‘A’ stands for… February 2, 2010
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-3D, craft, design.Tags: bead, charm, felt, handphone, leather, sewing
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AYLA!
i made something for her. as a belated christmas present.
it’s a little handphone charm. wait, the little is kinda redundent, because no one really uses a HUMONGOUS handphone charm.
size: 3 x 2 x 0.8 cm (or the size of half a thumb)
materials: felt, beads, leather
it looks quirky and cute, like how ayla is to me (: we had a blast in vacouver!
VANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVER!
okay back on track. i hate the tiny stitches. and i used double thread. pain in the finger. and the negative space in the ‘A’ is so hard to cut out. i used a penknife (trusty thing). the little felt loop is…hopefully secure. i’ll see how it holds out.
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VANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVERVANCOUVER!
(because i can’t think of any other way to end the post.)
castle age madness January 22, 2010
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-digital, artworks-traditional, scribbles.Tags: ms paint, drawing, pencil, paper, man, sea, castle age, serpent
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you know you’re addicted to a facebook application when you wake up early to play before going to school. well, school started at 1300 today anyway, so it’s not exactly that early…
moving on, there’s this strange application called castle age. i play for the graphics. just google it or something. or fb it.
so during the chem lecture today, phearsa was doodling on her sketchbook. and i wanted to too. so she let me. so i drew a sea serpent, a la castle age. (it took quite little time, but i started at the end of the lecture, so when i finished we were the only two students left in the audi, and the chem teachers were eyeballing the two remaining students who were laughing hysterically. ie, us.)
no reference. size A5.
it’s stormy. and there’s lightning. and i was inspired to draw a serpent because i’m contending with two right now.
the stickman calling for help is supposed to be…well…let’s say, someone.
so then i went home. and discovered the ancient sea serpent (red in colour) was slain. and left the amethyst one. so i decided to draw some castle age fanart. with ms paint. because ms paint always yields ridiculous results (:
(oh by the way, i should mention to those who don’t play castle age, all the serpents look the same, save the colour.)
TAA DAA! it’s a sea serpent. you’re suppsoed to copy it and fill it with your favourite (or least favourite) colour. i had initially wanted to do a dotted line outline, like those cut-and-paste thingums, but was too lazy to do a white border, and dotted lines. it’s ms paint you know, not adobe photoshop.
so i started with the sky, then the sea, then erased the outline of the serpent and lined it black. and added the smiley face. all while having the actual image in a window next to the paint one. well, to be exact, the firefox was full screen, and the paint the tiny box.
i omitted the ships. too lazy distracting. would take attention away from the serpent.
so there! proof that i’m addicted to castle age. well, at least i’m better than abovementioned certain someone, who logs in during his lunch hour to hit the poor thing.
taylor the latte boy LIVE January 21, 2010
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nope. you won’t get to see/hear it here. didn’t manage to record.
so yesterday chia, xinhui, tingyi, phearsa, and i trudged back to nanyang to abuse the canteen piano. hwachongcollege doesn’t have one, you see, and we didn’t want to use the highschool one, because it’d be weird.
and we had a live performance of taylor the latte boy. me on the piano, chia singing, and xinhui & tingyi as the taylor. and the person we conducted it for was…touched. or scarred for life. i still haven’t found out which.
the person recorded it, audio, but doesn’t want to upload it though. so i don’t think i will get to listen to chia singing hilarious lyrics anymore. or it could just be the unreliability of facebook, or the lousiness of the recording, or wanting to keep it all to him/her-self. (i’m not going to divulge this bit of information, those strangers who are reading this.)
but ah well. even if it wasn’t stage-worthy (YET!) i had fun. and for the first time i wasn’t nervous when playing. or it could just be that it’s a simple song. or the presence of multiple people doing the same ridiculous things. or perhaps both.
