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Published: 2010-02-17 08:25:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 6665; Favourites: 126; Downloads: 0
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EDIT: Wow! Reached a 100 faves. This is the most I've gotten for any deviation I've ever uploaded. Thanks to everyone who liked this enough to fave it. <3It's late, I know! But still, spreading love and the hope of a New Year isn't just for one day. It's meant to be done everyday. So here's my contribution to that.
This is also my special artwork for the bestest boyfriend in the world aka because he makes me happy all the time.
In this scene, we're having a date in a fictional (and very clean) Chinatown and he's giving me a heart-shaped tikoy for the Valentine's occasion...because, well, we're both Chinese. Cheesy!
Tikoy (in Filipino), Nián gāo (in Chinese) and Chinese New Year's Cake (in English) are the same thing. It's a kind of food that's prepared from glutinous rice and is used in a lot of Chinese dishes or eaten on its own, fried with egg batter.
Anyway, enough of that. I hope you enjoy all the tiny details I added to the whole picture. I've never really done a full-blown background before so I'm really super proud of myself for this.
Art © Lorra Elena Angbue-Te
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Comments: 97
tora = japanese for "tiger"
mini = japanese for "ears"
another common word is nekomimi (neko = cat)
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Oh cool! You learn something new everyday. 
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That is a REALLY big rice cake. XD
So cute!!! How sweet.
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I can finish that in one sitting! Hahahaha.
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Thank you so much. Your omgsocuteplz emoticon made me laugh out loud. ^_^
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Super cute, especially loving the year-of-the-tiger-print and their expressions
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Thank you so much for the comment and the 
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No worries ^^ Great work! I hope you'll check out my stuff too!
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I'm not an expert in literature but I liked how easy it was to read your work. The flow was continuous and the words and imagery you used were simple but interesting. ^_^
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Thankies. 
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Your style looks very experienced, I guess this isn't your first vector art. The desaturated colors are good, more saturated colors woud probably not look that well. I like the composition and I like the detail that the tiger symbols and the heart symbols are repeated on both characters.
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Thank you so much for such a lengthy comment/critique. ^_^ I think this is the most extensive one I've received on dA ever.
And yeah, you're right. This isn't my first vector art but it's the first where I've included an actual detailed background. I'm very proud of that just because I'm not very good at making backgrounds. Surprisingly, I had the most fun doing the details in the background, especially the noodle bowl and the Buddha.
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Yeah the Buddha looks fantastic, you can really be proud of this work. But what, this is your most lengthy comment on dA? I wrote only 3 sentences 
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People hardly ever comment and I haven't had much exposure here on dA. The past few months have been really surprising and good to me, with a steady increase in faves and watches. I'm just thankful that my art's reaching more people now. ^_^
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Wow, this is pretty cool to say the least! I really like how clean and crisp your line and color work is
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Thank you.
I like clean-looking artwork so mine almost always ends up that way too.
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Aww...that's such a great thing to say. It'll always be a pleasure to hear someone say that my art has cheered them up, even if it's in a small way.
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