RYUISON

Tako luka

2011-06-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

Horrified at myself for not posting anything in such a long time.. >_< not that many people anticipate much from here =D ahahaha... *stares silently at a wall*

B for Ball!

2011-04-04T07:03:00.000-07:00

It's April already! Starting an Alphabet Series.. A-Z in fancy fancy drawings. This beats my handwriting any day =D

Campus Alpha

2011-03-01T07:11:00.001-08:00

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Part of our promote Campus Alpha Campaign we focused on places where the campus alpha courses (www.campusalpha.org) could be run. After getting our hands on a cup of coffee we decided that it would be quite nice to draw onto the cup and have it posted on our facebook page. (www.facebook.com/alphamalaysia)

The Orb Eating Dream - Morbid Dream II

2011-02-08T21:52:00.000-08:00

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Came down with a bad flu last week and one particular day I had a terrible dream about a dimension where orbs eat orbs. I was a coloured orb and I had to consume other orbs or I would be devoured myself. That was the sole purpose of the orb, to devour so as to avoid being devoured.

After 'eating' all the orbs, more like sucking the life out of them to power yourself, I was the only orb left in the darkness of space...

Then. It restarts. I'm surrounded by orbs again and the devouring starts. This time I'm eaten. A different orb wins.

Then. It restarts. I'm surrounded by orbs again and the devouring starts. This time I win.

Then. It restarts.

There was no way to break out of the loop that seemed to distort time, trapping me within my own mind.

When I awoke, I was half in the dream. My mind searched desperately to consume something or someone. A bad storm raged outside and thunder strikes were unbelievingly loud. I sincerely thought that I was going crazy. Trapped between dream and reality.

I hope my next morbid dream would be less dangerous.

Bottom note: Oh by the way, my friend told me that my dream resembles an iPad game. I reassure you that I have never played or heard of such a game and the resemblance in completely coincidental.

Monochromo Sketch

2011-02-08T06:48:00.000-08:00

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Wanted to try out lots of new stuff so it may not be my best drawing.. I always try out new stuff any ways so it goes without saying. I do however think that it looked waay nicer on paper.. WAIT! *goes off to experiment* Right! So I decided to use the original paper for the background instead of the big blobby messy background I had before. If you want to see the lousy 1st version, its on facebook. But only the background is different. I wouldn't even bother checking.

TAKO LUKA+

2011-01-13T01:15:00.000-08:00

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Painted something on a paper fan for my good friend as a present =D Quite happy with the end result!

Evolving sketch

2011-01-02T04:28:00.000-08:00

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I really love the process of creative evolution. I should coin that term! But yes, let me explain what it is. It is where you draw without planning, to just draw and keep adding and adding until finally you get the finished product without the intention of drawing it in the first place. This particular drawing is unique to me because the finished product has a definite shape unlike my other drawings where a whole bunch of unrelated stuff are vomited onto a page in a doodle like manner. I couldn't have done it without my handy brush pen either =)

Peace out

Radioactive Graveyard of Televisions

2010-12-01T06:03:00.001-08:00

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-Radioactive Graveyard of Televisions-

"In a section of the dump would exist a pile of televisions. Secluded and forgotten. A faint glow from the few unbroken screens providing the only illumination in the dark. Flickering like flames on candles."

I'm sure anyone reading this could come up with something a hundred times better than my lousy literature. People who draw well rarely write well and vice versa. Unless you are one of the few talented ones out there. XD

I have a feeling I would enjoy colouring this in.. It's all drawn in Pen by the way, except for the radioactive symbols. Those are in pencil.. Nice to have a pen drawing once in a while!

Bookmark completed!

2010-11-21T06:37:00.000-08:00

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My 1st drawing with my new tablet! XD (The previous signature one didn't count as it was a fraction of the drawing)
The edge of the axe is still a bit rough, every time I saved and opened the file I would lose quality XP My layers were quite messy too. Not bad for a first try I would have to proudly say! =D

Special brushes are GREAT! made a huge huge difference to the backdrop. Still need to experiment more on that...

Graffitii name tag

2010-11-21T06:29:00.000-08:00

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1st drawing completed on my new tablet! =D Recently bough one but hardly had the chance to use it so I decided to just finish off half my drawing so that I have something to post.. Looks familiar? (refer to previous post) Yeaps! It's the right part of the bookmark! I tried imagining what it would be like if I made this my official signature for everything, signing credit cards, names and letters. XP I'll be sticking with my boring old signature for now..

Orion's Belt

2010-11-18T09:53:00.000-08:00

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I know I said a while back about not posting about my personal life but this was a very exciting moment for me.

