Digital Illustration for Character Design

Mahako - One of 3 major female characters in Novel: "Beauties from the Golden Vase." Digital Art.

麻葉子 － 『金瓶麗人』三位女主角之一。

Tang Mayie at the Opening Party

This is my illustration for Sci-Fi Graphic Novel: Fantabulous Nanomorphique Adventure of M Hardoon Rotman.

Tang Mayie attended the Opening Party, but did not participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, only sitting at the VIP seat, wearing wide-brimmed hat and dark sunglasses.

[To read the story:  www.fantabulousnarrations.com/copy-of-test-1 ]

Fantabulous Nanomorphique Adventure of M Hardoon Rotman - (Week 4)

[Previous Week Plot Review]

The Jade Exhibition held at the Pellimet Museum in Paris attracted great audiences, but the most eye-catching item in the exhibition rotunda, was a huge poster, hanging over the balcony banister from the 3rd floor to the middle of the 1st floor.

The poster was a lovely photograph of a couple – Alfonse de Baux, the original owner of the ancient Chinese artifacts, and his fiancée, Chinese movie star Tang Meiye; both in Chinese period costumes.

This highly anticipated exhibition was about to open in two days, but what happened next stunned the entire city of Paris! Alfonse de Baux disappeared into thin air!

With such unexpected happening, Parisians were even more anxious to see the exhibition, therefore it was a block buster on the opening day, and the museum almost received non-stop visitors from the morning to the night!

Catherine and Cassandra stopped by in the early evening and followed the visitors through the exhibition.

But Cassandra raised her head and looked up again and again, the mother asked what she saw, she said there was a man on the ceiling.

ONE  –  The little girl looked up again and again  – Continue  <Week IV>

Catherine again squinted her eyes and looked at the vault ceiling, still, nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. But she somehow knew that she could not ignore her daughter's acute senses. She discovered that Cassandra, at a very early age, exhibited telepathic abilities.

 "A man? on the ceiling? How is that possible?"

She focused on the stucco surface of the diamond shapes, searching for signs of cracks, flaked paints, or even remote possibility of a bird nest illegally set up in a hidden corner.

If any of those cases happened, she would have to report them to the engineer department of the museum for repair jobs to be done; but the ceiling right now looked in a mint condition to her.

"There is a man lying on the ceiling." Cassandra said.

"How can a man lying on the ceiling?"

"like a lizard."

"Lizard is crawling on the wall, or on the ceiling, with its four legs, not lying there."

A group of visitors led by a guide moved to the glass case where they was viewing.  They heard the guide said: "In this glass case, we see this jade piece, caused quite a debate in the academic world. From the shape and color of the jade, it should be, as Chinese scholars would call it, a CONG, it is a ritual piece used in various religious ceremonies, but when the museum received the collection, it was mixed among a small amount of Mayan jade pieces. Our researchers wanted to raise the question to Mr. de Baux directly, but unfortunately, Mr. de Baux suddenly disappeared several days ago, right now, searching efforts were launched all over the world, yet all in vain; therefore, unless we find Mr. de Baux, otherwise, no one could answer this question: why a Chinese jade was in the midst of Mayan pieces."

Cassandra saw that her mother's attention was shifted to the visitors, listening on the guide's explanation; she tucked on her mother's clothe again, and pointed her finger to the vault.

Catherine looked at her wrist watch, then softly said: "Silly girl, let's go back to my office, there is another piece, I need to take another look."

Catherine's office was on the first level of basement. Mother and daughter had to take elevator at the north side of the circle, where the entrance to the rectangular building connected to the rotunda.

Pellimet Museum had two levels of basement, where all museum's collections were stored. But the basement space was not as big as the entire street block; because there was no sub-level underneath the rotunda.

She picked up her daughter's hand and went for the elevator by the entrance to the rectangular section of the building.

The third floor of this rectangular building was mainly offices for the employees, with the Electronic Control and Security Room at the south end, overlooking the rotunda.

The first and second floor were various sized room for themed exhibitions.

On the first floor, the entire space was divided into 3 sections by two walkways. The middle section was larger than the two flanking sections of equal size. They were utilized for specific themed collections of the museum.

Two passenger elevators were located at the end of the west section. The space in front of the elevators, was a 6-foot wide “curved” corridor separating the rectangular section with the rotunda.

Only elevator number two stopped at all five floors, i.e., from the third floor to the second level basement. Elevator number one descent down to the top level basement only, skipping the second level.

At the north end of the building, two more service elevators situated next to the fire exit, one at each corner. The one on the east side was a freight elevator, three times larger than the stander size, to accommodate any over-sized artwork.

At the end of the east section, in the middle of the curved corridor, a beautiful and grandeur spiral staircase twisted and twined from the first floor, through the second floor, landed on the third floor balcony. It was pretty spacious, wide enough for a two-way traffic, as long as each using the right side.

Only a packed exhibition like this one, the museum kept it for one-way traffic only, upstream in the morning and downstream in the afternoon; any wrong direction at the wrong time, would have to wait for the elevator.

