Showing posts with label traditional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional. Show all posts

8 April 2011

Me, Me, Me and Me??

was busy with loads of final assignments lately, since its the final semester of my foundation year. Moving on to our major next semester. Yay, i cant wait~
Its the last 2 weeks of the sem and seeing as im free at the moment, decided to upload some of the final assignments that has been passed up.


For our History of Arts class, we had to do a multiple self-portraits of ourselves.
We had to do 4 diff selves, each using different mediums and different styles.
1-traditional medium, 2-photographic self, 3-imitate a pre-1950s Modern Art styles and 4-done in any way we wish.

For my 1st piece, i did it using the trusty pencil. Was a bit awkward drawing myself, hardihaha...
You could say i didnt really put much effort into doing this one cos i was cramping this @ 5am, so go figure.
But am glad how it turned out, at least... it looks like me. XD

As for 3rd piece, i had loads of fun experimenting with this self-portrait as i could do it in a famous artist's style.
I have chosen to do Expressionism from one of the major movement, der Blaue Reiter.
Paul Klee was my chosen artist because i like how he creates a painting just by using square patches.
It was a scary experience for me while colouring this as my audience may mistaken my work as Cubism.
I apologize for not showing my 4th piece here although i spent the most time on it but i felt that it wasn't good enough and that i could have done better to achieve the look that i wanted.


As for my CG class final project, we had to do a self-portrait too but in Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau movement.
I had tons of fun experimenting with this style too for you see; ornaments, details, women and curvilinear are essentials in an Art Nouveau movement, so everything about this is definitely dazzling. ^^
So um yea, we had to choose a character. It was a headache for me to choose cos i had so many in mind like fairies, joker from the tarot card, magician etc~

I ended up with... uhh yea, im sure you can guess. If not, then i failed miserably at achieving what i wanted, again. orz

10 September 2010

TOA week1

Ok... so i've been Missing-In-Action this whole week. I know~
Its cos im so busy driving up & down to TOA that i feel so tired everytime i come home. Thus, lazy to on9 and whatnot.
But its been fun this week, although bit stress but its cool.
p/s: banyak weekly assignments. so yea, gotta prepare for the worse. T___T

9/09/2010
Thank god for afternoon class. Finished art class. This class would be fun for those who loves getting their hands dirty, cos this class requires a lot of hands-on work.
This week's assignment? Is to do a diamond-shaped box. *stresslevelshootsup*
After class, went to HoneyMoon at Pyramid for tea with my new pals. Yum, we were all in a sudden craving for desserts.
|frm ur left: Nicole & Shirly|
So many desserts to choose from. We took like 15mins to figure out what to order. ROFL~ All look so yummy. XP
|fruits dessert|
|Nicole's double scoop ice-cream with fruits|
|mua chi|
|Gek's vanilla dessert with sago|
|Jetnie's mung beans dessert|
|me Chocolate Love ice-cream|
|Shirly's Strawberry Magic...|


8/09/2010
Class ended at 6.30pm and now im back home @ 8.30pm. 2 hours later? Blardy jam sial.
For the 1st time of my life, im enjoying History class. LMAO~ cos its History of Arts & Design.
So we learn about all the arts history from Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia and so on. Very cool. ^^

Drawing1 class was awesome. We did still-life drawing today, more like a test. 2 and a half hours to complete the drawing. 
|the drawing studio|
There were 4 tables at each corner with their own diff objects, so we get to choose what we wanna draw. I chose the one with the winebottle.
It was kinda difficult, cos i usually just draw still-life but do not shade it. This time its a must-shade! Hands shivering like crazy, using at least 4 pencils from 2H to 2B to 4B to 8B! *pullshair*
|my crappy still-life XD|

7/09/2010
Language & Communication Skills class was ok i guess. Its so zzz to me cos its English. 
I mean, im good at English so learning it again for the 4th time since i started college is kinda tiring.
Design1 class was ok i guess. The lecturer was funny. We did dots design today. 
First, we had to draw a sketch of something u like and then try to use dots/circles to complete the drawing. OMG... artblock moment!

6/09/2010
First day of class - Figure Studies. Um, there was a test given when the lecturers came in. WTH?!
A self-portrait and side view portrait of the opposite gender. LoL~ with no reference [for the self-portrait]. Stress right? 1st day of class got test alr. haha...
The lecturer was kinda boring. He cant speak English well, and always with the um, uh, liddat, blah blah etc~ Ok, like since when lecturers use blah blah blah? ROFL~

15 August 2010

MIA updates

OMG... i deeply apologize for MIA the last few weeks. My blog was having some problems so i had to shut it and go under maintenance.
Im not sure what was the problem, cos some of my posts went missing, the layout changed and... some tiny lil details went haywired. So that is why i no longer blog @ art-ofmy-life.blogspot.com.


I changed my blog add and try to recover back my posts that i lost. It was so freaking troublesome and i was non-stop trying to bring my blog back to life. Life was busy the last 2 weeks.

However, certain stuffs are still un-clickable, like my row of 2nd header at the top. Still WIP.

