2010

Too bad I spent New Years Eve at home, recovering from a cold. But it's actually not that bad. I feel better and relaxed. I wanted to finish this earlier, but, eh. I'll finish this tomorrow cuz I'm sleepy.

Happy New Years.

Media: Ink, SAI

Speed Paint: Cafe

A speed paint that I randomly began to draw. I think I'm a failure at speed painting because it takes me too long. I don't think I'll finish this since I wanted it to be a one-attempt thing and I'm sleepy.

Media: SAI

Swallowtail

And finally, the finished product! I am definitely gonna ask Mai to give me more drawings to color for more collaboration fun! I should prepare some drawings for her to also practice coloring...

Media: Copic Multiliners, watercolors, white ink

Fireworks at Sundown

I've had this gesso-ed canvas sitting around for perhaps 2.5 years and I finally got around to doing something with it.

I wanted to challenge myself and use purple, my most disliked color. I laid down the blue and magenta as palette knife streaks and overlapped at the center to make a royal purple. But it looked really crappy and not at all what I wanted to go for, so I took a paper towel to wipe off the paint and start over. However, as I started smearing the paint vertically, it started looking interesting. So then I sprayed water over it and waited for the pigment to dissolve. I wiped off more paint and the white droplets began to stand out. Then I started dripping water down the canvas for the dripping effect and kept washing away the pigment until it was near white.

I kept doing this, but didn't know what to do with it. Then my housemate/friend who is also an artist told me it looks like fireworks. I stared at it and what do you know, it does! So I want to work off of that idea. Thanks Aimee.

Hopefully, I can finish this within reasonable time...

Media: Acrylics

10RI

I finally finished it. Remember last year in October? Yeah. Well, I decided that I don't need a bunch of complicated things to collage into it and that I should try to stick to a concept instead of adding so many concepts. I've been learning quite a lot in my design classes. It's ineffective if it can't express its function and how true it is. I changed it from the original by blacking out the left side because I hated my handwriting that I had there and instead used stamps to put in that text. Then I added the seagull at the top left corner.

I'm pretty satisfied with this. It is a bit empty for my liking/style, but I should try to pay more attention to the "less is more" advice.

Media: Acrylics, Sharpie, white-out pen

Gourmet

I never want to draw a tomatillo for the rest of my life. But this is the last project we had to do. An informative panel with diagrams. I'm pretty happy with it, but the typography bothers me a little bit... My teacher was really happy with it though, so I guess it's all right. Woo colors!

Media: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Tinier Me

I sometimes visit this forum called TinierMe and you can create your own little anime chibi-esque avatar. I've designed mine to be kind of urban punk (is that even a real style?) and I actually really like how he/she looks. (Probably a guy.) Instead of studying for finals, I drew my TinierMe avatar. Hooray! And yay fail perspective!

Media: Pencil, editing on Photoshop CS3