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Archive for May 2012
When I dropped my early comic idea for this blog, most of my posts lacked original designs from then on. I've posted a few short comics but they weren't enough for me. I wrote some reviews and even posted some random videos just for the sake of making this blog more...alive, so to speak though I did enjoy writing the reviews. I had a project of making a 10 to 20 page comic book with a friend but alas, it didn't came to reality as there were loads of technical difficulties and time problems. I had my part time job at the time while my scanners and laptop were completely annoying and unhelpful. In the end, I lost the script due to reformatting. Oh, I saved most of sketches and files in a hard drive. All but ONE and it had to be that script. The project was called Hipter Stan. A hipster who works on the moon.
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It was meant to be a dark comedy/science fiction/action genre...it could of been epic you know. Now, me and friend ditched the supposedly hipster fashion of wearing huge glasses, having funny moustache and the scarf around their neck. I was thinking about making him having a nerdy look with hairs combed to the side. Stan was an ignorant person who doesn't tolerate well with other people's opinions and in the story, he met other versions of himself from different universes.
A version of Stan from a universe that was on the verge of war. He's the one who made the Stans capable of meeting each other from multiple universes due to his gun.
Some of the possible looks for the Stans.
Before Hipster Stan was dropped, while this project was still in the writing process, I did sketched a few short comics. Unfortunately, they're not much but I plan to do more, Insya Allah.
Dragon Ball paradoy: Still Standing.
Mission: Bond, James Bond.
I am somewhat of a perfectionist and I tend to make sure my stories are epic. I often write my stories half way and dropped them because I thought they weren't epic enough for me. I forget that I'm still learning; still in the rookie phase of writing and drawing; a newb, so to speak. So, this time, I went all out random! I sketched random shapes, gave them eyes and mouth; put in a straight forward and simple plot and done, out came Riley! Yep, that's the title of the comic and Alhamdulillah, I can finally post it. Now, the purpose of this comic is for constructive criticisms; to improve my writing and drawing capabilities and I hope once you've read it, you can tell me what you think. You can comment on this post or email me at Faqihin_Rules@yahoo.com.
My Hipster Stan partner also finished his own short comic recently and here's the link: Haxorxor on DeviantArt
Well, this is just part one of my short comic, Riley, but I hope I'll get to post part 2 soon, Insya Allah.
Some behind the scenes pictures of how I spend my time sketching. Most of the time, I would take a laptop and one of my Transformers figure for inspiration.
Of course, I would listen to songs to keep me passionate while drawing and recently, I've listen a lot to Assassin's Creed Revelation's scores. "You have earned you rest" is my favourite. About that toy, I know it seems weird but quite frankly, I do get distracted a lot. I'd often draw for 3 minutes and start to hallucinate my ideas, thinking about my personal problems and so on. Looking at it just keeps me focus for awhile...somehow. Yeah...weird..haha.
And here's the link to my short comic: Riley Part One
You have to download though because I think posting all of the sketches here wouldn't click somehow. I think it would just be easier if you download it. Don't forget to give me your opinions, okay? Again, comment here or just email me at Faqihin_Rules@yahoo.com.
Salam and have a good day everybody!
Dragon Ball paradoy: Still Standing.
Mission: Bond, James Bond.
I am somewhat of a perfectionist and I tend to make sure my stories are epic. I often write my stories half way and dropped them because I thought they weren't epic enough for me. I forget that I'm still learning; still in the rookie phase of writing and drawing; a newb, so to speak. So, this time, I went all out random! I sketched random shapes, gave them eyes and mouth; put in a straight forward and simple plot and done, out came Riley! Yep, that's the title of the comic and Alhamdulillah, I can finally post it. Now, the purpose of this comic is for constructive criticisms; to improve my writing and drawing capabilities and I hope once you've read it, you can tell me what you think. You can comment on this post or email me at Faqihin_Rules@yahoo.com.
My Hipster Stan partner also finished his own short comic recently and here's the link: Haxorxor on DeviantArt
Well, this is just part one of my short comic, Riley, but I hope I'll get to post part 2 soon, Insya Allah.
Of course, I would listen to songs to keep me passionate while drawing and recently, I've listen a lot to Assassin's Creed Revelation's scores. "You have earned you rest" is my favourite. About that toy, I know it seems weird but quite frankly, I do get distracted a lot. I'd often draw for 3 minutes and start to hallucinate my ideas, thinking about my personal problems and so on. Looking at it just keeps me focus for awhile...somehow. Yeah...weird..haha.
And here's the link to my short comic: Riley Part One
You have to download though because I think posting all of the sketches here wouldn't click somehow. I think it would just be easier if you download it. Don't forget to give me your opinions, okay? Again, comment here or just email me at Faqihin_Rules@yahoo.com.
Salam and have a good day everybody!
