This is Nyachou again, I am attending summer Comiket in Tokyo 2015 this time under my own circle name Clover Workshop. I will be appearing in the first day of the event, hall east and table number G12b.
This will be the first time attending Comiket on my own and I just finished story board lol, I haven't plan out everything yet. The Visa, the printing, the ticket and accommodation and plus the book it self (;*△*;), with a time spam of less than 2 month to deal with everything plus work (stress stress stress). Well I'm still glad getting in, I will try my best to get that book on the table~
The book will be Kancolle related cooking Doujin manga with bit of service in it O w O.
Here's a story regards Wacom and their products on my point of view.
So, most people probably already know that I owned a Cintiq Companion since last year after returning my surface pro. Surface pro was a very nice portable computer, it's light, great screen and decent battery life. I would have kept the surface is I'm just after a tablet, however drawing wise Companion is simply a much better tool.
Regards my experience with Cintiq Companion, it was great. I have been used Companion for the past whole year replacing my computer + cintiq 21UX setup. This doesn't mean Companion is perfect, the the battery life is consider poor for a portable device, screen size is rather too small and 8gb ram isn't perfect for processing my image. However it's bearable consider Companion is the only portable device built for drawing on the current market. Let's put it this way, there's no other device on current market that offer similar experience as Companion. I even brought my Companion to the Japan trip to finish one of my unfinished projects. As matter of fact I love my companion but things will change 1 year later.
Now this is what happened to my companion. Early this year the device decided to die out of nowhere. It is the power plug issue that Companion was well known for. I have this issue after 1 month of the purchase, Wacom Australia gave me a replacement and I been using the device til early this year. Knowing the power plug is fragile, I took very good care of it and the device should suffer from no physical damage at all. But no matter how much care I put onto the device, the power plug just decided to die on me.
Thankfully the power plug issue is still covered outside of the original 1 year warranty. Apparently all device made before July 2014 have fragile power plugs and they replaced the material on later designs. After knowing the issue Wacom Australia decided to be very kind to me and send me a new device. However after all this experience with Companion, I decided to sell the device and upgrade for a new one.
I have thought of upgrading to Companion 2, however knowing original Companion was this fragile, I can't help but worry about the durability of companion 2, so unless the review of the device is overwhelmingly positive, it is not an option.
The new Cintiq 27QHD is what really catches my eye right now. It offers 97% Adobe RPG and have a pixel density of 110. Regards pixel density, For normal monitor it might not matter as much, however for a device that usual put right in front of your face, you can't help but noticing the physical pixels on the monitor. Companion having 180 ppi, is perfect, however since the screen size is only 13 inch, I would still have a bit of issue looking at my work. The new companion 2 and Cintiq 27QHD upgraded their display to 2540 x 1440.
Here's the problem I have with Wacom and their design of products. They are never up to date with technology. When companion first released, 4th gen intel cores were already available, it was a major upgrade on battery, this is especially important on tablet device, however Wacom decided to release their Companion anyways with the old 3rd gen core. Cintiq 27QHD, although this device have upgrade to 2540 x 1440, I can't help but ask why don't they just simply go all the way to 4k since this technology is widely available already. They decided to upgrade the resolution on companion 2, but this is pointless since the pixel density on that device is already great, the actual problem is the screen size of the device. I would rather have the device upgrading to 15" screen instead of the resolution upgrade. Overall I have to say Wacom do try to make their product a better experience for customer however what they offer is usually not what we wanted. And though out the years, Wacom's product have suffered from a downgrade of quality, not just the hardware but the software too. Here's a great video from David Watson regards the poor touch function of Wacom device, although to be fair half of that was Adobe's problem. In comparison, my 8 years old 21UX is still functioning to this date.
After all this talk, I still want to have a 27QHD, yes it's not a 4k display, yes there is reports on the buggy remote but what really stop me from buying the device is actually dead simple. The price. I been sitting on my computer, checking Wacom Australia product page daily with my credit card ready, hope to buy the device right away once it is released. And when the product is finally release, the price shock me. It is 4.3k Australian dollar and it does not comes with the stand. The stand is sold separately for 500 dollars, so you are looking roughly around $5000 dollar for a drawing monitor, not to mention it's not even a 4k display. So, a full PC would cost less that 1.5k, An iMAC with 5k display cost less that 3k, A decent 2nd hand car cost less that 5k, why would I spend 5k hard earned money on a drawing monitor. Oh and the stand, are you telling me this 18kg weight somehow worth the same as my smart phone?(I know international postage are expensive but same goes for any electronic device on the market right?)
