This year I will be focusing on more Artist Trading Cards, and hopefully, more customized illustrations.
Have a great artsy year ahead!
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It's a new year, it's a new chance to make more art!
This year I will be focusing on more Artist Trading Cards, and hopefully, more customized illustrations. Have a great artsy year ahead!
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My latest project amused me to no end. I have never imagined I would be so happy drawing and painting pigs. :DI got the idea when I saw my sister's Piglet stuffed toy on my bed. It's been there for quite some time now and have been serving as an additional pillow. And I thought to myself, Pigs are cute. I should write about pigs. I don't know if I can draw pigs, but I can try. What about pigs could I write about though? They are born small, cute, but grow to be kind of weird. They love to eat, mud, and then they become bacon.
That's kind of sad, isn't it? So what if pigs could travel? What if they could see the world themselves, instead of being transported everywhere as strips of meat? So the story really is fantasy. But even my fantasies have to be based on reality, so I make traveling Tolliver's dream. And I hope you're with me in hoping that someday he really does get to travel. My favorite page is the one with Tolliver trying to buy a ticket from a Monkey Ticket Master. You see, finding myself so successful in illustrating pigs, I dared to take it a step further and drew a monkey. With no reference whatsoever except the one in my head. I loved the Monkey from the Wizard of Oz (the movie though was so-and-so). So he was my model for the story. Just now I have also decided that my next children's story would be about a Monkey Ticket Master. Yep, the very one featured in the last page of Tolliver's story. It would be cute, having that continuity. Don't you think? Haha! Here's a link to the book: http://www.flipsnack.com/F65AD7EC5A8/fhmyr8f3 I am not the kind of person who gets into a Zen place quickly. If you've met a harried, distracted forgetful professor, then you've met an aspect of my persona.
As a writer, perhaps this is even expected. Don't we just love the slightly dotty caricature of a person writers and artists often are? But... and it's a big one... I have another life. Somedays, I feel like Son Goku trying to fit two separate suns into one. Some days, I have to act well put together to gain any iota of authority and credibility. So I need to zen out. And sometimes, when I burn myself out, I need to plug off completely too. And art is my yoga. It helps me purge negative thoughts, and puts pressing concerns into perspective. It even comes to the point where finishing an art piece feels like waking up in the morning. I come back to myself with no idea how i got to where i am. I hope someday, my professional career and my artistic aspirations do mix. but until then, let me draw and paint and write. I have always loved how penguins seem to be genuinely odd creatures. They have wings, but can't fly. They lay eggs and the male carries em around. And they love one other penguin for the rest of their life. I didn't need much prodding to agree to illustrate Rachel Ngan's story. This second collaboration excites me as much as the first one. I aim to finish sometime mid August, just before i leave for Mongolia. Ü what do you think of the penguins? Ü feel free to post a comment. Thanks! This post was written in may 2012. Compared to then, I am souch more mellow now. A testament to how Art Therapy really works! ______________________ This morning I told someone in a crowded bus to go fuck off. Top that with a carefully-phrased suggestion from your boyfriend to go find a new hobby and you know that, even if you may have not noticed it, you’re possibly on the brink of a nervous breakdown. That’s how I realized I needed a distraction from my own life. :D Although I will say first that I like to think I write better than I paint and draw, writing is too introspective and exhausting for me right now. Art though is an outward process of creating for me — you project a vision and create— then add color. People have paid thousands of pesos for a therapist, but believe me you, nothing soothes me better than a messy palette of colours. So. Just to show myself how serious I am about pursuing my rekindled interest in art, I am commencing Liv’s Art Project (L.A.P.) where I plan to upload a couple of artworks I have completed over my spare time. Got my pencils and brushes. Here we go… c”,) |