Halloweeee!!!: Spooks and scribbles

    Just lately, I had been into scribble drawings. It really makes me feel awful, it's hard to make something that's out of your line. I'm more of perfectionist in terms of my artworks and this one becomes a challenge for me.

    Scribble drawing is more likely a child's drawing and that's what I've been trying to do for the past years which I can't apply my being perfectionist. I do understand that it is the imperfection that makes the scribble drawings even more beautiful and cute, but my hands can't understand that thing.

Spooky Halloween from your Vampy bunny

    Anyway, I'm subscribe into ::Scribblegraph:: on Google+ and I found his works very cute and the quotes about love is so much are inspiring. They are having their website launching this coming October 31st (yehey!).

When creativity strikes: Angel's sorrows Illustration

     I have been busy for sketching instead of reading the book that I bought recently. I already finished the last of the illustration that I've been working for the past few days just before I got my day off.

     Took a picture of me, naked, just to get the right angle and the right position of shadows, but nothing had worked out. So I had to hire one of my friends to do the posing and draw a figure of her on the spot. We had to do the sketching things just before dawn.

It looks good when in sepia brown mode

     A long time of getting myself in pieces and got inspired again, improvements appeared day by day. Actually, it took me a week to finished a whole pad sketch.

    I was trying to make a better style of the flooring, but it always looks worse than the first, so I ended up making a simple flooring (that I don't know if it complements the picture). I don't know exactly why I choose the title Angel's sorrows for this piece. I just felt unease, somehow depressed and a bit awkward when I first tried to put myself into something (maybe because of that Cyber crime law that really seems to be my major concern during past few weeks), into a certain topic that I could put into my sketch pad.

::Angel's sorrows::

Paper Cut designs as a decorative peice of art

   While surfing on the waves of clutter, another idea from the childhood landed on my mind when I saw my old art book (thank God it is still in good condition and not have been dined with termites). Paper cut was the best part of my art projects when I was in 5th grade.

   There are a lot of tutorial on how to do this paper cut art so decided not to make one.

I am so impatient on making patterns, but not on this one ^_^

    I found it very useful for a decoration, here's how I imagined it to be displayed at home:

1. Under the glass table.
2. Framed and displayed on the wall.
3. Notebook cover.
4. Furniture design.
5. (Insert another creative design here)

    Actually, I had been used this paper cut deign for my drafting table which looks pretty cool every time I touched it. I was planning to buy a special paper and cut beautiful patterns in it and replace my mom's paper cut decor under her antique glass candy container that she displayed every new year.

Patterns. . . I wonder how pros do those much amazing paper art.

Creepy lullaby song

   My sister, Elena, were searching across the web when she remember the song Ili ili tulog anay, a Visayan lullaby song. I never heard this song played with instruments, I just heard of this song from my mother or from my music teacher when I was in high school. It sounds creepy for a lullaby, but I really love this song (sounds creepy or it's just me?).

 Ili ili tulog anay

Ili-ili tulog anay,

Wala diri imo nanay.

Kadto tienda bakal papay.

Ili-ili tulog anay.

—English translation—

Sleep for a while.

Your mother is not here.

Went to the market to buy bread.

Sleep for a while.

-Lyrics taken from The Absentee Negrense

    I grabbed an instrumental version of ili ili tulog anay at Mp3skull. I hope you won't get too much goosebumps while playing this song.

ili_ili_tulog_anay


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   Here the video taken from the film White Lady where the song was featured. Angelica Panganiban and Pauleen Luna, cast of the film, had their own version. Pauleen sung the song much creepier.

Ili ili tulog anay - Angelica Panganiban's version

 Ili ili tulog anay - Pauleen Luna's version

Night art and plants appreciation photography

 
     The weather was fair last night that it brought me to the idea of taking picture of the things around the house that seems to be not appreciated by people when the dark arises (my mom was yelling at me the whole time, she doesn't like me going out of the house because I had a fever**hard-headed**)

     With the use of my low resolution camera phone and a small flashlight, I sneak out to start another crazy idea (why do I call every thing crazy?)

     I started with at my father's workshop. Nothing seems worth taking with my frames aside from this old furnishing machine. It looks creepy when I stroked the light in it. My father's workshop looks creepy at night and I love staying there waiting for a goose bumping experience. Also, I found this antique pan hanging at the back of the workshop. They say it was hanging there for almost 23 years. I dare not to cook with this pan.(Gee! It's a way older than me. How was it hangin'?)

did I saw this on the SAW film?

Dare to cook with this antique pan?

    Then, I proceed to my small garden (I call it 'The side yard'). This is the first time I visited my yard during nighttime. The plants seem so different at night.

Orchid glows in the dark

ferns looks beautiful too

pandan leaves

Wild plant on the wall

red tea plant

just right angle and proper lighting

Creativity strikes: Wood carving and sketching

   I had burned the whole week indoors because of the devastating southwest monsoon. Aside from getting myself busy fixing my garden during my free time under the heavy pouring rain, I summoned my creativity during the nighttime and expanded my artistic skills in sketching.

   It's been months since the last time I touched and peek through my sketch pad.

   Since it was raining and the darkness has already covered my chilling mind I decided to make use of the scrap wood that I found under my bed last week.

My bat tag

     Just as I had expected, it doesn't turn out the way I wanted. Does it look like a bat?

They keep teasing me about this, BATMAN! nanananana!

   Hope so... I want it to be like a bat tag, my nick name carved on it and finish it with some mahogany varnish. I'm planning to do another one and paste it on the head of my drafting table, Yey!

   And yesterday, I finished sketching The Mad Hatter Johnny Depp.

The Mad Hatter Johnny Depp