Dessert

I’ve been doing this on and off, I’m a little burnt out lately. Work sucks this past weeks. There’s an annoying client who keeps nitpicking on every little thing, it’s tiring to revise the same frames everyday so when I get home, I don’t even want to turn on my pc.

I ‘m going to try to oil paint this piece as a practice. Let’s see if I can mimic or if I can make this even better! Thanks to Mr. Ivan Roxas, he’s been an inspiration. He’s the reason why I want to take oil painting seriously. Hey Ivan, thanks for the Bouguereau book! It’s mine now! Mwahaha! Peace…again!

Anyways, about the piece. This was not my initial idea, she was supposed to be in a park with Cherry Blossom trees. I wanted this to be pinkish…but when I saw my sketch, it just didn’t strike me as something interesting and I bonked my head ‘cos I’m making pink flowers again. I especially like the worm and caterpillar ‘cos I can’t touch them in real life, I have a phobia with headless creepy crawlies that wiggle like fuck. They are very very creepy.

 Thank you for looking.  

Artist’s Mark?

     Last Thursday night while eating dinner with friends, Marvin (welcome to i.ph by the way!) noticed the ‘mark’ on my wrist. I told him that I like it and I call it the “artist’s mark” because i got it by drawing on the PC so much. Shelly got one too which makes Marv wonder why he doesn’t have one. 

      Violinists have their marks on their neck, writers on their middle finger, I think if someone uses their Wacom or is drawing on the table too much then they will get the mark on the same spot too. I’ve seen a couple of artists who were trying to avoid having this by wearing gloves, arm bands, or using a wrist cushion. But for me, I like it especially when it’s really red. Sorry if anyone got grossed-out by the image above.

I’d rather call it an “artist’s mark” than a callus you know? Mwahaha!

Exotique 4

My artwork on the left will be in Ballistic Publishing’s Exotique 4: World’s Most Beautful CG Characters.

I have Exotique 2 and I love it, it’s a thick book filled with good artworks. So I’m really happy that my art got included in Exotique 4. I’m in two cool artbooks this year, not bad kei, not bad… *pats back*

Artbooks are like medals in an artist’s resume, donchathink? 

Congrats to all the artists who made it too.  

Dreams

   I’m a bit lazy to do artworks now and even if I want to my PC in my parent’s house is so slow. The image above is all that I managed to do. LOL!

I had another weird dream last night. (I bet those who know me are rolling their eyes now, saying “Here she goes again!”) I have very weird dreams and I like telling them. Mwahaha. >:D

Anyways, this one isn’t that weird but it’s the second time that a dream like this happened. I’m just gonna make this short. I was at Starbucks and apparently a contest/promo was happening. The barrista was announcing that in our books (in the dream everyone was reading a book and was drinking coffee!) there’s a mark that will say we won P200,000. Everyone was surprised and checked the pages of their books except me. I was just quiet. Then when everyone told the barrista no one got the mark, the barrista looked at me and asked me to check mine. I gave him a blank face and opened my book.There it was! The “You’ve just won P200,000″ mark! Everyone applaud and congratulated me but there’s this guy sitting near me saying that he should’ve won instead of me so I tore the page with the mark out of my book and gave it to him. Everyone got confused including the guy, he asked why did I gave it to him so easily? I looked at him and said, “This is just a dream, how can I brag this to my friends?!” I woke up pissed.

The first dream that I had similar to this one was some time ago. I dreamt that someone gave me a big toy train with tracks, tunnels, and hills laid out in a room. I was so happy even though in real life I don’t like toy trains, I find them creepy and uh, I am an adult in that dream, how can I like toy trains?! Anyways, the train was set up in my grandma’s house. When my parents saw what was laid out in the room, my mom wondered, “Hmm…how can we pack this and transport this back in our house?” I smiled at her and said “Don’t worry mom, this is just a dream. I know I’ll wake-up before we get to that part.” The funny thing is that I woke up wanting that train, I got weirded by myself so I shook it off. =P

That’s all. I’m gonna sleep now and hopefully dream another weird one. G’nyt~

Textures

I am not fond of putting textures from pictures in my personal works, my mentality is that if you can paint it then paint it. If you need to make a special brush–a brush NOT from pictures but the ones you make yourself–then do it. In our studio though, we put picture textures a lot to give our frames a realistic feel or just to give them a certain oomph. =P  I have nothing against those who put picture textures in their works, in fact, I admire those who use them well. In my opinion, bad texturing can make your artwork look cheap and amateurish. For example, a tiled floor put in an artwork without any hint of perspective will break the artwork no matter how good the render is.

Why am I saying these stuffs? Well because…I am giving out free textures/images! Do anything you want with them. Credit or link back to this site is nice but is not necessary just don’t claim them as yours. =) These were all taken in my house. XD Click “more” link below to see all 34 images!

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