Gelly Roll 08

62nd day of 2016.

I have done similar thing to the Gelly Roll 08, drawing Gelly Roll 08 with Gelly Roll 08.

My observation is, Gelly Roll really is not suitable for sketching and shading. I would expect  that is even more true for the Souffle and Glaze.

A3 Paper Tray addon

61st day of 2016.

While I was staring at my hair salon trolley that contained all my art supplies, I finally remembered that I still have one more detail to add to the A3 Paper Tray project.

"Why do I stay at a place where there are so much dust?" That is always my groans and moans when I was tidying up my room. Among the many of the inconvenience, I noticed one thing that I hate the lovely trolley. The way it hang the drawer boxes is by hanging on tracks on both sides.

Since my A3 DIY tray also has that similar track, I figured to add in some filler to slot in the space when the tray is not there. Without any corners, it should be much easier to clean up.

hmm, maybe I should be thinking of gluing in a blind/curtain cover too. XD

3D renderer for SketchUp

60th day of 2016.

Today is awfully busy. Turns out that I have quite a lot of work to do for tomorrow's presentation. The only artsy thing I do is for my presentation, which involves Adobe Photoshop and Sketch Up.

It had been quite a long time since I last used Sketch up, around 3 years? So I had been searching for a 'free' 3D renderer. I was never good with 3D softwares. I figured it could be one of my many targets for this year to improve on 3D.

Keep A3 paper

59th day of 2016.

I had been looking for some type of shelving to store my A3 size paper, preferably laying flat. I was eyeing the plastic paper trays but it is hard to find one for A3 size, besides the price is rather expensive and the ones I see are too big. Then my next option is to look at solid furniture like Ikea. Well, Ikea does have nice drawers to fit even A1 size paper, but again size and price and weight matter.

So! I planned to DIY my own A3 paper tray to store my A3 size paper flat. I had planned and drawn out the strategies.

After finishing the plans, I went around my room with my trusty measurement tape looking for corners to place that A3 tray... only to find out that all of the corners I measured are a tad bit smaller than the width. *sighs*

Well, I will be putting this off for a while since my next trip to artshop is nowhere near.

Col Erase Exploration 3

58th day of 2016.

Okay, I have finished the Col Erase box. This time, I used a much smoother normal cartridge paper compare to the one I did the swatch test, and still the erasability is not up to my expectation and even worst when it is all colored in solid color. I figured that in order to use this Col Erase to its full potential, it is better to be a sketch pencil using very very light pressure.

So now, let's go through the things that I learn NOT to do in colored pencils, regardless of brands.

Col Erase Exploration 2

57th day of 2016.

Continuing the lousy still life Col Erase sketch. I was having the biggest trouble to color their yellow Col Erase words, was dreading to work on fort he even thinner white Prismacolor words... and then! I realized that I had a metal tip embosser ball tool, remembering reading somewhere about indent.

琉璃璧 - 刻纹 Chinese Pattern for Jade

56th day of 2016.

Actually this is a sequel to the Circular Jade design for my Chinese character. After getting some basic shapes, now to the more detail design. Cloud motifs and standard indentation has their own characteristic. I would like those kind of 'tidy' small texture compare to huge big motif design. So to make one of the feature works.

As mentioned in 琉璃璧 Circular Jade, the character has 2 circular jewellery, one made of gold and one made of jade. Gold as everyone knows is a solid material, but jade or the liu li stone could be translucent. 

The idea is that holding the translucent material over the solid Gold which also has those kind of texture, the overlapping pattern at certain areas would display the surname. The character has dual surname type, so one word etched on each side.