葡萄

這幾天得重做包裝。今天，我重做了葡萄布丁，雖然不被通過，但還能放上Blog不是？

看到葡萄，有感而發，寫了一點文字。

我們都是葡萄，各種各樣的葡萄。我們之中，有的會成為葡萄汁；有的發酵成葡萄酒；有的會是葡萄乾⋯⋯我們有各式各樣的可能性。當然，也有些所謂“不成功”的，但它們也有自己的路走。他們會變成泥土的養分，培育出美好的花朵，孕育出更好的葡萄。

因此，別吃不到葡萄，就說葡萄是酸的。因為自己有自己的精彩，自己有自己的幸福。

We are grapes, all kinds of grapes. Among us, some will be juice; some will be wine; some will be raisin… we have lots of possibilities. Of course, there are some who are so called “not that successful”, they still have their own path to go. They can be mineral and nutrients in the soil, which nurture those wonderful flowers and also, better grapes. 

So, don’t be sour grapes. We are just simply wonderful in our own life

(WIP for jelly again. Just few words popping up because of redoing grapes flavoured.)

台北自助旅行感想 A trip to Taipei

我會一直記得士林區一家小小成衣店的北投女孩；九份那裡路口一家衣服店那好心的阿嬤；在陽明山常常一起喝茶，塞給我們牛軋糖的一群伯伯嬸嬸；帶我們去竹子湖，一定要我們去看雪山隧道，請我們喝高山茶的汪哥王姐；大安區郵局裡幽默敬業的，一直為我們的郵包擔心個不停的工作人員⋯⋯還有很多很多人。到台北，最大的感受是人與人之間的一股熱忱。對我而言，這次的旅程，不在於到過多少個地方，去過多少的旅遊勝地，而是我窺探到當地的生活，感受到另一層的美，雖然只有一點點。我所想的自助旅行應當如此，不用擔心耽擱別人的行程，不用到了一個地點匆匆而過，或走馬看花，或拍了個照就走。可以悠悠哉哉地尋花探草，每天訂一個小任務、小目的，然後慢慢走，慢慢看，慢慢感受，不急不躁。偶爾跟路過的小朋友笑一笑，跟買麥香紅茶的阿嬤說，天氣涼，辛苦了。

對我而言，自助旅行應該是一個可以感受當地文化，了解人與事，聽聽當地的故事的一個旅程。

Counting the blessing that I have received during the trip in Taipei. I can say that there are still beautiful people in this world. Don't just being disappointed on humans while looking some bad stuff that they have done, because there are still helpful people spreading kindness to others, even the animals. I believe in the law of attraction, and I believe the most in God. This trip is not about how many places that I have been. It is about the local taiwanese spirit, their story, their feeling and themselves.

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6.

This is not a sock. This is a butterfly. 

Don't look down on yourself. Who knows you may be the one that cause the butterfly effect. Do good and learn. That's what I always tell myself. ‪

Positive thinking~

7.

This is not a sock. It is a whale.

During my college days, I always watched the animals videos in Youtube with my housemate. It made me excited, sometimes nervous, warm-hearted... some sad stories somehow (If you had watched The Cove, you know what I mean). 

It gives me lots of thinking about life, earth and world (even till now). It is always amazing to observe an animal habitat.

I always believe that life is like the ocean. It includes everything, even you the little fish. However, you should manage your own journey, what you want to see in your life.

Whether good or bad, it depends on your heart, not the life. The most joyful thing in the world is, you still be grateful in the worst condition of your life. And this comes from your faith. Therefore, I believe and I pray, not for removing the stones from my journey, but giving me faith and persistence to overcome them.

Now I have 7 of them. 7, the most magical powerful number, my lucky number. 

I shall draw more. Let my inspiration flow and I will learn how big the world is. 

Life is wonderful and you know.

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4. 

This is not a sock. This is a piano!

Life is like a piano. 

There are black and white keys; 

there are up and down. 

It all depends on what you want to play.

5.

This is not a sock. This is a line of footprints.

An idiom from Hokkien, literally "a grass with a drop of dew". It means something like there's a will, there's way. So, don't give up, bring your faith, your smile and His blessing along with you. 

Reminds me of the poem "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost. 

"...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "

有句福建話叫“一枝草，一點露。”
意思是，天無絕人之路。
今天，這不是襪子，這是腳印。路是人走出來的。帶著信念，帶著微笑，帶著祂的祝福，走下去。

6.
This is not a sock. This is a butterfly. 
Don't look down on yourself. 
Who knows you may be the one that cause the butterfly effect. 
Start thinking positive by today. 
Read the book the Secret by Rhonda Bryne and you will know.
Keep praying. Think good, do good and learn. That's what I always tell myself.

"This is not a Sock" project

It has been such a long time that I post nothing on my blog. 

Try not to spend too much time online but yup, I need some refreshment though, some sparks to create even just a little create juice.

So, I start up a doodle project, continue from my self-identity project "This is not a sock".

Click on the link below to my behance, if you want to know more about the project. Basically, it  shows the change of the object/matter original content into my own context, my interpretation. 

Behance link to "This is not a sock" project:

http://on.be.net/1fD2cCc 

It has been 3 days that I have started to draw and post on Facebook (more convenient though). I will do it whenever I have time so that I can reach my target of 99. 

Maybe I should think of getting a personal website... (many people and friends told me that... better for posting artwork. Maybe after my trip in April?)

1st, Shrimp:

2nd, Brinjal:

3rd, Seed:

Guess what's the next?

Painted pot for mum 送妈妈的盆栽

I have painted a pot for my mum. Thanks to my friends, Renee and Jack, for helping me in succulents. They are really awesome fellows in my college. The pot shows a running fox heading to the forest and at the back, I quote, "Everything will be fine."