I dunno... maybe i shouldnt blog @ blogger anymore. Was thinking of changing blog sites, maybe xanga/ word press/ livejournal etc~
There's so many to choose from but cos blogger being the most common used blog site, so i use it. But i hear that wordpress/ livejournal is better. I may check it out and migrate there. Will see~

So here's the updates for the past 2 weeks.

OMG... this is gonna be freaking long. DX

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1-08-10
Celebrated Rachel's birthday today in advanced. Her actual birth date is on the 10th.
Went to Bkt Jelutong for the lunch party.

|Ann's baby and im the god-mum... Usa-kun. She made it for Rach. So nice, i want one also XD|
|the boys... busy with football|
|bro rocking out with uncle's guitar|
|peek-a-boo... she ended up covering our faces XD|

Present time... i dunno why she wanna open it before cutting the cake. XD
|confused as to which present was from who|

Really the norm, nuff said.
The usual, the kids played... and i played.... and chat with Ann about cosplay plans [not sure if its gonna happen TAT]
The birthday cake was Vanilla Lychee flavoured. Kinda new... never heard of it before.

|the adorable sisters|
|the cousins... gals only|
|so obvious i didnt took this pic. Ann failed at taking pics. haha|

The cake was surprising nice. Coming from a name called vanilla lychee, we thought it might taste a bit weird, u know.
Ann and I even had second helpings. ^^ [grow fat nevermind... i need to gain a bit weight XD]
After filling our stomachs, we headed upstairs for more cosplay plan talks. But sadly, we were later interrupted by the kids who came in screaming and jumping on us. :/

I was drawing RinxLen magnet version on the scribbler pad. Um, u know those drawing pads where u can draw and then erase it with a swoosh of the thingy [magnetic like]. Not sure if u understand, if u do then ok. ^^
I drew it to show Ann what RinxLen look like in Magnet version. Then i drew Miku magnet version and the kids was like: "so nice..." and asked me to draw for them. DX

Rach quickly took out her artblock and pencil and asked me to draw Miku magnet. 
So i did, and younger sis Renee got jealous and asked me to draw for her too. OMG, since when i was doing request? LoL~
I drew for her a anime portrait version of Renee. She wanted long hair, star necklace and a mini hat. hehe~


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3-08-10
Here's some works i drew on my dear sketchbook. Havent colour them.... YET. Will do so when im free and free from replenishing this stupid blogger. XD


|a part from "We Belong Together"... |

|this was drawn prior to triple emo moments. Also a small part only|


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7-08-10
Uncle and family was back from SG, this time to visit my grandma.
She fell down a couple of days back and got some stitches, so uncle was worried and came back to see her.
And also cos its a long weekend holiday as Monday is SG Independence Day.



Uncle got some KHR thing for my bro. So nice, i also want one. XD
Its like a door hanger, u know those that says: "Im taking a nap, do not disturb". Yea, just that this one the sentences are more like the charas frm KHR.
I got a cute lil mirror pocket and snack from Japan from my aunt.



Went to Papa Johns at Aeon Bkt Tinggi for dinner.
Yumyum... me love Papa Johns, better than Pizza Hut. ^3^
|bro and aunt... ^^|
We ordered Hawaiian Papa cos it has extra cheese toppings! Hooray for cheese.
|cousin Ashley|
|some wedges,chicken wings & onion rings... to go with their owhsome garlic butter sauce|
|dear beloved aunt and her drink, some kind of mix soda|



After that, dropped by Comic Paradise for a quick browse.
My aunt ended up buying the whole set of "Kaichou wa Maid-sama" mangas. She wanted "Kuroshitsuji" too but some of the volumes were sold out. Yep, she's an otaku also. [haha, half-otaku]
I got myself 2 mangas. Was attracted to its cover, very traditional/olden asian era.
Reached home and quickly read the latest copy of Maid-sama [Bk10]. The story is very exciting now, i wanna read the next book fast!!!!!!! XD
|the mangas that i bought|
|aunt's Kaichou wa Maid-sama collection|


2 July 2010

Breeze

Ohai, sorry for not updating anything for awhile. I was caught up in other things related to TOA so....

Anyways, been going back to basic that day when all of the sudden i wanted to do a watercolour piece. I really cant remember when was the last time i held up my darling sable brush.
So i decided to wing it. Drew something simple and colour it, to fulfill my abundance of "nothing-better-to-do-ness". XD
I guess its kinda fugly?! haha... i really need to get used to watercolour again cos i love watercolours very much back in the olden days.
I think i kinda feel bit rusty here... OTL but still, i felt joy when i was using watercolours again. The sweet sweet traditional medium. Sometimes its nice to just sway away from digital and go back to traditional. ^^






BTW, did any bloggers out there realize that blogger changed its interface? I kinda hate the new Blogger.
I mean, it was nice to have the newly added template designs but i hate the fact that its screwing up the htmls and such. My blog is going haywire, well not to u readers but to me, the author editing it.

The widgets at your sidebars are now compulsory to have a title, instead of putting a pic to replace the title. If you already have a pic there before the new blogger changed, then its safe. But if u wanna update a new pic then its compulsory for u to add a title. $%#&@@*%#
I so f***-ing hate it. I want the old blogger back!!! That is also the reason why i dont update as often cos its really bugging me. Maybe i should change to another blog site... maybe xanga or something~