Happy New Year!

Hey everyone~!

It's another New Year ahead of us, huh? XD As far as I'm concerned, I'll be making my official post as of January 4, 2011 next year. I just stopped by here to greet you all a wondrous Happy New Year.

Yeah, I know...I haven't been online for almost two weeks now, and this is my latest update. But what can I say? This is life...I don't have any other choice either *laughs*

And that is due to my Internet connection. Hopefully...next year it will be good, for sure. ^^

Okay, I'm just here in an Internet cafe to post this and update on some sites. Before I take my leave, here are the following manga updates for this month. ^^

Pandora Hearts Chapter 56: Rabbit Eyes

I'll see if I can do a small summary for the chapter next year *giggles*

That's all...

I've posted the updates for Kuro 52 already so I'm done for the year.

I hope everyone celebrates New Year happily!

See you all next year~

YAY! XD

Another post for this month! Oh well, I'm just lucky. For the next few days I won't be online anymore. Or wait, I take that back...I'll go online but I'll definitely not post here in my blog...So...consider this post a long one for everyone out there. XD

*cough*

.... AT LAST! I finally got my hands on the Vampire Knight Official Fanbook!!! I AM SO HAPPY. 12/19/2010 has got to be my best day ever + spend some time with some of my friends from Hero TV Forums :D And last Friday, I also got VK volume 11! As a Christmas gift that came from my mom! o: Thanks thanks thanks. XD I know it's not directly said, but these two manga have just really made my December even brighter. *sparkle sparkle*

I opened it yesterday afternoon. Goodness me, I'm just pretty excited. At least I was able to control my excitement for 24 hours straight XD

And no, no new fanfic updates. All the fics I started are not finished yet XD Even the Gundam 00 one is still on the making. XD

Right at the moment I'm making myself busy with drawing since I am already using a mechanical pencil. XD I rarely go Photoshop now because I'm using my laptop at my room and it's hard to color a picture if I'm not lying down *shiver*

Oh, I tried to re-color a certain Pokemon Gym Leader from Sinnoh XD The colors turned out good anyway so I don't have much problems with it. The only thing is, took me a while to finish it D: So hard nya-su~

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Oreburgh Gym Leader Roark [recolor]

And we have new updates from the manga side too! We finally have Kuroshitsuji chapter 52! Raws are out and so is the English translation. I wasn't able to catch up to the raws because I didn't go online Saturday evening *is devastated*

Here's my apology: DL link to the English scans of Kuro 52! ♥ THANKS TO SPACECAT AND TEAM! :D (DL link - credits to spacecat and Black Butler Forums ^^)
Kuroshitsuji chapter 52: That Butler, Sailing
Or if you want to read it via MangaReader, here: Click!

So there... I don't know when I'll be back though, but like as always, keep in touch, and advanced Merry Christmas to all!

Not-so-last update...

I know you guys have been expecting a lot here in my blog, but this time, yes, hands down please. I'll be postponing my Internet days for the course of the Christmas season. Although I leave my best friend to pilot my Plurk account, it's just sad to think that I might be absent until the end of December. D:

I have two Vampire Knight OCs done within the past two weeks. :D

Vampire Knight OC
Vampire Knight 2nd OC

And I also have a bunch of new Photoshop works. BTW I'm now uploading them at my Photobucket account from here on.
So, enjoy~

Syaoran Li (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Kamui Shirou (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Red Will of the Abyss
Ronald Knox
Jin Kisaragi (LOL I love the color scheme of this one. XD)
Fate/stay night OC: Mielech Clarize Atlasia (based on Sion Eltnam Atlasia)
Kuroshitsuji: The Queen's Secretarial Officers

Whew, that was a mouthful XD At least I made up the updates before I will be officially logging out for an entire week. Hopefully by next week I might bring in my laptop to school again...I guess. XD

As of this week I'm still addicted to Macross Frontier nonetheless. XD And that's because I watched the movie again last night before going to sleep...It's making me really decultured and I LOVE IT. XD Brera Sterne in Super Robot Wars: L is just loooooove. XD But the sad thing is, he joins in during Stage 38?! Aw man, that's pretty late for a support unit o:

Heeeere's a video of VF-25 Messiah (Alto) and VF-27 Lucifer (Brera) combo attacks. AWESUM ENDING~

That pic above came from the vid. I just PrintScreen-ed it XD It's just plain epic that I can't even look away from it.

*worships Brera Sterne* XD
And hopefully I'll be back to being a Gundam 00 fanatic by Christmas. Perfect, I need to create a fanfic involving Gundam 00P characters Grave Violento and Hixar Fermi :D And after them, it's Tieria's turn....

So that ends my post this week. Happy weekend to everyone! ^^

How to color manga panels!

Okay, so...I know this is weird, but yeah, this is my first time to actually do a mini-tutorial on how to color manga panels. Me myself, I just Google-d it XD

So here's how I do it. ^^
Of course, all of you out there pretty much have a Photoshop program installed, right? You can also use GIMP, but I'm setting GIMP aside since I don't have it. XD
Open PS, and once you opened it, open the manga scan that you wish to color.

Now that you're ready...

1. If the manga scan is in PNG or in Grayscale mode, set it to RGB so you will be able to fill in with different colors. Set it to Image - Mode - RGB Color. But if it's already in RGB, no need for further changes.

2. Here are my options for good coloring: Linear Burn, 64% opacity.
- First off, create a new layer. You need a new layer above the manga scan so the color will not fill the lines.
- Above the Layer panel on the right side, set the type to Linear Burn and the opacity, drag it all the way back to 64. That way, the colors will have a vibrant feel even though it's dark. :)

3. Pick the exact color and click the Brush tool. Pick the best brush or else you'll regret it in the end. XD

and last but not the least, color in! But be careful...too much coloring can give you handcramps for sure. Me, meh, I've got one the first time I tried (coloring Ronald Knox gave me that, aw man XD) but I got used to it until now.

Enjoy the coloring! :D

Updates! :D

December 5, 2010, 11:52 PM

Gah, net was soooo annoying the past few days. I didn't manage it so I became too lazy to browse around. XD

Oh well, updates are here! But sadly, there's no new manga chapter updates yet, so I'm providing everyone tonight with colored manga scan updates.

And I will make another post for the first chapter of my Zettai Kareshi fic, Fate and Destiny.

For this update, I will only post the links for the pictures since I'm too lazy to crop some of the pics for the preview. XD

Sara Shirabuki
Yes, she's one of my favorite VK characters. And she's a pureblood too! Awesome! XD

The Discovery
LOL this scene in this very chapter. I love Takuma's pose there so so much. *fangirls*

The Will of the Abyss Lineart
I happen to stumble on this pic somewhere in the 'Net. The original picture has no colors at all, and this one is an alternative color for Alyss. ^^

and

Where Are You?
The menacing question is asked by Xerxes Break himself. It only means one thing: Break knows that it's not the real Oz. Perhaps. XD

By the way, I watched Matantei Loki Ragnarok earlier, and I got addicted to Yamino, Loki and Hel again, like I was before. I'm so nostalgic, the last time I watched this series is when I was still 3rd year high school? WOAH. XD
The pic above is none other than Loki, the (of course) God of Chaos in the Norse Mythology. No wonder I also loooooove Norse Myth. *roflmao*

Yosh! I'm going to post the first chapter of the fic now.
Tomorrow night will be the second...I just hope net is well by then