Alhamdulillah,
this is my second post labelled 'Book reviews' and I really don't do a lot of reading. I'm trying to get use to reading since my ambitions involves creative writing. I believe that you have to get inspirations from many resources; relying only on television isn't much of a good idea. To be frank, I feel really good about myself because I don't read a lot of novels and to finish this one which I've spent more than a month is really satisfying. I'm a pretty slow reader you know and I bet if I would to tell a regular book enthusiast that I spent a month reading a 300 page book, they would laugh. By the way, here's the first post of Book reviews: Comics (DMZ Friendly Fire and World War Hulk)
I stumbled upon this book's wikia about a year ago and the main character's design fascinated me. What makes it more fascinating is that there's rumours that there's going to be a movie adaptation of it and so, with those two facts bearing in my mind; I bought the book. It was sort of serendipitous--well, not really; spontaneously stumbling Mumford and Sons's Sigh No More album was serendipitous because I tried to looked for it for 3 years. They're not popular in Malaysia so it was difficult to find it. I found this book when I was working at MPH Bookstores and since I get 20% off as a result of employee discount; I figured, why not just buy it? So, the story is a combination of detective and magic though I didn't felt much of the detective part. It felt more to a "secret magical society living in our modern world" kind of plot. Did that made sense? I hope it did. Maybe it's just me but the story definitely focus more on explaining the secret magical society's history rather than emphasizing the crime solving. The story starts with an adolescent girl who got herself involve in a secret world when she investigates the curious death of her uncle. Stephanie Edgley met Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking skeleton with good taste in fashion and highly mannered, while sticking up her nose in this awfully dangerous world and thus, causing them to be good friends. In my opinion, this book focuses more on the magical world's history. Don't get me wrong, they are plenty of investigations going on but with the Faceless Ones and The War being told; it just screams out history to me. To know more about the Faceless Ones and The War, buy the book! It's good--I mean, I don't read a lot of novels but it kept me reading; that proves something, doesn't it?
What I love about it though is the main character, Skulduggery. He's the kind of character with a vast vocabulary and manners; a fine combination of making a gentleman. I love smooth talking characters, they look just so cool and fascinating to me. They could give low IQ villains a hard time understanding them with their choice of words. Plus, it makes you sound more intelligent! He's also funny. He makes intelligent jokes which I always choose over slapstick and dirty ones.
Another character's appearance that caught my attention was Ghastly Bespoke. Now, I didn't saw a picture of him before I read the book. After I read it, he's description was sort of weird to me. A man who had a boxing background thus leading him to have a strong upper body strength; big arms and muscular all over. But be that as it may, he chose to be a tailor instead. He's background and physical appearance is quite a weird one. He's face is said to have many scars; an unpleasant sight to be seen. But official artworks of him didn't click with what I expected. So, I made a sketch of my own.
I admit, Ghastly's appearance is quite hard to execute and this sketch of mine didn't satisfy me. Instead of scars, I gave my version stitches. Seeing the movie adaptation of him would be fun to see how they made him into reality.
Now the question for me is will I buy the next book? Well, of course but not now. I'm going to college soon so I need to save money. Besides, I have loads of other things to buy and so I guess, I would probably buy the book next year. Thankfully, this book wasn't a waste of money and I give it a 3 out of 5 for a good read. It's the first instalment; there are loads of story introduction in which I presume the next books should be good with it being build up.
Lately, I haven't been posting sketches of my own design a lot but now, alhamdulillah, I've finished part one of my short comic! :D
I'll post it soon, Insya Allah and I'll be hoping for some constructive criticism.
That's all for now, Salam and have a good day everybody!
this is my second post labelled 'Book reviews' and I really don't do a lot of reading. I'm trying to get use to reading since my ambitions involves creative writing. I believe that you have to get inspirations from many resources; relying only on television isn't much of a good idea. To be frank, I feel really good about myself because I don't read a lot of novels and to finish this one which I've spent more than a month is really satisfying. I'm a pretty slow reader you know and I bet if I would to tell a regular book enthusiast that I spent a month reading a 300 page book, they would laugh. By the way, here's the first post of Book reviews: Comics (DMZ Friendly Fire and World War Hulk)
I stumbled upon this book's wikia about a year ago and the main character's design fascinated me. What makes it more fascinating is that there's rumours that there's going to be a movie adaptation of it and so, with those two facts bearing in my mind; I bought the book. It was sort of serendipitous--well, not really; spontaneously stumbling Mumford and Sons's Sigh No More album was serendipitous because I tried to looked for it for 3 years. They're not popular in Malaysia so it was difficult to find it. I found this book when I was working at MPH Bookstores and since I get 20% off as a result of employee discount; I figured, why not just buy it? So, the story is a combination of detective and magic though I didn't felt much of the detective part. It felt more to a "secret magical society living in our modern world" kind of plot. Did that made sense? I hope it did. Maybe it's just me but the story definitely focus more on explaining the secret magical society's history rather than emphasizing the crime solving. The story starts with an adolescent girl who got herself involve in a secret world when she investigates the curious death of her uncle. Stephanie Edgley met Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking skeleton with good taste in fashion and highly mannered, while sticking up her nose in this awfully dangerous world and thus, causing them to be good friends. In my opinion, this book focuses more on the magical world's history. Don't get me wrong, they are plenty of investigations going on but with the Faceless Ones and The War being told; it just screams out history to me. To know more about the Faceless Ones and The War, buy the book! It's good--I mean, I don't read a lot of novels but it kept me reading; that proves something, doesn't it?
