Ooh la la ^^, busy busy again :)

Woah long time no post but again, I've been so busy that I almost forgot about this blog. I just finished my finals last week and already am working seasonal at a bookstore company full-time. The job is pretty demanding and I found myself so overwhelming and frustrating but I'm trying my best to finish off my work at the end of the day but I still have to rely on others to get me through... Oh well but I will elaborate later on what I'm up to at another time.

I also am keeping myself busy making hand-made gifts for friends... Too bad I can't find much time to do these like I did last year. However, I am coming up with some images for a simple calendar/scheduler :D. I'm really really proud of them ^^. Here's a few thumbnails of what I've been working on, I have more but these are just samples until I print them off and bind them together.

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Walking in the winter wonderland :)

I felt very comfortable drawing this one. Possibly because I'm a very detailed drawer who is not used to express my ideas so openly, and the new drawing allows me to be just myself drawing the way I want to. The last one was more of a drawing to 'please' my professor. As much as I hate to admit it, the previous drawing failed short, and all the marks I made weren't genuine. To me, it's so important to be genuine in everything that I do... if I don't, I feel quite a big discomfort. I love textures and patterns and chaos... and this time, I did the same thing but in a much more order manner... and it pleases me so :). The whole drawing is just that: lines, and lots of repeating patterns. It's therapeutic to do that. I got in a trance working on this drawing 4 hrs straight this morning, and didn't feel tired at all! I guess the environment helped too. I was working in a quiet room with the snow drifting outside listening to thunderstorm sound on my Ipod (repeatedly, I only have this one track XD, it relaxes and soothes me so well, plus, it helps me so much to concentrate).

Some close-ups (click for bigger view):

Anyhoo, I'll go back to study now. Ja!

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Hello December!!!

Woah, truly I only had one blog post for November? What had I done all last month?
Well, the truth is that really I had been lacking quite a bit as of late, more on the matter of keeping track of this blog. Plus, there was just so much going on last month, with the holiday and parties and such, lol.

I was only able to complete one more drawing for Printmaking. This drawing was done on a much bigger stone (~ 24x30 in) and it took a while to get my ideas settled. Though I'm not sure how much I like this one, it seems like just a poor imitation of my previous one... We will see... I just lost my enjoyment half way through drawing this one, unlike the last one.

Progress shots again:

And this is my wood sculpture for the second project. I had just completed the third sculpture like two weeks ago, which was a metal project but I was just too lazy to take picture of it. And yes, I know the background behind this sculpture is totally distracting, but again, laziness got in the way XD. I'll see if I could have better pictures taken for my metal sculpture.

Another close friend of mine had her birthday just last week and I thought making an amigurumi would be an ideal gift for her. And guess what, she really liked it, which made it all worthy. I'm getting better at crocheting these little animals as well. I guess the longer you're doing them, the better you will be.

Okay, it could be because I haven't been practicing writing at all for a whole month, but today I feel like every sentence I made sound half-assed. Seriously! I'm not in the mood to talk anyways, so yea... at least, I put some works up finally -__-, I'm happy :).

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Let's talk... Clay!

Uhm, something has gotten into me, guess it was this urge to create these cute characters. I happen to have these Sculpey clays ready since last winter but never once touched them yet. So last night in between study sessions I decided to try doing something out of them, and the results can be viewed above, lol XD.

Some close-up shots:

That bear was a pain to make, but it was worth it :).

My mom is a fan of the male daikon figurine, haha XD. She said he looks like my 9th uncle, uhm yea...

As for me, I love the cucumber dude, hehe...

Ahhh, No-Face!!! I'm really in love with that character after watching Spirited Away.

While I was there, I made a new charm for my phone as well, a cookie and candy jar :).

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Lithography nightmare -__-;;

... as in how time consuming it could be.

I finally got my 2 drawings for Printmaking printed. And yesterday has got to be one of the most exhausting school days for me ever for I spent freakin' 19 hours in school, working nonstop. Guess how many hours were spent on printing these babies? 13 hours all together :D (though I was printing with another friend, so we did together 20+ prints, and not 10, so that's why it took so long). Uh-huh... talk about the aftermath of procrastination, lol XD. Though to be honest, I didn't procrastinate all that much for Printmaking which is a class I love... but more like lithography is just so time-consuming. I'm glad my instructor really likes the prints, and he proposed that I continue on with lithography in which he thinks I have the potential to go farther, and have mezzotint as a side project. However, I'm just so grateful I got these done. The feeling of accomplishing and completing something is one of the most rewarding feelings ever. I came home at 3:30 am this morning in the cold rain after standing and working for freaking 18 hours straight and my feet just wanted to collapse but I felt totally peaceful. It was just wonderful, wonderful I tell yah.

I call this piece Flow. This is the final print, but I'm not happy with how it turned out... too dark and lots of details were lost T_T.

Now this is the drawing on the stone... See, this is how I want my prints to look like, but my lack of experience really ruined it.

Progress shots.

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A quiet chaos

Got one of my drawings for printmaking done today... It was fun, but time consuming like always. What I'm afraid of is how to get it printed as best as possible. Hm... Here's also the process of the drawing, lol. I was bored as you can see :).

One more to go :D!!! And the stone for this next drawing is huge, hahaha... exciting ^o^v...not hahaha. I have an idea, but it's still so fuzzy that's why this time it's gonna be a challenge filling up all the big space. It's not like I have to work at it in such a controlled manner like how I did for the above drawing... but still, there's expressive line work and there's sloppy line works, certainly it's the latter I tend to fall into when I go loose.

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Stress reliever

A place where I belong...

Bigger view

I learned how to make patterns as above in Illustrator and tried it right away and came up with this little digital drawing ^^. To view a larger version, just click on the text below. I'm sorry for the ugly watermark, but we are living in a time where stealing virtually has gotten so much easier, and even though this drawing is not a pretty one by any mean, I still want to protect what little I have, so yea.

My mind is so troubled, and doing this drawing took away the stress until I could think straight again. I'm about to make some important decision, and I don't want to be rash or immature in this matter *sighs*...

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