First Cosplay Photoshoot Experience

Published on August 8, 2011 in anime and manga and cosplay. 4 Comments Tags: , .

I always wanted to participate in Cosplay events, and hopefully dress up as one of my favorite characters. During our cosplay photoshoot last May this year, I was able to cosplay two characters. The official release of the Cosplay photos is today, and I’m very excited to show you guys and gals the results of my club‘s combined efforts.

My first character to cosplay was Erza Scarlet of Fairy Tail with her Samurai outfit, then on the same day I also cosplayed Ishida Uryuu with his school uniform. Here are the official released photos:

I really had fun! It was a blast even if it was a tiring day for me, considering my nocturnal self I didn’t sleep to be able to go at our HQ 6am sharp. I don’t regret being awake for almost 48 hours, and I’d surely do it again next time!

Urge to draw

Published on March 1, 2011 in art. 1 Comment Tags: , .

I had a sudden urge to draw at 3am today. I know I wouldn’t be able to sleep if my hand is itching that much to do something, so I did give myself a favor and started drawing.

It’s another attempt for a realistic style, but I guess his hair needs the most improvement. I finished this around 6am, I do need to sleep so I was lazy or too tired to finish his clothes (I did this after my work). Anyway, hope you like this drawing done with my Wacom in 3 hours. Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Code horror

Published on February 9, 2011 in ramblings and web design. 2 Comments Tags: , .

I know I’m not the best coder out there, but I always try to have my code to as semantically correct as possible and to be always valid on the Doctype I’m using. It is how I was trained by my master on my first job as a web designer.

Then, suddenly my html/css code — my baby turns into an ugly monster in the hands of others. Ugly monster? How?

  • semantically incorrect horrible
  • crazy margins and paddings
  • inline CSS code on the html mark-ups
  • reliance to !important CSS overrides
  • even the code’s crazy indentions

Call me crazy but I do treasure something I code, it is like an artwork to me, and to be that horrible quite disappoints me. And to be unable to do anything about it but only use CSS !important to overwrite such code really kills me.

I do know that there is a CMS being used, but I know developers of such CMS developed some flexibilities for this. Of course they’d want to showcase pretty websites both in and out which are using their product. I did search for websites using the very same CMS, and they are fabulous both in looks and code. You get the idea.