if there's a reason to celebrate, it's because we've turned one years old ~!! :D
first I'd like to start off with a big thank you to all the wonderful supporters that have been supporting us in the World of Cos, with your encouraging words and LIKES on facebook that have inspired me to do more, and yes, it is something worth celebrating about =]
though the design of Cos was around ever since 2004, but it only became official when I launched the Facebook Page last year on July 13th 2012... been holding back from starting one mainly because of personal doubts if it'll ever attract any audience, or would it even be great compared to the other awesome comics that are out there, but I just tried it out for the fun of it, and never regretted that decision today :)
it's been a great one year, let's go through a little walk of memory lane~ so do join us down this interesting path XD
I think it's been the dream of a lot of kids and young people to wanna be mainly a "Comic Artist" due to the fact that a majority of us are heavily influenced by Anime/Manga, I too was a little crazy about it during my teens, that I used up most of my savings (yes I'm a bad saver) on "How to Draw Manga" Books... and man books are NOT cheap...
Drawing was one of my favorite hobbies and past-times to do then, as I would spend days on a single artwork, sometimes even going to the extreme till my parents had to confiscate my drawing papers and pencils...
and as I grew older, drawing seemed to have slowly faded out of my life as I went on to college.
I started drawing Cos as a side character just out of boredom during classes both during highschool and college, just a little black figure without a face, but just a mouth... but ended up scrapping that design because coloring him took TOO much black ink off my pens...
jumping ahead of time, Cos ended up turning into a yellow colored character because that was how I imagined him to look like, and I thought that that would be a suitable color for a little simple character...
I have a little notepad that I always have with me, where I'd doodle and draw different types of Cos on it, and later on developing the idea to have a character that loves doing Cosplay and dressing up as different characters, thus the name "Cos" was given to him...
but it wasn't long till a good friend of mine decided to make me a bunch of little cupclays (cup cakes made with clays, non-eatable) and she visualized a white color Cos and said that it looked MUCH nicer then...
yeap, she was one of those people who told me that she'd visualized that Cos could go far... even though I just thought of him as a classroom pass time boredom.
but just to cut the story short, Cos went through a lot of changes in the year, from color to sizes to a lot of shrinking and fattening, but that made the Cos of today!! =3
Life was a little different when one day my dad blessed me with a Wacom Bamboo
In simple terms, this is the device that fulfills the dreams of a lot of children in the world...
and that got me excited, but after not drawing some serious artwork for years, I could barely remember how to do it, and started to just draw a little Cos instead.
17/06/2012 was the first day I published the first World of Cos comic on my own facebook, in which looking back, the artwork is horrible then... I blame myself for not being familiar with the drawing tablet...
as bad as I thought it was, a couple of friends and families thought it was interesting, and I started to do a little more...
eventually it became a new-found-hobby for me that I decided on adding a couple new characters, and even starting our very own Facebook Page, World of Cos
how did the name World of Cos come about?
well I have to say my all time favorite comic was Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama, in which he created his own world with a LOT of characters, and it was really a great comic in it's own special world, and that was one of my greatest inspirations for the World of Cos till today!!
as time went on I started getting used to the drawing pad (just a little) and I could see how the comics were slowly improving, along with some LIKES on the Page, not much, but better than none =]
eventually the page hit 50 LIKES, that made me dance in great celebration!!!
eventually it reached 700, and today, we have 900+ LIKES on our Page~ and man is this a great inspiration, but it wasn't enough as I still do wanna improve myself daily to get much better in both artworks and comics!!
it wasn't long till Nuffnang had one special event, a meetup for Comic Bloggers, and I was excited as I saw that, and submitted this comic for it
surprisingly I got the invite!!
and for a moment you felt so awesome being together in the ranks of awesome and talented people altogether, also learning for famous comic bloggers like Bro, Don't Like That Bro & CheeChingy, it made the experience even greater !!
here's the group shot, and I can only say that I am inside... that is all XD
At the moment, I started being a little, overambitious and begun doing a lot of nonsense.... what are they??
I've started expanding the family of Cos, and calling them the Cos-lings, yeap, more characters are still on the way...
eventually I got a little syok and just went to print out a World of Cos tee just for the fun of it (it was really expensive)
I spent weeks locking myself up in my room, finishing this Full Christmas Special Manga JUST in time for Christmas... in which I told myself next time, I'll do it on my own pace...
I got some little World of Cos stuff made both by friends and by my own wallet, in which some people are saying they wanna rob me for these... please don't?
I've ended up designing our own little World of Cos book....
which turned out quite impressive as I would say XD
But if you'd ask me what was the biggest highlight of the year 2013?? I'd say it was almost winning a prize =3
there was this WWWOW Awards by DIGI in which the top web page will be awarded, and my friend encouraged me to join, so for the fun of it I did try...
but I totally forgot about it, wasn't even going around asking votes, till I checked it back one day
and to my shock, World of Cos was in the Top 50 list O.O
it wasn't long till a friend who was working in DIGI sent me this message on Facebook, which is a really big wow thing for me...
well of course we didn't win the award this year, but knowing that we made it into the top 50's is already a great encouragement for me, never would I think that the World of Cos could make it this far today :)
but hey, here's a FB Cover picture of a collage of the drawings from the World of Cos!!
and our latest comic... surely a big improvement compared to our first comic huh? :)
either way, it's been a challenging first year for us, lots of fun and hard work at the same time, but I've enjoyed every moment of the way, in every random drawings, in every little comic, I still hope to improve and get better~
we'd never know how the World of Cos would turn out in another year, but we do hope that the rest of you would continue to support us even more, and I promise that we'd continue to improve and do our best for you guys too !! :)
a BIG THANK YOU to you all who've supported, and also stayed long enough with us till today :)
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