Vidard Corner News: April 26 #2

Henlo!

This end of the month, some eventful stuffs happened in the state I'm living in and I thought I could give my own experiences here through this month's second newsletter post. The main highlights gonna be two events happened in the same venue, alongside with some recent arts I worked on.

This going to be the longest post I've made so let's get going! 

FluffyLand x GoodSmile Cafe Collaboration

To be exact, the drink kiosk (Doko Koko Pick Up) is also part of the collaboration since it held on the same area. Basically they are selling limited-time themed drinks and FluffyLand merchandises during the event period, as you can see on the catalogue below. Also, fursuiters and furry-themed cosplayers are able to get 10% discount on all drinks.

There is also a Meet & Greet session with one of FluffyLand mascot, Caesar on two days (25 April and 2 May). I'm able to go on the first day and took some pictures during the meet session! Plenty of fursuiters were there too to take pictures together with Caesar and got discounted drinks too.

 

 

I met some familiar faces despite coming there alone, and they also got to experienced both event day and meet session too. Though the merchandises were not sold there yet since they started it on 1 May, apparently (which is one week after I write this post). I'm thinking of updating more on this event on next post after I visit there for second time, but with my friends that want to visit the kiosk as well.

If you're missing out on first day on Meet & Greet session, you can attend on second day (2 May)! 

Cos-Mic 2026 (Spring Festival)

On the side of the same venue, there is also a free-entry anime con happening on two days. I got to visit the artist alley area before visiting Doko Koko Pick Up.

There's nothing much I experience here despite wanting to shop around merchs of my favourite IP. I was looking for Veemon or Guilmon merchs but able to bought some Leo/need merchandises instead by chance!

Leo/need World Link charms and stickers by Yeellow!

Leo/need STAGE OF SEKAI CD charm by Mogufish!

There's other stuffs going on like cosplayer booths and stage events but I'm not attending those areas.

Themed Art Series: Puppeteers

The full-body art series is puppeteers theme, with two type of puppets: dolls and shadows. I took four volunteers from Facebook and open up commission slots for the theme.

The series isn't completed yet as I want to get at most five slots for the commission side (which, well, less likely to happen when I'm on the end of finishing this). Meanwhile, i got a vision to create a photocard series mockup with all involved characters I drawn.

Despite that, I like how it turned out so far and I want to update more on in on the next post.

If you would like one, you can get it for USD40 / MYR120. Do send me a message through my e-mail or personal Telegram!

Latest Artworks

Battlecuts Art

Easter Egg 2026 (ft. Vee)

Paildramon fanart

 

The battlecuts art is actually a experiment through what I'm comfortable in my art process and I took inspiration from Pokemon and Undertale battlecuts art I found on Google.

I kinda want to catch up on seasonal/event themed arts and I settled down with Easters and Earth Day. Though I'm a bit late on both day, I want to to start on them anyway to test my current skills. I finished Easter art with Easter Miku as my direct reference for Vee outfit.

Also, on previous post I've shown my Paildramon WIP and I managed to finish it too. Maybe more Digimon fanarts someday but let's see what I'm going to draw next. 

WIP

Earth Day WIP (ft. Hakurou)

Before I start on Earth Day theme art, I was viewing the costume on Project Sekai's World Link 3 costumes and something awaken me to experiment more on techwear-style clothing. Probably because of black-white main color of the outfit is why I suddenly want to pick on different direction, unlike the Easter art I did.

I finished the colouring but haven't finished the rendering yet, so I will update more on it on next post!

Commission Slots Update

Previously I mentioned that I want to set a price of USD40 / MYR120 for my standard slots. Honestly, I worked on more than said price on old art commissioners' artworks and maybe raising a little bit won't hurt my value (hence, raising my base price to USD55 / MYR160).

I know I'm not going to get as frequent as I used to with such high price, but I also want to show my worth with my current skill I have right now. I occasionally creating more personal artworks and planning future art series while I'm  having less or no commission work to do meanwhile.

With that, I'm ready to take some standard slots and discuss about your commission ideas in the messages through my personal Telegram or e-mail. I also updated the samples on my Trello queue!

Afterthoughts

I didn't think I'm able to write the newsletter post this long, with more eventful moments going on this month.

