#[ the artist i'm commissioning this month showed me the sketch today! ]

[diy-fire-water-pups]

(( I feel the need to come here now and ask some people to be more considerate. ))

(( I created this blog for fun on my SPARE time, which is little to none because I need to worry about getting money constantly so I can eat. Not to make it everyone's problem but I literally haven't eaten anything today yet and it's currently 6:30 PM as I'm publishing this post right now. There is food at home but it's just one option, which I'm so tired of eating it constantly for being one of the cheapest things to buy, it doesn't satisfy me anymore and we're just halfway through the month. I don't have any source of secure income and I got four other mouths to feed ASIDE OF MY OWN. I am constantly overworked with my underpaid part time job as English teacher because neither my father or younger brother can help me checking these homeworks or exams, they don't know English language like I do, and I still need to balance that with drawing for commissions, which are the only way I got to get money during the month. My father is too old to get hired for anything. My brother is still finishing college, if only that shit would end their strike to continue classes so he can graduate still this year and look for a proper job, which will also probably take some time, it's not easy to get a job here.

And it takes a lot of time for me to draw and answer the asks in this blog, usually over 1 hour and half, up to two hours or even longer when there's all three pups + something else they're doing or for the background - that is, if I work on it non-stop, because I usually draw a sketch, it sits there for a few days, until I stop again to clean it up and draw the lineart, then wait a few more days until I go and color it to finish and publish the answered ask. I have some drafts with a doodled answer waiting for a week or even two, still waiting for me to finish the art and post them. I'm having fun with these on my own time.

WITH ALL THAT SAID, I cannot afford Magic!Anons that demand for specific amounts of asks to be worked on, no matter how many. You gotta understand it: If I would start the M!A effect tomorrow, the first ask with that effect would show up like, one whole week AFTER or so. It just does NOT work here. Besides, I have some stories going on in the blog, like this entire thing about Marshall's incoming deafness, which took me what, let me see... Two weeks and half since I replied the first Anon who started it and it's still not done completely yet. I still got another interesting story to start and entertain you all with it, this other one has been waiting sitting in this blog's drafts for literally ONE MONTH now. I'm not gonna interrupt them with side effects.

If you want to dare my pups to do something funny or silly, that's cool! But it'll go for only your dare ask and that's it. I'm not gonna disturb other asks or RPs. Magic!Anons are to be fun and short and sadly I do not have the time to have anything going on for too long like that, not when it's something that changes appearances, or whatever like that.

I am not mad, or angry. I'm just asking for consideration. I am an exhausted and probably currently underweight old artist who just wants to have fun and have some food to go by every day. I'm not a tireless art machine. I'm doing this for fun, every day I wake up I'm glad to have started this askblog and see how much you guys enjoy it and enjoy my portrayal of these pups we love so much, it always makes me smile and feel like I can do some more and keep going, despite all things being against me. But sometimes I need to be firm and say no as well. I have my limits.

Thank you if you read this far. And please, don't ask who was it or what happened, I don't want anyone going after who tried to push this specific M!A here. They're a very nice person who just happened to insist on something I said no before, and I do not condone people attacking others on someone else's behalf, as much as your intention is to defend someone, that's just shitty attitude!

Let's go back to this blog's usual business, shall we? Though now I gotta get back to checking those exams answers, Idk if I'll get time to draw any other reply for tonight, maybe past midnight. I still need to stop and get up to go eat, ugh. ))

[harpidiem]

Howdy all! Just wanted to say that I'm opening a Patreon! If you'd like to see a bunch of sketches, animations, writing, concept work, and character designs I don't post here, plus illustration and comic processes and finished work before I post here, you can directly support me over on my Patreon for $1 a month. I'm in the process of adding things, but I'll have plenty to show soon enough. Plus, you can directly ask me questions there as well, anything you'd like to talk about art wise. This will help support me when I can't take on commissions due to my job, and allows me to create more of what I love. Thank you for your consideration!

[despairforme]

[paulngxk]

[Production] Space Documentary

Scoring a documentary film, heck yeah!

This were my last few days of the internship, and my boss had something else in mind.

Apart from Campus Magazine, he is also an independent filmmaker on the side and he has been commissioned to produce a space documentary that features a rocket launch with Singaporean art pieces sent into space. It was also the same documentary during the filming day shoot that my colleague and I helped out to be in-charge of location sound, much early on during the initial part of my internship.

My boss knew that I had background in film composition as my field of study, and he offered me the opportunity to compose the opening theme of it, to which I've excitedly agreed to his proposal.

As of today, the actual rocket launch has yet to take place, and neither has the interviews been fully recorded. The only piece of visual material that I had was a sketch of the introduction scene (I unfortunately do not have the permission to show it here), with a set of stitched-up scenes consisting of the rough feel of things and timing changes.

In terms of my artistic direction, I was going for a trailer-ish or opening theme aesthetic, since that was the intended use for this piece of music. My boss wanted things spaced (pun intended) and minimalistic, so I had to keep things simple and sparse-sounding, all while maintaining my personal artistic identity as the composer of this piece of work.

I am really excited to be given a chance to work on something that is part of my main field of practice during these 3 months, and it's a good switch of the daily in and outs of podcast production work. I feel that I did put in my best effort for this piece of work and I'm happy with the end result of things.

I've wrapped things up with my boss, and I look forward to composing the rest of the parts well after the end of my internship :)

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This documentary is currently in the production stage, and work on it has been ongoing for awhile. While I'm not able to provide the final outcome or video due to the nature of the incomplete filming and editing of this documentary, I am however, only able to demonstrate what has been done on my end at this stage of the ongoing production.

As filming and editing continues, reiterations and edits would have to be made in the future, but for now, this is what I have on hand:

Godspeed Opening Theme (1st draft)