moleskine
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Moleskine Challenge: Flower ornaments
Flower ornaments | mixed media on moleskine
62 pages left! Used dark umber colored pencil for the background and pigment ink for the drawing. I wanted to use this design for my curtains but have to think about it again as I’ve had it with photo emulsion silkscreen. I just can’t get it right and the last time I did, I’ve wasted 3 screens! Call me an old school but I think it was a whole lot easier back then (SPM 1986) using just varnish to create a stencil out of the screen. It was a very very hard work but I enjoyed the process.
Oh well, might just buy curtain fabrics from IKEA.
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Moleskine Challenge: Merbah
Merbah | Mixed media on moleskine
63 pages left! Used Prismacolor colored pencils for the foreground and oil pastel for the background. I didn’t really like the thick pastel effect on this one so I wiped it off with tissue to achieve a very thin layer.
This specific Merbah (bulbul) is of the Yellow-vented species.
Close-up
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Moleskine Challenge: Sandals
Sandal | Watercolor + Graphite on Moleskine
With this drawing, there’ll be 64 pages left. These are my sandals from 2006. Took a snapshot for drawing purpose. Used watercolor for coloring, graphite for shading and a bit of white colored pencil for the stitching.
close-up
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Moleskine Challenge
Aidil + Daniel | Watercolor + Prismacolor on Moleskine
This drawing occupied the centrespread of 4th signature of my Moleskine. There are 9 signatures all together. A signature has 6 leaves (12 pages). I thought of challenging myself to complete the whole book by December 31st. I have 66 pages left to draw so I think I can make it. But I dunno, the last time I challenged myself to draw fairies alphabetically, I only managed to draw up to letter K! Hope to complete the fairies too! The big L always gets in the way!
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Memories – IF
Memoirs | Watercolor on moleskine
The challenge at Illustration Friday this week is to illustrate ‘memories’. Thought I draw little me. It was based from an old photo that my mother kept; I was 5. I can’t begin to count the number of times that I’ve sat back and remember all the memories of my childhood. We used to live in an army camp by the sea. It was a beautiful neighborhood with everything that any kid could ask for – neighbors that knew you by name, a store that sold your favourite junkfood and silly toys, a perfectly blue sky in the morning and a green beautiful forest so deep that you thought you’d be lost forever.
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Poinsettia
I actually did a sketch of this poinsettia while waiting for my lunch at the Splendid Cafe @ Carrefour Ampang months back. They have these fake poinsettias on every table as centerpiece decoration. I was kinda bored and when I saw it, I just took out my moleskine and pen and started to draw. The coloring was done separately during spare time.
Splendor | Prismacolor + Pigment Ink
Do you know that $220 million worth of poinsettias are sold during the holiday season and 80% of poinsettias are purchased by women aged 40 or older*?
[*source: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/facts.html] -
Detach – IF
Detached | Pigment ink on Moleskine
The prompt this week at illustrationfriday.com is ‘Detach’. The only thing that crossed my mind is detached parts of toys. I have loads of them all over the house.