]  (M60654ATU041)

    Multimedia:
      Audio Adapter                                     Intel Unknown @ Intel Cougar Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller
      Audio Adapter                                     Realtek ALC889 @ Intel Cougar Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller

    Storage:
      IDE Controller                                    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 1C08
      IDE Controller                                    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 1C00
      Disk Drive                                        Hitachi HDT721032SLA380 ATA Device  (320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
      Disk Drive                                        OCZ-AGILITY3 ATA Device  (55 GB, IDE)
      Disk Drive                                        ST3500320AS ATA Device  (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
      Optical Drive                                     ASUS DRW-2014L1T ATA Device  (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:20x/8x, DVD-RW:20x/6x, DVD-RAM:14x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
      SMART Hard Disks Status                           OK

23rd Birthday...

Roar 23rd birthday already, I'm getting old OAO

Meh hips of things happened this year and not much time to put good amount of effort into drawing OTL, but still receive some good outcome so I guess I can call it a good year.

And then the birthday party!

Had 6 hour K today with friends in Echo point again just like what we use to do in any Birthday celebration, and had Japanese food in umami from Townhall, the service isn't great but food's rather ok, price was reasonble too, well compare to out Japan store in City.

Anyways Happy Birthday to me and here comes Christmas yay yay~