May day

Have been brainstorming a storyboard for this song these days, one describing of regrets and hopes, but whether I get down to do it is another thing... haha. Went to Mayday's concert with Ada and Diana yesterday... and my, didn't know it's gonna go all the way past midnight. The atmosphere's pretty high there, but I end up thinking about my current position instead of jumping and waving my hands in the air. Upon seeing these guys perform, I wondered if there was a time they felt sick of it and wanted to call quits. But hey, maybe they're happier off doing music than any other thing else. Whatever that comes along with it, part and parcel of it. Guess that acceptance is something that I still can't really... kind of give it a green light thing. If not, I won't give a damn about ntu, haha... Wonder if I idealised 'art' a bit too much.

That half-depressing thought made me a bit idle there throughout the show...I was sitting down actually, the seats in front of me were all empty cos everyone had ran up close to the extended stage, giving a real clear view even as I sit and enjoy the music. Turned my attention to Ada's camera and caught a few photos of the group members.




She kept getting blurred photos due to her shaky hands, and not to mention, the shaky platform, almost everyone around are jumping in their place. And there comes Ashin walking past the platform for the thrid time (we're sitting real close to the stage, on it's left, I can see them clearly with my glasses..), not missing the chance to snap some photos there.





Haiz... clear but wierd wierd.

And then it came to an end. They performed a lot of songs, mainly from the new album that I bought not so long ago. We left the stadium, to know that the chartered buses were all gone. Our last resort was to haul a cab (or two to be exact), but all cabs that turned into the stadium roads were all 'on call'. It seems like some ulu place that no cabbie will roam everyday, hoping to get a customer. So we just walk around, and managed to catch one randomly. The two ladies let me have it first, since I lived very far from the stadium. Can't thank them enough... the cabbie happened to live in Bukit Batok too, so he didn't have a problem getting me back in the fastest time. Nice uncle....

End of another week...

waa... so fast, another week gone.



Came back home after classes today... and couldn't resist painting again. This time, I tried refering to magazines for some pictures of asian girls, for the face... but somehow, ended up feeling like I'm running in circles. So I went on to render the clothing...

...Homework, yea... homework time.. haha.



Just some random videos for my animation homework... And can't believe it.. that guy just sit there and play and won nia! Amazing...



Lobbying!

Accounting Tutorial 2...

Oh yea... tutorial 2... and our group kena arrow to present the answers in ppt to the class. T_T To think that I've not grasp the definitions and all... Argh. Couldn't answer the questions others brought up properly... and I was very nervous before the entire thing. I wasn't confident at all in this whole accounting thing. Quite disappointed with myself... have been mugging the past five days, doing nothing but financial accounting the moment I'm at home or having free time to myself in school, and in the end, I still can't get much in. Roughly understood how it works... but the words just stun me. I find myself shutting down when I face the questions. Sad la... feel more like an accounting student than an art student nia... But it's for my own good in the future I think, me knowing nothing at all but draw and draw. Maybe through this business minor, I might learn some important things that'll help.

Hehe, and for once, I started drawing again. Someone asked me about my digital works recently, and thinking back about it, there ain't much digital paintings. So hand itchy le, tried to do some digital painting. Dunno how to start, forgot how to go about... so long since I dunnit. Since I just wanted to paint, grabbed a random picture of Hikaru from Magic Knights Rayearth (have been flipping through it recently during toilet breaks...) and tried doing a digital painting. Reference a bit from Khim Hyung Tae's illustrations, but in the end, still went smudging everything....



Time to go study the face properly... Haiz.

Slacking on a Saturday

Went back to school this morning to complete my first animation assignment. Entered the animation room and was greeted by a half zombiefied classmate - Sheng Yi. She seemed to have camped there the entire friday night to finish the assignment. Kind of surprised me a bit that one will go to the extent of staying over for a bouncing ball animation... but she have her reasons. Checked out her animation, and it was neatly done, however, the ball a bit too squishy, like what she put it 'a dying slime from Maplestory'. (Haha, never thought I'll hear that in university.) Guess next time, I'll do 2d animation work during the weekends. It's really peaceful, hardly a soul there.

Chop chop finish the animation, went home, thinking about accounts... Yea, it's scary for me since the lecturer has already gone to chapter 4 of the book and I'm still not done reading chapter 2. However... I got very distracted by this computer and started doing redundant things like printing as much of my previous blog entries as I could. (Ah yah, I'm doing a little compilation there, since this blog is like a diary and log of my drawings, I considered that putting it on the internet isn't gonna last longer than it being in my cabinet.) After that, back to the thick Macgrawhill accounts book.

... Dang, my fingers got itchy.



Gray from Fairyatail. Drawn a month or two ago, but didn't know what to do with it. Seeing my box of derwent color pencils collecting dust, I decided to do some color pencil render... Realised I'm rusting....

