Miss Ruby Eugenia

Ugh what's wrong with blogspot! I can't seem to enlarge the image without having it really pixelated though it's definitely saved at the best quality and size. Same goes with my other posts' photos. Can anyone please enlighten me if you know how to deal with this? (P/S: I just solved it hehe)

Anyway yes about this piece, basically just edited it on photoshop and added things here and there, for example her pearl ring, ribbon and her olive clutch, which in actual fact is a yo-yo I made last sem. Changed her lippie colour for a nice contrast with her green eyes, which I've also highlighted further. Her skirt design is composed of my previous pattern design coupled with a piece of black netting I scanned in last year, resulting in a meshed, laced effect on the corseted skirt's surface.

I guess you could say that somewhat the corset concept of the skirt was inspired from an image I had in my head since ages ago of Gisele Bündchen wearing this figure-hugging, light pink Dolce & Gabbana dress from like, Spring 2003 RTW collection. I managed to find an image of it on style.com. It looks like this.

I know it's ages ago but I wanted to fill the skirt with some details so that was what I could think of!

Colour choice came from my favourites: Nude, Black & Grey. Here's something that's a little more recent:

Alexander Wang's pre-Fall 2009 corset dress in nude & black! Soo nice and look, Paris Hilton's wearing the YSL pumps I made Ruby wear, just that hers was in grey.

YSL black tribute pumps

I used to think that these heels are just plain ridiculous, for practical reasons and also I thought they were kinda ugly...a little unrefined due to the really thick platform. However, I kinda change my mind now. They actually do look really good and can look really feminine. Though I can't afford luxury items like that, it was still pure fun drawing and painting them :)

Isn't she just preeeetty? :D Kinda wished I've got hair like hers.


Click on the image above so you can see greater details of Ruby!


This will be my last illo post before I leave for M'sia in just two days. So...till next time! God bless!

Sneak Peak

Trying out different lip & eye colours for this little diva

...of currently what I'm illustrating. I love her hair and eyes...and lips! Maybe needs just a little adjusting with the lips as I had to have really steady hands when I painted them, which didn't happen of course. Haha. But good enough I guess :)

Can't wait to paint her little shoes!!

The other Gingerbread Man Maker

Here I present to you the other half of the gingerbread-making old lady from a couple of posts before :)

OKTAPODI

Just stumbled accross Julien Bocabeille's blog and found that this awesome animation was co-directed by himself and produced along with his team mates as their 3rd year project in Character Animation in the Parisian visual arts school named Gobelins. It has claimed many awards and even nominated for the 2009 Academy Awards for the Best Animated Short film.

The film is basically about two octupuses that were in love and about their adventure saving each other from the grasp of the evil restaurant cook that was threatening to butcher the pink one into some yummy culinary. I just watched it and it was soooo cute!!

You too could watch it here!! I love everything about this film, even from the sketches and the digital paintings to the final product. My favourite part would have to be them jumping from pool to pool in attempt to outrun the persistent pursuit of the cook.

Most of the photos were taken from Oktapodi's official website.

Enjoy!

A bbq on the 30th

Was over in Wantirna the other day for a friend's birthday bbq!

Wearing Dotti's short jumpsuit that I just got from DFO for only $5.95, Diva necklace for $5, belt from Temt or Valleygirl, Scooter embellished sandals that I got most probably more than 2 years ago that I never wore til now.

Happy 2010 to you all!! May this year be a year filled with sheer goodness and blessings :D

Mrs. Gingeridilly

An illustration I did for my first CAD project in 2nd sem, 2009. More of the other characters another time :D!

Mabrown makes good birds...

Last Saturday we celebrated mum's b'day at this Chinese restaurant that was opened by this lady from Sungai Petani (I think), Kedah, M'sia. I've heard so much about their quails...and here's an image of that glorious birds. Hold your breath and behold them now- Mabrown's best!

Words just couldn't describe what bliss we were in. It was totally, for me, love at first bite. My tongue would have done a summersault if it could. I just wanted the taste to linger on my tongue and to have its flavour grip onto my taste buds as long as it could. The taste was sweet, salty and spicy, with its sweetness tasted kinda honey-ish, which was sooooooo goooddd! They used both dried and fresh chillies. Their spiciness, however, I would say is quite mild. I love it so much that yesterday when thinking about it, I had some impromptu inspiration and wrote a song for these birds. Even now when I think about it my mouth waters. It goes like this:

(Sing it in 'Twinkle twinkle little star' tune)

" Mabrown Mabrown makes good birds,
How I wish to go back soon,
Up above the moonlit night,
I dreamt of cooked quails flying in the sky,
Mabrown Mabrown's quails' the best,
How I still can taste you now".

