Well, the fight isn't over. But I think I had enough of the bullshit on my Facebook post updates.
I just want to hug cats. Lots of cats. And a Shiba Inu. I love dogs too. Perhaps a sloth.

Anything that would make me feel warm again. (That's also because its cold in Melbourne).

U___U

So... thanks for helping out anyway. Whether if it works or not, I don't know.
Count your blessings, and be kind to one another.

*Curl to a ball wrapped in a blanket and sleep.

I love you.

please read this summary of bullshit my country just went through on our election day:

Severe democracy crisis in Malaysia: Fraud in Malaysian 13th General Election by the National Front!
The National Front had played fraud in the Malaysian 13th General Election in order to retain its dictatorial rule on the nation.

The regime of Malaysian National Front had bribed to allow voters of Bangladeshi origins besides using all underhanded tricks in order to preserve its tyrannical rule.

One despicable event was that in the district of Bentong, Dr. Liao Tiong Lai had inevitably lost in the election. But after a mysterious blackout in the voting centre, 8 ballot boxes appeared mystically, covering the whole gap of 3,000 votes. The same non-democratic occurrences are also arising in the whole nation!

I plead to all people worldwide to support and pledge to our cause, suppressing these outrageous actions and supporting a clean and fair election in Malaysia!

please sign here:

[link]

There are still good people out there and you all proved yourselves. Thank you for helping to sign the petition earlier to help my home country gain a better democratic voice.

At this point I wish I was Slenderman so I can hug all of you but then - horrific death would follow suit.... (scratch that thought).

ehehehheh....

I love you all.

Fellow friends, I need your help to save my home country.

The regime of Malaysia's National Coalition Front (Barisan Nasional), had bribed to the official recruitment agency of Bangladesh, to allow a huge number of Bangladeshi workers (estimated about 600,000 people) deported from their homeland to Malaysia for such despicable and non democratic action.

We are hereby requesting ladies and gentlemen to provide solidarity supports and necessary assistances for us, to ensure the election can be conducted in clean and fair manners. For more information and evidence, here is the news link: [link].

I just need your vote in this petition. That's all I ask and share this post to help all of us and the future of our country.

I hope this could turn the tides to our favor. Even our police force is corrupted and aiding these phantom voters to tear our chance to have a better government.

[link]

Just dropping by to see how are you guys doing? Hope everyone's alright and stuff.
Well... have fun.

Bye now.

I love you.

Hey peeps,

you may or may not know that I had my own Society6 print store set up already: [link]

There's free shipping this Sunday worldwide, so do take advantage of it!

In other news, I'm gonna be very quiet from DevART for the next couple of weeks due to rising tensions of assignments and looming deadlines of final projects for school. So hope you don't miss me too much. Take care and behave yourselves.

I love you.

- Daryl

Um, especially watchers and friends in Texas, hope you check in with your friends and families to see if they are safe. There's been a large industrial explosion in Waco, TX and just to be sure, hope everyone is safe. Especially those who are also in Boston for the recent bombings. I'm sorry for what has happened, and my condolences to families and friends for their lost.

Please do watch out for one another and be kind.

regards,
Daryl

Hey guys and girls,

how's life in general? Hope all's well. If not, hang in there and prepare for rough weathers always.

So yeah, I have an online store now. Check it out!
[link]

Grab some prints from my work you like and had them framed and stuff, legally. haha Get them as a gift for your family and friends or tell someone who's interested in it. Or if you wanna follow me in Society6, welcome!

Till then, stay safe, and be kind to one another.

Be dark knights, silent guardians and watchful protectors over your artist friends and other art communities. Report back to the rightful owner of stolen artworks or reposts without credits so the art criminals get the justice they deserved.

Of course, just don't go breaking bones and yell at the art thieves "WHERE ARE THE DRAWINGS~? WHERE ARE THEY!?"

Have a good time.

-Daryl
(The D is not silent)

WHY would people do such a stupid thing like REPOSTING MY ARTWORK and remove my SIGNATURE STAMP? There are SHARE BUTTONS to TWITTER, TUMBLR, IMGUR, REDDIT, FACEBOOK NEXT TO THE ARTWORKKKSSSSSS ARRGH GUH~! USE THEM!!!

I don't mind sharing, BUT if you fucking repost some shizz of mine, because you either too ignorant, or just lazy as fuck to use the share buttons - SOURCE CREDIT THEM~!!!! DO THIS NOT FOR ME BUT FOR ALL ARTISTS AS WELLLLL!!!! YOU MAKE ME WANNA GO LEMONGRABZZZZ ON YOUR ASSES.

REMOVING SIGNATURE = STEALING. DOES THAT COMPUTE? Lets not go there. OH YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID, SO DON'T PRETEND TO ACT ALL CONFUSED AT ME FOR ACTING I'M ALL CRAY CRAY!

(calm down Satan).

Ok.

Well, shame on you people. You disappoint me and yourself... and in your life in general.

P/S: I removed the link, in case people wanna start a MOB and burn witches and stuff. Please, don't. Be dark knights and silent guardians to take care and watch over ur artist friends and communities and report back to the rightful owner so they get the justice they deserved.

Goodnite.

So yeah, got a couple of assignments to do. Commissions to work on, and ideas to write down.
How's everyone days are going? Swell? Slow? Bored? Exciting? Or just bleepin' cold as bleepidy bleep bleep!!!!

Till next time.

Cheers,
Daryl
(Down Under, where everything is swell)

Hey guys,

Well, the Tomb Raider contest is over and I didn't win. But that's cool, and I always love my artworks. Even if they aren't awesome as the other super damnyouallskillfulbastardsandgodsofdigitalarts.... yeah. Ahem.

