according to xkcd, if i spend my weekends making graph, one day i will end up with that girl at the end of the bell curve.
As Chuck Norris approaches zero, zero runs like a little bitch.
meri.WALL
meri.BROWSE
meri.NAKAMA
meri.FILE
meri.MVIDS[ending]
ending music videos from ONE PIECE anime series.
meri.MVIDS[opening]
opening music videos from ONE PIECE anime series.
meri.SING[ending]
ending MP3 singles from ONE PIECE anime series.
meri.SING[opening]
opening MP3 singles from ONE PIECE anime series, excluding "WE ARE!"
Friday, April 03, 2009
12:39:00 AM
-[ because you're my statistically significant other. ]-
according to xkcd, if i spend my weekends making graph, one day i will end up with that girl at the end of the bell curve.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
5:34:00 AM
-[ Vongola History Lesson - Final Chapter Cover ]-
For those of you who are still waiting for the next chapter, rest assured that I am working on it. Here is a proof: the cover page illustration for the upcoming chapter. Click to enlarge
The next chapter I release will probably end Vongola History Lesson. I don't have any intention to continue this (crack) story past this coming chapter, so I thought I should end with a small bang. This is the chapter cover illustration for the upcoming chapter (which will be about 30+ pages). I thought the last chapter deserve a jump-style colorspread. If you're curious about the weird wolf thing in there, you'll see who that is in the chapter's extra.
And if you have NO CLUE what Vongola History Lesson is, and want to know, you can read the chapters from the links below. Disclaimer: none of them are canon. I just make shit up as I go.
chapter 1 | chapter 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 4 | chapter 5
At one point I was thinking about actually printing the entire Vongola History Lesson and sell it as a doujinshi, but then I realized that it would probably be too much work. So instead, I'll just zip up the entire story and set up some sort of download link after it ended so you can enjoy the chapter in your computer for free.
If you enjoy reading this and want to show your support, I'm planning on printing this illustration as an 11x17 poster, which will be sold at Anime North (Toronto, Canada) and at Anime Expo (Los Angeles, California). The poster will also be available for purchase online after July. The price is still to be determined, but it will probably be $15 (including shipping).
again, apologies for the very very long delay in finishing this chapter. I hope you all enjoy this, and thanks much again and for reading (and waiting) and all the support. You guys are a great fandom.
The next chapter I release will probably end Vongola History Lesson. I don't have any intention to continue this (crack) story past this coming chapter, so I thought I should end with a small bang. This is the chapter cover illustration for the upcoming chapter (which will be about 30+ pages). I thought the last chapter deserve a jump-style colorspread. If you're curious about the weird wolf thing in there, you'll see who that is in the chapter's extra.
And if you have NO CLUE what Vongola History Lesson is, and want to know, you can read the chapters from the links below. Disclaimer: none of them are canon. I just make shit up as I go.
chapter 1 | chapter 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 4 | chapter 5
At one point I was thinking about actually printing the entire Vongola History Lesson and sell it as a doujinshi, but then I realized that it would probably be too much work. So instead, I'll just zip up the entire story and set up some sort of download link after it ended so you can enjoy the chapter in your computer for free.
If you enjoy reading this and want to show your support, I'm planning on printing this illustration as an 11x17 poster, which will be sold at Anime North (Toronto, Canada) and at Anime Expo (Los Angeles, California). The poster will also be available for purchase online after July. The price is still to be determined, but it will probably be $15 (including shipping).
again, apologies for the very very long delay in finishing this chapter. I hope you all enjoy this, and thanks much again and for reading (and waiting) and all the support. You guys are a great fandom.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
1:53:00 PM
-[ CIRCUS IS IN TOWN ]-
I FINISHED MY VERY VERY FIRST ONE PIECE COLORSPREAD (and the strawhats aren't even in there)!
click for a bigger version.
this took about 20 hours to do, spread over an entire week. 4 hours of sketching, 4 hours of inking, 9 hours of coloring, and another 3 hours-ish of finalizing. it doesn't seem much, but planning the layout itself took about 2 weeks and many pages of my sketchbook, since none of the layouts seemed to be working.
will be sold at Anime eXpo (in LA) and AnimeNorth (in Toronto) provided that i get a table to sell things. if you purchase this buggy spread you also get a set of the following buggy doodles printed in 4x6 as a thank you gift.
mohji
cabaji
buggy
click for a bigger version.
this took about 20 hours to do, spread over an entire week. 4 hours of sketching, 4 hours of inking, 9 hours of coloring, and another 3 hours-ish of finalizing. it doesn't seem much, but planning the layout itself took about 2 weeks and many pages of my sketchbook, since none of the layouts seemed to be working.
will be sold at Anime eXpo (in LA) and AnimeNorth (in Toronto) provided that i get a table to sell things. if you purchase this buggy spread you also get a set of the following buggy doodles printed in 4x6 as a thank you gift.
mohji
cabaji
buggy
Friday, January 30, 2009
5:09:00 AM
-[ MY POKEMANS ARE BETTER THAN YO MAMA'S ]-
click for a larger version.
with the upcoming release of dragonball evolution, i think it's only about time before hollywood produced a live-action pokemon movie.
if that happens in our lifetime, don't tell me i didn't tell you so.