While I'm "window shopping" around the artist alley in Cos Mic, I've got some booth setup and merchandise ideas in case I'm participating any artist alley in the future. Well, talk about that, some friends and mutual has been asking me if I'm joining one this year.

I would like to if I given another chance to shine once more, but with my financial and personal situation, I don't think I'm joining any artist alley in any con this year. I vow to myself to be more prepared with proper setup and better merchandises after experiencing artist alley moments in past conventions.

Meanwhile, I'm working on my own art skills and taking commissions regularly while working part-time job to support myself. I supposed to quit my job last year but looks like I overestimated myself before planning to step out. It was mentally draining as I wish to focus more on creating more arts and sustain myself with it. I know it's difficult but there's still small possibility to do so.

So, there's no worry for me not joining the artist alley at this moment. I really appreciate your expectation and I will return opening my artist alley booth again someday. Hat's off!

If you have any of my OC fanarts, you can send me personally for me to feature it in future newsletter post!

Vidard Corner News: April 26 #1

It's time to give this blog some uses after months of hesitating what I should come up from my own thought. Also, I'm struggling a lot lately with how I want to grow as an artist myself, and also a "person". And here we are, my very first newsletter post on the blog.

I intend to keep posting in the blog like twice a month or so for now (but plan might change depend on my free time too).

Anyway, let's head up on some artworks I work on lately, which mostly personal works for now!

Latest Artworks

Hakurou (Shiro)

Kokurou (Kuro)

Before I draw these artworks, I did draw a lot of my own Digimon OCs with various themes and styles. I thought it would be great idea to settle one direction from others until I caught myself experimenting around which suit me the best.

I ended up with splash art of character with abstract background and swooshes, just like typical gacha game arts (notably Genshin Impact and Tower of Saviors, which are my main inspiration). Though I wanna to keep it simple first as I believe to improve as I keep going which sticking to what best for me.

Eid Ketupat (Rice Cake) YCHs 

Some of samples I did for Ketupad YCHs

I started this YCHs a while before Eid holiday, just for raising some funds to sustain myself (well, meanwhile I have no commission to do at that time so it's also time to pick up simple idea like this at least).

Even though, some of followers thought they gonna be ketupat themselves! Maybe I'll keep it here for future idea one day.

If you would like a slot, do reach me in Telegram or e-mail me!

Commission Slots Update

With recent focus on doing splash arts, I intend to update my standard commission slots as well. I'm considering accepting commission slots that are not splash arts too (e.g. half-body, stickers, chibis, etc.), but you may need to message me first as I don't set the rate for those types.

I also want to start my pricing for this type back from the start and working my way up. Yes, I can still maintain my high price at first, but I'm personally dissatisfied with my previous art experimenting. After several times of changing direction and finally settle up to one, I think starting from reasonable rate might be a good start for now.

I currently offer USD$40 / MYR120 for one full-body splash art so message me if you would like to! 

WIPs

Paildramon fanart WIP

I want draw more Veemon evolution variants despite all that. I started drawing Paildramon just for commission samples. Probably adding one human sample too later (whether a Vocaloid or Project Sekai characters). Even though, I'm more familiar drawing them compared to humans (this doesn't mean I can't draw humans at all. In fact, I started with drawing human first during my newbie years of drawing.)

Afterthoughts

(Veemon and Guilmon keychains are made by AviDaVinki!)

Since this is my first newsletter post, I'm pretty much want to get use with blogging. I would say venting negative stuffs on internet doesn't make the problems solve itself (which something that turned into habit and got myself into regret spiral, duh).

It's great to have your arts recognized through likes and shares, and the first time I experienced it was on Twitter. Some of my Digimon fanarts blew up there and even got reposted, which I don't really mind as long they credited me.

I did enjoy drawing more Digimon-related stuffs because of it. But sadly it didn't pay my bill with just exposure. So I decided to focus on my own OCs (including my Digimon OCs of course!) and less likely on fan arts in the future.

With that, hats off to my first post! It's a bit awkward at first if I'm going to read old blog post someday but that's fine with me. Hope to write better one on next one and also updating my blog layout.

(Vidard fanart made by SaifulSaltyBear!)