Back to 'Williams, Haka, Bettner's' accounts... and in comes 'ming zhong zhu ding wo ai ni' playing on dvd in the bedroom. Argh...

Tomorrow maybe... slacking just a day... I wonder if I have been taking this accounts too seriously.

First Oil Painting Assignment!

Just a little look into the first figurative painting class I had! It's a pretty fun experience, and oil painting is just addictive....

I missed out my very first class actually... it appeared that there were some screw ups in the timetable, and the supposed Thursday class was actually together with the Tuesday class. So.. I didn't know what to bring or do for the following class. Rang up Beryl for some help, and glad she did fill me in on some important stuff. However, I bought the wrong paints, thinking that the colors needed were actaully the primary colors when Ms Joan Kelly asked for a slightly toned down palette of yellow ochre, burnt sienna, any type of blue and white. Ah well, different teachers have different ways I guess. Using Van Gogh brand... was nothing compared to what the school can supply... Man! I couldn't believe they got Old Holland stuff and no one touched it!!!!! O_O Free for all to take!!!! OMG... (that cost three digits for a tube... but the colors are super vibrant!)



The setting... We were told to bring a white object, which I forgot totally while I rushed out of my house that day... so anyhow kapok some objects in the room. Shawn, Beryl and I were kind of stuck to a corner there, a pretty bad corner actually, we hardly any space for the standing easels. Joan saw our situation and taught us how to use the foldable easels. It's a good thing we learn that, cos the foldable easels are adjustable to the point that we can sit on short stools and paint with ease while others had to either stand or sit on the tall stools, which were pretty uncomfortable.



After the first lesson, this was what I had on my wooden board. All messy and patchy, but it was fun. I hardly noticed we've overshot the lesson time. Since it must be completed by the following week, I went back today to get it done.



Random work in progress... Did away with the belt, cos the straightness of it is just awkward in the composition.



And this was what I've did by the end of today's self-initiated session....! Struggled with the pot... couldn't seem to make it 3d enough. Guess it's proportions isn't very accurate. Realised I tend to make the picture look kind of rough, some kind of spontaneous start and a careful end, still being able to see the brush strokes. There was a guy who rendered his picture very smoothly. Maybe I can challenge myself to do the 'Van Eyck' way next time, haha.

Wednesdays

No classes on wed, so I'm free for a day every week... or maybe not... Haha, wanted to study accounts today, but end up painting the entire morning. Another piece of the Cygnus knights, Irina.. again. Realise I like to play with long hair in the pictures, haha.



Got a tube of white gouache while at BB purchasing some oil painting materials at Straits Commercial. The old man serving me was enlightening me with his knowledge of materials there. Didn't know zinc white is more suitable for mixing colors while titanium white is more opaque and suitable for highlights. No wonder I had some hard time with highlights sometime back when I was using zinc white gouache. Ah well... pocket's empty now... 72 bucks for 5 tubes of paint, 3 brushes, oil, turpentine... Guess no Natsu Matsuri for me this year...

Oil painting class was fun. Didn't take a shot of my painting yesterday, cos me forgot to bring my cam. I realised my technique changed quite a lot from the last attempt of oil painting (only did it about twice, haha.) From using lots of oil to impasto. The first line the tutor said when she saw it was "now that's some ferocious painting!" Haha... maybe it's frustration. Still trying to digest that accounting info and finding my way of remembering terms... Notes doesn't help. Mind mapping... I end up spending more time with the fonts and unimportant stuff... -_- As for 3D, the tutorials from the book seems to help more than the classes, to say the truth. Starting to get a little hang of the software, but it's down to animation basics in the end, unless I decide to head for the technical area, which I'd rather do with clay.

One Big Goodbye

Yea, Wush has gone to Ringling! As a farewell gift, CC and I came up with a plan of consolidating artworks and notes from friends, making it some kind like the autograph book I started a year ago. While he went around sending messages about the consolidation (dunno how he managed to collect the works there haha), I tried to come up with a way to put them all together. First thought was a box, cos I wonder if people might come up with (literally) 3d stuff within the A5 size that can't be binded. However, thinking about the traditional artworks, they still need some film cover to keep the art piece in better condition, so ended up with a file concept again... Tried to make it less formal, so went around looking for cloth and everything for a handmade cover for the file. Haha, my sewing ain't good, so mum helped out with the sewing while I try to make the best of the materials. Didn't take a picture of it tho... T_T Shoulda done it...

As for my piece.... I thought of drawing a watercolor piece, but after sometime, for some reason, I just couldn't get it done nicely, despite having the idea in mind. (see lah.. didn't draw for sometime, rusty...) Then looking at the bdae card wush gave me sometime back... it was done with collage: pieces from the magazine and a little doodle on colored paper. I remembered Fiona's paper artwork, art pieces done by cutting and assembling from different colored papers. It's a meticulous process, having to deal with tiny pieces of paper and the 'fragility' of some papers, but the result is really satisfying to look at. So.. dug up that pile of old construction papers and started cutting.




