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Check out the Facelift

December 13th, 2008 § 2

Alrighty! I’m just about done coding the new layout. I do believe all that’s left to finish up are the galleries and the links page, which I’ll get to eventually! You can expect to see the new unartifex completed before the end of the year.

So what’s so new about the new site, you ask? Well, for one, I’ve coded it entirely from scratch for Wordpress. Earlier versions were coded using the Wordpress default template as a base and that was simply too big a pain in the cahooty and I’ve experienced it far too many times to do it again. I’ve also, yet again, reorganized the galleries and brought back my links page. Reason being that I have a few friends I want to plug.

Mirror’s Edge and More!

November 30th, 2008 § 0

Just a quick update before I book in to camp…with a fever and flu! Excellent.

Oh! And look what my sis got for me when she went to Malaysia!

Getting There

November 23rd, 2008 § 1

Time to start crackin’ at my pieces for Noise Festival! Here’s one that I’ve sketched and partially painted. There’s a few more I have in my head but have yet to sketch them out, I’ll try to do so this week if the training schedule isn’t too tight. I’ve also finally settled on a new layout for the site, been coding it as much as I could. It should be done within a few weekends.

In other news, my aunt got me the Yuffie Kisaragi Play Arts figure when she went to Japan! Check her out, the details are pretty sweet.

Some New Supplies & Goodies

October 27th, 2008 § 1

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.

Akemi WIP 4

September 13th, 2008 § 0

Hm, getting there…

Time to make some NOISE, again.

August 31st, 2008 § 0

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.