aside from that, this is the first complete colorspread i have ever done (never thought it would be something NOT one piece, huh?). even though the white ink still gave me shitload of problem, i consider this quite a milestone. this was done on an 11x17 piece of paper, planned, inked, and colored with copics over 3 weeks, totaling probably about 30 hours worth of worktime (yes, the rest is procrastination).
this was done as a response to jo's challenge to make my own bastardized version of her poke-paradise.
i think my pokemans can beat the living shit out of her pokemon any day.
with the upcoming release of dragonball evolution, i think it's only about time before hollywood produced a live-action pokemon movie.
if that happens in our lifetime, don't tell me i didn't tell you so.
aside from that, this is the first complete colorspread i have ever done (never thought it would be something NOT one piece, huh?). even though the white ink still gave me shitload of problem, i consider this quite a milestone. this was done on an 11x17 piece of paper, planned, inked, and colored with copics over 3 weeks, totaling probably about 30 hours worth of worktime (yes, the rest is procrastination).
this was done as a response to jo's challenge to make my own bastardized version of her poke-paradise.
i think my pokemans can beat the living shit out of her pokemon any day.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
8:47:00 PM
-[ Hello, my name is e1n and I am a nerdy dork. ]-
In anticipation of my trip to New York and North Carolina starting next weekend, I've been buying warm clothes because everyone kept telling me about how horrible New York weather is and that I might die standing frozen with my nipples erect. My New York friends, on the other hand, have been telling me that it's not that bad, but that's probably because they live there. Because I'm the kind of person who would rather bring too much than too little, especially to a place I've never been to, I got myself some thermal pants, an overcoat, some scarves, gloves, and a hat that should keep me warm.
Being the experimentalist that I am (I'd touch a hot stove to make sure it's hot, and then again to make sure the result is reproducible), I decided to run some experiments to test whether the clothes are warm enough. In a test-run done today, I walked a half-hour walk to the nearest Starbucks in the rain just to get a cup of hot chocolate, and then another half-hour walk back home with the hot chocolate (with an umbrella, of course). It was a little below 50 outside and the hot chocolate did introduce unnecessary error to the data, but the clothes did keep me unnecessarily warm. I'm not that sensitive to cold to begin with (unlike Jo), so I think even if the weather in new york does go below freezing point, these clothes will keep me at a cold level I can withstand.
On a side note, when the outside temperature is low enough that my breath is visible, I notice that I get this irresistible urge to tilt my head up and pretend I'm a choo-choo train. I wonder if people thought I was a retard on the loose.
My dad got me a 1GB and a 2GB microSD card from Indonesia because apparently they were cheaper than milk over there. The 2GB card cannot be detected by my mac, and my PC is currently dead, so I guess I won't be using that one. The 1GB works just fine, but for a brand-new, still-in-the-box microSD card, it was rather surprising to find that it contains 11 random mp3s by different artists, none of whom I have heard of. Does anyone know who Brett Dennen is? His song "Ain't No Reason" that I found in this flash card is actually pretty good. If you're curious, download here.
I took some snapshots of my living room.
Back when I was in highschool, my dad always complained about how I sit in front of a computer whenever I'm not out or at school and how such a lifestyle is unhealthy. It's rather ironic how now that he discovered that the internet can supply him with unlimited amount of classic rock songs, he's doing the exact same thing i was doing 7 years ago.
like father, like son. only it's kinda backwards.
Being the experimentalist that I am (I'd touch a hot stove to make sure it's hot, and then again to make sure the result is reproducible), I decided to run some experiments to test whether the clothes are warm enough. In a test-run done today, I walked a half-hour walk to the nearest Starbucks in the rain just to get a cup of hot chocolate, and then another half-hour walk back home with the hot chocolate (with an umbrella, of course). It was a little below 50 outside and the hot chocolate did introduce unnecessary error to the data, but the clothes did keep me unnecessarily warm. I'm not that sensitive to cold to begin with (unlike Jo), so I think even if the weather in new york does go below freezing point, these clothes will keep me at a cold level I can withstand.
On a side note, when the outside temperature is low enough that my breath is visible, I notice that I get this irresistible urge to tilt my head up and pretend I'm a choo-choo train. I wonder if people thought I was a retard on the loose.
My dad got me a 1GB and a 2GB microSD card from Indonesia because apparently they were cheaper than milk over there. The 2GB card cannot be detected by my mac, and my PC is currently dead, so I guess I won't be using that one. The 1GB works just fine, but for a brand-new, still-in-the-box microSD card, it was rather surprising to find that it contains 11 random mp3s by different artists, none of whom I have heard of. Does anyone know who Brett Dennen is? His song "Ain't No Reason" that I found in this flash card is actually pretty good. If you're curious, download here.
I took some snapshots of my living room.
Back when I was in highschool, my dad always complained about how I sit in front of a computer whenever I'm not out or at school and how such a lifestyle is unhealthy. It's rather ironic how now that he discovered that the internet can supply him with unlimited amount of classic rock songs, he's doing the exact same thing i was doing 7 years ago.
like father, like son. only it's kinda backwards.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
8:20:00 PM
-[ Phantom Hourglass - 007 ]-
Saturday, November 29, 2008
4:24:00 AM
-[ Phantom Hourglass - 006 ]-
