What cartoons to watch for Halloween?

If you’re like me, you’ll be looking for some cartoons/anime to watch for Halloween! Weather it’s a favorite oldie or something new, I have a bit of everything. Classics, foreign or just really hard to find hidden gems, I have been making lists with everything, here for you to enjoy:

My pick for top 7 Halloween animations

1.Nightmare before Christmas(1993)

2.Vampire hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

3.Spirited Away (2001)

4.Nocturna (2007)

5.Corpse bride (2005)

6.Anastasia (1997)

7.Paprika (2006)

Honourable mentions

1.Coco (2017)

2.Book of life (2014)

3.Coraline (2009)

And series for those of you that don’t mind the longer format:

My top 5 Halloween animation series

1.Over the garden wall (2014)

2.Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995)

3.Death Note (2006-2007)

4.Ergo Proxy (2006)

5.Paranoia agent (2004)

Honourable mentions

1.Beetle Juice (1989-1991)

2.W.I.T.C.H. (2004-2006)

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What kind of artist are you?

Hi everyone! I’m back, hope you are all doing well.

So I created a two part video to tackle some frequent questions I get asked, like:
– how do you get so much done
– how to keep a deadline
– how do you stay motivated on long projects
– how to deal with difficult clients

And in this two part video I try and answer all these questions as best as I can. Hope you find them useful and insightful.

The qualities of each artist type:

And the defects and hurdlers they have to overcome:

If you want to chat more about this topic, I have a Discord server where we hang out.

To find my tutorials on social media use: #HisameTuts​

To check out my posts in general use: #HisameArtwork

Hope you have a good day!

Cheers,
Hisame

Wacom Cintiq vs Intous Pro | With screen or without? Which is better?

It’s a frequent question I get asked “should I upgrade to Cintiq?”, and in this video I will tackle that idea and hope my review helps you out.

To have in mind:

Other companies offer screen in tablet: Huion, Propen, Microsoft, Apple etc.

Make sure upgrade means improvement of quality of work life.

So is it worth the extra money?

Pros

If you have poor eye hand coordination it can help.

If you couldn’t transition smoothly from traditional art to digital.

Cons

Costs a lot more. Both to buy and to fix if dropped.

Size matters. That’s extra costs.

Your hand is over the image.

Still needs a computer.

Conclusions?

If you are on a budget, adaptable or a beginner maybe just try it somewhere first. Then decide.

If you have anymore requests for videos please let me know in the comments.

My links:
Videos https://www.youtube.com/c/hisameartwork​
Streaming https://www.twitch.tv/hisame_artwork​
Comics https://tapas.io/hisameartwork/series​
Merch shop https://society6.com/hisameartwork​
Fiverr https://www.fiverr.com/hisameartwork​
Blog https://hisameartwork.wordpress.com/​
Donate https://ko-fi.com/hisameartwork​
Hangout https://discord.gg/Q5MeNHX

To find my reviews on social media use: #HisameReview​

To check out my posts in general use: #HisameArtwork​

Milestones and rewards

Welcome to my blog!

I’m happy to announce I just received a bunch of game keys for you lovely people to ad as milestones rewards!!! \(^w^)/ So be sure to follow and comment, if you haven’t already, on my social media to help me reach those milestones faster.

So this is where I’m usually active and which milestones are coming up next, as well as what I’d like to give:
* Twitch 100 followers……….1 game key
* Twitch each subscriber…… gets  1 game key (total of 5 are available atm) and you unlock my Twitch emojies as long as you are subbed.
* Tapas 500 subs……………… 3 avatar doodles
* Youtube 1k followers………1 game key + 10 avatar doodles
* Twitter 1k followers ……….1 game key + 10 avatar doodles
* Instagram 3k followers…..1 game key + 10 avatar doodles
* Facebook 3k followers……1 game key + 10 avatar doodles

I never know what the future brings and what may happen, but in principle this is what I’d love to gift you as a thank you for supporting me. Also remember that unclaimed rewards will be given to someone else. Claiming time is usually 2 weeks.