Yup, mum. This is what I want to tell you, no worries, everything will be fine.

妈，你女儿长大了，你放心。我会好好照顾自己的。请别为狐狸担心。我不会忘记自己来自森林，也会好好寻找属于自己的一片梦想森林的。

A meet with succulent

Hello there. Say hi to my succulent. I call it as Midori, means green in Japanese. I fell in love with it at the first sight. Thanks for my friend, Renee for the typo on the pot. I must say that she is really good.

I have been disappearing from my blog for a moment for my fundraising team. Yes, fundraising. I am going to graduate soon. (provided if I pass for this semester, haha.) So, I am going to have an exhibition with my course mates. We name it as 37 Degree(s) as it is an optimum human body condition. In addition, there are 37 of us in the degree programme.

To get more money for the expenses, we have painted pots and made a series of "Dinoculents" (image below) for our booths.

source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1410414482548436&set=a.1396253407297877.1073741827.1384199675169917&type=1&theater

We have made paper weights with stones and portraits vending machine for live drawing. 

Hope that everything will be fine for the coming booths and exhibition too.

Warm Lover

A best wishes for my couple friends, hope that they always remember, love is always around when we are willing to learn to respect and care about each other.

One little part of the castle

“式微，式微，胡不归？”

“乖乖等妈妈回来开门吧……”

Start practising perspective and drawing skill. A castle for only a little girl is pretty much lonely. Now I know how Rapunzel felt.

Commission illustration: Shui Xian Street in Malacca

Sketch~

Commission illustration: Shui Xian Street in Malacca

After a few days and nights, finally done! Compared to Illustrator, I still prefer Photoshop. Well, at least it is a good point for me to try some programme that I seldom use.

Draw on Fabrics

This time, I am trying on something new(Well, at least to me). The medium is called Fabric Fun Pastel Dye Stick. It looks like crayon but it is for drawing on fabrics. 

So, this is one of the results. Feel quite okay with it. 

Spoonfish, Fabric Fun Pastel Dye Sticks on canvas.

归绿

Just draw something for a competition. A sudden of spark came into my mind that it drove me up to the drawing block.

This is for a competition in Taiwan, 归绿.

Ginger baker

My pretty ginger baker~~~(Did for a commission on packaging character in April 2013.) 

Portrait fo a birthday girl

Happy birthday, my girl.
May the God bless you with happiness and the courage to keep you moving forward in your life.  May you always like a sunflower, keep looking upward to the positive part of the world no matter what you are or going to face. Thank you for being in my life.

Kampung View

The Malacca kampung view. This is the first attempt for one of my commissions. Haha... like my aunt said, the emotion is so sad. However, I like its calmness.

Cats~~~

Trying on drawing cats with Chinese brush:

The life started from apple

Appreciate every hardship and every wonderful moment in your life. These are what makes you yourself so beautiful.

I actually drew it for AFCC inspired by the poison apple from Snow White, but I didn't hand in this one. I think that it worths a better meaning behind. 

Art Jam II: Odour

This is my first submission for the art jam which theme is Odour. It said in the brief that, "a short guy who kicks tremendous ass in the ocean."

Kind of tiring to figure out what it means. So, I actually gave up as I need more time to do my thesis essay and projects.

Tonight, I admit that I was weirder than normal days. A very weird idea popped up in my mind. It messed up my mind that I could neither sleep nor concentrate on my works.

You know what. A buttock-shaped durian!

Since the title mentioned a short guy, so I came up with a little (Myctophidae ?) carried that durian as the tricks to catch its prey.

Whether it smells good or not, I leave it to your imagination.

I am exhausted, but, at last, I did experiment and produce something. Let's leave my work for tomorrow morning. Good night.

The artwork that reflects myself

I have used snail to represent myself. Snail is carrying its home everywhere, and me too, I hope that wherever I go in the future, I will never forget where I am from and my family. 

"...The snail is also associated with new beginnings - specifically spring-time energies as it is the first to emerge from the earth in the spring...coaxed out by spring rains..." 

(Venifica, n.d.)

The new end is always a new start. So, this is my vision for my future, always find ways to refresh myself. Don't be afraid of the mistakes. Treat it as the new beginning.

So, from here, give my future the best wishes and I shall work hard for it. 

 The Snail Explorer

The dropping Snail

The Exquisite Corpse

For so long that I did not update my blog. As an apologise, I would like to show you some activities that I have done last week. I have participated an activity in my junior class and I felt inspiring and refreshing while my mind was messed up with bad ideas. It is just a moment of running away from work, huh. 

So, this workshop is called The Exquisite Corpse. What i have done is drawing 2 characters and cut them into 3 parts. Then, when you put them together, they will switch with one and another.

1) Let's seperate your piece of paper into three parts by drawing 2 horizontal lines. The first part is your head, the second part is your body and the third part is your legs.

2) Measure 9cm and 7cm from both sides for the first line and the second line respectively. (The measurement could be fixed according to the measurement you wanted, but you must fix it, so that it seems joining together when you flip any part of it.)

3) Design your own character.

4) Cut the first and the second line. Don't cut the whole piece. You have to left a bit joining so that you can flip over. We left 2cm anyway.

So, these are my work:

Inspired by my friend, Jack the Jacktus, who really love gardening.
I quite like it too, though I am bad in it. He reminds me of my little yellow-flowered cactus which died after a few times of blooming.

This is actually a Tuna Cheese bun. I should tell you that I am a bread lover and, that morning, I forgot about my breakfast. Therefore... yup! That's the result. In Chinese proverb, there is one called "画饼充饥", which literally means drawing biscuits to stand the hunger. So, I did the same thing here.


So, when you flip it :

This is the result. Hope that you all like it.