Birthday Party 4 : Narrator and Phantom (English)

 Birthday Party 4
Narrator and Phantom

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Finally, i used my blog 😂

    For this year I well present you my two other character and that is Narrator and Phantom!. First of all i wanted to say I'm sorry that the writing have to be moved to this blog so that it will not fill the post in my social media. Usually if I start to write on something I always write it very long, and I'm sure that not everyone will read it 😂. So I was having a thought to move all those description and behind the scene to this blog. I wanted to say thank you for everyone that has send their congratulation for me either with direct message, creating a post, and even giving me a gift to me. Also big thanks and shoutout to my friend Ken @potaken_ (Instagram) that has taken me outside to celebrate my birthday. You are the best friend I ever had!

                        (Art about Me, Mira, and Ken eating together)

And Shoutout to my Big Sister Snowcat (Instagram).  She have worked really hard and fast to be able to send her gift to me. She even forced herself to went out from her usual comfortable zone. I mean she have went a great distance to draw a dragon when she's only used to draw human. So big applause for her for drawing the dragon. The result is really amazing!

She draws my character Xeno!!!! my big cute dragon that has a soul like a little child. I must make his own blog that explain how adorable Xeno is. Of course i've responded her gift with another art.

Yea, maybe Xeno doesn't look cute at all. But for real, in the story Xeno does indeed felt like a little child. He's always so happy and really playful, also likes to do pranks. I really can't wait to make his own blog.

    Everyone means a lot to me no matter how small it is. A congratulation itself is already enough to make me happy. I'm already happy by people remembering my birthday, let alone saying it. Not everyone can receive this kind of response, and those that says congratulation not necessarily get a congratulation from other people too. So I'm really... really happy for everyone. I pray for everyone that I hope everyone lives will go smoothly, will be given a good health, and an abundant fortune.

    The reason of choosing Narrator and Phantom as the spotlight for this years is because both works behind the scene. By that i mean because they rarely show up and they both works in the same area. They work inside my body. Both also do not have a physical body so when they both show themselves up they use the power of imagination that can make them interact with the environment and can act like a body in general in that universe. The two characters have an interesting background story. I wanted to write it here with along with my complaints and thought that appears during the process of the drawing, but then I thought it would be better to separate them in a different blog. Because i knew it's going to be a long write. Once you start writing, you just can't stop it haha. The following is an explanation of both character that has been written in this blog :

Narrator The Nightwing

Phantom The Seawing

    Since I've bough a pen tablet from my close friends Ken I've never use the pen tablet as how it should've been used. From the that time I've bought it the first time, it's usage is only for doing my excercise and report where instead of writing it in the paper and then you scanned them in order to be upload at the classroom or v-class, you do it directly and digitally. A few weeks has passed after i bought it. Ken always ask me about the pen tablet and how was my impression about it. And I can only answered that I only used it for college purpose for now 😂

    The first time this pen tablet is put to use is when i create a Background for a short and cute animation of Kuruga and Rioro that is helped by Ken. The character is owned by @Daaon1989 (Twitter, beware NSFW) that is from a doujin called "In The Ice Dragon Cave" (氷牙竜の洞穴にて). I was so obsessed with the Rioro character because of her Big Sister personality and also her very cute appearance especially when Kuruga called her Cute, the expression is so priceless Aaaaaaaaa!!!. I can't even stop thinking about her for a days 😅. I really want to be hugged by her... 😚

    I've taken some inspiration from @torihasiden (Twitter) for my art, especially the coloring. The tutorial from his Pixiv Fanbox is so different from what I used to do it. The coloring and the detail even is so far from mine, and it didn't event match at all. But I kept on trying to apply it and adapt the coloring style to my art and the result is wow!!!..... It's so different from what i used to make 😆. My art style suddenly changed, the shading becomes smoother, and the dragon head can finally be shaped according to what i wanted it to look like. Before this it cannot be done by flat shading because it's a bit hard to shaped the volume on the art itself due to the usage of only two color and that is the base color and the shading color. Or maybe it's just a skill issue in my end 😅. Seeing the result of my creating makes me feel happy and proud of myself because the art became so good and it matches my expectation. The drawing process is also fun because on that moment there's a pleasure feeling because you can see the line suddenly it looks good and you just "Waaaa!!!! It matches and it's good!!!". I even cannot just stand idle and always update my status in media social about that, days after days i always update my status about how good that art is haha, although it's only text because i don't want to spoil it yet until today. i just can't do nothing about it. For real, that Phantom his Seawing form almost or maybe indeed matches the original shape, and Narrator with the head shape too, it's like it's not square and stiff!. So the next step is to figure out how to create detailing of the scales that i know it's really hard and going to take a lot if time for that dragons.

    Oh yea, this art is also my second art after the Background in the previous paragraph that uses drawing app. Before this i always use an animating app to draw. Although the feature is easy to understand and it's really simple, turns out it can't a few things that I wanted to do. I do still remember the anger that Ken gave when he found out that I've been drawing using my animating app, so i've started using my drawing app again after I've got my pen tablet. And so the process is.... really good, i like it 😂. The power of drawing software is really strong!. I'm so sorry for the past me to have doubted you huhu. This drawing should've been done fast, but because i was fighting with my sister over my pen tablet we have to take turn on using it.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and so sorry that i have a lot of things to talk about for only one art. Because of that, in order to not filled my post in the social media I have put all the description and the behind the scene into this blog. And yes, it's really long as you can see 😂.

    Once again thank you for reading until the end of the page, and Thank you for the congratulation!