Besides the busy academic year, I still have my passion on anime drawing and carry out continuous practice on it. Pixiv, is the largest creative sharing platform in Japan, just like deviant art. The genre is slightly limited to only illustrations and gif, but generally in high quality and have an effective comment system. I had my pixiv account 5 years ago and make consistent posts of my own anime work. I know that my target audience of my anime drawing is the asian artists so I only upload them to these kind of website but still showing a bit of them on my website just to demonstrate this skill.
I keep trying different drawing styles and technique in my anime drawing from the 'traditional' 2D look to one layer painting. I slowly finding the aesthetic I enjoy and develop more with that. What I enjoy uploading my work on pixiv is I gain some serious comments instead of just good work or nice. People gives good advices on the way to paint or where to improve therefore I enjoy this social network a lot.
I think there is a big market for anime style in Asia so I am not abandoning it. There are monthly comic con events in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan and some of my friends asked me to join and obviously I said yes! Mostly of my anime drawings are based on existing anime characters but I still love to create my original characters. I want to practice more anatomy as well as colouring skills through these anime piece which can be beneficial when coming up character design for a project or any other commission work.
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