Otis

Today is the first day of school at Otis.

And I just wanted to wish my friends at Otis a wonderful junior year.

I hope they work their butts off and be proud of the awesome work that they will create!

I'm kind of sad that I will not be returning to this campus.

Even as I look at these pictures that I found online :P

I reminisce on how every day I would walk through those automatic doors to go to class and my friends.

But I will be at a new school in about 2 weeks making new memories and friends.

I'm getting even more antsy now

I kind of want school to start already at CalArts :P

CalArts Schedule

My CalArts schedule came out kind of a while ago but it's made me just that more excited to start school.

I'm especially excited for the story class, the character design class and life drawing.

I transferred a lot of units over so I won't be taking as many critical study classes.

But I'm considering enrolling in the creative writing class.

Fall semester is going to be crazy :P

I also did a sketch recently in photoshop of me and my boyfriend.

I'm pretty sure that's what I would look like if I were a monkey.

For some reason, I've always been interested in human-animal interactions... maybe it could be a short film?

I'm currently experimenting with colors because I'm not very familiar with painting in photoshop -___-

So it might take a while.

And lastly, I wanted to share the trailer of an animated film that is coming out later.

It looks interesting and is also about a human and animal :)

It looks like it might be sad too... it better not be sad!!!

1 more month of summer

Keeping up with a blog is kind of tough :P

But I have some time to post up a very small amount of pictures that barely summarize the most chaotic part of my summer. Comicon, Siggraph student volunteering and moving to another apartment all within 2 weeks.

I got kind of sick after all the commotion because I wasn't getting enough sleep.

But it was all very fun. Except for moving -_____-

There's one more month left of summer before I start school at CalArts.

Ahhhh! I'm definitely excited to go but scared at the same time.

I hope I can live up to the school and my peers.

But until then...

I now have 4 gentlemen phone cases. None of them properly fit an iphone :p

So I have one more on the way that I'm slowly working on.

I spotted this painting at Comicon. I want it so bad.

But it's about a thousand something dollars or more ;__;

Isn't it so badass :)

I also met with Dan Paladin, the creative genius behind synj.net and all that goodness.

And he signed my Behemoth chicken. I actually wish I got a picture with him but I was scared...

The next few pictures are a summary of my time at Siggraph. Being a student volunteer was definitely a great experience. I want to continue to become a volunteer whenever Siggraph is in LA. I believe it is in Vancouver next year. So I don't know if I'll be volunteering.

I'm also very happy that I was able to get a Renderman teapot this year. I thought I would not be able to because of my shifts. But on the last day of Siggraph I ran over to the exhibition hall and stood in line for the teapot. I thought my sandals were going to break. It was a long line but I got one!

I feel like I've been focusing a lot on my Chinese paintings this summer. I've been sketching here and there, but Chinese painting has taken over my summer :P

It's a good thing though because I won't be able to focus on it during the school year.

I've been continuing my practice in dyeing the paper and adding snow or the moon.

I would like to post a screenshot of my CalArts Fall 2010 schedule for my next post.

I'm actually really really excited for school. Sometimes I still can't believe that I'll be attending CalArts.

And I didn't think that I would be getting a Tuberculin and Tetanus shot for the mandatory physical exam that needs to be done before school starts -____-

But as always, I'm looking forward to the journey ahead :)

iPhone Creature Cases

Summer is a very seductive season and switches on the vacation mode.

And by vacation mode... I mean crafting some iphone creature cases!

I don't have an iphone, but I found a bunch of small pieces of fabrics in my closet that I wasn't using.

And I decided to put those pieces of fabric into good use.

I hope to make 3 or 4 of these phone pouches. I'm naming my series the Gentlemen's Club :)

Because these creatures are well dressed and presentable. Not because... of the strip club thing...

So far I have made 2. The last one is a special one.

The hello kitty gentlemen is a present for my friend.

I'm kind of disappointed with the hello kitty pattern because hello kitty had a very hard time showing up.

The reason why I made the hello kitty gentlemen is because my friend likes hello kitty.

But hello kitty doesn't show up very much...

Also, the owl gentlemen is a bit smaller. So his face is covered when he is carrying a phone.

I hope to make 2 more before I start school.

I don't know if I will be posting anymore this month.

I have to move to my new apartment, and I will also be a student volunteer at Siggraph the last week of July.

So the next time I post anything, it will probably be August :P

Chinese Painting Exhibition Pictures

I'm posting a sample gallery of the Chinese Painting Exhibition.

There were almost 100 paintings! My internet will die if I try to post them all :P

But here are a handful of the paintings that were up. And a group photo of my teacher and the artists!

Notice that the last painting is a very very large version of the paintings that I'm doing now.

(that painting is taller than me!)

I always fail to capture the size of the paintings -____-

Some of them are very large and taller than me!

I also noticed that I did not take pictures of my own paintings :P

I'll have those up soon!

Chinese Painting Exhibition Round 2

Well... I have not been very good about keeping up with my blog.

Even though it's summer, there's always something to do :P

The past weekend was very hectic because it was time for another Chinese painting exhibition!

And it was a very good one because there were lots of people this year, and it's always nice to see the other artists.

So it was very successful and everyone had a good time.

We even did some live painting at the exhibition. I was asked to paint with 2 other artists.

I was sooooo nervous!! But it was a good experience.

I want to post pictures of the exhibition and even a little project I've been working on.

But my internet is screwy and needs to be fixed.

So for now, I'm posting some recent paintings that I've been working on.

The paintings are copies of my teacher's. They're composition and color studies.

Color as in... dyeing the paper. Haha, nothing too crazy.

Just experimenting with color temperature and mood.

This post needs to be short, the internet will die at any moment!

Also, thanks to those who commented on my stationary!

Full size?!

I think I solved the problem!

These are now full-sized :P