Welcome to Toby & Rui's adventure!   Dashboard Main Quest: Qualify as an architect Side Quest: Illustrator (Hire me!)/Vtuber/YouTuber/Animato...
After blowing up once on both Twitter and Youtube shorts, I got a few commissions from people through VGen. So I guess at this point I'm qualified enough to talk about commissions. I have started without doing too much pricing on stuff and also go for a rather cheap rate since I'm just starting. That attracted people who hired me to do full illustrations and that have kept my queue up to mid-July…
This is not those focus app, study buddy, put your phone aside and it'll plant a tree for you game. Just a pretty normal idle game, called Idle Iktah. The nature of it being an actual game makes it a lot more fun compared to the focus apps that is built around "keeping you focus". The key aspect that kept you focusing is reducing the speed of progress by half when you are offline, which is a…
Assuming you don't have connections and much prior experience, what should you do when you first get into architecture school? The steps can be done in different order, but there are 4 key aspect you should work on. Creativity, Theory, and Techincality and Basic Skills . Let's start with basic skills . These are general skills to be equipped for the industry such as drawing, modelling and graphic…
Although building renovation is being popularized, the construction/architectural industry is not fully coordinated for these projects. This leads to the one-stop shop (OSS) to increase efficiency and manage expectations. (Yes, basically a project management firm) OSS may manage different scopes within the projects but they mainly focuses on meeting energy performance targets and coordinating…
At my first year in architecture school, there is 250 people. At the end of my bachelors, there's only 180 left. After that, there's often only 90 left at the end of the master's degree, and not all of them even pursue architecture afterwards. So why is people averting from this previously prestigious career nowadays? First of all, the school can be very toxic without reward. There is the…
So my post today when received an unexpected surge of interaction thus getting semi-"viral", and I would like to discuss the psychological response and how I treated this event. The post have received 18k likes on twitter and 4-5k on reddit thus far, and there have been a large amount of comment and significant follower growth on these platforms. The typical "respond to all comment" also start to…
In this article, we're going to be talking specifically on character, fan-made/ original art by US/Europe artists. And money-flow in these art can be somewhat limited to their own community. Firstly, the people who actually draw in the community. Less than 1% of people draw for a living although the anime community probably have more since it's technically art-based. Apart from selling merch in…
Everyone sought to be more "productive" but I have a slightly different take on the topic after being in that community for a while.   Productivity is certainly not bad, but for some people including me, it comes and goes like a fad. My story goes like this:   Seeing some productivity videos and people achieving greatness young. Start journaling, doing said productivity hacks, produce a…
Well... I've not been updating as much as I previously mentioned. Got stuck into a novel and I'm still just halfway after spending 3 full days reading it. It's a really bad addiction I never managed to get rid off. So maybe after a few days, then we'll be back. the book's name is "lord of mysteries" by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving. It's not too much dopamine but it got enough mysteries chained…
Reality often treat us harshly, leaving us with little satisfaction, various frustrations and helpless in our circumstances. In this situation, we start to escape it with or without knowing it, often projecting ourselves into videos we see online, or fictional characters.   One clear trend we see is that the craze on sci-fi stories is now replaced with fantasy worlds. This is a sign of people…