Lately I have been watching the Japanese drama, Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend), and part of the plot line revolves around the cream puffs that the main character makes. This made me wan to make cream puffs really badly, so today I did. I made some with a chocolate pudding filling and some with a vanilla coconut custard filling, and they were pretty tasty if I do say so myself.
I have almost filled up my current sketch book, and as I was looking through it I realized that a good chunk of it was Alice in Wonderland themed. Although I must say that all but the last one I drew from the original illustrations.
I have two new pictures. I have been doing a lot of experimenting lately but most of it fails, however I do think that these two came out quite well.
When I started this one I just wanted to make a picture with a tree over to the side. I was then left with an excess of negative space on the left. I also just figured out how to do vertical text in word and I'm on a run with incorporating Japanese into my pictures. I don't really know Japanese but I am studying it and plan on studying abroad in Japan, so Japanese in on my mind quite a bit; I've even been signing all my digital works in Japanese. Here I put lyrics from one of my favorite BoA Songs: Possibility , it says "The pendulum is still swaying, a thread which follows my last hope, why did it snap and break off? this kind of heart breaking, for each other to do trial and error and acquire preparation, I understand but I'm lost, was this really okay?"
This one was inspired by the Boom-box SNL digital short. It actually started out as a hip hop tribute like one I am working on in my pen sketchbook, but sort of turned into something else completely when I added the webbing.
I was also inspired by by the Ghetto Blaster boom-box which I want so terribly badly. Just the thought of having one makes my dancing feet excited. Speaking of dancing I have sort of been in a creative rut with one of the songs I am choreographing to; but yesterday a butt-load of inspiration hit me for an entirely different song. I now have a very good start for a dance to Drake's song "Over". I know the mood I want it to give off which fits well with the lyrics, and I think I might even be able to sneak some krump in there. I have very high hopes for this one.
Today I decided that I wanted to try doing digital art. So far I am completely addicted. I don't have a digital tablet yet, but I want one really bad and will hopefully get one in the near future. I have a feeling that I am going to be making a lot of art this summer. So far these are the two that turned out the best. Trees are my second go to after mushrooms which is why I use them so much. The Japanese on both of them says "nature".
For this one I used an online application which made the webbing effect possible.
For this one I used open canvas. This was my first time using a digital sketching program and since I don't have a tablet with a pen yet I was just using the mouse pad on my laptop. I'm pretty happy with it though considering, and it was really fun to make.
As I was sitting in my house thinking about how I really wanted to get in on Seattle's hip hop scene I somehow found out that the Massive Monkees Crew was celebrating their 11th anniversary and that there was going to be a big b-boy/b-girl crew battle going down. Shortly after finding this out I was on the phone with one of my friends making plans to go downtown and see it. Just so happen that Seattle Folk life festival was going on as well; thus began a day of Seattle hippies and hip hop. The Massive Monkees are a b-boy crew from Seattle that made it to the top three on the MTV show America's Best Dance Crew. Basically they are crazy good.
We began our day at the Seattle Center for Folk Life. This was my first time at Folk Life, and it was quite the experience. What struck me the most was the amount a variety of food! We didn't really stay for too long, instead we ended up walking around Seattle. We found a path that went along the waterfront and just followed it. We followed it for a long time. Before we knew it we were quite far from the Space needle (where we started and had to make it back to). But along the way we found a lot of interesting things and took a bunch of pictures.
I was so glad to see the waterfront. I missed the salt water while I was in Minnesota.
Along our way we stumbled upon this awesome looking wall.
At the same place that we found the wall there was also strange writing on the ground.
We also passed a boat from Korea
As you can see we were quite far from the Space Needle
When we decided to turn around we crossed over this cool double helix bridge.
After we finally made it back to the Space Needle we headed out again to find the place for the Massive Monkees anniversary. We of course ended up walking way out of our way but did eventually manage to find it. And I am ever so happy that we did. We walked in and it was like a dream. A room full of break dancers (a good number of them Asian). There were several circles and we stood in one for most of the time. We got to see quite a few incredibly talented dancers. I even got to see Twixx from the Massive Monkees break dance, which was just epic. To see him dance in person after seeing him dance many times on TV was a completely different experience; it was so intense. Then the battles began. Two crews faced off against each other going five rounds. There were crews there from all over and the age range was quite large. I got some footage of the first two crews that battled (the video is taking forever to upload so I'll post it later). The whole event went till midnight and I wish I could have stayed longer than I did, but even with the amount of time that I was there the experience was fantastic and my passion for dance continues to grow.
I have finally been able to release some of the artistic energy I have built up. The one downside of college is that I have less time for art. However at the end of this school year I got to make tea bowls for my Arts of Japan class. I hand built two tea bowls. I had never really dealt with clay before so this was new for me. My favorite part was glazing. I hadn't painted in a while so it felt so good to have a brush back in my hand.
This is my first one. I was really happy that the inside and part of the outside turned out really red. On the front I painted a tree and on the back I put the Japanese character for heart 心。
On my second bowl I painted a branch on the outside and 心 inside.
Yesterday I broke out all of my paints at home and made this plaque. The character is sakura (cherry blossom). I also did another painting but I'm not quite sure if it is finished yet.
For this one I used an online application which made the webbing effect possible.
For this one I used open canvas. This was my first time using a digital sketching program and since I don't have a tablet with a pen yet I was just using the mouse pad on my laptop. I'm pretty happy with it though considering, and it was really fun to make.
I was so glad to see the waterfront. I missed the salt water while I was in Minnesota.
Along our way we stumbled upon this awesome looking wall.
At the same place that we found the wall there was also strange writing on the ground.
This is my first one. I was really happy that the inside and part of the outside turned out really red. On the front I painted a tree and on the back I put the Japanese character for heart 心。
This one I decided to sign in Japanese.
