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Software Developer and Artist gives thoughts on AI Art

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Drawing your Favourite Manga: Attack on Titan

I’m still really enjoying drawing quite often, so I’ve done some more. Around 6 years ago I asked for suggestions for what to draw next here, and I’ve only just started working on them recently. I don’t think this was actually a request, but at the time I interpreted it as one, and drew it anyway. So thank you to The Spooky Redhead, who is amazingly still blogging like me. I think she must be…

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My Pokémon Art Academy Drawings

Around 9 years ago I received Pokémon art academy for Christmas and did some drawings for fun. Now I’m starting to get into drawing seriously, I thought I’d show you what I did, plus one bonus drawing I did on paper. Ditto This is the strangest ditto I’ve seen by far. He looks like he’s going to chase you and melt you in his goo. Froakie I think rather than drawing his eyes like normal I…

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Drawing your favourite manga: Shiki

I am still learning to draw! This time I’m going with the horror manga Shiki which was suggested by Moyatori again 6 years ago. I am trying to get through all the requests, I can’t just throw them away! I’m not sure what pictures Moya was hoping to see, but as this is a horror manga, I’m assuming people are coming here for some crazy pictures, so I’ve steered away from normality as much as I…

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Everything I drew in November

Since I started drawing three weeks ago I’ve drawn 20 pictures, but only released half of them. This is my chance to show everything I have drawn in order to hopefully show the progress I’ve made over the month, and explain what I’ve been doing. I have drawn so many different things: Blue Lock, Frieren, Death Note, One Piece, Gandalf, Cartoons and Cats, I hope there is something here you can…

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How I am Studying Pronunciation for Mandarin Chinese

As a learner of mandarin Chinese, I only tend to practice what I feel I actually need to know. For example I’ve never encountered a situation where I needed to write a single word of mandarin Chinese, so I’ve not really practiced writing very much at all. The same is true to a lesser degree with speaking. As I live in the UK, I’ve not really had any motivation to improve it. Recently though,…

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Drawing Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer!

I’ve been drawing like crazy recently and feel I’ve made great progress since I started two weeks ago. I can really see my improvement in the page. I’m trying to get through all my old manga requests. This time it’s Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, which was requested by Zainou when I drew Astro Boy here. Sorry for being 6 years late, I hope it was worth the wait. Normally I only draw 3 pictures…

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Drawing One Piece Characters

Since I’m now getting into drawing in a big way (drawing most days) I thought I’d ask my friend what character they’d like me to draw for their birthday. They requested Chopper from One Piece, having read the series a lot I was more than happy to oblige! Chopper Chopper – reference image This is the reference image I used, I’m not nearly good enough to draw this well yet, and I am trying to…

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Drawing your Favourite Manga Badly: Death Note

Not demoralised by the quality of my last set of drawings, I’ve decided to act on my ongoing old promise to complete drawings for any manga that anyone asked for. When I span the randomiser it landed on Death Note which was suggested by Moyatori in response to one of the first drawing posts I made here. That was an unbelievable 6 years ago, sorry for taking so long! Why upload my bad drawings…

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Drawing your Manga Badly: Blue Lock

That’s right, I’m bringing back this long forgotten series where I draw your favourite manga badly, because I can’t draw it well! This time I’ve chosen Blue Lock, as it’s my own favourite manga, but I will be revisiting all the suggestions I got before in due course. If you have any drawing requests please let me know! Isagi – Don’t you dare mock football! This image is iconic in my mind for…

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The best advice can be found everywhere

Nothing that I will say here is new or original, just very easily ignored. This is, as the title suggests, things that everyone knows anyway. The kind of advice I’m talking about is that you should eat healthily, exercise regularly and stay active, get sunlight, maintain a good sleep schedule, see friends regularly, reduce screen time etc. All of these things are really important, but it feels…

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I saw Count Binface Live!

Last week I was lucky enough to meet the intergalactic space warrior Count Binface at his show in Sheffield! For those who don’t know, Count Binface is a UK politician, who is also an alien from the planet SigmaIX, come to celebrate democracy, and put Earth on the star map. I’m not joking about him being a politician, the UK allows for anyone who meets their requirements to run for parliament,…

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Brother Sleeping on my Top Bunk English Lyrics 睡在我上铺的兄弟歌词

This song is widely considered to be a classic, iconic in its own era, yet it was written in just an hour. I found about this song when my favourite band Escape Plan (逃跑计划) made a cover of it that was so mysterious and amazing, I had to listen to it so many times in a row. They really made it their own, to a point where I wouldn’t even put it in the same genre as the original, which I don’t like…

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Outsider to Outsider: Reflecting on Camus’s Absurdism in Manga Form

I have always valued the opinions of outsiders, sometimes even more than those with actual knowledge. They tend to have a unique perspective because their opinion is just their raw beliefs, uninfluenced by those around them. When it comes to Albert Camus, I am also an outsider. I have not read any of his works or researched absurdism. But since I value the opinion of outsiders so much, I thought…

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The 4 Ways you can Understand any Sentence in a Foreign Language

When you are learning a language it’s all to common to encounter a sentence that you can’t understand, but translate can’t seem to understand it either. Maybe it’s a complicated word or grammar, or a concept that you just can’t understand. Don’t worry this guide is here to help. Here are the 4 ways you can understand any sentence. 1. Find the foreign language definition This is likely the most…

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Is this love? Escape Plan 逃跑计划 English Lyrics

This song is the opener to Escape Plan’s first album World (世界) and I feel it sets the stage quite well for the whole album. It noticeably contains a lot of English already, which is possibly why I’m the first to translate it, but I feel it is interesting enough to be worth writing about. It’s only four verses to translate so it didn’t take a long time either way. Music…

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Duolingo: A Game-Changer for Casual Learners, But a Trap for Fluency Seekers

Duolingo turns language learning into a game, for better or worse. It has changed dramatically since my last review so an update is definitely in order. As I know Chinese already I was dragged against my will into dove into the Japanese course using Chinese as the native language because why not take advantage of my existing knowledge? The Positives That Still Remain Brilliant Addictive…