Badass Logos & Mascots

Won best animated short film at the 2010 Oscars. Yes twas a while ago but I only just discovered it while researching logos xD

Autumn update

Helloo~!
Today is my last day of mid sem holidays. I didn't realise rmit LITERALLY only had one week of holidays including easter, fail rmit! I guess having holidays on public holidays makes up for it hurhur...

Hrm I haven't really got much to say. Uni is going well, a little TOO well. I'm so used to being stressed and having multiple deadlines but everything seems to be going smoothly. (Monash you have trained me well!) Although it is week 6, I'm starting to get worried about my portfolio, hopefully things move faster! Although we have a few briefs happening atm it feels like I've barely done anything. Can't believe I'm wanting more work lol. Perhaps my unemployment might be contributing to my smooth sailing lifestyle...I'm so not used to this O_O"

On a different note, here is some stuff I've done over the past few weeks. B'day cards galore!

Bekinator's Birthday Card - Full 6 page printout of MX imitation "BX" (clever ey?) Mastermind JD was behind the concept. It was a fun layout exercise although it was a lot more time consuming then I had anticipated -_- My favourite part is the fashion fix (Aaron and JD's fashion tips lolol have a read!) and the badly photoshopped pic with everyone. Design graduates would be proud :)

Alvin DA MAN's Birthday Card - Illustration of my friends. Inside joke but it was really fun drawing everyone! Funny how Nelson and Derek are quite accurate o.o

Haha collab project I did with steph! Bum chin coasters YEAH 8D. I'm a bit lazy to explain but it was for a charity comedy event :)

Poster I've been working on for uni. Look it's my uni peers and Peter!

The almost manifest dream!

Helllllo!

Just to let you know I've signed up for Doujicon this year with Steph and Liz! For those who don't know what it is it's a convention where artists gather together to sell their work :) I was thinking about drawing KPOP IDOLS hahaha! Sadly I have been swept up in the craze but I think it would be a popular thing to sell (and it might outsell anime >:D) I'll also do my own stuff just so people don't think i'm just some weird fangirl lol. Also tables are cheap cheap cheap compared to manifest so we'll definitely be able to earn profit :D

B-B-BIG BANG!
they are meant to dance :(

It starts at 10am on Saturday May the 8th, Monash Caulfield Campus - Building K. One day event so please pop by if you are around!

Ah when i'm there I can also reminisce about my undergrad years. I was looking at my old sketchbook and some of the pictures I drew were lol worthy...gosh I miss those days ><

Animals like to party hard!

Wow it's been way too long since I've done a proper illustration job. I finally had an idea for a poster I was meant to do ages ago....

Basically my family friend wanted a poster of domesticated animals since she teaches animal sciencey stuff. I had a massive art block on this project cause well, I forgot how to draw cool animals. Last time I was really into animal drawings was in primary school lol. My idea is basically to draw lanky and fat looking animals dancing...

Not exactly genius lol -_-

Next step is colours and stylization. Been so long since I've colour co-ordinated things or drawn for that matter. I don't think I've improved much lol. I want it to be kinda retro and designer looking, so maybe I'll seek to Shag for my inspiration :D Love his colour schemes.

I will post my final design soon once my brain starts to function properly. (damn sleep deprivation...)

Ni hao! Konnichiwa! Annyonghaseyo!

I had my first classes today. Was pretty interesting :) My course consists of 6 people LOL. And the building is sooo awesome!

I've realised that this year one of my main goals is to learn a language! I feel so deprived knowing nothing -_- So my goal is to learn and understand either korean, japanese or chinese (although i've given up on chinese already lol) by the end of this yr. I already know bits and pieces of each but it's not good enough D:

Prehaps learning a language will be my new hobby from now on ^^"
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I've decided to take japanese next semester woot! :D:D Although korean would've been nice too ^^"

Avatar Love!

Over the weekend I borrowed the Avatar series off my friend. And I must say...IT WAS SO AWESOME!

It took me a while to get into it, as the first few episodes were a bit slow (also it reminded me of english dubbed in the beginning ><) But as you watch more of it, it seriously gets addictive! I think what makes this show really good is that it had a good balance of everything. Captivating storyline, likeable characters, action packed animation and light hearted humor. I found it really interesting that each character had their own hidden turmoil, which kinda made it much more deeper and complex than I had imagined. Their struggles reflected a lot on life and some things I've experienced, so yeah I found that really cool :) It was also surprisingly funny! Or maybe I just have a immature sense of humor :P But yeh, some of the stuff the characters say are hilarious! Kinda reminded me of The Weekenders. Witty light sarcasm bits. I think my favorite character has got to be Sokka. He's so dorky with his lame one liners. He's so cool in my eyes *_*

Another thing that really caught my eye was the animation. Although it uses a lot of anime elements, I'm so glad they didn't use cute anime chibi expressions!!!! I think the one thing that annoys me about anime is that when they make expressions, the face is so exaggerated that they lose their noses, eye pupils and proportions. It's cute and funny sometimes but it doesn't really make the animation unique or artistically creative in my opinion. I must sound like a nerd analysing stuff like that lol, but yeh I'm SO glad avatar didn't do that :) And the fight scenes were absolutely epic. The animation was so smooth and so much detail was put into it (particularly the final fight scene)

Yes, overall I loved it lol. It really inspires me to draw again. Hopefully one day I'll have the oppurtunity to draw characters for something just as great as this series. For now maybe fanart will do hehe

Ahhh I wrote heaps for once and it sounds like a review kinda! But I'm so glad I spent 2 days straight watching it. It was so worth it :D:D:D:D

Finished

HOORAH I finished the IOU booklet after 3 months she celebrated her b'day. Kudos to JD and Jordan for helping me :) My binding was pretty fail. Had to tape it twice because I didn't do it properly >< BUT lukily the birthday girl isn't a design student lol. ALSO some of the pics were pixeled :(:(

I've still got one last part of the present to do. I'm not sure when she'll get this lol, as I want to make this one the best that I can! (Plus it's the first time I've ever drawn on sneakers ^^)

Besides delayed presents, still working on my Oziental Gourmet Food designs. Not exactly the most exciting brief, but gotta do what I can I guess :)

PLUS, 3 weeks(?) til UNI STARTS ;__;