If one song wasn't enough, I thought of this song long time back that goes like:

" Ta ta da da da da da, ta ta ta da da da da da da x 2,
You're sweet like chocoloate boy, sweet like chocolate,
You gave me so much joooy, sweet like chooocolattee,
Woaah"

My version would be:
" You're sweet like Mabrown's quails, sweet like their quails,
You gave me so much joooy, sweet like their quails,
Woaah"

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Go on! Every table was ordering it!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Princess Tina

Around 2 days ago I was in Chadstone with my family and Sportsgirl had a further markdown of 50% off their discounted items and the day before was only a 30% markdown. The day before I was at Chapel St with my boy and saw this really beautiful necklace that was $39.95, a reduction of $20 off it's original $59.95. They had a couple of it so I thought 'Just give it another few more days' and walked away. So that night when I went chaddy I knew that I had to go back to Chapel St the next day to make this necklace mine! So Chapel St we went. It was jammed as but boy was it worth it! I thought I would have had to pay $20 for this but they had again another 50% off the already 50% off the discounted items *jaw dropped*.

I walked away with this beautiful thing here in my hand and with just $9.95 poorer. Couldn't be any happier, it was basically a steal and I saved $50! Yeeaaaaow! Thanks babe for your patience :p (well we know what happened).

I could have posted this yesterday along with my previous post but thought this little blinkey here deserves her own little space. So here she is.

Ah, good buy, good buy. Patience is indeed a virtue *pats back*.

Trip to South Wharf- DFO

Recently I've just been looking at lots of fashion blogs and I found myself more inspired by entries of girls that basically just celebrate their own unique sense and taste in fashion. Some like it real loud, dark, black with silver studs and spikes. Some like it softer, more feminine and many even slide in a taste of vintage in their choice clothes and jewellery. Some want it all branded with big names like LV, Gucci, Prada, Miu Miu, Alexander Wang etc, whatever that's on the runway, that'd be the look they're after. On the other hand, there are also thrifters or even tree-hugging shoppers that prefer to look for their treasures buried amongst good quality second-hand or vintage stores. And of course we got the in-betweens, those that mix and match high end items with those that could have just cost a couple of dollars. THIS bunch is the group I love most coz their styles are just so effortlessly gorgeous. Some of them could even be minimalistic but their shoes, for example, could have like the 'KAPOW' factor! Or it could be the bag, or maybe just the nail colour. Whatever. I like them too coz at least there could be something that I could afford from their assemblage, hehe.

As for me, casual is good, whatever that's comfortable yet presentable. Dressy is good too! Hence am a flats person but heels do many times look better. Not a very huge brand person since first of all, I'm still a student and can't afford it at the time being *chucks it to back of my mind*. Any generous givings would be happily accepted nonetheless :P. Haven't you heard that it's more blessed to give than receive? :D :D

Anyway, back to the reason of this post. So today went out with Jon to DFO in South Wharf and got these two peach coloured babies from Forever New. LOVVVEE IT!! And it was on sale. Score! Love the beigy *bling* there. These photos were taken using my wonderful SLR but blogspot really crapped up the resolution when I enlarged it (default size too small!). Meh. Any tips would be great!

Wearing Cotton On striped tee, Sportsgirl coral-coloured shorts/ earrings, BW bangle, Vincci sunnies, good ol' Longchamp bag, Urban Original platforms.

The art of Monsters, Inc

More than a week ago I was starting to illustrate some blobby monsters that have real gappy, rotten-teethed grins. Little would I know that I would stumble across this little gem in my uni library when I was there to see a staff. This movie would undoubtedly be within my Top 5 Favourite Animations list, so much so that I actually went to JB Hi Fi the next day or so and got my hands on the DVD itself. Boo must be my most favourite Pixar character!! I would squeeze her to death if she was real and standing in front of me.

The book was just filled with so many developmental sketches of the main characters that looked waaaaaay different from the final outcome. Here's just a few of my favourite pages from the book.

painting whilst having the movie on

Concept art of Sulley & Mike's kitchen in pastel (1997 above, 1999 below), Dominique Louis

pastel on the left and marker on right, different medium creating diff feels

Progression of Boo's versions (above & below)

...the best version is obviously the last image.