Paper Sculptures

For extended practice, I am making a paper cut "yearbook" - I wanted to practice my character design skill and also improve on my paper illustration skill that I came to love after completing my YCN Alice. So I thought illustrating my classmates in this way would allow me to do that!

One day whilst I was working on one of my paper cuts, Fred showed me this book (can't remember what its called now) but it is a collection of work by people who use paper to create their artwork but actually in 3D. Fred told me this should be my next endeavour haha! to keep pushing and challenging myself. and I'm pretty interested actually, I would like to try this out but maybe not now since I have soooo much work to do! maybe after graduation..

Today, one of my fave people (Brittney Lee) finally revealed something she's been working on of a while - she's actually created something similar! she already does paper cut illustrations (my inspiration for my own work) but now she has pushed herself and created something at a larger scale and also in 3D! I absolutely adore her new work! look at the detail and in that dress! I think projects like this not only challenges your art/design skill, but also tests your patience - she must have a lot of patience and perseverance to create something as detailed as this! those little squares on her dress would've made me crazy! view her post here.

I am definitely going to try this out in the future!

LCA website story!

oooh I just got emailed about this! full post here. I'm kind of overwhelmed with all the coverage I'm getting for this particular project, but I'm really thankful for them! so very thankful! hopefully it'll reach people far and wide. I'm determined to do better on the next transplant book and also on other projects in the future - I'm really excited for whatever is going to come my way! (hopefully there will be something) I just feel so pumped right now!

LCA Art Market

This was posted months ago but I just came across it! I love hearing comments from satisfied customers - it motivates me! So nice of her to mention my other social medias too! the photography section on my tumblr is very outdated though! that was before university when I thought I was good, but to be quite honest, I'm not really hahaha. My Tumblr is kind of a mess to be honest! I just use it to collect things I like now, like an inspiration type thing.

I am definitely going to participate again if the college is doing another art market at the end of the year. It's very good exposure indeed! Read Hayley's full blog post here. I also feel like creating a blog for personal use now because I actually enjoy blogging on this uni blog hahaha (so sad).. but I'll think about it. when I don't have so much uni work to worry about!

Congrats!

Graduation is coming up in a few days for the MA students of Leeds Uni and I was asked to create these black and white designs by the Leeds Indonesian Student Association. I think they're going to frame these - I wasn't really informed what they were going to do with them after. But this was a good little task to wind down from dissertation writing!

Edit 16/12/15: I've just been tagged! I was also informed yesterday that these were printed and framed and given to the respective graduates.

LinkedIn first update!

In the feedback John gave me on my PPP so far, he suggested that I should use LinkedIn more and 'get a great profile'. I was advised to write 'a post re the ‘Kidney Book’ and how proud you are and this potentially can be seen by more than 2.5 million people already on Linkedin… a great experiment to try and see what happens?? It may be another ‘Holy guacamole..’ moment or moments. Try to make your posts a little longer and explanatory so we can all share in the ‘magic’' 

After reading John's feedback, I've decided that I'm going to be more active on LinkedIn! - hopefully this way I can build on my profile and get more people interested in what I do. At the moment most of my connections are people I already know, but I'm hoping it'll grow soon. I've decided that I'm going to make a post on LinkedIn for every noteworthy/interesting experiences/things happening in my career (like being commended by YCN Student Awards, and the Kidney Book project) from now on. But until then, I'm going to make smaller updates on projects I'm working on (like my first ever update below). After the completion of a project, maybe I will make a bigger post with a bit more explanation so we can all share in the 'magic' haha.

Edit: I've published my first post on LinkedIn! My first experiment! I'm interested to see if anything will happen as John said. ooooh.

Article!

ooooh, I only just seen this now!

check it yo! click here.

Drake Brodahl!

Drake Brodahl, background painter at Walt Disney TV Animation started following me!! Is this real life?! first it was Jamey, now its Drake. Am I in their 'circle' yet? I feel so unbelievably motivated to improve and up the standard of my work tonight! I WILL get that job at Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks/etc. even if it will take me a long time! I am on it! YES! I will continue to network in the meantime.

What's amazing about Drake's work, like Stephanie Buscema who I've talked about before, is that he works primarily in traditional mediums (gouache & cel-vinyl acrylic) but his works look so digital! He has such control of his brush and paint, I'm truly amazed! I don't understand how he can get such vibrant lighting in his work - it's so hard to achieve this with traditional paints, I have tried with my own plein air paintings! I guess I need more practice! This is where understanding of colour and lighting also becomes important. I must improve!

(left: gouache, right: cel-vinyl acrylic, bottom: photoshop)

Hallmark Freelance Directory

Exactly last week I emailed Hallmark about placement opportunities and today I was forwarded this Freelance Directory Profile by them. I feel like I should talk to John or Patrick first before filling anything out though because I'm not quite sure how this works haha.. I thought I would get an interview like how Zatul was offered one. hmm..

Jamey Christoph!

YES YES YES YES YES!

Jamey Christoph is following me on Instagram! He likes my posts/work! I'm so happy!

It's so weird because not long ago I made a post about him and his work on my CoP blog and here he is following me and I feel like my work has just been Jamey approved! I feel accepted haha I must talk to him now!

Some of Jamey's work below (I love love love love his work. very much. I'm trying to improve my background paintings and using his work as motivation and inspiration! I want to be as good as this!):