Hello, everybody!

Now I have returned from holidays and the pages Tipeee and Patreon are launched, it is time to tell you about the bonus content and how I will manage it.

By bonus content I mean all additional content in addition to the comic Space Wizard McKcarell: HQ scans of monthly illustrations, tutorials, graphic resources and goodies (ex-libris and holocards).

All these bonuses will be delivered at the end of the month, when the contributions have been validated definitively.
The physical rewards will be sent by post to their owners and the digital rewards will be sent by email or made available for download on a password-protected area of my website.

The rest of the month, while waiting for delivery, I will post public news (they will be posted in a little tight time frame this month) to announce the bonus content, which will allow you to know in advance what will be delivered and modify your contribution according to what interests you before its validation.

Well, today, we're going to talk about a first content: the tutorial of the month!

This month, I will explain how to convert a black and white image (a grayscale image) to a transparency level image. Basically, the whiter a pixel is on the original image, the more transparent it will be on the final image. I will explain this for 4 different softwares! Photoshop (CS6), The Gimp, Affinity Photo and Clip Studio Paint!
This tuto will be delivered to all patrons who have taken the reward Backstage or more.

That's all for today. I will quickly reveal the contents of the other bonuses.

Good weekend to you all! =D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hello, everybody!

That's it!
As announced last Friday, the Space Wizard McKcarell comic series is launched! =D
The crowdfunding pages Tipeee and Patreon, are also open and you can already find the prologue to the comic in free reading, on Tipeee (in French) and on Patreon (in English), as well as a whole bunch of bonuses and advantages described on the home pages of the 2 platforms.

I take this opportunity to post here the result of the live session I did on Twitch during which I worked on two pages of Space Wizard McKcarell last Thursday.
I had not enough time to edit the final video. I'll make it available when I get back from vacation.

Let's take a look at the publishing of the comic and how the pages Tipeee and Patreon work.

The publishing of the McKcarell Space Wizard comic will be based on a model similar to that of the successful French mangas Chronoctis Express and Head Trick.
The publishing of the comic will be free, BUT full of advantages are proposed to the patrons: one month early access to the pages without watermark nor censorship (if necessary), personalized thanks, high resolution scans of my illustrations, tutos tips and tricks, graphic resources, goodies (postcards or holocards, others will come later), personalized drawings, private lives, lotteries...
For more information on the content and benefits offered, everything is detailed on the home pages of Tipeee and Patreon with many images and illustrations. :D

Tipeee and Patreon are monthly crowdfunding platforms. This means that you can give a small donation to a creator every month (simgle donations are also possible). Meanwhile, the creator produces content that he provides to you over the month or at the end of the month.
It is a form of patronage like Ulule or Kickstarter.
Many youtubers use this type of crowdfunding. It is also increasingly used for comics, which can make it possible to be independent of publishers and advertisers.

That's all for the news and launch of Space Wizard McKcarell (FINALLY!).

I wish you a very happy summer vacation and see you in a fortnight! =D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hello, everybody!

I announce you that I will be absent from July 26 to August 14, 2018 and pabsolutely unreachable from July 30 to August 14, 2018. It's time to take some vacation. :p
This means that if you place an order on the shop, I will not be able to ship it before the end of this period.

I also take this opportunity to announce you that I will open commissions when I will return. I will open a dedicated section on the site.

I am also finalizing some details on the prologue of my comic Space Wizard McKcarell which will be published automatically while I'm away and finalizing my Tipeee and Patreon pages.

So, I have a lot to do before I go on vacation. x)
The news will therefore be posted in a little tight time frame before I disappear into the wild for a fortnight.

Have a nice day and see you soon! :D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hello, everybody!

I post this quick news to announce you that suiseipark.com's protocole changed to HTTPS ! :D
So the address is no longer http://suiseipark.com, but https://suiseipark.com (note that the old address still works and is redirected to the secure version).

Now you can navigate safely with a nice padlock next to the site address.

It means that suiseipark.com now meets the latest security standards in force. :D
I don't think I've forgotten anything in the procedure but if you encounter a bug (an image not displayed correctly for example) or you find a page of the site where the padlock doesn't appear, let me know by sending me the address of the page where you encountered the problem so that I can correct it as soon as possible (via the contact form or your favorite social network).

That's all for today.
Good day to all and see you soon! :D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hello, everybody!

After a little rest well deserved, it is time to make a feedback about Japan Expo 2018 !

There are many things to tell, I don't really know where to start.

If you follow me on the social networks, you may have seen me grumbling before and during the convention. Indeed, this year has been a difficult one.
But in the end, the result is positive. :D

I was stressed a lot before the JE because I had trouble finishing new content for the event (not finished new comics, not sure to receive the new posters and new postcards in time and the holographic paper to make my little holocards that arrived only Friday night, at the half of the JE). So I started the expo tired from day one. ^^'

Friday was the most difficult day. Because of the very bad revenue (buddies didn't understand at all), the holographic paper that arrives late, the printer that has no ink left and one of the only cards I can make ruined, I started to doubt that I would be able to reimburse my expenses. ^^'

It was much better the other days and it's also largely thanks to the buddies who came to help me in one way or another.
I owe you a big favor and I am truly touched by your solidarity.
Thank you friends! =D

In the end, after doing the books, I realize that I did not do so badly and that I managed to reimburse all my expenses this year. It is the first JE during which I success to do it. I'm happy. x)

Making Japan Expo profitable is quite hard, so we don't really know if we'll have a stand next year, and if so, it will probably be in the passion section.

