• my books,  watercolor

    Desmatosuchus

    This and 14 more; and theyadd-up to the 5 I already drawn. Total of 20 dinosaurs for my dinosaur book. In the process of cropping them and later create the tutorial in Adobe In-Design.

    Here is Desmatosuchus; a heavily-armoured dinosaur. Watercolor on watercolor paper. Tutorial will be done in vector. No text, just steps by steps guide.

     

  • Intel-Toshiba

    Toshiba Portégé Z830 Ultrabook #toshibaultrabook

    When I first received an e-mail saying that I was shortlisted in the Intel-Toshiba Project, I was so happy. Being a blogger in the area of art for almost 6 years, opportunity does not come often as I fell in the category that people thought is not connected with technology. Well, that is not true. And I need just the right technology to keep my work going and I am so happy to be chosen as one of the participants in this project.

    I went for the first meeting on January 30 at Intel’s office in Damansara and was given an insight about the project. There are 8 bloggers involved in this project; 5 from Malaysia and 3 from Singapore.  Participants from Malaysia include Amir, Ben Ashaari, Aaron Lee, Nicole Tan and myself. And from Singapore there’s Brad, Beatrice and Velda. We were introduced to the latest Intel-inspired laptop, the Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook powered by the Visibly Smart Intel Core processors.

    The project is named Mark of Perfection: Toshiba – Intel Ultrabook Challenge. And the best thing is, it is not just another ordinary campaign, it is a contest too. We were all will be given a loan one unit of Ultrabook each and have to complete tasks within the timeframe given. At the end of the campaign, there’s a cash prize to the top influencer! Interesting, right?

    Altogether there are 3 phases:

    • Phase 1 – Write about the Ultrabook
    • Phase 2 – Experience the Ultrabook Challenges
    • Phase 3 – Write about the Ultrabook and share it online

    And so as promised, we were all given the Ultrabook on February 18. I received mine while having a cup of coffee and a slice of cheesecake. Sweet!

    And the unboxing was done immediately after I got back home.  Wow! That was my first impression. So light and sleek; lighter than my handbag, seriously.

    I took some pictures of the unboxing but it turned out bad without proper lighting. I had to wait for my husband to come home to help me with the lighting. And so, this is the outcome of the video; unboxing without all the plastic wrappings. Hehe.

     

    Anyway, setting it up is easy. A Windows 7 Professional OS popped up and first thing to do is to choose the language.

    Then, it will prepare the desktop. Later, Toshiba recommends me to protect my Ultrabook, so I choose Protect Now. Agree.

     

    And voila, the configuring starts. It takes about several minutes. Later, I have to key in user’s name and password. And after logging in, I was asked to enroll my fingers. One cool extra feature!

     

    Here’s the process (click to see larger image and read from left to right):

     

     

    So basically, it is strongly recommended that I enrol more than one fingerprint. So I did it the second time with my right index finger. It later asked me again whether I want to enrol the rest of the fingers but I think two index fingers will do for now. I can add other 8 fingers some other time.

    I later installed my Adobe CS5 Design Standard. It comes with 3 CDS. Since the Ultrabook does not come with CD drive, I had to copy the CD content into my external hard drive and did all the installations from there. I deactivated the licence on my old laptop and activated it on this new Ultrabook. I am glad that Adobe made it easier to transfer the licence. And after that, transferring of fonts and artwork begins.

    I finally get my hands on this Ultrabook the next day to do my work. I am impressed with the speed. If previously, I am impressed with what Intel Core i5 processor on my old laptop, now I am even more impressed with Core i7 on this new Ultrabook. Working on heavy graphics and artworks need speeds and I found it in this Toshiba Portégé Z830 Ultrabook. Weeeeeeeeee.

    Finally, technology has caught up with my expectations.

    This post is brought to you by Toshiba and Intel. Join the conversation on the Toshiba Portégé Z830 Ultrabook, Inspired by Intel at  www.facebook.com/ToshibaNotebookPC.

    P/s Please leave comments or ask questions only about this Ultrabook and do mention the name in full. Thank you so much!

     

  • watercolor

    Paintings for sale – SOLD

    Update: paintings are SOLD. 31 May 2012.

    For sale, RM120 each (framed). Buy both for RM200. Watercolor on watercolor paper. Painting size: 12 x 17cm. Frame size: 23.5 x 32.5cm. Frame border: black. These are two Malay girls wearing traditional clothing holding black cats. Hand delivery within Klang Valley. If you like these girls, e-mail me: emilayusof@gmail.com.

  • watercolor

    Girls and black cats

    Done some paintings for the FAB Bazaar. Going to get them framed. For sale on Sunday.

    Watercolor on DR Bockingford Watercolor Paper (all the way from  US). Thank you Nazima Kamaruddin for the DRBWP! Love the texture!