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actually, i have no idea why this is on my eportfolio. okay so it’s kinda art. but you can’t see it. you can’t hear it. and you definitely most probably have no blinking idea what i’m talking about. at all.
if you have no idea what song that is, just youtube. and laugh yourself to stitches, at your own risk.
handphone pouch January 3, 2010
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-3D, craft, design.Tags: book binding, button, felt, handphone, leather, phone, pouch, sewing
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so rubin saw the images of the two hard disk coverlets [1][2] and said she wanted one. for her first ever handphone! (yes hurrah she finally got one.)
so i called her up and asked for the dimensions of her phone. and what colour she wanted. and what colour leather she wanted. and whether she’d like a spastic face on it.
so;
(that’s my phone)
size: roughly 11cm x 8cm
materials: felt, buttons, leather
i was actually thinking along the lines of making it with a flap thing, in the shape of a cow’s head, so it’ll be a browned cow. like how now browned cow.
but then i decided it was too much work. and gave up on that idea. and stuck to something simpler.
i tried including negative space (the mouth). but…well…it’s not that obvious.
initially i wanted to use white buttons, but they didn’t look so good. so i poured all of them out and started randomly pocking colours to see if they coordinated. at one point i wanted to use one orange and one blue. crazy? yes.
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i’m thinking of slowly making more. then setting up an online shop. or i could just rent and otaku box from otaku house (i saw empty ones at iluma yesterday). but i don’t know about their customer flow. and rent rates.
apparently at one of their get-togethers, my mom was talking about the one i made her. and my cousin was interested. in being my manager or something. and when she got back my mom asked me to send her the url (of this blog). and then she started asking if it was public, and if people could copy the images off, and blablahblah.
so she thought there would actually be people uncreative and desperate enough to copy my ideas! *GASP!*
well. if you want to copy it, it’ll just mean that you admit i’m much better than you. and you can’t come up with anything of your own, so you have to rely on others. i really pity your brain.
i really, really pity your brain.
wait! do you even have one?
NAFA printmaking December 28, 2009
Posted by dilutedwater in artworks-traditional, design.Tags: clock, ink, nafa, paper, printmaking, time flies, wings
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realised i haven’t done a post about this.
so.
we tried relief printing. and i didn’t get to use lino or wood D: it was this cheapskate piece of foam thingum, which i carved in such a hurry i scraped some skin off my last finger. there’s still a scar.
it was made using only one piece of foam, carved, printed, and carved some more. so there are only 4 copies of the final in the whole world. i had to hand in one, so i’m left with 3. and no, i’m not going to sell it because it’s priceless.
first layer of blue.
second layer of pale red. NO IT’S NOT PINK!
(i actually added more and more white after each print, because i realised the contrast wasn’t there. so the clouds get lighter with each print.)
third layer of black. it frames the picture.
title: time flies (one of four. i don’t know which of the four though; i haven’t written the numberings at the time of the photo-taking.)
size: A5 (the print)/A3 (the paper)
medium: printmaking
it’s supposed to be a rather plump alarm clock soaring through the skies. and the skies have fluffy clouds. so i sketched the design out, and then thought of the colours, and then the order of colour overlapping.
i was puzzling over what colours to use, because we were supposed to have 3 colours (plus white and black, so total 5) but i got a discount because i only had half the time. so i thought about several colours, including (of all things) yellow and maroon, but then decided that a fresher palette would be more cheery and suitable for the clock’s spastic ’smile’.
i’d also planned to include a bell thingum on the top, but felt it wouldn’t look nice, so dropped the idea.
i actually made the hands/mouth wavy on purpose, because i felt that straight lines would be…too jarring. because the image is made of curves and the frame is blockish, for contrast.
there are some mistakes. because i was trying to finish it quickly (i had only one lesson, because i would have flown off to vancouver before the next lesson), i missed out some details which i’d sketched and planned to include. i think it was the 12- and 9- o’clock markings.
also i made a mistake in thinking blue was lighter than red. it turned out that because the red is more translucent than the blue, and i added more white to the red than to the blue, thereby making it even more translucent, it turned out slightly patchy and showed the blue under. well. i can always argue i want the clouds to look…’light’ and ‘weightless’.
so there. my nice flying alarm clock. i know you like it, because i do.