Final thoughts on the problem, It is sad to see what Wacom have done in the recent years, their product quality went down greatly from the past years but the price is kept going up. What we really need now is another company to join this market, stop this total domination, and hopefully we will be looking at better quality products from Wacom at more reasonable price. However as for now, I would still be a Wacom customer, because regardless all that, we don't have a 2nd choice.
That's all I have to say and....... does anybody want to buy Companion?
Here's something that become very very popular lately, since I just finished my Dengeki illustration competition submission and still waiting feedback from Art Director, I decided to put in little bit of time to play around with this too.
The biggest question is....what is this string made of?! There's lots of image on the internet and they all seem to be vary in length! O A O Is this some kind of magic in the novel? well there's no way we could find out, but this is indeed a very interesting design.
Also I suffer from this problem lately, when ever I randomly draw glasses onto characters, I having problem of taking them off. I'm not sure if this is a psychological problem or I simply start to develop a glasses fetish....no this can not be, as I do not like glasses character in general. Anyone who know what my problem is please leave a comment and let me know.
For more reading regards the character, you can find it from link below
I just remembered I can post the projects I been doing at the beginning of this year now. This gives a rough Idea of what I been doing lately. Due to nature of this job, I can't really post anything I have completed before the game release, which is roughly half a year to be safe.
This drawing is for a 3 Kingdom game published By Gree, sadly the game it self is Japan only and I couldn't even try the game my self due to that lol. I will update with more drawings in the future XD (and my general drawing skill is much better than what's in the image now~)
What's up guys, I haven't written anything for my blog lately, so I guess it's a good time to give a update of what I have been up to.
First of all, I got contracted by Wakka for Digital illustration XD, got packed with jobs lately. Hopefully I won't screw everything up and maintain this job long enough until making money independently as Illustrator~ Although communicating in Japanese is very hard for me, but it work out nicely so far thanks to an Artist friend of mine. http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1352690 She's a very talented digital illustrator, and improving in a very fast pace. Please check out her drawing if you had time.
Updates on Alice Overture, our group leader decided to use our current resource and get into the game production industry. He's currently working on game proposal and Resource. As for Comiket, the Kancolle book will definitely be made, however let's just hope we can get a table in the first place. The working will be sold in AFA 2014 at Singapore and Winter Comiket at Japan by end of this year. I will be stay in Singapore for a few days and then Japan for the rest of the month.
As my self, my plan is to keep improving my speed and skills on illustration while working as a digital illustrator.
I will write this blog later when I have the time, for now Ima get back to my drawings XD
This is Nyachou from Cloverworkshop~ I have applied for end of year comiket 2014, which is C87. I will be attending the event with my big group Alice Overture selling a kancolle artbook if we managed to get a table there XD.
This means I will be in Japan at end of this year and hopefully Singapore for Anime Festival Asia 2014. and in order to do that I need to renew my Citizen cert(which is somehow lost) and expire passport T A T. This gonna cost at least half a thousand OTL.
ANYWAYS~
I will be updating table position and things in the future, please feel free to meet me during those festival XD
Since I haven't post anything on this blog for a long time, I will just summaries what happen to me lately in life
Taking constant contracted work from Whomor
Got Learner license for driving
Bought my self surface pro
Found out surface pro isn't suitable for professional drawing, refunded it and bought a 2nd hand Cintiq companion
Cintiq companion's power plug broken on the first day, send for repair, gets a new copy for free
Bought my self a ATH-M50RD and Aune T1
blah blah
and here's a recent sketch for fun~
For Anyone who still follow this blog, Thank you for your support, hopefully the new games will release soon so I can at least show you guys what I been doing lately~
Yay
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and yes I am still able to draw guys, here's the proof
Jan 2014 Project, to celebrate the release of Pokemon X/Y and well as Pokemon's 19th Anniversary, Chinese Doujin Group AD.Nap gathered a group of Artist and Produced an Artbook "Super Effective", the book have been released recently.
The Artbook is going to be full color 34 pages includes Artwork covering all 6 generation of pokemon series. I am Luckily to be chosen to do the 2nd generation which is Pokemon Gold/Silver, please support my work by buying the book from following image
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AD.Nap is well known for it's good promotional Video, and here's the video XD
There will be more projects from AD.Nap in 2014(sorry no spoiler xD), however I probably won't have time to join those projects.
