Category: art

art, mobile, nier

Last few months of fanart

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It was an inevitable reality that the world came to a standstill because of the pandemic yet jewels in the junk of mobile games included Nier Reincarnation. I found myself revisiting this artwork over and over again and even now am not completely satisfied with what I’ve made thus far. The above is the latest iteration. Below is one of the first iterations where I went and added in the npc MAMA.

I am still fascinated by all the research I had to do from the hairstyle being distinctively an Oiran’s butterfly based hair to the differences in kimono parts, nagajuban, han eri, eri shin and even learning to handsew in the techniques needed. The teapot being cast iron meant looking into endless amounts of edo and woodblock prints to make sense of what it ought to look like.

I learned the differences in maiko and geiko (what used to be called geisha). I watched so many videos on youtube seeing how the hairstyle is done. And one such video made me cry https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016105/

There’s so much research that goes into making fanart that’s never really seen. But there’s also the fact that covid made tea ceremonies change drastically from it’s historical context. There was legit a day where I made myself dinner and watched this video to tell myself someday I’ll be able to experience a tea ceremony with dancing maiko in person.

The world is finally normallizing, and now Kyoto is on my TO GO TO list before I die. So I can experience the things that video can’t portray, the smells, the tactile feeling of tea cups, the thick crispness of antique silks. Just to know what it’s like to write a story, or rather to feel a story such as memoirs of a geisha come to life.

art, narrative

2022 personal projects

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I’ve made a note to try my best to make a proper dev blog for the various projects I have had going since the pandemic began.

So at the moment, I’ve got two things I’m working on. The first is the continued development for my personal thesis game : Jewel in the Junk, a game based on Naomi’s Road written by Joy Kogawa as a targeted towards children narrative about Japanese Canadian internment during World War II. Now that I’ve recovered enough from the internal injury that prevented me from working on the game to the best of my ability, I can now seriously show more work onto here as well as twitch stream my development process Mondays and Wednesdays. I plan to either link people to my ko-fi on my twitch from now on so that all proceeds can go towards keeping me alive/fed/bills whilst developing the game. That ko-fi is :

The following are some concept art from Jewel in the Junk character art of Naomi to show my redesigns since the quick place-holders I had made for the game when I was in the post-graduate game design program at George Brown College.


The second project I’ve taken on is ‘Legend of the Trihorn‘, a fan manga for Dan Kim’s Penny Tribute. It’s meant to be a whimsical fairy tale set in his universe. Princess Peony was raised as a commoner and one day found a cracked egg that hatched into what some call an Oni and others call a Gate Guardian. The Oni calls itself Trihorn. I will deal with themes of bullying, cultural relativity, post-humanism, food, planetary formation theory, and cyborgization. It’s a really random smorgasbord of ideas.