(To be continued next week)

Poster for Jade Exhibition at Pellimet Museum in Paris

洛哈同奇譚之奈米奪魂記 － 小說連載預告

連載預告  ──  全新插畫科幻小說

【洛哈同奇譚】之《奈米奪魂記》      ──  姬璘璆著

原創科幻小說【洛哈同奇譚】之第一篇《奈米奪魂記》即將於下週起，於本網頁開始連載！

連載方式：

每週一篇，每篇字數約八百至一千六百不等。

全篇連載將以中文及英語，同時於同一或不同之部落格網頁推出。

連載每篇將同時附一幅插圖。

【本小說故事純為虛構，任何人物、地點、事件等若有雷同，實屬無意之巧合。】

以下是小說故事與角色人物之簡介。

全篇故事簡介

巴黎著名的『裴聿美東方藝術博物館』正展覽著一批捐贈而來的中國玉器，可是就在展覽開幕的當天晚上，其中兩件，被三名蒙面的日本忍者武士劫走了，同時失蹤的，還有一位十歲的羅珊蒂小妹妹，她是博物館考古學者凱薩琳丹芙博士的女兒。

表面上看，一如警方公佈的資料所稱，這是個簡單的劫寶與綁架事件，但實際並非如此，羅小妹妹不是被忍者綁架的，她的母親凱薩琳目睹並親身經歷了整個的事件過程，她相信女兒是被一個神秘的『隱形人』帶走了！

對警方未能公佈事件真相，令凱薩琳非常憤怒，驟失女兒使她傷心欲絕，而如果警方只肯往錯誤的方向去調查，她又如何能把女兒再尋回身邊來呢？！

同時，當晚博物館附近不少居民，報警堅稱見到一艘外型像馬蹄蟹那樣的大飛船，自博物館上空一閃而逝。

凱薩琳見到的神秘隱形人是誰？被劫的兩件古物珍寶，究竟藏了什麼秘密？羅珊蒂此刻身在何地？

事件真相撲朔迷離，請您於下週同一時間來此網頁繼續閱讀，本篇連載小說將帶領您一步步向事情的真相逼近。

小說人物介紹

主要人物：（第一組） 

馬樂開·哈同·洛特曼──書中代號：洛哈同。小說主人翁，被一種外星奈米菌元體生物擇定為實驗對象，體內部分為外星奈米菌元體入侵並控制，行為因此稍微有異常人，故外號『瘋帽匠』。

凱薩琳·達維·丹芙──法國巴黎裴聿美東方藝術博物館駐館考古學家。

卡珊德拉·丹芙·羅──中文名：羅珊蒂。凱薩琳丹芙的女兒，十歲，自幼便有『心靈感應』能力。

羅軒轅──中國權威地質兼礦物學家。凱薩琳丹芙的丈夫，羅珊蒂的父親。與凱薩琳正經歷分手中。

（第二組） 

老人解吉諾──外星奈米菌元體生物領袖。運用一種宇宙稀有礦苗及其水晶體，投影成形，外表乃一老人，有斜著行走的毛病。

解蓉娜──外星奈米菌元體生物。投影為地球人類女性。

解傑若──外星奈米菌元體生物。投影為地球人類男性。

解極茸──外星奈米菌元體生物。能投影並改變形狀為任何生物或物體。

（第三組） 

薄鳳池──法國馬賽實業家兼花花公子。『美夢世界影業公司』董事。

薄樂妮──薄鳳池妹妹，電影製片人。

唐美儀──中國女影星。薄鳳池未婚妻。

次要人物：

（第一組） 

伊萊夏蒙──日本名字：梶兵猶太郎，社會尊稱：『東京先生』，社會暱稱：『東京的川普』。七十歲，美籍猶太人，長住東京，著名外星文物收藏家，自號『十全老人』，因所收藏的外星文物已達十件。
春花若子──歌舞伎藝名：『玉奴春五郎』。著名歌舞伎藝人，東京先生機要秘書，『蝶甲蜂刃流』忍者武士。
天外竜之介──東京先生私人保鏢，『乾坤神隱流』忍者武士。
天外猿之助──東京先生私人保鏢，『彌形淨賀流』忍者武士。

（第二組） 

一色理性──日本新一代電影導演。
瀨戶內珡海──日本青春派女影星。一色理性女友。

瀨戶內瀚海──瀨戶內珡海同父異母哥哥。日法混血。
筱川雲友──編舞家。
仙道也──作曲家。

【本小說故事純為虛構，任何人物、地點、事件等若有雷同，實屬無意之巧合。】

第一週第一章將於下週推出。

Character Illustration Preview #5 - The Oldman

This is the last preview, now the novel is to begin, stay tuned.

Character Illustration Preview #4 - French Film Producer

Character illustration preview. French film producer.
One more preview to go. Then the novel starts.

Character Illustration Preview #3 - A Chinese Movie Star

Graphic novel will start very soon.