2012 Calendar

Ah, my head is about to burst right now. I finally completed the 12th illustration for this calendar after like what... 2.5 days of wearing my butt off continuously, slaving dutifully away in front of the computer screen. Several times I just wanted to cry, seeing time slipped away and ideas not actualized. I was being ambitious by telling my professor that I wanted to do 12 individual designs for each month, something that I didn't have to, but I am very happy now because I actually finished what I said with no excuses. I did have to holed myself up in my room for several days however. When you have to do 1 illustration after another, it truly messes up your mind. When I started on the 8th illustration, it took me 6 hours or more. I got frustrated tremendously. A lesson learned... give yourself enough time when you're ambitious. If you rush, you will either hurt yourself or your ideas/designs/whatever you're working toward. I actually did have enough time for this, thank God. The actual calendar will be posted when I put all the printed files together. Oh by the way, the theme of this calendar is Illumination. Just a head up if you have a hard time figuring out what all the illustrations are about.

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Poster Design 1

I'm in the process of designing posters and video introducing the invention of the incandescent light bulb for my Graphic Design class. So far I came up with this design though I have a few more in mind that shall be simpler. I'm leaning more toward the colors in design A1, though A2 isn't too bad itself. The video is coming along nicely, but it is indeed taking a lot of time because we are required to use either or both Adobe After Effects and Premiere but I knew nothing about either program before taking this class. So yes, it was difficult learning a total new program and have to produce a video at the end. Still, it's going fine and I am having fun learning :). Will try my hardest, aja fighting!!!!

Design A1:

Design A2:

The very beginning stage:

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New personal blog: Uni-Q Bean!!

I've just decided that this blog: Vernal Melody, will solely be used to house my graphic art/designs/drawings/etc. and crafts. All of my rantings about life/entertainment from now on shall reside in a new blog I just created: Uni-Q Bean. Head on there if you're interested :). I know, I know I must have bored some people to tears with all the silly philosophical talks amidst my artworks. Now, you're free of all the dramas if you are not interested XD.

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Food for the soul

Another old photo, recently edited :D. Not the best compositionally, though it's something new I rarely try, so...

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Just tried out manipulating a little photo of mine. Supposedly a self-portrait as you can see. With this one I really had a hard time putting in text or typography. Perhaps, it's just meant to be purely self-portrait with no additional fancy meaningless text. I like it this way, exaggerated in a good way. Currently, my soul is feeling very unsettling and stormy, but I've learned to take things easy. With that said, the best thing I could have ever learned recently is this rediscovery of God and his love for me, as well as my role here. It's a little abstract to explain right now. Hopefully as time goes, I can follow this new calling...

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Embrace

Again, these are old photos from last year, except for the 3rd one: I didn't take it, only edited it for a friend. Please click for bigger views :). I'm learning more and more, and it's so fun!! Can't wait to take more pictures ^^v.

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Feel of Spring!

So spring is finally here so I guess it's about time to start taking some more photos again :).

These are just some old pics I took last summer, but didn't have the time to edit them yet.

Really, editing can make a difference (I have a before and after pic below for comparison).

I'm only an amateur photographer, thankfully there's Photoshop. You can click for bigger view, and please do because the bigger pictures are better :D.

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Toy Camera - VistaQuest 1015 Entry, hm...

My brother recently got me a toy camera from Japan called VQ 1015 Entry (thanks so much bro!!) which is a little bit smaller than a credit card, but much thicker of course. And here I'm just testing it out. Not the best because I haven't done much outside shots when the weather is favorable yet, but since it's getting nicer lately I believe either this weekend or the next I might have some new batches. So far, I don't dislike it... I mean, it's just a point-and-shoot toy camera, therefore I'm not expecting much out of it. The hype for this little camera though is that despite its small size and price, it can do a lot. So far, what I have seen is that it can do really well is that its whites always seem to glow, very interesting. And the colors can become quite saturated. However, the viewfinder is totally useless, so I've learned to do without it. Therefore, the images always come out really unexpectedly. That also is the fun of it, as I never know how the shots will look like until I load them into my computer, haha. We'll have to wait and see... hm...

This is what the camera looks like. I have the black one:

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