The funny thing about this journal (if compared with my previous journal, the UNEARTHLY CHALLENGE) is when i'm updating my journal it means i had just won another award.
But then, this is more glory and memorable one than my previous award.

The massive online game art competition, the Dominance War IV, this year's results was in on last Thursday (after a very long waiting...) This year's 2D champion falls to the Chinese's hand!!

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This year's challenge is even harder and stronger compared to the last year's DWIII, there are thousands of entries around the globe, and the more scary one, most of them are the real experienced and talented concept artists around the world (especially Koreans)...including some established famous artist!

However, the unbelievable thing is the judges liked my work and i got top 25, in 19th place... this is CRAZY!! At first i just hoped to get into top 50, that was more than enough after seeing so many great artists!! And congrats to another Malaysian artist Michele Chang for her 8th place (and she's female too! Go Females!!)

This is one of my very prestigious award in my life as a self-taught concept artist. I still remembered when i'm joined DW last year, that was the time when i started to join digital painting seriously (on Feb 2008). I was shocked of how fast i changed from a manga cartoonist to concept artist, and how much i learned in 1 year of concept art. By joining game art competitions i can learn how is the real concept art looks like since i don't have any experience in game concept art industries, or related classes... i really encouraged everyone to come and join this kind of competition. You can really learned a ton!

What a good present for my 21 years old birthday this year... LOL!!