Also, I was able to get an kick ass image of Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy 7 thanks to Nobody. Thanks bro! The style is something to aspire to. Check out the image below, it is a rather large image in real life.

Friday: The A-kon I love.

Friday was a pretty mellow day with a average amount of people present.(closer to the number of people I expected to come to A-kon) It’s actually the day I took most of my images. The main events of this day was the panels I attended. I ventured into a panel of Tips on Digital Coloring and a panel on the History of UDON. The Digital Coloring panel was presented by Lori of Pandora and Allison Strom. Even though I knew how to do most of the things they showed us, it was still an entertaining panel. The Udon panel on the other hand was something closer to nirvana. The entire thing was done by Jim Zubkavich even though it was suppose to include Eric Vedder and the awesome artist Joe Vriens, but as Jim put it, they got stage fright. I find the history of Udon particularly interesting because it started as a collaboration of different artistes brought together because of there dedication to art and getting the job done when it was requested. The founders saw this and decided to make this venture into a business. Every time Udon gets a new job they go to in house artistes or in some cases, request artistes from new walks of life. An example of this is in the book “Street Fighter Tribute”; an art book to commemorate 20 years of Street Figther which includes over 200 drawing from professionals and fans from all over the world. The panel reminded me so much of what I’m trying to accomplished here is Allugic. Well, more on that at another time. Needless to say, this day made my whole year and the information received from the Udon panel gave me a better understand of where I am going in life. Saturday on the other hand….

Saturday: OMG EPICWINZ LOLWUT AMICOOLYET GUYZ??!1?/

So as soon as I step into the convention I notice the place is full. No, I mean REALLY full. This was probably the most packed I’ve ever seen A-kon and this is coming from someone who’s been going since 2003. Actually, I expected it to be more packed on Saturday but it well over exceeded my estimates. Interestingly, considering the cosplay contest took place on saturday and the population was much larger, one would expect that were the day I got most of my images. Nope. Early in the day, I went to another panel by the same ladies who did the digitaling coloring. This one was over autonomy in anime. Again, I did not learn anything new but it was entertaining. Udon was doing another panel but it unfortunately ran at the same time the cosplay contest did. So Eagal Skull and I made the decision to just go to the cosplay contest. (bad fucking idea) To put it simply, we should have went to the panel. After the cosplay we waited around to attend the Misfits of Comedy panel. Essentially a who’s line is it anyways clone but with more adult jokes. As the time came closer, we decided to find the room and get in line for it. Once we arrived we were surprised to find the line was already pretty long, we hopped on and other people began to arrive behind us. Ho-o-ly shit, were these people annoying. How so you say? Every 5 seconds they yelled out random internet memes. As a matter of fact, that whole Saturday was pretty much one giant 4chan gathering.(particularly /b/) Hearing “BUTT SCRACHAAA!!!” every gwad damn corner I turn was only funny the first time I heard it on Family Guy. But despite all of this bullshit, the comedy panel was golden and made up for all the tards present that day.

As I mentioned earlier, I wasn’t able to attend Sunday but Friday was more than enough of an A-kon to satisfy my year. This year I had a new camera to record and take pictures with. It is a Sanyo Xacti Full HD Cam. It is able to not only record in Full HD but also take pictures. Now keep in mind, it is an cam before it is an camera.(I suck at accomplishing both) Without further ado, here are my choice of 10 images I liked in no particular order.

Very cute girls dressed as Pokemon.

Haruhi Suzumiya and her slave in action.

An extremely cute Vanille from Final Fantasy 13.

An amazingly done Sazh from Final Fantasy 13 There was a lot of final fantasy cosplay this year.

Awesome Daft Punk cosplay.

Master Roshi from Dragon Ball. There was a surprisingly large number of Dragon Ball cosplay as well.

Two guys cosplaying from a famous SNL skit.

A freakin awesome Speed Racer cosplay.(particularly the girl)

A top notch Rocket Man cosplay. I Wish I could have gotten a better shot from the back, if you know what I mean.

A very gorgeous Morgan from Darkstalkers.

It would have been great if the whole weekend was like Fridays cosplay but it wasn’t. As of matter of fact it got pretty damn bad. “How bad was it Dre?” you ask? Well take a look at the image below.

Yeah…….I have no comment to express the feeling of fear this image gives me. I really hope this isn’t the direction A-kon is going in.

Over all, I had a good time. I met wonderful people, hot girls, old friends and new products to enjoy. I’m just going to mentally block out all the negative stuff that happened and hope I don’t see it again next year. (please don’t happen again!!! PLEASEEEEEE!!!!!)

Oh yeah, I do have some video footage recorded, I may upload them on Youtube or something if I feel like it.

The details of the project are as followed:

~The project is essentially a pin-up gallery.(18+ Sorry kiddies, I’ll do something for you next time)
~The project will feature 5 different girls with their own unique tendency for being a tomboy.
~There will be 3 different images for each girl making it a total of 15 different images.
~The first 5 images are meant for intros, so they were constructed with dressed and undressed version. The rest will be singles and/or alternatives based on the images content. I will still attempt to meet the original 30 image quota.(I also plan to include random sketches of the girls I do as increments)
~The final project will include full size resolutions (400) of the images as bitmap.(or something else, I don’t know, which ever format is most popular)
~Yes, the project is not free, it will cost BUT it will be cheap. The price will be released upon completion of the entire project.

