Staggering,

Aahaha whoops, the previous post was from the beginning of this year!?

Ah, I don't know if that's funny or utterly sad. I've been active on my Facebook page and on Instagram... but you know, blog requires writing. And writing is one of my insecurities...

Along with my arms and accent.

Anyways. I'm going to keep on writing even though there is a 9 month gap, it's nice to look over the things you've posted when you were younger :P

I actually haven't really drawn many 'full' illustrations this year. It's been more of a learning curve so far, and little commissions here and there. And been in so many new+uncomfortable setting, I've been little bit lost again haha. Rather than recapping what has happened, I'm just going to keep going with what's happening at the moment!

I've been finally moving images, yay!! Haha okay scratch what I said on the top, I'm going to upload the older drawings little by little over this month.

This picture is a frame by frame shot of staggered action. Feel free to use this as a reference, although this is missing 4 more stills. I'm making the GIF right now, hopefully it'll be...some what smooth P:

2-oh-one-4

HAAAPPPPPPY NEW YEAR!!

Introverts.

"It's better off keeping hand full of real friends to your heart than bunch of friends around you just to fill up lonely space. I'm really over playing house with people that'll be there just so not to be unpleasant."

Change of pace!
So the drawing below, drew it for a friend of mine's 21st bday present. She's got a lovely red/orange tone hair and I really tried mimicking the colour... but turned out more strawberry than firey. Whoops!

Flower Girls. And I've been,

Quite busy, and drawings rather a lot. I really want share it to the world, stuff it down everyone's throats (fufu)...but I don't want to annoy eveyone either P:

Everyone meaning people on Facebook or Instagram. Joys of social media.

So I'm back to the blogger again! I'm don't think theres much traffic on here these days, and even if there is, it doesn't bother me too much knowing that the people who'll read this probably won't know me in real life. Beauty of semi anonymous blogging ;)

Speaking of anonymous, man!! So I've been drawing under the name Yellowbee Illustrations... but as you know, I've been involved in couple of exhibitions... It's sligghtly bit embarassing when they introduce me as 'Yellowbee' instead of 'Bima from Yellowbee Illsutrations'. Yellowbee Illustration's my brand people, and Bima is the creator!

Anyways.

The flower girls! I actually finished this few days ago, but I'll post the progess shot of this before other projects :P

From the left! Rose, Sunflowers, Anemone, Peony, and Aster

No special meanings, I just like those flowers. :) And wanted to draw feminine, but smart/confident types of girls. I'll go into the feminist side in a different post, got a series done just for that actually!

...Hoho, everyone was commenting on how the middle one looks like a goddess role in a fantasy RPG fighting games, so I've assigned a role for all the girls :P

Rose: Warrior
Sunflower: Archer 
Anemone: Goddess
Peony: Healer
Aster: Rogue/Theif

Why I can't keep up with the posts

Now that few years have passed, I'm starting to see the pattern (finally admitting it...)

It's not like I don't draw during the semester, I just feel guilty to show that I've been procrastinating. Specially this semester. Haha oh man, now that the results are out and I can actually say that I passed with high marks... that almost all my assignments were done in the last two days this semester. YA, I KNOW. There was so much more planning in my head (=stressin' out) than the action itself this semester. Seriously a bit of a time waster.

(Might as well have blogged, but I would have felt horrible inside, and it's an endless cycle :P)

Anyways, I did get up to few projects though :) I'll upload them little by little! But here is a little logo I made for myself while I was making Nikki's logo. Shall make it into a sticker, and stick on EEEVERythingggggg

Lolita and Lenses

It's been little busy recently with private commission work and internship for the past month and a half :) (which is a blessing seeing that it's keeping me preoccupied...but starting to feel the strain a little ever since holidays finished - obviously so, but you know)

Not sure if I can upload the works I've been doing (really need to ask about that actually, do you guys put pictures up of your private/work related stuff on your blog? If so, did you ask your boss/client if its alright to do so first?) Or am I being too paranoid...? I just dont feel right with some media, specially the unpublished magazines :/ 

But there's one project I know I can post!

A friend of mine from highschool, (a very sweet friend of mine) wanted a facebook banner and logo done for her eye contact lenses business! The bried was sweet, girly, with a theme colour of black and pink. 

Their facebook site!:

https://www.facebook.com/lunalenses?fref=ts

The cover (:

The official Logo

Sticker version

Just some process work. On the go with fluffy haired girls.

Actually, it was while doing this when a friend linked me to 'Bee and Puppycat' since apparently this reminded her of Bee's fluffy hair. 

So I watched it.

