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Hey guys!

I have created a new account artandwine365 and it is specifically for my daily sketch.
(Sorry for those of you who faved some of them sketches I posted here earlier
this week. That folder gone yo!) So if you are interested in chasing me after for some
delightful, silly, yet amusing daily doodles of Stouffville based Canadian artist,
come on over!Nod 

FYI, I'm certainly keeping this account for everything else including
Year Of The Ladybug comic book project. Have a nice day boys and gals!

Dave
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First off, the nine of you guys who gave me love and thoughts on my last journal, thank you so much. I am insanely thankful for your thoughts and definitely thought about what you've said. I didn't want to repeat myself nine times so instead of writing replies to you, here I am writing a journal.
Make a long story short, I've decided to turn Year Of The Ladybug into a comic book. This is the first time I am working on a comic book so it will be a wild ride. I am glad I've made this decision and it's been a month already since I started working on it. I am focusing on the story for the time being so I don't have any visuals to share but yeah~ I am spending good three to four hours everyday on it outside of my full time job:)

It is absolutely important to me that the story is solid. I would rather have a comic book that has an exciting story than exciting visual. I am hoping for both but since I'm just one man, we will see what I can do about the graphic once I am fully happy with the story.
The important thing is that my daughter is now over 4 months! I am a happy daddyNod  

I am mostly active on Instagram with my daily sketch these days.
If you want to see more of my work, www.instagram.com/artandwine36…
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Hey guys, I hope everyone is jolly and happy:)
Unfortunately I couldn't find a developer for my horror game project Year Of The ladybug and I am happily moving on with
my life. I gave myself one year for the project and that ends next week so I wanted closure before I could finally say I'm
done. It has been the most amazing twelve months of my life as an artist and I am truly proud of what I have accomplished. 
Thank you so much for your love and support for the project but let this be lesson for you, trying to pitch an idea to developers
is close to impossible. Even with the articles and thousands of love letters from the fan, having a 2d pitch was simply not good
enough to convince a developer to drop everything and start my game (yeah...right) Granted I knew that from the start but you
have to understand that I had to give it a try so I don't regret not doing it. And I hate regrets. Now I get to say I did it and I know!

You know this whole Year Of The Ladybug happened outside of my day job right? I will continue designing cool games at work and
will never stop drawing and painting. I am a lot more active on Instagram these days so if you are interested in my life and work, 
www.instagram.com/o_davekang_o…

Thanks guys, always!
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Official Pitch Trailer is finally here!!

Hey guys! Long time no talk~La la la la
 
So we finally made a clip about Year Of The Ladybug
This trailer does not have a demo nor any new in-game assets of any sort. Everything is still a pitch and not much new materials are in this trailer. Are we trying to waste your time by juicing out the same materials? Of course not! We made this trailer because we needed an official clip about the pitch to contact developers more efficiently. So my sincere apologies to you guys if we got you excited about the trailer. Year Of The Ladybug is still a pitch and it will stay this way till we find a developer.

:happybounce: :happybounce: :happybounce: :happybounce: :happybounce: 
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Hello friends:)

Here I am at work, party Friday night, writing a journal on my DA page. 
So! Year Of The Ladybug huh? Yeah it has over 350k views now and I get dozens of messages
everyday asking me if the game is going to be released on Xbox and PC also. Nice!
It is still just a pitch and I can't guarantee anything but you can imagine how thankful and 
excited I am about what is happening with the project. All those nights of bar sketching,
compliments from drunken dudes and hot bartenders..I must have done something right!

I get this question all the time so I will answer it here today.
Why not crowd funding? The reason why I don't want to do crowd funding is because I think
I have a chance of giving this game a life without taking money from the fans. Let's face it,
this whole crowd funding is like a trend that happened so abruptly that nobody knows how
long it will last. It seems to me that it is becoming this tool for people to gather quick 
money so that they can create an illusion of productivity and creativity. I am sure there are
exceptional cases but I can't help but hearing bad stories about it all the time.
So I say screw it. I have been working in the game industry for nine years now and I witnessed
projects happening just with a powerful presentation, without 'stealing' money from a crowd. 
It is my job to make that powerful presentation. Bring it! 

If you would like to support the project with your love and passion,
you can always follow me on my Twitter

Cheers:)
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