Ed & Ecchi mentioned

recap: Ed & Ecchi is a short 40 pages comic in full color I did last year. It is published in Best New Manga 3, which is a 512 pages full color book, that can double as a blunt weapon, featuring short stories by various comic creators.

There's a few reviews of the book floating around. Here's some of them that mentioned Ed & Ecchi by name. Follow the link for full review of the whole book:



The Buffalo News : Entertainment
Thursday, February 26, 2009

The strongest stories are haunting and sweet, particularly Paul Harrison-Davies’ “My Robot” in which a sad-eyed robot toils to serve his cruel master, yearning for some simple appreciation and affections, and Shari Chankhamma’s touching “Ed & Ecchi,” in which a stray cat leads a double life to provide comfort to two very different masters.

http://ladyrhian.blogspot.com
Friday, January 23, 2009

"Ed and Ecchi"- A young man in a society ruled by cruelty and bureacracy befriends a small cat he named Ecchi. But will the cat be his salvation from the cruelty all around him?

Bookgasm

Shari Chankhamma goes for a painted look in the post-apocalyptic “Ed & Ecchi: Me and My Food,” starring a guy and his cat trying to remain happy while it’s all CHILDREN OF MEN-y outside.

Sad news is that there won't be new issue for BNM this year (and possibly thereafter). I don't know if I will ever get a chance to have full color comic published again, considering the current economic climate, but I do have plans for short stories that take place in same universe as Ed & Ecchi, (like 'Straight on Till Morning'). Maybe one day I'll be able to release a compilation of them in one form or another. Wish me luck!

Quicky quicky

some quicky I did for fun in between work.




probably work more on this later


done in painter, have done anything in painter for awhile.


something different, total time under 1 hour.

Hot Hot Day

I have been neglecting comic, in favor of spending my time trying to find out the way to do color illustration that I most enjoy.

I have always like rougher style but it is hard to achieve for me, how can you leave it rough but also looked finish? I envy anyone who able to pull that off with ease. To me, it was a conscious struggling effort, but I tried.


Click for bigger view on Da.

WIP~

Sexy Trap!

Josou Paradise (女装パラダイス） is a Japanese tv show that take highschool boys, put them in woman's clothes and make up, and (later) going around fooling people. It's fun, it's wacky (like most Japanese tv shows wont to be) and addictive, I watched all I could find on youtube, which wasn't many, but still manage to steal half a day from me...

... and inspired me to draw this.

(check it on DA for bigger size and also stroke my bruised DA ego, thanks!)

WIP aroo!

World is mine!

I'm learning Japanese, as a result, half of my rss roster are Japanese blogs (both in English and in Japanese) and I'm rediscovering all the wacky Japanese things. One of them is the obsession with Vocaloid girls (and one boy, apparently). Vocaloid is basically a synthetic singer program, but Miku (and the rest of the character) are more than just application mascot, they are idols in their own rights. Miku even came in at number 2 on the daily album of Japan’s national music sales charts, selling 20,000 copies in first day, and this is despite (or perhaps, because of) the fact that mp3 and video clip are freely distributed on their official site.

My current desktop, I actually didn't changed my desktop wallpaper for a year, can't bother since I never really get to see it anyway, but the power of Hatsune Miku can't be resisted.



I have been listening to this song on loop, my brother hated me very much.



一番おひめさま！　あっ！

Photoshop fun

I'm bouncing back and forth between traditional and digital media, there's no law saying that you have to stick to one right? I like being versatile, even at the cost of mastering either of them slower than usual :)

First one is not quite photoshop, I did the ink with copic brush pen 'BS' (which I refer to lovingly as bullshit pen XD) and screentone and lettering with manga studio, yes, I still have that thing. I barely use it anymore tho.



Text inspired by David Malki of Wondermark fame. It was spontaneously sprung up in his live drawing session on ustream. David Malki fast became someone I admire. When I first reading Wondermark, I had wondered (no pun) what set this apart from other cut and paste sprite webcomic? The answer? The brain behind it.

Now on to photoshop fest!





(don't mind the text, I was just goofing around. yes, I started studying japanese seriously, after years of just thinking about it)



One thing I was thinking about a lot, Quality VS. Speed. Yes there's people who can do high quality comic page with shortest amount of time, but the true is, even pro of a pro themselves need to sacrifice some quality for quantity. (looking at Sincity family values) The question is, how much can you sacrifice, how much can you get away with it and not wanting to burn them all later when you look at them again. I doubt I will find answer until I just do it.

also, from the out-of-no-where department: My loot this week

Zouichi, I love you, please marry me, let's make synthetic baby together!