Another Design Idea Was Copied Just Like That

This was another lesson learned for me back then a few years ago. Someone offered me a design project but it turned out to be an empty project offer in the end after they ghosted me. They without at least feeling guilty then invited me to their design contest. I was a very positive thinker back then to even join it thinking that they perhaps wouldn't do something bad again. 

However, my expectation was too high on them. I submitted my design as below just to be copied by other designer in that contest as per their request after I withdrawn from it due to thinking this contest wasn't worth my time and no respond at all from them. I found out later on when they decided the winner after a while that my design has been used by other after they 'tweaked' it a little. 

No apology, no remorse, nothing. The funny thing was, they tried to invite me to another project and contest again after that and I completely ignored them. Luckily, this type of people were only the minority compared to other good clients who used my design and illustration service. 

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Kpop Demon Hunters Unique Costumes

  After I watched this movie back then, somehow I couldn't help but notice that the characters' outfits or costumes were pretty interesting. Especially for Huntrix. I like Rumi's leather-like yellow jacket which complimented by the short pants and white shirt. The embroidered and stitched color combination details in it was good. The other characters also wore a nice combination which would be a perfect match with harmonious color tones.  

 

Another costumes also looking luxurious with shiny gold details on black and white colors. As for daily wears, with just hoodie, loose t-shirt, floral jacket, hats and pants were also look casual on them.  

 

As for the Saja boys, somehow the costumes were softer and girlish with more pink tones and light and brighter colors for either daily costumes or while performing in front of the audiences.

 

The pictures are solely for references only and not mine but belong to the rightful owner of this movie. I only draw the fan art. 

 

 

From Sketch to Digital Drawing for a School Task

One day, a few years ago, I got a special request from a dad. He wanted me to make digital drawing versions of his daughter's 2 sketches. And so I did and these were the results.

He told me that these were for her school task which she would presented in front of her classmates. He was so happy after seeing the results and he said he can't wait to show it to her. 

These were actually truly fun and special for me, especially the part of helping a dad to make his daughter happy and helped her in anyway he can.   

Feel free to contact me for any special commission or project of any custom illustration you need through my e-mail: thedreamernoodlemie@gmail.com 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS illustration concept

Mental health awareness themed illustration. 

This was an initial concept for an illustration related to mental health (depression, anxiety, heartbroken and imprisoned in our own mind). I was thinking what would it look like, and then, this idea showed up in my mind. They said it should have been much simpler but I thought it was all about taste and preference.

Feel free to contact me for any illustration project through my email: thedreamernoodlemie@gmail.com 

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SQUID GAME 3: CONCLUSION

I know this is far late for an opinion about this series, however, I think I still need to write it down anyway. What can I say? To be honest I just read the review and short explanation of each episodes without watching it. 

Since I also dropped it at season 2 after a few episodes. I knew it when I watched the beginning of season 2, it won't be as great as the original season 1. The new characters somehow were not memorable enough, the main character stayed stupid, the police guy stayed naive, all other things were pretty much similar to previous season but maybe only the games were different. With all that mentioned above, which meant, element of surprise was close to nothing. 

The villain stayed the smartest of them all. And I could predicted that season 2 and 3 were only continuation to each other and not a whole new season of their own. The mission to let the world know of traditional Korean games is succeeded but the whole point of story did not inspire people of goodness, but only showing the bad still win although there might be a little hope. 

I think in the end, my expectation is not to see the villain win, why? In real world there are already too much of it. At least in fiction we can count on the good guy but my wish was not come true in this one. Based on reality? Yes, almost all of it and too much. Therefore, if you look for a warmhearted entertainment? I don't think it is worth your time. 

The point which related to fashion is maybe about the uniform of the contestants in the drama and also the notable pink soldiers. Other than that, I don't see anything worth to notice. 

Book Cover design Concepts - Between illustration or Photo editing

These were a throwback of some of my book cover concepts throughout the years for different purposes and themes.

Most of them were illustrations and the rest were mixed of photo editing. However, no matter how good I did it or put the best effort on it, in the end, it was all based on the client's taste. 

Feel free to contact me for any illustration project because I prefer illustration for its originality and creativity over photo editing.

e-mail: thedreamernoodlemie@gmail.com 
 

When Your Idea was Stolen In front Of your Eyes But You Can't Do Anything

There was a contest with Xmas reindeer theme a couple of months ago and some people participated in it including myself. However, it felt like I gave away my idea for free without proper recognition when the contest holder told other contestants to copy it or rather, "steal" it by making it similar and they got away with the award. I can't do pretty much anything but just wish somehow people like them will not be living in peace as long as doing what they are doing towards other.

Hopefully, I get a good karma afterwards because of this. After AI has made a massive destructive impact in threatening our job, these so called copycats have been there like forever doing much worst. 

 

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Artist VS AI: A Rant of Trying to Survive

 

With emerging AI technology spreads faster than wildfire, the struggles become tougher and more challenging for artists to keep on their feet or simply stay afloat. 

All artworks are savagely and without mercy being copied, used, refurbished, manipulated, recreated and reformed as needed by some people with simply writing a mere prompt. 

There is less and less appreciation for real talents, creativity, originality, authenticity and real human-made creations. It has not been easy lately even for me to deal with it for these past few years. 

Nonetheless, I still believe there are some people who would still seek and appreciate the real art. No matter how advanced it is, AI will not defeat the human brain. 

*3.5 hours drawing

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One of those days in a Designer's life

 

With more than enough experiences working in graphic design, there are always some days during those times when I often dealt with some challenges and struggled in fulfilling the requests related to a custom design/illustration which in the end, no matter what, should be able to meet with customer's expectation and satisfaction for the final result. It was not always easy and sometimes it felt like forever but the efforts must be made all the time with positivity in mind. 

 

These cases were perhaps 20 to 30% out of total order I've received throughout the years. In some cases, I might as well gave up when the customer didn't exactly like the result after several attempts for options. After all, we, as designers are not super magician who could always guess correctly what they truly want. However, I have in mind that patience is a virtue to work things out as long as they would explained exactly what they're looking for.

     

 *Human's true handmade art will forever be the real from the heart genuine art compared to those copycat-generated AI images which the source came from millions of human handmade arts itself.