mangalphantom

Woohoo!
After some long months of drawing and figuring out how to use new software, i've finally finished the first chapter of a manga collaboration i'm doing with my good friend Darren!

Hello Everyone!

Firstly, a huge thank you to all of my new watchers over the past few weeks and months. I hope you'll enjoy my work ^^!
I've been a bit inactive on dA in recent months, BUT! I will have things to show you all soon! Read on !
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Hello everyone!

Firstly, a big thanks to the new watchers now following my page, I hope you'll enjoy my work ^^!
It's been a few months since my last update, I seem to have gotten a bit slack with updating ^^". Though I actually have quite a bit of stuff to upload and talk about in this journal, so I hope you have a good read (with lots of pictures 8D!!)
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Gold Coast Supanova
My convention season this year kicked off with Supanova last weekend down at the Gold Coast. I shared a hotel room with all of these lovely fellows c: -->
The only disadvantage with our hotel was that it lacked internet to play gamus and go on social networking websites 8'C

Taking a break from cosplay competitions for a while, it was lovely to just walk around the whole weekend not having to prepare for or psyche myself up for any upcoming performances or judgments on stage.

Saturday
Spent the day walking around with xxpuffy with a porcupine on my head.

It was lovely seeing so many YGO fans about that day, from the hardcore YGO gamers, to the parents, other YGO cosplayers and even young children who were very fond of card games c:.
Funny parts of the day:
- "do you have yugi's actual deck in there? did you want to duel?"
==> I just had a Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl cards and a starter deck Kaiba I found lying around the house. Good enough xD.
- "OMG your cards don't have sleeves WTF you doing??"
==> I'm so pro at card games I even kept my cards in a shoebox instead of folders 8D

Sunday
Spent the say walking around with xxpuffy as fairies 8D!

Another great day seeing so many fans of SAO around! There were heaps of other SAO cosplayers around on the day before, but there weren't as many on Sunday :c. Had a great shoot with in the afternoon, got some lovely shots (will upload soon!), played rock band on stage and won a copy of the game (which we gave away cause no wii lol), and had a lovely korean dinner which was 50m walk from our hotel door lol xD.

And some hotel shots once we got back home c:


It was a lovely convention weekend, had lots of fun c:
The next convention for me is SMASH! in Sydney in August, i'll come up with a good costume idea soon xD.

mangalphantom Facebook page
After the weekend and lack of frequent updates, I decided to make a facebook page to share some of my stuff ! If you have a facebook, please feel free to check out my page and follow my work if you're interested c:.

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These dA journals take a good hour or so to write up, so I figure i'd be more motivated to update my progress with short posts on facebook xD. I'll also be making a bunch of selling posts, prize giveaways every now and then, and be much more frequent in replying to posts, so add us there to check out more of my work or even just have a chat c:.

Cosplay Suggestions
Believe it or not, i'm starting to run out of ideas of costumes that catch my attention to cosplay =o. I've nearly exhausted my childhood animu list, and I haven't really been playing all too many new games or watching anime lately. If there are any cosplay costumes you think you'd like to see me do, please feel free to suggest it here! 8D
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Now that one set of convention costumes are done and dusted, i've just been doing a massive tidy up of my room and around the house lately X_X"! I'm finally able to sit down and get drawing again ! Anyway, hope to catch up with everyone again soon, i've been holed up at home a lot lately ><"! Until next time, ciao!

Cheers,
- Jeremy

Happy New Year everyone! Happy CNY too xD!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, new years, and any other holiday celebrations that have occurred since last time !
I've unfortunately been a bit boring in the last few months in regards to costumes, so i've been a little inactive ^^". But a big thank you to all of my new watchers who've decided to +watch my page while i've been away, i'll fill up your inbox now >! Anyway, here is a super-exciting journal as a precursor to this year yeah ^o^!
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Me
I graduated from university at the end of November last year, with a Bachelor of Business Management and a Bachelor of Arts (Chinese).
5 years of university. So much has happened, and the student life is over for now.

So now I have a piece of paper, I can look for an office job if I feel like it now, hahah xD. This year however, i'm going to have a serious go at writing music, and drawing a story (manguuu). These are some of those things i've always dreamed about doing, but my grades have always been a bigger priority. Now I have time to give it a shot.

Of course, if I fall flat on my face, the worst I can do is find an office job and get a home loan lol xD.
I've ignored them before, but i'm giving these dreams a fair chance now.

Cosplay
We were notified today, that Animania in Brisbane, which is usually held annually in March/April and October, will be completely cancelled until further notice. While not the most amazing convention on the planet, it is an event I quite looked forward to each year, and it seems a shame to see it go. This means though, that the next event to appear on my calendar, is Gold Coast Supanova in April!

I'll be taking a break from any competitions for a little while, and will just be making costumes for fun c:. Even still, i'm still really excited to see some plan come into fruition!

Saturday
Yugioh - Yami Yugi


Along with xxpuffy and mrkittycosplay as Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician respectively, we'll have a lovely magical group appearing on Saturday yeah >!


Sunday
With the absence of Animania, xxpuffy and I have had to  shift around some plans. It depends on whatever we get finished xD.
Mirai Nikki - Yuki/Yuno

Sword Art Online (ALO arc) - Kirito/Asuna



Backlog + upcoming shoots
It's not much of a backlog for me, but my gallery is missing quite a few good shots from shoots I did with friends around the place xD. Most will be reuploads from their galleries, but i'm attempting to post "the hidden projects". Sounds exciting, but they're just old costumes I haven't posted any pictures of, hahaha xD. So expect to see a bunch of new uploads in my gallery over the next few days of stuff you've probably already seen somewhere else xD.

There's a few shoots to look forward to.
- Infinite Stratos beach (woohoo 8D! i'll probably be a speck in the background for most of this though lol xD)
- Mirai Nikki lovey dovey stabbity stab
- Code Geass regal grand classy gown velvet thingy (it's been too hot to shoot this in summer, we just delayed this til winter ^^")
- Toradora face poking drop kick my head (not sure if this even counts as a costume, but it'll be fun anyway xD)
- Whatever I dig out of my closet to shoot (look forward to surprises!)
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Looking to be a big year ahead with everything. Hope to hear what everyone else has planned for this year too!
Lets all do our best yosh! 8D

- Jeremy