I will show one image from all the girls here so you can get an idea of what to expect. Here is the current list of all the girls.

The project will be on sell at eng.dlsite.com and on my website as well. Since Dlsite doesn’t take too kindly to full nudity, it will be censored there. I’ll look into ways of getting a patch or something so everyone can enjoy the images the way I intended them to be. Lastly, EVERYTHING I JUST MENTIONED CAN AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE! Don’t hold me to anything written here, this is something I do in my free time so life can and will get in the way.

As in Allugic 7.0 in it’s beginning, this theme will go through adjustments so that it may cater to all of us at Allugic and all of those who visit. I have big plans for my next projects (once I finish the game LOL) and I know the others have plans as well.

Well, what do you think of the theme change? Does it catch your eye?(eye organism?)

still work lol

I made this web page from tutorial site and I have fun making it
This is photoshop only lol(made this 2 weeks ago)

Hey guys, sorry for post images so late. School kicking my ass already lol
i have three test this monday(sucks AHHHHHHHHHHHH)
Anyways, just for being so late, I’ll add a random video…..YAY! for randomness. And NOW….I’m going to bed
Laterz!

This change won’t effect me personally, I still will more than likely update at the same rate I have in the pass.(or the crappy rate I’ve been doing in the pass month or so, damn you game programming!!) But eventually I will adjust the site to compensate for the new authors and some time after that, a complete site change. The ultimate goal I hope to reach with this change is a multimedia hub for artist and creators. Buuutttttttt I’ll hold back on that future for now; the present is Allugic is now more than one person!

Ok, with that said, a bit of update on the game. Unfortunately, I ran into a bit of a programming problem………again…….BUT!!!!!!! I will be pushing myself over 9000 to fix that shit right after this update so I can get started on the art work once and for all!!!!!! Yeah, yeah, I announced this game ages ago and it was suppose to be done last year-ish but dang nabit, shit doesn’t always work as smoothly and variable-less as we’d all like.

So, in return for your (continued) patience….

RANDOM VIDEOSSSS!!

Let see where to start….I had a talk with Dre and he offered me an partnership job. When I heard this offer, I was like %$&ing HELLS YEAH!( Ummm…sorry,excuse my bad language). I know Dre since high school. I had P.E class with him but I didn’t have art classes with him like EagleSkull. During my high school years, Dre introduced me his animez that I didn’t know they exist. I’m addicted to anime because of Dre, not in a bad way. Also, Dre got me into art because I saw some of his artwork which caught my attention. I was impress by Dre’s artwork. If it wasn’t for Dre getting me into art, I wouldn’t be here. I did research about anime and other styles, so I practice drawing anime and taking art classes in high school. I have fun drawing anime and other styles. I noticed my style is differ than Dre’s style. Dre’s style is more ecchi and comic style. My style is more focus on fantasy with a pinch of realistic look(working on it) but still anime. In media, I have experience with adobe Photoshop, corel painter, illustrator, painting(still getting used it), and color pencil.

I am glad to be part of ALLUGIC community

Thank you!

So as a new member and a multimedia artist, not all my post will be anime related. Also my art style is different from Dre’s. Where his work has a comic and ecchi style, my style is more dark and grimy. I guess that’s it for now, lets see where things take us.

Here is a link to my DA account if you want to see some of my past work. http://eagleskull.deviantart.com/

For example, I have 99% of the design for the game RSX[Spice] completed; I’m roughly 80% complete with the core gameplay. Once I have that all set up I could get started on the main artwork and it’s all click, drag and copy from there. But I haven’t. I haven’t looked at the game for a while now, and I don’t understand why!!!! It’s not as if I’m in a particular hard spot, a simply google search would assist me in programming difficulties, but I can’t stay focus!!

I understand the impact of having this game completed and released to masses and what it would do for Allugic, but most of the time I can’t even bring myself to open the damn program. What the hell is wrong with me? This is the stuff I love to do; this is the stuff that brings me the most joy; why can’t I focus?!?!

Well, I’ll try and figure this out on my own, but if you care to give me a word of encouragement or a pep talk, please do. In the mean while here is a rough out line of the game completion.

Game Design: 99% (1% for add ons down the road)
Gameplay: 80%(roughly)
All Artwork 19%(very roughly)
All Sound/Music 9%(this could become a problem)

Sorry for such a shitty december. I know this lack of updates is nothing new but I really wish I had the time (and off days) to get some shit done.

Good news is, I got some cash this christmas cause I’m the spitting image of a “starving college art major”. I have roughly 3 more weeks til school starts for the spring and I plan to quite my job soon if I can help it.(I won’t be jobless, I plan to find another)

Um……I have no proper ending to this update…………………………………….that’ll do pig, that’ll do.