The only w.i.p photo. Messy workdesk, of course :D



Finished product!!A witch on a broom. Hope she comes back conjuring great magic!

And yea, the project went pretty ok. There were at least 10 pieces in the file, and haha, I was quite right to worry about the 3D artworks, and it was Nic who had some ribbon tied to the card she made, however, I guess it still managed to fit into the transparent sleeves. Love her work, the cute 'caricaturing' of people hahaha~ Really glad everyone put in their effort to make it... :D

Airports are a place of meetings and farewells I guess... So many memories there, wonder how long since Fiona left...? There were many people sending wush off at terminal 3, haha, the DMD gang, the ex (and non ex) scrawl gang and the wushu gang! She arrived pretty late, so in that short time, the poor girl was being pulled here and there to take photos... However, could see she hoped to spend a bit more time with her family there.. Seeing Pearlyn hugging wush so long, I wonder if the wushu people are closely knitted cos they fight alongside each other? Haha, hopefully the next time I go back to the airport, it's more laughter...

The Fire Wizard

Borrowed a book of watercoloring angels from the school library the day before. From font to book binding...it looked very much like a kiddy book, but the illustrations quite caught my attention. Maybe it's the stained glass look... Or possibly cos it reminded me of the art noveau pictures I attempted to study during the holidays (and didn't of course...). Anyways, I began doodling this picture of Oz out.



Turns out a bit more CLAMPy than I thought....

Aim was to color, so didn't care much about the drawing.... Haha (lame excuse of bad proportion...) My tube of white gouache dried up.. so substituted it with acrylic, which didn't come out very good. Used a penknife to scratch out the whites instead. Guess it's time to go out and buy supplies!

School.... yea, craft of writing module. I thought Lecture theatre 1 was situated with the bunch of lecture theatres at South Spine... only to find out that it was in the further end of North Spine... T_T Walked all the way from S4 to the Food Court at North Spine... (hungry but can't eat cos of lecture...) Although I only managed to catch 30 minutes of the lecture, it seems like this module is pretty promising... And NO EXAMINATIONS. Ohhhh yeah. Assignments dun kill, oh no it don't...

Loading Year 2 Scenarios...

Yesh!! Leveled to Year 2!!! Lol.... games...

Anyway, so fast and I'm back to school. And yea, I guess I have a habit of really doing nothing when nothing is going on.... (eg. long holidays.) But when I'm busy, everything just comes out... ahhh..... >_< Time to make a checklist of things to remind myself. Hope it works!

And year 2! Ahhhh....... apart from the compulsory animation modules, I took up something errr...extra - Accounting. Not something I will do maybe... but won't say I hate numbers to the core. Something tells me that for my future survival in the society, I should at least know abit of financial and managerial stuff. Geez, the first IRAS i recieved from the nyp internship kinda left me in a blur. (And what the hell is that sheet of paper...>:-/) And that NTUC income letters.... I dun understand what they mean, neither do I understand when I asked for assistance in understanding the letters. So... looking through the list of courses in ntu, the minor in Business kinda stood out to me, so why not? It's not waste if it helps me in my understanding how this entire business world works, at least if I owe gahmen money I know lah.

Went to get the accounts book... and it's freaking thick. Makes me wonder if it's worth buying for a semester of lessons... Heck. Bought liao. At least it makes the information clearer to me than the lecture slides...And it's great to have a uni lecturer at home to teach me accounts...

Let's see.... Figurative painting next. Went for lessons today only to realise the classroom empty. Didn't want to waste my day there, so went to the library to borrow some books. Met Ruifan, who told me that the painting class was probably merged into one class on Tuesday, which she heard from a friend who attended the lesson. NGGAAAhhhhhh...... T_T There goes my first lesson of oil painting....

3d production class.... brings back memories of the days in block M mac lab where Mr Adrian talks and no one listens cos no one could catch up. Got a bit smarter this time round and readied my pen and note. I hardly touched the computer all the while, cos my hands were busy jotting down the entire procedure on paper. Easier to understand it that way, I guess. (Suddenly feel Mr Stevens is a great tutor....)

Left with the writing module which starts tomorrow and a 2d animation class which starts next week... Looking at my modules, seems like it's gonna be quite a lot to learn and do...

Oh yah, so far saw Yao Hui, Russell, Ivan (I think) and the most unexpected person - Yumi. Met her in the library today. Seems like her group got arrowed to do the first art history presentation... good though, cos towards the end of the semester, she'll have one less module to worry about. Yao Hui's group tio Qing... wonder anyone has gotten Chris for 3D.... hoho.