And gulped. Daaamn, it looks pretty much like Bee!! (And whats more, it seriously looks like I've copied it!!! OHNO D:) I sincerely promise, I really didn't know of it until Bernadine introduced me to it! But man, the similarities in general is uncanny... feels like the producers of Bee and Puppycat must have been on the same wavelength as me... But I shall fangirl over Bee+Puppycat in the next post.

Til then! 

Lost in Tranquility

The Blog now has a new title!

Lost in Tranquility

Yeaheah. Because I really am right now. Well not really. Mix of wishful thinking and what I am right now. (Which makes no sense really.)

I really need to get hold of my bearings, but the me being who I am...I don't think I'll feel 100% comfortable until I accomplish my 'next' tick box in my forever long to-do-list. And because this is me we're talking about, that's going to take fooooreva :P

Well, I guess that's a good and a bad thing right? Forever exploring.


(:


Anyways, I've got something new! Inspired by my friend Bernadine's little poem. I love the little scribble so much, so much imagery!

Finis 

"It is ultimately

How the world ends

Not in fear
Nor calamity

But quiet in its stillness
And unremarkable in its impact.

Thus the world ends

For very Small,
Insignificant

Man."

- Bernadine Yong

http://beanbury.tumblr.com/

She doesn't really agree with the interpretation, but this is my version. I know she wanted it to be more 'apocalyptic' feel to the picture, but I was in a good mood when I drew this. And just because something's crashing around you/finishing, doesn't mean it has to be horrible right? The part of you will stay with that memory, and a little part of you will rendition and grow into the new 'you'. 

She also wrote couple more different ones which she thought would be more suited for this. I agree, aand disagree...I mean, I think I just like the original poem too much that I'm going to be stubborn on any other ones P: Here's one of them!

They say –

If wishes were fishes

We'd cast nets out to sea

A plentiful harvest of 

Hopes and dreams

(not)

ethereal -- 

gossamer-light

they slip through my fingers

They say 

If wishes were fishes

there is a special one for you

and me.

(liars).

I do like this, except for the last bit only because I'm not really talking about lovers. If only I was eloquent enough to finish off that passage! So I moved it around, what do you guys think of this one?

ethereal -- 

gossamer-light

they slip through my fingers.

They say –

If wishes were fishes

We'd cast nets out to sea

A plentiful harvest of 

Hopes and dreams

(not)

Of Roses Overdose and Midnight Ramble (it's that time of the semester again!)

 Finally got around to finishing her! The original was supposed to be more 'blue' and simpler...but well, this will do for now! This is also my first digital painting.

Anyways.

Poisonous thoughts running through me at the moment,

and not making me feel very pretty, both inside and outside :/




(If only one could talk everything out. Or that one could come down from their high horse. And stop comparing yourself to make yourself feel better. OR put you down in front of other people/your friends, which fyi, is the worse thing I think you could do to a close friends. Seriously kids, don't be an adult like this one. Or the fact that just because you couldn't choose do be/do in your life, overwhelm me with jargons and make me feel insecure with my own choices. Agh but I need to stop worrying about other people/I need to refrain myself from taking it out on other people. Get your shit together Carol!!)

...Haha, well, that's my Gemini in me coming out full force ;) Oh the forever contradicting thoughts and actions~

But seriously. 

Maybe I'm little bit on the edge since I have a design assignment due on Thursday, and I...kinda don't know what to do. I think I've lost confidence in design for a bit. But I need to do well, not just to prove to others but more so to prove to myself that I can be okay with architectural designing. (Please, please let the design me what I'm imagining in my head!!)


ps. 3D modelling software's are mega hard :( 

IncStamp presents: Remix! - Study of 'Amanogawa'

So IncStamp had another exhibition! (Yes, already passed the opening night,) to be 100% honest, I didnt really stick with the theme too much, more like I did a rendition/my own interpretation/just a litttle bit modernized version of a famous painting...BEEECause, I honestly could not think of ANYTHing!! And man, when I'm busy, Im super busy to the point that I hardly got any decent amount of sleep for the past 3 weeks... man I'm going to age horribly :/ 

But anyways, lets start chronologically!

I got inspired to do this particular piece by Alphonse Mucha's 'Study of the Moon and the Stars' (you know how much I like glowing shizz and space/stars. Way too much.)

My 'remixed' version is of 'Amanogawa', a Japanese word for Milky Way (and also Prunus serrulata - Japanese Cherry. The flowers looks like pompoms, so cute :3 But yeah, but the colour palatte decided after seeing these flowers/trees)
...more description to come!

Bit of WIPs :) This is actually pretty interesting since the watercolour stage and digital stage...is COMPleeetely different. I need to skill it up in watercolouring before I could even think of doing something like I did with the digital version!