Anyways, I'm just gonna try to help a friend out. See, its been seven years these two lovebirds have been together, they are engaged and hope to get married soon. My friend Jane was suppose to move to the UK to be with her soon to be husband, Brendon, but due to a recent rejection of her visa, she needs money to re-apply again for the frigging visa (damn you immigration department, get yo shit together).

So she started a mini indiegogo donation project in exchange of artworks and stuff: [link]

She also has a DevART account here: [link]

So yeah, if you do wanna have some artworks done by her, just to help her out, that's cool. Or if you believe in true love and just wanna help out, by all means. Or help to spread the word or link of her indiegogo site to others.

Don't do it for me. Do it for them.

Till then, love and be kind to one another.

Cheers.

How's it going guys and girls? Yeah, assignments are piling up and lots to do. Nothing much to talk about... so yeah.

- Daryl

Hey peeps,

How's everyone doing? Hope's all is well. Just wanna throw some updates here. First, there are folders been cleared and deleted such as the 'Titanic' artworks which have been permanently displayed in its personal tumblr site here: [link]

Most of the A to Z Creature Challenge and 30 Days Drawing Challenge artworks have their own folders set up in the gallery.

The L4D fan comics and art folder has been taken down but most of the stuff still can be seen in my scrapbook: [link]

The Original Characters folder is removed as well and the Alex Spectre test comic is moved to Dark Arts folder.

A number of artwork both recent and older ones from Fan Arts, FMM and Commissioned folders have either been moved to Scraps or for permanent deletion. Hope you folks don't miss them too much. Its one of those days when you need to clear lots of stuff and make your gallery more pleasing to look at. (I'm quite the neat freak so I'm sorry for the inconvenience i've brought upon you long time watchers and fans.)

I also wanna thank you all for supporting my entries (one way or another) in the current Tomb Raider Reborn art contest: [link] and [link] Its been awhile since I've been competitive in an art contest and most of the latest entries are awesome as well (except for the random Nicki Minaj stuff that spammed in the entries folder) I'd hope to win, but that's up to the judges to decide. But I'll probably shoot another final piece on the final weeks before the contest ends. Hope it'll be better than the last two pieces. I hope.

Till then, do take care and like Ellen always reminds us: " Be kind to one another."  Have a good year ahead, people.

- Daryl

So yeah, I've changed my DevART username because its time to leave that silly Japanese wannabe pen-name/nick behind and use my real birth name for my profession as an illustrator. Besides, I prefer people call me by my real name nowadays.

Well, how's ur day been going? I've been busy doing a lot of house-cleaning for Chinese New Year celebrations and furiously painting my next piece for the TOMB RAIDER Reborn Art Contest. Till then, stay safe, and love one another.

how's it going?

ART COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN AGAIN~! :0

LINE ART NO COLORS - $15

LINE ART WITH COLOR (NO BACKGROUNDS)- $30 (price may be charged differently. If its one to two characters it'll still be $30 even if you want a full body view or a close up half body like the example I posted up. if its more than one character, I'll charge according to the number of characters instead).

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DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS (NO BACKGROUND) - $50

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DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS WITH FULL BACKGROUND - $100 (price may increase on the number of characters, difficulty,details and time)
-For multiple characters people specify if you want them in the same picture

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NOTE TO COMMISSIONERS:
-If you want me to illustrate your OCs, please have reference pictures or short simple description ( i would much prefer to have a picture or a rough sketch to work off occasionally)
- Do not send me a whole story, I'm not interested in doing comic book collabs or anything like that (I have my own stuff to do as well)
-I'd prefer to have a large amount of freedom in my commissions and paint these works in my own style and approach
-If you want a DC style, Marvel style, super anime style, manga style, or other ridiculous styles that isn't mine - please find someone else to entertain your demands.  
- Do tell me if I should take my time or how urgent you want me to get the artwork done cause I do have other stuff as well such as RL. (If you want me to finish a $100 work say in one day - I'm not going to entertain you.)

I DO NOT DO:
-Mecha (really bad with it...except retro robots - I love retro bots)
-hentai/Porn/ecchi/hardcore yaoi/ yuri (I keep my gallery clean for general audiences)
-Anime or Manga stuff (Nothing against them. I'm trying to get out of the mainstream here so help me out)
-Excessive Blood/gore (I'm fine with Zombies and classic horror monsters)
-anything i find weird or uncomfortable

PAYMENT

-I accept Paypal only
- Payment is to be made upfront once I agreed to take on your commission and before I begin the commission work.
- For the larger, heavier illustration commissions, its acceptable to pay the first half of the payment before I start on the artwork and the other half after I've completed it.

So drop a note and I'll get back to you whenever I'm lurking about.

Cheers,
Daryl Toh Liem Zhan

Not that kind of Boxing Day. Please do not punch your loved ones.

Have a good one, folks!

Daryl

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again." - Benjamin Button

Phew, that was a rush! Its like playing Type of the Dead on Facebook. lol Well I guess this is the first successful facebook interview conducted here by #ASK THE ARTIST. A big thank you to Krisha Moeller and her team for conducting this interview! Thank you all for the questions, it was fun and I hope you all had a great time!

Apologies for those who can't make it tonight. Due to the glitches I had, we moved to Facebook for the interview but the team conducted it professionally and I got everyone's questions and answered all of them (except for one on the brand of my boxers) -_-"

Please watch them to be informed of a new interview! #ASK THE ARTIST shall be interviewing deviantART artists, Lily-Fox tomorrow, Saturday, at 5pm PST and Sakimichan on Sunday at 5pm, with JohnSu next week! Check out ASKtheARTIST on deviantART for more info! [link]

Cheers,
Daryl