In the case of multiple rewards they will be split between the winners. As always the winners will be selected at random from among those who apply to the event. (To participate you’ll need to be subbed/following and comment according to the event requirements)

** Patreon 50$ total support >> extra rewards aside from the usual tier rewards: 1 game key + avatar doodles  for ≥10$ patrons & ++ stickers ≥20$. These will be given without any lottery.

In regards to what game keys will be given, I still need to sort out through the keys and once I do that I’ll be able to tell you more.

To see past giveaways use my hashtag #HisameOCL on social media.

Mid year update! 2020

Yaaaay…ok, it’s been a while. Sorry!

Niels Feyman Book 1 ending

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So big news! I just finished my almost 4 year long project: Niels Feynman‘s time traveling adventures, book 1 of 4. I so happy to have concluded that. I originally intended to be done in 2 years, but life had other plans!

Thank you everyone for joining me on this journey, for all your support and help, for everything! It meant a lot for us that you were there cheering us on, and of course the donations.

We’re very happy to have finished and we’re looking forward to future projects so stay tune as we’ll also be updating all our shops with new prints and merchandise.

Scripts for books 2-4 are almost done, I will start sketching book 2 soon. And production will begin once we raise some starting money. Until then we’ll be posting on Patreon concept art, character sheets and the rest.

 

Ghibli town

The Ghibli town mod for Stardew Valley is progressing, we finally have a main map working, now we have to fill in the buildings, NPCs and events.

We still have a long way to go, but I can say we’re still on track. For more check out the video bellow:

And for future updates you can follow me on Discord and Twitch.

Mermay

Mermay event is still on and if you wish to participate you can submit your illustrations to our Facebook group or on Discord.

And I’ll be streaming how I make my illustrations on TwitchTV so see you there!

 

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone!

It’s been a long time since I posted anything here. Between changing continents, getting sick and starting a new job, my online presence had to take a back seat. I also have a new cat. 😻

But personal news aside my art projects continue and I have a bunch of new plans and projects on the way, as old ones get concluded, we’re moving forward. As always check the Projects page to see what is happening to your favorite series, as I will be updating that soon.

In “short”:
– Niels book 1 will end in 2-3 months, then hiatus while we work on concept art for the next books in the series. Jun will continue to make the lineart and we are looking for someone to help with the backgrounds. Email me for  details after we figure out the budget and follow this blog for news on that.

– Ghibli town mod, official work will start after I finish the Niels book. So far, me, Trent and the rest have done some artwork and coding for it. Super happy Mermaid island worked so well, we’re looking forward to expanding to a full city. Mancer has kindly offered to make the music for it.

– Ernest and Erwin mini games are in the pipeline as well. We’ll start small with some side scrollers and puzzles and depending on the resources we have both time and money, we’ll let you know what gets done this year. Hopefully at least 1.

– I’m currently teaching manga and japanese courses at local art studios. But I do plan to finish the online tutorial series Team Mana UP has so graciously sponsored, and I do apologize that it got delayed. I’m really hoping to properly set up my mini recording studio soon. Renovating in winter is painfully slow.

– Don’t forget to continue supporting us at Kofi or the other usual platforms, as the more resources we have the more we can do and faster. And let us know what your biggest favorites are by subbing to the favorite series, leaving comments etc. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as they say. And discord link: https://discord.gg/Q5MeNHX

Cheers!
Hisame

 

Stardew Valley MOD updates II: Ghibli Town and Mermaid island

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the late update but it’s been hard to find help with making this mod as I am just a graphic artists and any game related stuff has also a programming component.

After 5 brave souls attempted to make the mod and failed, scampering off once they saw they couldn’t tame the beast know as modding in Stardew Valley, one hero has risen.

So long story short, I have collaborated with  Trent previously on the New fish mod and we wanted to ad new fishing areas for people, because +90 fish wasn’t enough for us and with so many fish the spawning areas weren’t spawning properly anymore. We had to create new homes for our fish.

I had previously worked on many other mods with people, each group had ambitions ideas about desert or forest expansions and of course my Ghibli town as well. But sadly the ever changing landscape of the codding in SDV was just to much for them and many projects died in pre-production.