 The set up, but I only ended up using the palettes and the pencils

 Inking away,

 Forgot how to watercolour!!! It was mega hard. I really need to practice this again!!

 I was planning on making it simple, but then this happened so I ended up adding too much blue after this.

The line art was actually okay, very light and fluffy. But I think the look it has now goes more with the theme (ahaha or atleast thats my excuse :P)

Before, and after a little bit of stardust.

Lied, a LOT of stardust. Photoshop stardust.

'Post-Apocalypse Looks Pretty Good to Me'

So on the 28th of September... I contributed in my first ever group exhibition!! 

'insert hyperventilated squeal' 

It was presented by IncStamp http://incstamp.com/

...Haha and yes, followings are some process works! Enjoy :)

The description:

'The Greener Future'  

 Post-apocalyptic, depopulation, deteriorated artefacts and ruins... These are some of the ideas that have been a regular trope in science fiction novels for decades. 

"But how will you react when you see your own city in such a state?"

The Greener Future depicts a satirical, yet eerily beautiful view of 'greener' future, where a series of Brisbane sceneries devoid of human and over-taken by nature are illustrated. Inspired by David de Vries's television documentary series 'Life After People', the illustrated scenes from Brisbane shows the impact of human extinction on environment, and the vestige of civilization that was left behind. 

Without all the speculation about how humans will be extinct, The Greener Future hopes to give viewers on alternative look at what would happen by simply taking 'us' out of the picture, and also  showing the fate of the entire civilization in terms of what will become of all we've created and worked toward as a race. Also by showing the scenes from immediate and familiar scenes, The Greener Future hopes to make the viewers wonder what will happen to their surrounding if this type of unimaginable evens occurs.

In a nutshell? I just wanted to draw the Brisbane sceneries in ruin because I've been obsessing over Life after People and works from Tokyo Genso (q fangirl squeal)

 Leaf by leaf...

Final

Decided to chop the other part and focus on this since other section looked shit. I mean, because this shows more of what Im trying to describe...yeah, that.

:/

Framed and ready to go

At the exhibition - Sold!

Thats right!! I actually sold my first ever exhibition piece!! Yayayy!!

Was going to write more...but I never do, do I. All I have to say for this piece is that thank goodness for colourless blender!! :P (Pretty sure I used up half the replacing ink bottle for this drawing)

Miraiya

This is the 'fruit' of everything I've loved and learnt to this point, and everything I got out from the the little trip to Melbourne. (Except the alleyways in the city wasn't as close to being this magical...what can I say, seems like my mind's on a whole different magical level!)

The title of the art/the name on the shop banner in the illustration is a reference to Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart's 'Chikyuya' :) Was totally marathoning Ghibli movies and Horticulture lecture podcasts while working on this!

ALSO!

This is actually drawn for an art charity thing! (Organisation called Arti!)

...ERRm, well bascially, 

"We'll be selling prints of contributed works in the month of September to raise money for the 
Starlight Children's Foundation."

(Also, hence why the theme was yellow and purple!)

The Final/Original

(tweeked just a litttle bit of the colour...since copic+scanner=disaster D< and also added the digital signature coz im a duck and forever forgets to sign pictures off...)

AND also, uhrfoiuhbgaohuqw, faaarout!! I was in a super rush, so I didnt wait till the ink dried...and trying to scan an A3 paper (with not dried ink!) on a A4 scanner's...like just asking for trouble D: Hence why theres some random horizontal line marks... stupid copics!!!

Also...the awkward cut and saw lines... I seriously only saw them just now :/ Damn, I knew I should have gotten it scanned at Officeworks or something!

Beginning of a looong long process...

Added the cat :) totes on a whim too ,)

First copic layer! (and like, a gizillion layers followed by...) 

Final/editted version, after going through loooads of photoshop actions :L

Cityscape

HMPH, so I'm not too sure how this turned out.

Actually I do know one thing; 

Am not happy at all.

Reference 

http://club.ados.fr/lala-sama/photo-162463/photo/in_case_you_want_to_come_home_by_bluecoloursofnature-d2wi71o-3053089.html

Lineart

First stage of copic colouring  - Instagram

Copic Final - Instagram

Copic+Photosho=Final - Instagram

Copic original 

I think everythings looking flat and one dimensional... since there isnt too many dark shadows and shade. And also the colour palette suuucks!!

Ohmygoodness you guys, any suggestions?? :/ 

Im really stuck on this one...

Your Eyes II

Okay, a shotty job since I just used my mouse to create different layers. Hopefully its much smoother than I my first trial though. I want the girl to seem like even opening her eyes are a bothersome thing for her. Hope you can get the feel of it through the gifs! The top and the bottom's sliiightly bit different (not just the framing!)

The first trial: http://painted-bee.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/blinking.html