All alone

2013 is the year where I start completing some of my projects....

Here is one I started a while back - in water colours. I really liked the way it came out and I wanted to try it out in various medium like acrylic, markers and pencil crayons to see how each differ.
However I wasn't able to re-create it in paint which was discouraging and the project sat on the back shelf of my mind.
I mean this piece...depicts for me the moment where you're so into what it is that you are doing that everything else just fades away into the void and it's just you, your idea and the paper, floating in space with light which is just bright enough to help you with your cause but nothing else. It's the moment when you realize a good chunk of time has passed since you started working on your piece, even though it feels like only minutes has passed......

Time Flies when you're having fun....you know?


Anyway I finally got around to redoing this piece in markers....
which turned out to be rather nice :)
I MAY attempt to do it in paint again but my ego has taken a beating from the last time I tried (particularly because in high school I considered myself a painter than anything else...)

This is done on some random marker pad  I had lying around that I bought eons ago- it's not quite student grade, I think it's more like kids' grade marker paper(it was $3) and Crayola markers...

Not a fan of the planet being so DARK but oooh well.

Hope you enjoy!

What muffin will YOU have?

In 2010 I had been working at a call centre where I spent hours on end doodling away(or ranting) in my sketchbook and Sudoku puzzles. This was probably the first time I completely filled a sketchbook with incomplete ideas and pieces which I liked and was bent on recreating. One of the pieces was this little number, which I have called muffins.

 This was based on a simple idea that even though there are statistically less heterosexual woman in the world then there are heterosexual men, at the very end of the day the woman essentially picks the dude she will date, regardless of the charm and good looks he may possess. Nevermind what character he may have, there is usually a girl or two vying for each boy. And when we start that long rocky and rosy road of dating, what do we often -or what is the most popular/common we refer our beloved by? Muffin (in my mind anyway). In retrospect I realize that it can go the same way for men, depending on perspective - that the good lookin' bad boy always gets his pick, but that is not as interesting :P

Anyway, only recently did i finally open that magical sketchbook O' ideas that I dread looking in direction of. It holds frustration for me because there are so many ideas I want to work on but I lack the technical skills to make my vision come to life. I have decided that 2013 is the year where I start facing my issues and fears and start making some headway however I need to. I want to digitize everything eventually but first I wanted a hard copy of completed original piece - and here it is:

I may be biased but I dare say it turned out much cuter than expected! The only regret I have is I had originally worked in a "hippie" muffin which slipped my mind entirely. These muffins - their characters are based on people I knew at the time...which makes it doubly fun for me to look at.

About 9x12" in Copic and Sharpie markers, Prismacolour pencil crayons