I imagined this to be a much lighter and breathable cloak, although it is also a full covering cloak. Notable split sleeves supposedly could introduce more airflow inside. Maybe I should put some slits on the side of the cloak similar to cheongsam slit...
27th day of 2017. It is Chinese New Year eve, compared to last year, it happened quite early this year, very close to Christmas and New Year. I did some last minute shopping today. My two favourite dress that I sketched yesterday... did not have my size. T__T However, I found a very interesting sleeve design shirt and another bright red dress.
My plan to go to shopping in the afternoon fails, and not just my half day leave was cancelled, I need to overtime to complete the work before I went for a long holiday.
All dresses came from Max Tino, the grey skirt is from Nichii and the shoes is by Valentino Rudy. I like how convenient it is to wear on.
23rd day of 2017. What a sudden curve ball thrown at me, university required me to re-work my personal statement. This time with better direction and specifics to understand what they are looking for. Problem is that they want it in 24 hours time. I guess compiling more detail information to convey my essay kinda counts as art, not so sure whether it is therapeutic enough. -_-;; There are a few angles I would like to approach and research on.
Space Efficiency - I found interesting buildings and ideas that convert awkward space into useful spaces, to the extreme. The building that particularly picked my interest is the 'narrowest building'. In a much smaller scale, Japanese are quite creative in utilizing space. Architecture Identity - Living in a huge melt pot of different various culture, race and religion community, it is difficult to merge all of them together to create a national identity that way. A core unifying element had to be found to streamline everything together.
I am now preparing for portfolio for my university master degree intake. It is a course that requires portfolio presentation, and I am compiling it now. It had been quite a while since I last sketch with watercolor.
I swatched the Primascolor Col Erase on the two newly opened mini sketch book, A7 size. These two notebook are produced by Unicorn brand, the note book type is Lettera hardcover with vertical elastic band and Artisti softcover with horizontal elastic cord. Both came with same amount of paper and 80gsm thin thickness with dotted grid.
Although both were bind in portrait style, but I figured I would use Artisti in landscape format to distinguish the two mini sketch book.
9th day of 2017. By spreading the pages and keeping blank pages in between sketches, I am somehow surprised that I already finished one signature of the sketchbook of 10 signatures. I think I need to fill up notes on the in between blank pages.
Dread, I mistakenly click on a very long serial comic to read at this time. gosh, I need to squeeze time to finish my portfolio and also doing the daily challenge.
This time I tested the format of left right, left is front view of clothing, right is the back. I have to say, it certainly is easier to get scanned. lol.
I really dislike the fact that the Artline pen bleed through the page and even if there is no bleed, the shadow is so heavy. Not just the black pen, even the pale blue pencil line shadowed on the other side of the page, now that is badin my book.
I am very much in love with the flowy and pretty dresses of ancient Greece. Peplos or Chiton, which I can never really differentiate well, I go with the name Chiton, sounds nicer to my ears. So far, I have collected a few ancient Greek clothing features. Now I am going to finalize them nicely in the new sketch book, using the template I done. The Artline liner pen's ink does bleed through the pages annoyingly. Not so sure whether should I do all on right side page or skip each spread page, so I have one spread page with art, blank then art.
I figured I could do some notes taking or less important sketch on the bleeded page. However, spread page does seemed easier to relate too... especially I am doing a front and back clothing illustration.
I have always kept a book in shelf for many years now, never really get to put the motivation to finish it. It is titled 'Japanese 365'. I don't think I would follow it day by day, but I hope to approach it on weekly or monthly basis.
Also, I had purchased this adorable flip notebook from Daiso and Muji, should put them in good use now.
1st day of 2017. Oh wow, it had been a whole year since this daily blog started! I am very thrilled to achieve this goal, albeit I guess, I cheated a bit with the shopping haul post. Anyway, I actually misremembered that the letter from the past reaching by end of the year instead of the 1st day of the new year. lol. I should have read it yesterday.
Generally, the biggest challenge is the Project 366 blog, which is quite a success. The others are just so so, but just one thing I completely forgotten that I did set a deadline for myself to complete. A Art debt that I owe a person now flashing new record of lateness.
This is bad, this is terrible. I must complete it as soon as possible now.
Of course, and again, I used back the same service to the future twelve months me.
31st day of 2017. 4th day of CNY.
