riotfaerie

14 years. Wow. Happy Birthday, Deviantart! Though, I'm only here for like 8 years but looking back at my first art entry, I could tell that I've been working my ass off to improve.

== Year 1: How it all started ==

So I drew quite a lot of animu stuffs back in the days with a senior from Secondary School, she suggested I try to upload my artworks here. So I subscribed as a different username (can't remember if it's riotfairy, or riotlpfairy.. it's been a while). I don't know squat to how to use it. So I abandoned it for a year before starting up again. To my surprised, DA changed the layout and I find myself more comfortable using it.

== Year 2-3 ==

I found these artists that inspired me to work on something less animu-like drawings. Made by the incredible mero-ix 

     
I was inspired and made me want to work on more solid-like drawings. Slightly realism and slightly animated. After years of following her work, I still cannot compare my works with hers. She was one of my earliest inspiration (and still does!)


== Year 4-5 ==
I soon learn to colour my works, understanding brushes and textures. I have all my thanks to this guy: AquaSixio 

     

This guy give out so many useful and amazing tips with photoshop brushes and techniques! Thanks to him, I am more open to playing around with brushes and textures to create art. Also trying to draw more 'out of the box' style drawings. Also inspired by this incredible artist: vmbui 

     

Her colours and 'mystical-ness' is breath-taking. I just love her brush strokes and the flow of its beauty. I miss her works and I hope one day she'll paint again.

== Year 5-6 =
After years of practicing and playing around with colours, I soon found myself very fond of traditional realism portraits and it helped me understand proportions of face and making them similar to references. I have two people to thank for on that: Cataclysm-X and kleinmeli 

     
by Cataclysm-X 


   

by kleinmeli 

I have such a lovely time learning from these two, who willingly put up tutorials or answer questions whenever I need help. They are truly the best and I learn so much in shading and be brave in drawing with different mediums. You girls have my thanks. <3

== Year 7-8 ==

I'm more of a mix media now, trying out different mediums of art that I could hand on and work on comfortably. There are still so many artists that still kept me inspired all these years and definitely there are new ones too. My artwork consist of digital realism but I've also been drawing comic-style drawings of which I am thankful that they are loved. Here are the ones that helped me work on TaserTricks and also those who helped me break into illustration. I still look up to their works currently.

Illustration-Inspired:

     
by Charlie-Bowater 

     
by alicexz 

Some other Inspiration:

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by Florbe 

     
by burdge 

   
by GraphiteDoll 

And last and not least, my husband's work. He used to take quite a lot of photos and I love them all. Adi have that concept that I never thought of and he could achieve the look when he can (with his condition and all). Here are some of his works I fell in love with:
       


(and yeah, that's me as Lady Loki. <////< )
by Kaza-kaizen 

== Special Thanks ==

To all my deviant watchers who have shown me love and support with my works. Thank you for sharing them and thank you for commenting my works, it shows that there are people who look up to my works. To either laugh at them, cry at them, awed (hopefully) by them. Because of you all, I continue to draw and continue to work on the comics for your (and myself) entertainment. I love you all and here's to many years to come! CHEERS!!

Well, some of you might have caught on what's happening to me on Tumblr and Facebook because I usually update personal stuff there. Anyways, here are some usual updates:

-= NEW HOUSE =-

I've recently moved into a new house given by the government! :yay: So Adi and I have been busy moving out and organizing things to our new home. We have our own 'creativity' room (what I call, Geek room) where I could do artworks and paint and do props and such. We also kept our figurines and posters here. A place of fandom. I love this room. But there are still tons of boxes of stuff we need to unload. =___="


-= COSPLAY PROGRESS =-

I was recently invited by the Kota Kinabalu's HOBBYCON cosplayer Skye Symphonie to be part of a Disney March! I was super excited and was elected as Queen Elsa. Oooh!! I'm so excited! I got all the materials ready and can't wait to work on them as soon as I'm done fixing the house. Here are my cosplay plans of this year:

- Queen Elsa from 'Frozen'
- Rapunzel from 'Tangled'
- Maleficent from 'Maleficent'
- And uh.. many non-Disney related. XD

Though, we have another thing on our way that stopped me from working on my cosplays...


-= THE BIG SURPRISE!! =-

I'm pregnant.

Yep, 11 weeks now and going onto my 12th in a few days. I've visited the doctor and making appointments. The Ultrasound will be on the 19th. Can't wait to see our tiny human! The baby's due 22nd October. :] 

Despite the tiny human growing in me it's not gonna stop me from working on my cosplays. Sure I'll grow bigger but I'm just gonna work on them for fun. A stress reliever. I just hope I could wear them once the baby's out. XD

-= CONCLUSION OF TODAY'S UPDATE =-

And here are the reasons why I barely update my drawings and cosplays nowadays because I get so tired on my most free time of day; the afternoon. I usually take naps now, which I don't do often. Ah well, it's for the baby. XD Will update more.

I know, it's 15th of January. Where the heck was I!?

Well, if you must know, like most Januaries I am busy preparing for my preschool class. Some of you might know that I am a preschool teacher and handling 4-6 year olds are not easy. Especially the school system of my country.

Now, let's get onto the updates, hmmm?

Hey guys, so if any of you guys haven't followed me on Tumblr, you might not know that my artwork have been stolen (stolen art: fav.me/d6mbpnq , original work: fav.me/d4csouj ). If you wanna read up more on the incident, here: hiddlesauce.tumblr.com/post/68…

If you're too lazy to read up, here's what happened:

- Person like drawing
- Person save drawing

So here you are, clicking onto that link in your inbox or simply reaching into my page and stumbled upon this journal.