Dear Chibi,

Back again for a progress update on my journey through the SEA battlenet  ladder. A few weeks ago, Season 1 concluded and during the lock-down period, I played a bunch of games with hopes to improve my division rankings (You can get a pretty star and wings on the icon). I was quite pleased with what I achieved (well..apart from the 4v4 bronze division which I regret I ever played :p)

Since then, the ladder was reset which meant we needed to complete 1 placement match in order to be placed on the ladder again. Surprisingly, I was promoted up a league in most of the matches :D

As of 17.04.11

I’m really happy I finally made it to the Gold league from rank 100 in Bronze. I have been trying to improve, watching my replays, watching streams and reading forums. Now to stick around here and slowly improve on my mechanics :D Sadly, most people on my ‘friends list’ don’t play anymore.. so I guess I might play more random team games. I wonder if I’ll be able to make it to Masters in 3v3? XD Pushing my luck here, but it is possible. I played a game today where a player was in Masters in 3v3, but Bronze in 1v1…funny aye?

GLHF :)

Dear Chibi,

Yay! I’ve finally completed my latest digital painting.. a portrait of Hong Kong singer Charlene Choi (Twins) which I named “Chocolate Princess” :) I started this a week ago and spent about 25-30 hours on it total- pretty crazy huh? I based this image entirely off a reference image- so nope, I didn’t make her up. Maybe one day I’ll be good enough to paint without a reference (though that will be super tough!)

This artwork is my personal best so far so I hope you like it too!

Special thanks to Maki who gave me a crash course on how to blend colours yesterday (when the painting was almost done! haha). I was having a lot of trouble blending colours and it gave me an idea of how to tackle it (though I didn’t follow it exactly, I adapted it to my own style) You can compare the difference with the 2nd picture above with the one below.

Close up of the finished painting at 100% scale.

My favourite parts: Her eyes, her hair with the melting chocolate and the left side of her dress
Most difficult aspect: Her face (in particular her lips), painting/blending skin tone and colouring her dress

Final comments: The fur on her back was fun to paint (though very tiring since I drew every stroke)
I like how she looks in the end, except her face is slightly more chubby than I’d like (it looked thinner in previous revisions but in the end the lighting made her more round.. and I couldn’t fix it, haha)

Dear Chibi,
This is just a little progress update from my previous Starcraft2 blog entry. Recently I started playing in 3v3 random teams to see what it’s like co-operating with strangers. I won 1/5 of the placement matches and landed in Silver (I will never forget the horror of my “allie” who was gas stealing off me >_>) . However, just after 2 days I was promoted to Gold with a mere 11win-12 loss ratio~ O_o..err yay!

Today I end up playing a few more games and got promoted to Platinum! lol
Current Ratio: 26 wins-17 losses, Rank 40.

It sure is a lot easier to climb the ranks in a random team than with friends~

Dear Chibi,

Yesterday I completed this piece of fanart for K-TVB.net, featuring Wayne Lai and Sheren Tang from TVB series  “No Regrets“. I love being able to portray characters in this doll form and I’m pretty happy with how they turned out :) I love Sheren’s distinctive look and she was quite a lot of fun to draw.

Embarrassingly, the last time I updated this sketch blog was almost a year ago. Sadly, the reason is that I haven’t drawn anything since then.

Dear Chibi,

Today I got promoted to the Silver League in SC2 Battlenet, yay!

Just a little progress update from my first Starcraft2 Placement match :)
Current 1v1 stat: 33 Wins/26 Losses

Dear Chibi,

Since getting Starcraft 2, I’ve been playing plenty of it every night. Jacky bought me a really really awesome gaming headset- just look at this monster =D I love it so much ^^ I will make good use of this :)

I haven’t entered the league yet though, as I’m really inexperienced playing against humans. I usually play against computer AI, where they behave in a somewhat predictable manner. Humans are devious though, you really don’t know what they’ve got planned up their sleeve. Nevertheless, I do intend to finish my placement matches one day and get into it.

To be placed on the ladders, we first have to complete 5 placement matches. Depending on the wins and loss, they’ll rank you according to your skill level with other players. The 5 levels are: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. Burpy is currently in Platinum,  Marcus in Silver, Mark and I unranked.  So far I’ve played 2 matches, both against players who were from the silver league. I lost my first one against a Terran last week, which left me feeling a bit depressed since I didn’t think I’d lose the first game. So I waited for a week to recover and finally played my second match this morning. This time it was against a Zerg player, and thankfully I made my first win! It was a very very very close game. I was so nervous and scared because I had made some terrible choices which left me pretty vulnerable in the end. My entire base was wiped out, while I was wiping out the opponents. Luckily I had one SCV escape so I ran and built a supply depot on the other side of the world. Because of that one structure, I survived longer.

What have I learnt? These games are tough regardless what others say. Hopefully one day I’ll not worry so much about losses and concentrate on the wins. There’s some cute portraits I want to get, and the only way to achieve them is by winning!

I am looking forward to entering the league in some team games too :)

This will look prettier one day!

Dear Chibi,

Oh look, my Starcraft 2 game arrived today! yaaaay :D

I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 multiplayer over the past 4 weeks, using various guest keys from Mark & Burpy to try it out. I didn’t buy it when it was first released since I hadn’t decided if I’d like it enough to buy. I’ve never bought a game before so it’s all a little new to me (spending my cash on games feels out-of-character :p) I think it was a pretty good decision since I managed to get it for a pretty good price (bought it online from JB).

As soon as I received the freebie guest pass, I jumped straight into Terran multiplayer and confused myself. Where’s my medics? Why does everything require vespene gas to build? ahah.. I mistook the ‘time’ icon as a ‘gas’ icon so I was sitting around waiting to build a refinery before I can build a supply depot. Luckily, after a few games, it all came back to me :D

Starcraft 2 lagged a lot when I first played because my computer couldn’t handle it. So I had Jacky reformat my computer one weekend and saw that it was working much better! However, my computer was still not up to scratch so he ended up giving me his whole computer xD To enhance the co-op game play, I asked him to get me a headset which I was told should be arriving soon too. yaaaay….all just to feed my Starcraft addiction ;D I feel spoiled

Time to activate my account!
PINK POWEERRRR!