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some prints i've made in the past two weeks of class!




a four layer screenprint for the first project. definitely didn't expect it to be as hard as it was. haha you really have to plan every last detail ahead of time, which is something i am not used to AT ALL. :'9 if there was more time i would have played around more with the colours and layers, but overall i'm pretty okay with it.




and drypoint!! my new found love. ; u ; really happy with how these turned out. i just hope the piece i'm doing for my second project ( Aron Wiesenfeld-inspired ) turns out even better.



i'm hoping to find a printmaking studio somewhere in toronto for relatively cheap. the printmaking studios in the school are closed for the summer since there won't be any more classes, and it also kind of sucks that students who aren't taking any printmaking courses aren't allowed in the studios during the regular school year. i understand why, but it would be nice if i could use these techniques for illustration projects! thinking about the possibility of taking a minor in printmaking, since i'm planning to do thesis in 5th year instead of 4th now. :v

❁ flwrrr pa pa pwrrr ❁

sketches for my first printmaking project on sustainability!

haven't been updating or drawing much lately. the past few weeks have been really busy! roadtrip to NYC for 4 days was UHHHMAZING. we ate a lot of reallydelicious things, and saw Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell in A Behanding in Spokane~
i never knew there was an American Folk Art Museum though!! really wish it wasn't closed when we went because they have two Henry Darger exhibitions right now!


( image via American Folk Art Museum )


( image via Time Out New York )

and then a day after i got back from NYC i became

A ~*SHIRO*~

Stephoo made the hat and jacket for me. NOTEVENKIDDING i will be wearing that hat FOREVERYWHERE.
hoping i can get my bangs cut a lot shorter in August so i can look more like Shiro for FanExpo. HURRDURRRRRRR

i also found Taiyo Matsumoto's 100 and 101 art book just a couple minutes before we left! i thought they were out of print already too. probably my favourite/best find at a convention in all.. 8? years of going. :'>

maybe i'm getting it entirely wrong, but i really love seeing a sort of French illustration influence on his work. especially Moebius'! ahhh really excited that my Taiyo Matsumoto collection is growing haha~ i can only hope that some day it'll look similar (or even more massive) than this.


butyes! hopefully the drawfu will come back to me this weekend so i can ACTUALLY UPDATE THIS BLAWRGH with real art.

super fat lens

first roll from fatty fai jai, a SuperHeadz Slim Angel camera!
my scanner is covered in eraser shavings and THEY WON'T COME OFF WHY.
in better news, GOING TO NYC TOMORROW AND BEING A SHIRO NEXT WEEKEND. c:

some things i've been keeping my eye on lately/REALLYREALLYWANT
anybody have a favourite toy blog/site i could browse? :3




Petit Lapin & others by Mr Clement
i love how much the Astrolapin in yellow reminds me of Miffy. DO NEED SPACEMIFFY.



Pink Treeson, baby Treeson, and BUBBLEFUN by Bubi Au Yeung
ahhh i love that you can replace Treeson's bubble, and they're compatible with other toys as well.


Gloomy Bear w/ muzzle harness by Mori Chack~




not quite sure who these are by or what they're called, but here's the article about them in Milk Magazine! really love the clothing designs to these, especially C. ffffft i love seeing handmade clothes on vinyl figures. looks so good. ; u ;)9

THROWBACK SUNDAY

tegaki summer 'o8, hongkongfever















i think that summer i was reading a lot of WORST, Batman: Year 100, TEKKONKINKREET (over and over again), and visiting PAINT NOTE every day. haha i don't remember doing much else that summer.. sat in front of my parents' PC with a tablet for the most part. :/
not the best stuff, but i wish i could still draw something other than BABYFACES.

SUPER SOAKER SHARK WINGS SONIC SCREWDRIVER DIGIVICE

to go with major Tom and cat!
don't really know what kind of dog that is. <___>


haven't really been updating much since summer began. haha i've been too busy to draw or post anything mildly interesting. i did go to TCAF though and it was UHHMAZING. really hope Paul Pope comes back next year. :> the huge Battling Boy 2panel spread in the TCAF newspaper is pasted on my door. I HAVE TWO MORE COPIES and I WILL FIND PLACES TO PUT THEM. >:I



working on this now. wanted to have it finished by tonight buuuuuuuuut that's not going to happen. :'D
i thought it would go nicely with the two other pieces. ; u ; Tomtom is such a pudgeface. HE LOOKS LIKE AN ALIEN HERE so i redrew his eyes.


AND DID YOU GUYS SEE THE NEW PKMN STARTERS FOR BLACK AND WHITE??

i don't really like them that much (firepig doesn't even look like a fire type??). the water one is my favourite out of the three, but IT'S GOT NOTHIN ON SQUIRTLE AND TOTODILE.


haha if the starters looked like this, i would be forever happy.
( both images found via tumblr )