Sunday, December 1, 2013
Spock(ism)
I just made it on a whim, kinda cute I think. And I just had to use green as the background colour, lol
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Before Going to Work
About the theme, it's Mamoru (a.k.a Darien in English version) before going to work, and Usagi (a.k.a Serena) give him a little peck as a farewell.
I colored Mamoru first, and when I realized it, he had too dark colors, so I ended up coloring Usagi with a brighter colors. I think I need to watch more about mixing colors, I sometimes forget about it when I'm preoccupied with coloring.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Gunslinger Girl
I’ve just
finish reading Gunslinger Girl manga, truth to be told I don’t really
understand exactly the main plot because the complexity of it, but I did get
the overall problem.
Let me tell
the story in short; this story was take place in Italia, there was an
organization called Social Walfare Agency that was created by the government to
(mengurus) the terrorist. This Agency remodeled the kid victims that was not
curable or in the brink of death with some prosthetics body part, making this
kids (mainly girls) a cyborg with strong physical and flexibility. These
cyborgs were paired with a grown up man (also called ‘handler’), mostly those
who had some military or police experience, which was called fratello, Italian for siblings. As the
story progressed, the main enemy of the government was known as Padania.
The story
centered on how these handler-cyborg’s relationship and their reason to join
the Agency while they were trying to fight the Padania’s guys.
So, about
the genre, action for sure, sci-fiction of course, and beside of all that
gruesome scene, the story was very good. The relationship of each handler and
cyborg (I don’t what to call the girls) had its own specialities. The main
characters were Henrietta-Jose, Triela-Victor, Rico-Jean, Angelica-Marco, Claes-Raballo,
and on latter chapter there would be Petrushka-Alessandro.
Clockwise: Rico, Henrieta, Angelica, Triela, Claes (Appearance in the first season Anime)
With their respective weapon
From all of these pairing, I love Triela and Victor pairing the most, I think it was because the way Triela acted and how Victor’a action toward her. From all of the cyborgs there, I think Triela was the most not affected by her conditioning, since she said whatever she liked to Victor, though she wasn’t disrespecting him. Oh, conditioning was some ‘upgrade’ to the cyborg, but whenever the conditioning was done, it would affect to the cyborg’s life span and could cause memory disoriented. This conditioning caused the cyborg to ‘love’ their handler unconditionally, though the way they express their ‘love’ ware different with each other.
Back to Triela and Victor, I don’t know what their relationship exactly was, I guessed it was guilt that turned to care. Hmmm, I can’t really put a word to their relationship, but I guess Victor saw ‘hope’ in Triela’s life and he wanted to protect it. 
Triela with Victor
Triela was seldom shown using this shotgun-sort of like weapon
About their personality, Triela was like a big sister for other cyborgs in the Agency, the other seemed to confide in her and Triela liked to care for the other cyborgs too, like visiting Angelica when she was in the hospital, taking care the problem when they wanted to watch a meteors shower, and some else. She was considered mature despite her age in the story, and like I said before, she seemed not too affected by the conditioning, she liked to argue with Victor (a little rebelling him I guess), sort of sarcastic, and liked to do what she liked. I guess she was the most ‘normal’ among the other looking by her action towards her life as a cyborg, and I think because of this aspect that I first fall for this couple.
Volume 10 Manga Cover
Victor’s full name was Victor Hilshire, he changed his last name from Hartman after joining the Aggency. He was carringfor Triela, though I really don’t know if that was from guilt or heart, but I think it was from heart since he had disobeyed orders twice to save Triela, when on the ambush in Bell Tower in Vanice and when on the ambush of Giacomo Dante in final story. He even went on a mission alone because he afraid of Triela’s condition since she showed the effect of conditioning. He had no sense for kid since he bought Triela man clothes and always gave her teddy bear as present (though the teddy bears became some sort of collection for Triela), but he was a really kind man and couldn’t really express himself through words.
Their dynamic was great, before I said it could be guilt leading their actions, Victor for making her into a cyborg, and Triela because of her he had to join the Agency. But I think after their episode when their past was revealed, they reach some sort of understanding and they came to care for each other.
I get it from Googling, such a nice duo
Overall,
Gunslinger Girl was a really good, heart-warming story. Actually I watched the
anime first before reading the whole manga. I heard about this manga, seen the
manga sold, but had no desire to read it. I stumbled with the anime one day and
decided to watch it. I guess I was hooked from the very first episode, haha. I
wished I bought those manga when it was sold, because when I searched for it
now it was so damn hard to be found and I ended up reading the soft copy. I
realized the more I read this story, the more I wished these cyborg children
had a normal life. They deserve it with the hardship they had gone through, but
that was just not possible and they had to life being an assassins for the Agency.
I guessed it was really fitting with the slogan: “The girl has a mechanical body.
However, she is still an adolescence child.” A bit chesy, but fit in.
From left to right: Petrushka, Henrieta, Rico, Angelica, Triela, Claes (Appearance in the manga)
Really like to rant more, but I guess it's enough for today...
Saturday, July 13, 2013
God, the Background....
Just finished a drawing from my favourite couple, Usagi and Mamoru (or Serena and Darien in English version). Done in two days, completed with a stiff shoulders and neck -probably because of the position of my chair and table, thinking about need a new one. The main characters are not that hard to draw actually, deciding the background is what took the time, since I'm not so good with that thing. I decided to use a simple background, using pastel as the base and brown for the word. Kinda pathetic actually, spending 3 hours in photoshop just to create the background, then decide that it was not good and toss it, again and again. Where I finally just choose for a simple one like this... I really need a practice for drawing background...
Friday, June 21, 2013
The progress....
Life’s been boring. Same activities, little changes. Tough it’s not the case with writing. So many ideas but don’t know how to write it, getting stuck in that point kinda annoying.
I’m on the way writing my first series story, but the idea of one shots just keep popping. Hope to publish by the end of this month *crossing my finger*.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I miss it...
It’s been long since I opened ms.word for
other reason other than assignment… Truth to be told, I miss it. I had so many
ideas to be written, and the only writing I can get is only on my head… I just
hoped this semester will pass fast…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Another Day, Another Story
So, I just came back here and decided to rewrite this page.
About my self, nothing new in there. Just the same me, with the same old way of thinking, the difference now: 'I am matured'
Life was just the same like always, moving slowly with the thought that tomorrow, there might be something new. Wishful thinking...
I'm not some bitter person or those who didn't appreciate life, infact, I tried to make the best of it. I was trying something new every week, so that maybe I could break this cycle of repetition of life.
Life was just too short to live, why spent it with the same thing again and again?
About my self, nothing new in there. Just the same me, with the same old way of thinking, the difference now: 'I am matured'
Life was just the same like always, moving slowly with the thought that tomorrow, there might be something new. Wishful thinking...
I'm not some bitter person or those who didn't appreciate life, infact, I tried to make the best of it. I was trying something new every week, so that maybe I could break this cycle of repetition of life.
Life was just too short to live, why spent it with the same thing again and again?
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