2AM - I felt an urge to get out of my clammy room and onto the balcony to get some air. The sky was amazingly clear that night and I spotted a few stars from constellations that I would NEVER have expected to see in KL. The ones that caught my eye were 3 stars in a straight and tight line formation. Thanks to a small 'stumble' (internet surfing add on) I came across a site which allows me to set my location and time to be able to see a virtual night sky and the constellations that it contains. Using this handy site I was able to name stars and constellations that I could see with my eyes and with the help of a pair of binoculars.
Here are the constellations and stars that I was able to see in KL:

Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak from Orion's belt
Betelguese from the constellation of Orion
Aldebaran from the constellation of Taurus
Procyon from Canis Minor
Sirus (Dog star) from Canis Major
Canopus from Carina

There were many more that I didn't have enough patience to pin point and name.

You can check out these stars from your place too using this site:

http://www.neave.com/planetarium/

Cheers!

Bookmark Ahead!

2010-11-05T09:17:00.001-07:00

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Was scribbling on a strip of paper when I was bored. It then somehow turned into this bookmark here! I continued to bookmarkify it by spraying it with lacquer to give it strength. Waiting for an opportunity to give it away =)

Want others to enjoy art too! =D

Lake of stars

2010-11-05T09:02:00.001-07:00

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Spray painting the balcony. It started as an idea my friend gave me..

I was inspired by something I saw on the internet so I decided to use that idea.

I name it the lake of stars as stars are floating on the lake. It's not so obvious, I apologise for that. It did turn out nicer than expected though =D

I got inspired to this this at around 1opm worked 4 hours on it I think. It was well worth it. Will try to cover the rest of my balcony with art =)

Thanks for tuning in!!

Epsilon Eridani Series

2010-09-29T08:35:00.000-07:00

Epsilon Eridani Series

2010-09-29T05:22:00.001-07:00

Chester's card

2010-08-09T08:26:00.001-07:00

Yay! Here is one of my rare few nicely colored drawings! Only products such as these are worthy of being given away! Happy Birthday Chester Ng! XD

Axe

2010-08-09T08:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the long long delay... Haven't been drawing much >< Still messing around with coloured drawings too.

2010-05-13T10:37:00.000-07:00

1st Drawing in the sketch pad the new CF creative directors gave me XD

Translation: Do you have it around this size?

YEAY! Success!~

2010-01-25T11:40:00.001-08:00

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Right after Posting my post, I typed in Ryunosuke Kikuchi just for the heck of it and sure enough my theory was proven correct, as you can see from the image above it says 13 minutes or 5 minutes next to the two links since I edited my blog a few minutes earlier. So if you try typing my name into the search engine. 5 out of the 10 results will directly link back to me! Be it facebook, blogs or even comments. So there you have it!

Google Results

2010-01-25T11:25:00.000-08:00

Ridiculous I know but,

Just for fun, I typed in RYUISON in the google search engine and sure enough, the first four results were of my blog. I didn't quite expect that so I tried typing in other stuff like my Ryunosuke Kikuchi or friend's names.

The secret to having your name or your website to show up higher up in the google results is to include alot of it in you post or website name. Thought it won't appear straight away, you need to wait a while or a couple of days, im not exactly sure.

Let's say that I was to put my name in this post at least 10 times, the chances for it showing up on the search result becomes higher!

Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi Ryunosuke Kikuchi

This is just a simple experiment so it might not exactly work. But my name from my facebook profile showed up in the first page of the search so this should work too.

Try typing Ryunosuke Kikuchi in your google search engine now to see what you get.

X mas

2009-12-01T00:36:00.001-08:00

Well, merry Christmas to ya all

What about the church?

2009-11-15T21:17:00.001-08:00

Some poster I made for this week's Alpha course. Not much to say about it..

Autumn

2009-11-08T20:52:00.000-08:00

Well, its November and I couldn't think of anything else to decorate the shirt with..

Happy Haloween!

2009-10-31T01:03:00.000-07:00

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I just noticed but today is Halloween day! And as a tip "Stay away from strangers"

Started this in 22-08-2008 and finished it today 31-10-2009. Took me more than a year just to finish drawing it.
Actually, I drew it last year but didn't have the skill to finish it.
This is probably my personal best.

Well, that's about it..

Side note

2009-10-23T07:28:00.000-07:00

Was flipping through my notepad, and this is what I found. It's not my style, quite surprised at how I even managed to draw it.

Magikaru Combat Battle Shirt

2009-10-14T04:20:00.000-07:00

Just a random idea of a story where a girl gets a magical combat shirt and has to save the world from evil items of clothing and other useless stuff.

The funny character in the front of the shirt can pop up and fight but can't leave the shirt. The shirt character can only fight when the girl is wearing the shirt.

Childish right? It's going to be great because if this is successful, people will start to buy shirts with lame characters like this on them. Kids mostly.

Welcome to RYUISON

2009-10-14T04:16:00.000-07:00

Translation: Welcome to RYUISON!

