Heya! It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted anything on my blog and a lot of things have happened while I was inactive. Anyway, I went and spoiled myself a bit this weekend. No, I didn’t buy a new game, I thought I should get something more substantial with my pay and combat allowance (Got an additional hundred bucks in this month’s pay!). With that said, I bought some art supplies! Two watercolour pads, a set of Faber Castell watercolour pencils and three new brushes; unfortunately, I won’t be able to use them this week since I have to return to camp in a few minutes.

I’ve also been rather busy working on the new layout, as you can see from the above attempts. I’m still working on it, haven’t found anything satisfactory though.

I did manage to attend X08 at the Marina Square Atrium this weekend. I wouldn’t really call it amazing, the majority of the games were multiplatform titles with only Gears of War and Fable 2 being the real kickers, I didn’t get to try those though since the lines were ridiculously long. Alisson Carroll, aka the new face of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft was present and I managed to snap some shots of her. I originally intended to get Tomb Raider Anniversary so I could get it signed by her but alas, I do not have the funds to do so.

Anyway, hopefully I can post again next week if I’m not too lazy. See y’all then.

Hm, getting there…

Looks like NOISE Singapore is back again. I was kindly reminded by a neat painting outside Suntec City Expo Center when I went out for lunch with my brother. That wasn’t the only thing though, by complete coincidence, the Comex IT Expo was on! We didn’t buy anything, unfortunately, but I digress. I POP on the 9th so that leaves me more than enough time to come up with something for the festival. I had a few pieces that were shortlisted and even selected in last year’s NOISE festival, one of them being Blush, hopefully it’ll happen again this year!

Aside from the whirlwind of artsy fartsy things, I’ll be revamping the site in the coming weeks(oh joy!), most likely during my block leave. It’ll be a lot cleaner than the current one, which is quite messy. Or it could just be me and my pickiness…I wonder.

ANYWAY, other fun news! My sister is coming to visit me! She’ll be in Singapore for 3 months! Yay! This calls for a Metal Gear Marathon, muhahaha.

Just practicing some vectoring, don’t worry, I haven’t abandoned the Akemi painting–don’t intend to. I might eventually turn this into a design piece or something…and I am using a reference.

Background’s just about done. I’ll start work on Akemi herself next weekend.

Some goodies I bought from Play-Asia! Items include Appleseed ExMachina on BluRay, Ayaka Hirahara’s Jupiter album and a single from The Pillows.

Getting there.I’ll continue next weekend, gotta book in to camp in a few hours.

A work-in-progress.

So I’ve been in boot camp for almost 2 months now. It’s been a really interesting experience–and I’m pretty sure I can write about this, none of it is confidential information anyway. I mean, everyone knows a soldier will fire a rifle and throw a grenade some time during his service! Haha. I missed Company Best Shot by one shot. Missed my very last shot and it was quite frustrating to say the least. Grenade throwing was fun and very loud. Now I won’t be updating unartifex in a while since I’ll be confined for another weekend again for field camp, which lasts for about six days.

Anyway, I’ve made some designs for our company. I’m not sure if they’ll choose them, but whatever, it should be good for my portfolio. So here are the designs I came up with for the Company Shirt and Safety Posters. I really wanted to work on Ammo Safety, but we did a draw and my section ended up with Drinking & Driving instead. Sucks, but that’s life, can’t always get what you want.

Well then, see ya guys in 2 weeks.

Didn’t have much free time the last 2 weeks. Lots of exciting stuff going on in the army, too bad I can’t blog about it.