Mom, Dad and the Couch... an untold story

Who knows a simple couch could tell so much story about its inhabitants... As I come and go by this couch dozen times a day, I'd never noticed much activities around it. Until, one day when it was raining outside and as I gazed outside the windows... the vision of my dad sleeping struck me... so peaceful, so simplistic, just like my dad. And today when I came home, I saw my mom reading just at the exact couch: focused and meditated... So I present you today the untold story of my mom, my dad and the couch.

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Summer is here! Time to draw :D

Sunny Bunny!!! Just a practice in Illustrator, I tried to learn more about Illustrator; I still suck evidently >.<... Not much to talk about, it's just that it's getting busy for me :). I signed up for summer classes, and am currently in one right now that is only 3 weeks long; but that also means I have to be in class everyday for 3 hours and exams and stuff come right in the first week. Plus work right after class, apparently. I feel like there will be no fun for me this summer,

dunno why -____-; Some sketches..

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I really liked this one... I don't know what to call him just yet. Hopefully we'll see more of him in the future :D.

Haha... See that little cellphone sticking out behind his back. He's one busy busy man, hehe...

Woah, some ancient looking oriental boy, cute eh .^^.

random sketches in those boring classes I couldn't even remember... ah, art history and astronomy, ahha...

Got this one on my closet door. My goal is to fill that whole closet door with drawings and misc. stuff, haha... hope to get that completed before this year ends ;P.

That'll be it for this post. Strange, I don't feel like talking much today, plus I have so much to do, ahhh ..(> T ^ T )>.,,

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So... school is out -___-; what's next?

This is gonna be just a short post...
Remember the woodcut I showed you a picture of earlier? That woodcut took me forever to complete (stabbed my fingers a few times, old story, hehe), and the final result can be viewed below. It didn't turn out like how I expected of it much, though it was tolerable enough for me to turn it in for the final grade. I did well, the prof. liked it, some people in my class liked it, we had the shortest final critique I'd ever been to: around 20 mins to go over everyone's piece; and guess what, the rest of the time (yea, the remaining one hour and a half) was spent very wisely on... cleaning up, fun stuff ;D. What made me happy was that two of my pieces were collected to go into the permanent collection of the Printmaking Dept. and I was able to sell some prints during the print sale even though it wasn't a lot of money. You know, it has been so long since I last did anything worth mentioning, seriously. I fell so out of touch with art for the last two and a half years in school that I really did not know why I was still hanging on... Probably because I was too afraid to go a different route. I pushed off Printmaking time and time again, only too discover that I really like it. However, I'm not regretting anything, because if I was to take Printmaking earlier, I knew that I still wouldn't have liked it all that much, taking into consideration my attitude about art years ago. The heart does make everything different. I put a lot more heart into these woodcuts and prints than I ever did for any other classes... and it paid off... somewhat. More importantly, printmaking class inspired me to pursue art more seriously. If only (I hate that phrase a lot, but once in a while, I have to use it) I could change my attitude about graphic design... Note to self and goal of this summer: spend every freakin' day designing and doing graphics, even when my stupid brain refuses to cooperate (which it does quite often now whenever I want to design T^T), I HAVE to make myself motivated -______-;; I know I don't have any graphic works posted up... but seriously I didn't make any good ones to show at all. But that will change, or rather, I WILL make it change *furious foams*...

Title: Disturbed

Last but not least, I just wanted to say HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the Mothers in the world!!! And especially to my very dear lovely mother, I LOVE YOU LOTS AND LOTS <3333 (I know she won't be reading this, but I really just wanted to say that :D). Got something special special for her too, heheh :D... I hope you all have a good mother's day with your moms. Treasure your mothers, for you're extremely lucky to still have her by your side until this day. I thank the Lord everyday for my mom and family and friends. To still have someone to care for and say I love you is one of the greatest blessings ever. Have a wonderful day!!!!!!

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Final drawings and the toilet series ^^a

^ Aren't they cute? I took the picture one morning after driving my mom to work simply because they're so adorable :D.

Above picture features the two drawings I did for my Adv. Drawing class. I'm pleased with the result :). One thing with working independently is that you are free to explore all kinds of ideas, mediums and options, it was very fun. There is a drawback though... if you were less disciplined like me, it'd be hard to get anything done at all, haha... I procrastinated a lot through this, though the final drawings are something that I consider putting into my art portfolio, which I don't do very often. So it's all good I guess ^0^. And I'm hanging these with pieces of thread in the back, something I rarely do also. Once I get the drawings back I'd probably scan or take better pics of them for the portfolio and hang these in my study room ;).

(closer look, click to view bigger size)

And now, talk about randomness...

I present you: the Toilet Series :D.

Thinking of what else to do to them...

That's all for today. It's a short post but I did a marathon last night staying up until 6am so now I have no energy.

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Final projects and just a lot of randomness :)

Currently my hands are full working on some final projects for classes. I took a few pictures to share with you the progress on some of them:

A friend took these pictures of me posing like that girl from 'The Ring', ahahah ^___^;a...
Pretty good eh, perhaps I should audition for a ghost part in a horror movie in the near future :D.



Have a good day and God bless!!!!

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Reaching up

Model: Huong (be' Heo :D)
Date: 3/16/2009


Hey An, look!
Take this picture of me!
Hurry up with this shot, I can't hold it for any longer...

It was hard to keep up with her.
Energy. Like the summer sun. Bursting.
Though it was her quiet, meditated moment that held the frames.



Open.
You're gonna go far, you know.
Of course!
You're gonna look back on this day, and thought... did I say that?
I'll be sad, but your way is far open now.
Take your flight.

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There's a certain leaf that's called Chi...

April. Late afternoon.
Smiles, blue chewing gums sticking out of her lips.
Playfulness plagued my camera's lens, if only the weather was a bit warmer.





Aimless.
Where do you think you are going from there?
Silence. I don't know.
But one thing I'm sure of, the ending will come, and it is near.





Wind.
Do you feel that? Close your eyes.
There are certain things in life that you can only feel of its existence.
Your eyes, your ears, your tongue will deceive you.
Let go of your senses.
Feel.



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Model: Chichi
Date: 4/1/09

Just a few pictures of Chichi from our trip to Haymarket area downtown before twilight set in.
It was a beautiful day, albeit a little bit cold.
I made a joke earlier in the day with be' Heo on this very certain day, said I was going to confess my feelings to the guy that I like.
She said... why not.
I thought... yea, why not.
That thought of confession on April's fool day struck me as convenient.
Either way, it was not gonna hurt as much.
If busted, I could have just covered it up with a line... I was just kidding, did you fall for it?
In the end... I realized it was childish, and stopped.
Cowardice?
Perhaps.
But I didn't want to bother him after what happened to him before.
Right now, confusing him isn't what I want to do to him at all.

After that day, I stopped obsessing over him.
Opening that little drawer in my heart, I put all the good memories I had with him inside.
Closed it. Secured it. Treasured it. Yet, at the very bottom, far away from view.
It hurt the first few days afterwards. However, I made up my mind.
It's all for the better.
He didn't reject me. I didn't even confess.
But I knew... he doesn't have feelings for me, and that he's still hurt over his last lost love.
One day, his heart will be healed. He will love again.
Will that person be me?
I don't know.
Life is a never-ending mystery.
And I don't even want to find out just yet.

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