All in all,

Haven't been uploading these days but I've been trying to do art everyday as promised.

But my work seems to be degrading somehow it's frighteningly sad. I am not too sure how these two words can come together but yeah.

Spoke to zhenming previously about illustration and his perception towards it. And I started to question myself about what exactly is the fine line between illustration and art? Are they at all the same thing? And does my work qualify as a good illustration? I've never been confident about my works and I wonder if I will ever be. But yeah what makes a good illustration and how can I strive towards a good creation? Perhaps I should really sit down one day and set goals for my art making. Or maybe start working experimentally, exploring different things and make new discoveries. 

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I've been working on a lot of things these days but I haven't found the time(or motivation) to post them up here.

1. I worked on nat's 21st birthday card. It's been a while since I've spent so long on making cards for people. I guess I never could find time to make these in the midst of study/training/homework.

(I will post this up once I get the image from nat haha)

2. Tried out lino cutting to make stamps for zhenming's "farewell/graduation" gift.
I forgot to take an image of the actual product but this is how it looks after it's stamped

3. Helped san design her wattpad novel book cover

The idea of trade came with the use of the term "bargain" so i decided to depict the image of a handshake which conveys the mutual agreement among both parties.

The division of red and white is supposed to indicate the two factions/parties. I wanted to do a vertical division with the dissecting line in the middle initially but the overall aesthetic outlook doesn't look as appealing as this one so yep.

Support san's book by reading it on wattpad!

4. I'm working on ko's 21st card as well

(I have no idea why I have so many friends who are 21 this year :/
I still have a 21st party to attend this coming Friday)

5. I participated in the Affordable Art Fair Fred Lives Here furniture design competition and I got selected! So the pink furniture got delivered to my place today, I'm supposed to work on it till 21 May for delivery to the fair venue. My chair design will be exhibited at the AAF! Please support by heading there. The fair's on from 23-25 May 2014.

Here's how the pink DSW chair looks like (image taken from the affordable art fair web)

Wood

Day 9

I'm working on this baby tonight, am trying to create an organic abstract shape. But it might take a while, hopefully I will get it done by next week. My carving knives are so blunt, it's taxing on the fingers.

"UNTITLED"

Day 7

I was (am still) very interested in the overlaps and joints, somehow hmm.

Day 8

I hesitated whether I should upload unfinished works but I think this would be a good practice for me, to force myself to do my best for every piece I work on. I wonder if I'm lazy or just afraid to embark on longer projects for fear that I will end up disliking them/ not completing them well. So this time instead of working on my usual quick illustrations, I decided to try out something that might take a bit more time. Am gonna continue working on this tomz, wish me luck!

Green, browns and blue.

"THEY"

Really wanted to meet up with the boys, but we are all busy :(

Day 6

I've been working on a birthday card for a childhood friend, 

that will be up after it's done/ passed to her, haha.

It's a weird saturday. Hmm I get moody easily on saturdays, and idk why.

Picture's here!

365

It's been a long while since I've been here. wow haha, time flies.

I'm revamping this blog. Oh yeah. I got some old sketches scanned tadah/ am so proud of myself

Currently I'm working on this 365 project now, 

so I will be doing art everyday and hopefully keeping this blog up-to-date as well.

"WE ARE ALL ALIVE TOGETHER"

Liyi told me about this quote she really loved, and I thought about how I felt fortunate being aware of the different moments I should feel thankful for, even if they appeared to be mundane things/ lifestyle 

Day 1

"everyone's gold, and i hope you know"

Day 2

A drawing I did based on the kids I had class today with; 

they did a standing sculpture each based on certain restrictions I had for them and it was just fascinating to see how everyone's mind works differently (interestingly).

Day 3

Trying out typography for the first time!

Day 4

Typography sketch done!

A quote I came up with; was feeling blessed 

"THREE LINES AND THREE COLOURS"

"MOUNTAINS AND SUNS"

"MOUNTAINS AND SUNS II"

 "DIRTY SKY AND CLOUDS"

"OF COCONUTS AND PALM TREES"

I wanted to replace the usual green trees with a green sky

Day 5

A productive day

On side note, the scanning makes the work look so different. It looks so bad and I feel so sad.

Blow me away

I really like this one, did it a couple of days ago.

The texture, the words and the unexpectedness

Blind drawing

Pencil/pen

A5 

What rn

I think there are much more stuff that I can work on for this, especially the hands (hmm can you even tell what those are, haha) but it pretty much sums up the emotions that are keenly felt now. And it's been a while since I did any metaphorical drawings so it's good.

Hmm I seldom post the wordings accompanying the drawings but I think I should for this one. 

In this cocoon

I'd be immune

And I would hurt 

No more 

Ball point pen

A4