It is not easy to get people's attention in the amateur section. There is a lot of competition and we play Tetris to showcase our work on very small stands.
And Steven is posing like a bad guy. x)

All difficulties and my mood which moved on a roller coaster put aside, Japan Expo remains a nice moment because we find there a whole bunch of friends that we do not have (or not often) the opportunity to see otherwise (Ouv, Maina, Jérôme, Benjamin, Hakim, Olivia...), without forgetting all the friends of Drink'N'Draw.
It is also always an opportunity to meet and get to know new people, especially those we already knew online and that we can recognize by their nickname or their art x) (Laora and Josette) and our stand neighbours, Ange N' Ko who were very good company. :D
And let's not forget the little Saturday dinner with friends (Steven, Therry, Ouv, Jérôme, Benjamin) which was a welcome break and a pleasure. :)

About Customs

For several years now, customs have been raiding Japan Expo to track down counterfeiting on the stands, and this year it made a lot of noise.

What happend?

Customs did its job, but applied the law more strictly than usual at the request of the licenses owners.
Then rumours swelled and distorted the facts, you know the principle of the chinese whispers.
We have heard that they only attack amateurs cowardly and stories about organized theft disguised as fake customs.

As you can imagine, there are fakes in there.

The facts.
Not only amateur stands were affected. Customs seized counterfeit goods in dubious import shops. But because it is a usual fact we don't talk about it, we only mention the spectacular ones.
The amateur stands were right next to the shop stands, amateur goodies were also seized and destroyed. These are fanarts, including Pokémon (badges, stickers, keychains). But according to the customs photos, these fan products are close enough to the original to be confused by the uninitiated with official products and my sources indicates that the targeted stands had already been spotted selling their products online before JE.
I was exhibiting myself on the amateur section and I didn't see customs in our alley.

Customs also intervened on the side of passion stands. I know many witnesses. No less than 6 stands of this sector were owned by friends or at least people I know.

Who was targeted?

In the passion section, some stands doing mainly fanarts were touched but not all.
The stands that were affected were stands which offered exclusively fanarts and work copied or even traced from official visuals.
It is called plagiarism.

The fanart stands that were spared, on the other hand, offered works that were strongly reinterpreted with a personal style and new compositions and could not be confused with official products or visuals.
If the law is strictly applied, they can be prosecuted too. But licenses owners are more tolerant about artists who take the trouble to learn to draw and offer a new and personnal vision of their licences. It's still dangerous because they can change their minds overnight and decide to prosecute any form of fanart at any time. It depends on their goodwill.

So, the facts have been exagerated, people have got carried away imagining the poor little artist cowardly attacked when in fact, it is really counterfeits, plagiarists and goodies of fans marketed in a little too professionnal way that have been targeted. Things that cannot be defended.
The raiding was legitimate and dotted the i's and crossed the t's of pseudo artists who practiced unfair competition towards those who take the trouble to master their art and develop a style and a personal universe.

I hope that what has happened this year will discourage copycats and plagiarists from strutting around in this kind of event and leave more place for authentic creative people who take the trouble to bring something new. :D

I think I said everything about the Japan Expo.
As usual, it's physically very difficult, I collapsed on my bed again to take a looooonnnnnnng nap yesterday afternoon.

Now it's time to get back to good habits and a normal pace of life. I go back working on the Space Wizard McKcarell and Dragon Cat's Galaxia 1/2 pages and I'll give you a report about the progress of this very, very soon. :)

Have a good day and see you soon ! :D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hi everyone !

I post this message to take stock of the progress of the chapter 2 of Dragon Cat's Galaxia 1/2.

I admit I knew that I had not enough time when I annouced I may finish this chapter for Japan Expo.
Anyway it is always the same way with me. I'm definitly not able to respect deadlines I announce. xD
I finished to ink the third of the pages. Most difficult are behind me (phew!). To finish in time I should finish inking, screentones and the cover before next sunday. It seems not possible even without sleeping. I think I need one or two more weeks.
At least, by trying to believe I can do it, I progressed a lot and I finished the pages I feared the most. =D

Settings and extras everywhere. This chapter is really hard to draw.
You will see the original pages in preview if you come to the Japan Expo. =D

I had to rush a lot to progress like that. I work very hard, sometimes until to 3 am, for about 3 weeks.
So, I'm going to slacken the pace a little and make some illustrations of heroes from our childhood (Dragon Ball, I have not many illustrations about this one of my favourtite mangas) and I will finish more slowly the chapter 2 of Dragon Cat's during the summer.

That's all for the news.
Have a good week and see you soon ! :D

Suisei - Killfaeh

Hi everyone!

Today I announce you that I will exhibite at the Japan Expo Paris with my friend Steven Style under the name S&S Associate! :D

Our stand will be at number N620 in the hobbyist space in the hall 6.

As usual, we will offer you signed comics, prints of our illustrations, artbooks, little commissions and...

I go out on a limb by saying that...

The second chapter of my comic Dragon Cat's Galaxia 1/2.

I recently finished the penciled phase and I'm inking the pages. I work very hard to try to finish in time. This episode is really hard to draw with its Berserk syndrom (armies of Stormtroopers, tourists... yes! tourists! and parisians... yes! de parisians!). x)

Who will fight Darth Vader? Goku or Vegeta?

If you don't know Dragon Cat's Galaxia 1/2 yet, the first episode is free to read and you can find it by following this link: http://suiseipark.com/Dragon-Cats/language/english/.
I think I will broadcast some drawing live sessions during which you can kick my butt to make me inking and put screentones faster. x)
In the worst case, if I can't do it for the JE, I would have progressed a lot and it will be finished for September's events. ^^ And as I ink this episode in a traditional way, you will see the progress on the originals.

And of course, the JE will be the opportunity to talk and laugh again with you around a candy jar. :D

Have a good day and see you soon! :D

Suisei - Killfaeh