pattern

just posting the pattern i used in my self portrait. i put watermark, because it was pain to make this pattern, and i don't want anyone to steal it ~.~

selfportrait finished...

here are the finished one for my self portrait. the first one is tracing over top of a photo, and the bottom is the one i changed over. i used my own home made patterns. they were fun to play around with. i guess i'll upload the original pattern later. in illustrator the details in the pattern got simplified.. i should have made the patterns in illustrator. anyways, i guess for the 2nd one, i just wanted to just make almost everything purple, purple is my favorite color. i thought it'd be interesting to see me with out glasses. i have been wearing glasses for almost little over 10 years now. i might get contacts later on so that should be interesting. i thought what if i had blue/purple hair. i really want to dye my hair some different color, i usually dye it like different shades of brown, and i tried to dye my hair blond one time. that didn't turn out right. so i think i might wait till i find a good place to do my hair, or go visit korea again and do my hair there or something. i guess i put a fan in there because originally i was holding uno cards, but they looked like fans. i like those hand held fans, they are pretty cool and amazing. i think i might have over done with the patter, but i like it. i think i added the hair piece in there, simple shape, but i think it'd have been better then using the pattern or like the one i tried to use in my works in process one. the hair was kinda hard to figure out, i mean i tried to add in the highlights and dark parts, but i think having it might give more distraction? i'm not sure, but not having anything, makes it interesting i think. it kinda balances with the whole busy background and fan with the simple plain surface of the hair. i think overall i did alright job on it.

selfportrait works in process

just showing what i have so far =3
i think i'm kinda pushing my self portrait a bit far but i like it so far hehe

letting some frustration out....

i had a hard time thinking what to do when
i was doing the text project
well, when i starting off i used this song
and when i was heard the song before, with out the lyrics
and not paying attention to it at all... i didn't
realized that it was a bit sad song. also i did't like the way
texts and vector shapes match, because i used happy theme for it.
i tried to making another one, but it didn't look right and out of the three tries with this song
i just gave up and started fresh with a new song. i was just
frustrated with this project, because i have this such mind that i
didn't want to loose all the text, or create something that doesn't
really relate at all, and there was one part where, i tried to incorporate
the text and the ideals i came up with just became
what it suppose to
look like from the text layer. well hopefully the next project won't
be as frustrating as this one.
this one is just the one i had saved... so i'm just posting it to show i guess...
i like some parts of the smiling faces, but i don't like the center piece at all.
i guess i need more practice with using text into my illustrator projects or just play around with it.

illustrator text

arg... i had the worst time doing this...

this is what i came up with after going through few ideals
and staying up pretty late.. ;;>>
here is the only text version
and here is the text with the vector in the background
here is the song and lyric that i used

If dreams came true

Lyrics: Linda Hennrick
Composition: Haneoka Kei
Vocal: Kawai Eri


All my life so many times
I have dreamed that I could fly
Like a bird so proud and free
Where there are no boundaries
Soaring through the endless blue
If dreams came true

I would spread my wings out wide
Let the wind song lift me high
Feel the breeze as it caressed my face
And my cares just drifted away
In my heart of hearts I know
I have been there once before
Close my eyes and in a moment's time
I would find the joy I knew
If dreams came true

Far above the world I'd fly
Shining wings against the sky
Where the air is fresh and sweet
And at last I'm free
Oh, how gracefully I'd climb
Through the clouds into the light
To a place that's bright and new
If dreams came true

Gazing at the distant sky
Have you dreamed that you could fly
Felt the breeze as it caressed your face
And your cares just drifted away
In my heart of hearts I see
This was always meant to be
Close your eyes and with your hand in mine
I would fly away with you
If dreams came true

Far above the world we'd fly
Shining wings against the sky
Where the air is fresh and sweet
And at last we're free
Oh, how gracefully we'd climb
Through the clouds into the light
To a place that's bright and new

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the song is from an anime series called AIR.
it's really good series and sad, but good.
i only used one line from this song,
but i like the song by the fact that i can relate to myself as a kid
and how i imagined myself if i had wings
or playing fantasy games with friends and siblings.
jelly fish...
i guess in a way jelly fish doesn't really have a
solid body and it's translucent look has the mystic creature
feeling to it. i guess in a sense i don't know what my future
is like, i'm just kinda going along with it in a way.
i'll just float around or just follow whatever i think
it's right for me at a right moment i guess.
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triptych: heroic bard?

anyways... we had to make triptych for computer class. i decided or actually dedicated to my computer teacher nat bard. thus if you look closely at the t-shirt, it says bard 4 teh win

and here is fixed version of my still life.

i need to fix some parts in the bard one, so i'll make another post after i'm done fixing it.

illustrator exercise

Well finally we got to use illustrator today. I haven't done anything with illustrator in a while, but I think it came out alright. I could have done much better job with it, but I'll save it to do better or whenever I feel like making it better.

here is what my mom looks like... well in truth, I don't think it does, but I tried my best T.T

and here is my still life ones...

if you want to look at the bigger version you can go to my dA site you just have to click download to view the actual size