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| It's too sketchy, don't you think? |
What I love about it though is the main character, Skulduggery. He's the kind of character with a vast vocabulary and manners; a fine combination of making a gentleman. I love smooth talking characters, they look just so cool and fascinating to me. They could give low IQ villains a hard time understanding them with their choice of words. Plus, it makes you sound more intelligent! He's also funny. He makes intelligent jokes which I always choose over slapstick and dirty ones.
Another character's appearance that caught my attention was Ghastly Bespoke. Now, I didn't saw a picture of him before I read the book. After I read it, he's description was sort of weird to me. A man who had a boxing background thus leading him to have a strong upper body strength; big arms and muscular all over. But be that as it may, he chose to be a tailor instead. He's background and physical appearance is quite a weird one. He's face is said to have many scars; an unpleasant sight to be seen. But official artworks of him didn't click with what I expected. So, I made a sketch of my own.
I admit, Ghastly's appearance is quite hard to execute and this sketch of mine didn't satisfy me. Instead of scars, I gave my version stitches. Seeing the movie adaptation of him would be fun to see how they made him into reality.
Now the question for me is will I buy the next book? Well, of course but not now. I'm going to college soon so I need to save money. Besides, I have loads of other things to buy and so I guess, I would probably buy the book next year. Thankfully, this book wasn't a waste of money and I give it a 3 out of 5 for a good read. It's the first instalment; there are loads of story introduction in which I presume the next books should be good with it being build up.
Lately, I haven't been posting sketches of my own design a lot but now, alhamdulillah, I've finished part one of my short comic! :D
I'll post it soon, Insya Allah and I'll be hoping for some constructive criticism.
That's all for now, Salam and have a good day everybody!
I've just notice something; I haven't post anything labelled 'Experimental Character' (EC) for a while. Since I've dropped 'Nurul Shakira', I guess I completely forgot about it. Alhamdulillah, I did manage to post some short comics but they're under the label 'Shorts'. The original concept of EC was to share you guys the development of my characters; sharing how they started out and where did I get the inspiration. Then, I would post short stories of them. Well, I don't think I would want to continue posting short stories of them but I do, however, want to share the development of a few characters...just for fun :D
A friend of mine once reminded me that sharing ideas can make them better by knowing the opinions of others and so, I'll continue doing EC. Besides, I feel sort of guilty because the past three post of mine didn't had any of my sketches =/ ....man, that's not good.
And just for the sake of making this post longer :p
...here's the first post of Experimental Character.
A friend of mine once reminded me that sharing ideas can make them better by knowing the opinions of others and so, I'll continue doing EC. Besides, I feel sort of guilty because the past three post of mine didn't had any of my sketches =/ ....man, that's not good.
And just for the sake of making this post longer :p
...here's the first post of Experimental Character.
Sort of creepy, don't you think?
I also had this idea of how I would practice writing creatively by writing something new and random once in a while. I would take two different things or person and combine them; trying to come up with a story or characters that's original as possible. Sadly, I haven't done that. So, I guess, posting EC is also a way for me to improve my creative writing. Yay me! :)
The sketch above is a combination of Adventure Time's Jake the dog and Ron Weasley. I'm not sure if it's obvious enough for you but the clothes are based on Hogwart's students attire while his face was inspired by Jake the dog. Jake had a shape shifting ability; he's body would expand and grow as if he was made from rubber. So, yeah, I guess, the guy above is made out of rubber...I think =/
It's still in the brainstorming process and yes, the thing he's holding is sort of like the snitch. Figuring out his personality is not the best thing to do now because I'm not sure how would I want the plot goes. I prefer to figure the plot first and then I'll start with the characteristics. For now, let's call him Tom. The next sketch it's not good though, I was in a rush but hey, it's still in the brainstorming process. I'll improvise it =)
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| I think this by far, the worst scanned sketch I've posted here . Sketching Tom wasn't enough to spark some ideas for the plot and so I drew this guy...a bald midget =) dude, that's so meannnn -__- |
He's not suppose to be short though he is suppose to be bald. Again, I combined two random things and after I drew Tom, I decided to draw something for the first two posts I see on 9gag. The first one was a post about a Pokemon game which I'm not sure which one. I noticed that the Pokemon's name was Rassilon and so I googled that. It turns out he was a villain of some sort from the show Doctor Who; a time lord who, for the namesake, uses the power of time. The second post was a cosplay of Lord Voldemort which was pretty good. Who would've known that you could find decent inspirations from a website like 9gag huh? Let's call the guy above Professor. I imagine him being a mad scientist who had just discovered time travelling through the combination of Science and Magic. The Snitch looking thing that was on Tom's hand provided the magic while the Professor's glove somehow uses the snitch's powers to open time portals. Oh yeah, the glove is actually a remote to control a satellite that opens the time portal. How did Tom turned to rubber? Should this be a dark comedic story or a serious one? Well, this is part of the fun! Share your thoughts please and give ideas that's entirely different from mine if you want! =D
Salam and have a good day everybody!