Thus I decided to take things slow and greed with Trent that we should first do a small island before we try and do the Ghibli mod, or the Oriental Mod (Desert mod).

The island has a middle aged mermaid selling fish related items in her shop. She will be in a relationship with Willy and a friend of Linus. We plan to give her heart events and anything else we will need for all my grand plans for the Ghibli mod. This little island mod will be our guinea pig for the Ghibli Town mod.

Concept art not final look

Thank you to Eimie and everybody else who agreed to donate their textures to this mod as it has greatly decreased my work load. The full list of modders who have donated textures or from who I took inspiration in making my own version of their aesthetics  see here.

For more updates you can join my Discord server and watch my Youtube videos. You can see there the NPCs and shops we plan to make.

Portrait for middle aged mermaid for test island

Take care everyone and don’t forget to endorse and give kudos to all the awesome modders in the SDV community! Show them some love so they stay motivated (see if any need financial help as well).  A lot of projects die because people think nobody cares or the crazy people harass them. Both I and Trent have met some weirdos that have thrown insults and bigoted slurs at us and we are not the only ones. It’s just that we are a bit older maybe, and have a better understanding of the toxicity in any community.

In any case SDV is one of the best communities out there and thank you to everyone who strives to keep it awesome and please continue to support the modders as they keep the community going with new content every month.

And of course thank you to Eric Barone for making the game, Chuckle fish for connecting us and we look forward to all the new content from everyone.

Hugz,
Hisame

 

 

 

 

Niels Feynman fanart submission!

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Hi everyone! Chapter 4 is coming to an end so we’re taking fanart submissions again!

Deadline for chapter 4 featured artists is 3 weeks  TCONicon is one of the artists who submitted and will be featured, so there are 2 or 3 slots left. 

We’re very exited to receive your fanart submission.  And we thank you very much for your support over the years!

 

Past submissions:

 

Happy new year!

Hi everyone and Happy New year! Hope you are all doing well! I wish you all a good year.

I know some of us have had it tough and we wished we had less bad luck, because sometimes your best is not good enough when too many issues pile up.

Some may think they have the best advice for you, how they would have foreseen or had been better prepared than you, I don’t think they say these out of malice but I just wanted to tell you something since I mostly see people giving poorly researched advice, and what I want to say is:

You probably did your best, nobody wants to fail on purpose, I think that is universal. If you explained to me what happened I’d probably understand, though I would also judge you because using  your judgement is generally a good thing. If all the people in the world had full bellies and rested heads our ability to make good judgement calls would be much better.

So don’t forget to take care of yourself if you can, I know it can be a lot to remember when everything is so busy and we’re constantly exhausted.

The reason I made Ernest was to share a bit of cozy comfort. He can keep a secret and you can tell him everything and his new year resolution is to be better pal for you and listen to your troubles, because in the end we’re all looking for a bit of sympathy and understanding. Even when we totally mess up and do every stupid thing we were told not to, it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

That was my two cents on new year resolutions and I wish you the best!

 

In other updates:

I finished my little trilogy Estranged encounter, if there is more demand for those types of stories I may ad more as I always have ideas for that type of bizarre narrative.

New Niels Feynman story pages coming up in two weeks and I’ve begun to look for representation for all my stories so in the upcoming months I’ll be looking  for a literary agent…or more, I write different genres and mediums so I’ll probably need more than one, not sure how this stuff works, but wish me luck!

Also I opened a discord server. After much deliberation I decided to get with the times and make my own discord server and hopefully create a cozy place for artists to get together, share and learn new skills.

If you wish to join us please do so with this link: https://discord.gg/Q5MeNHX

For a full view of all my current and future plans please go to my projects page.

Hugz,

Hisame

InksGiving event- support artists

Welcome to another Inksgiving event! We thank you so much for your ongoing support, you keep our little comic afloat and it means a lot to us! This event is aimed to give us both a boost so please send us ink during the event for bonus.
For more information: https://tapas.io/episode/1238565

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