Official Home page of Ryunosuke Kikuchi!

I had no idea I could do special effects on Microsoft paint. I prefer MS paint because its the only image editing software I know how to use... sad right?

Well I have a feeling more drawings are going to be posted up soon...

Nurse Plus

2009-10-11T03:28:00.000-07:00

I have no idea how this happened, the idea ,the name, no clue, don't ask.
So its been so long since I posted anything so i might as well post up my drawings as I go along so that the blog isn't dead. I'll turn it into an achievement diary sketch book or something.

Well, this is a special occasion as I have never coloured in any of my drawings, only shading. So I managed to colour it in with the help of MS paint. Microsoft's built in image editor. I seriously need to learn Photoshop..

Well, this is RYU, over and out.

Morbid Dream

2009-08-25T05:57:00.000-07:00

Here's another random post after a long time since random things don't always happen. I wish it was random everyday, then I can blog more.

In the dream:
Sooo, here we are at the top of the stairs when one of my friends ask "Hey, guess what's my real name?". Then we all went quiet and started to think hard. Her name was Elizabeth but everyone calls her Eli so her real name is Elizabeth.. Stupid question. "Ummm, Eliza....beth?"

"Yeah! Hahaahahha!" Then suddenly my friends shove me down the stairs and continue to laugh. Great bunch of friends...

RAWR

2009-07-02T00:47:00.000-07:00

Uncle caveman - RAWR

Ate my Notepaper

2009-05-13T04:52:00.000-07:00

I was bored while doing my revision so I decided to try to eat my notepaper, the paper was very dry and hard to chew, no flavor at all, it was inedible so I gave up. It made a very nice bite mark though. Don't do this at home kids!

Dog in Gate

2009-05-01T06:23:00.000-07:00

Was just passing by my neighbours house and caught this photo of their dog. I heard that it does that often, it even got stuck in the pond once. Ah well, strange dog.

Backwards

2009-05-01T05:59:00.000-07:00

Looking backwards he sees how far he has come, he looks ahead and sees how far there is to come. Astonished by how little he has travelled in all these years, trembling he stepped backwards. Realising his biggest mistake he stood still, it took almost one year to take that step forwards, and in just a few weeks he had reversed his efforts, a year and a few weeks wasted by one step. He stood very still wondering what to do next, where should he step? Which is the correct way? Where should he go? Dropping on all fours tired and unmotivated he wondered what would happen next. Should he go back where he came from? or journey on into the unknown hoping it will get better. There is also the chance to stay right here, neither moving forwards or backwards, left or right. He looks at himself with incompetence, but does not pity himself, wants to move forwards but all his energy sapped, hungry, weary and sleepy, so much obstacles in the way. But even as he stood, time seeps through the gaps between his fingers as he tries to stop it flowing. It seems as if anything he does is futile. Knowing that rest, peace and joy is waiting at the end of his journey, he looks ahead helplessly, its so far and who knows how long it will take? He does not want to go through the motions he does not want to go through one more day. Just hoping that someone will come and shove him in the right direction, he looks around for that someone. Jesus save me from myself.

Phone Tec

2009-04-23T09:27:00.001-07:00

You know what the funny thing is? Mobile phone technology. It is a huge and ever growing industry, with new models and features for greater entertainment purposes. Let's take the iPhone for instance, downloadable applications so that you will not run out of new functions. However with all mobile phones they have one sole purpose: To call other people.

It is obvious that mobile phones are made so that you can contact others but what many people don't realise is why have they not improved upon this old technology. It has been around for decades starting from the phone and advancing to the mobile phone and satellite phones. Our mobile phones all have one massive flaw that these phone companies are trying to cover up, voice quality over the phone line, no matter where you are whether it be at home or work using your phone, and even where there are no noise disturbance, the person on the other end still sounds like an imitation of the human voice.

This might be the fault of either your service provider or your phone. Both sides do not consider this problem important. These phones can afford to cram mini computers and high end cameras into them and yet they are missing the most important function of the phone. It is almost as if the call function was a bonus that people expect their phones to have. Phone users bear through the static filled connection and try to make out what the person on the other line is saying or having to repeat themselves over and over again. We believe that all these extra functions on the phone compensate for the losses.

It is true that as phone users, we don't have much say in this as it is possible that phone line providers can only provide a certain frequency that all phones use and that clearer quality phone lines or phones are being researched. But it really is sad to know that phone companies focus on producing newer and newer phones so that more people will buy their phones, Phone line providers are trying to cut costs and offer free phones as attempts to get more users. It is all very near sighted and in the future it is scary to even think that the sole purpose of the phone will definitely not disappear but stay the same low quality it is today.

(This my point of view, this should not be used as reference to technology as some people may have good phones with noise cancelling and can clearly hear the person on the other end.)

-RYU