LATEST WORK:
It’s been a while since I updated the site with new portrait paintings I’ve finished, so here they are. Two of them were for class live demonstrations for my students, and one was a personal piece. All were painted in Rebelle 7 Pro, except the Daniella portrait, which was started in Procreate and finished in Rebelle.
Nagyung of fromis_9:
Eunha of Viviz/Gfriend:
Danielle of NewJeans:
WEBLOG:
There has been some exciting recent developments in my writing recently. I had submitted Wings of Promise (finished first draft) to a few prestigious writing workshops and got accepted into Wayward Wormhole (I didn’t get into Odyssey and Viable Paradise). It used to be for short stories only, and this is the first year they started accepting novels. It’s quite expensive (close to $4k), but the roster of agents, editors, and authors who will be the instructors are all highly respected names in the world of sci-fi/fantasy literature (Donald Maass, Cat Rambo, C.C Finlay).
Folks from my old writing group had urged to me to attend these workshops for years, and I submitting to one last year but didn’t get in. This year, I thought I was going to get nothing but rejections again, and I would just keep on writing and submitting until I finally get into one of them. When I got the acceptance email and went out to the backyard to tell Elena, she immediately hugged me and started crying, because she knows how hard I have been working on my writing for the last fourteen years.
The workshop will take place in November in New Mexico on a ranch, and it’ll be my first time doing one of these multi-day workshops. I’m both nervous and excited, and I hope with all I will learn from the experience and the friends I will make, I’ll be one step closer to getting my first novel published.
As for what else is going on besides the workshop, I’m currently working on the first draft of a supernatural psychological horror novel, tentatively titled Silent Storm, and the finished first draft for Darkness Falls is currently in the middle of the beta-reading process. I still don’t have any plans to rewrite Dreamdiver, as that’s probably going to end up as one of my “early trunk novels” that will never see the light of day. But who knows? Maybe someday in the future I’ll dust it off and do a complete rewrite and turn it into something publishable.
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I have finally completely reorganized my music studio after having added so many new instruments and furniture, and here are some photos I took:
The arrival and departure of guitars persists. I’ve been really into acoustic guitars lately, so I added some more to the studio:
I guess that’s it for now.
