be my valentine?

one of my very good guy friends was feeling down the other night. i made him this scratchboard drawing of a storm trooper that i was going to give him as a valentine's day gift, but since he wasn't having the best day, i decided to visit him at work and surprise him with it a little early. i think it cheered him up. :)

tomorrow im making valentine's cookies with a very special girl and ill be passing them out the the other boys in my life who i appreciate. i don't have "A Valentine" this year per say, but i want to let my guys know that i appreciate them in my life. even on days when they're kind of stinky or when they leave the toilet seat up.

i don't have many female friends i feel like i can be my real self more around the guys. i'll need to think of something extra special to do for the few lovely ladies in my life.

so january went like this:

for christmas last year i got myself a present; this little diary from atSeoul.com. it's layed out by week so you can write a paragraph or so every day, and it has places to keep track of your spending, journal how the hours of your day are broken down, keep lists of anything you want, sections of graph paper for free drawing, and some extra lined pages just in case you're feeling like getting some things off your chest.

one of my favorite features is the blank calendar pages before each month. if i do something cool in particular, i may write about it as well as do a little doodle on the calendar.

so january went like this:

• started out crappy; my BF dumped me at my party because we were too different
• i was depressed about it for a few days
• started spending time with another cute boy and cheered up
• busy spending lots of time with friends
• working on abstracts in drawing class
• boy drama (baaaagh)
• spent time with my ex's little sister - she missed me :]
• longing for spring

i love my diary. <3

A New Art Journal

i have a tendency to abandon things when im not happy with them, and start fresh. i do it with knitting projects, diaries, sketchbooks, and *cough cough* blogs..

well here is a peek at my *newest* art journal. i wanted to capture the feeling of spring. (i say that while my city is trapped under a sheet of ice..) hey, i'm anxious for spring, ok? :-P

 yaay spring!

 new spring purse!

 ok, not really springy, but eh. this is me! :D

this is a page i did in response to Brina's prompt on her blog, Rose Colored Glasses!

The prompt was to journal a page on one of your personal catchphrases. I picked "how lovely." Honestly, i don't say it out loud much, but I'm thinking, "Well that's lovely!" and it reminds me of the song from Bye Bye Birdie. <3 Check it out!

my motto

i was inspired to start living my dream life when i heard the quote, "dress for the job you want, not the job you have." there was an aha moment. i thought, "hey! i don't have to envy the girls with the cute clothes and the successful lives, i can BE them!" my life changed after that.

i didn't sit on the sidelines of life anymore. if i saw something i wanted, i went for it.
"i wish i could tease my hair," became, "hey look! i just learned how to tease my hair!"
"i wish i had a blog," became, "hey look! i just made a blog!"
"i wish i were happy," became, "hey look how freaking happy i am!"

i had taken up the motto, "Live the live you want, not the life you have." But i recently revised this to a shorter version,

"LIVE THE DREAM LIFE."

so i saw the gorgeous diaries at atseol.com and thought they were painfully beautiful. i was inspired to change things up a little. so i started this art journal, but since the front and back are both plain black, i have a hard time telling the front from the back upside-down.. but i fixed that now. :] gold vinyl stickers with my personal motto.

unrelated, i have a lot of short term things i need to be patient about.

• hearing from another bank about a loan
• my birthday in less than a month
• babysitting tomorrow
• mailman delivering my korean label-maker
• new episode of playful kiss *this one's gunna be good!!* ;)
• asian student association meeting at school *not asian. going anyway.*
• dinner with a friend
• meeting with my academic adviser
• waiting for an email from my korean teacher - login problems *blugh*

waiting is soo haaaard!! :-P

Drawing class is my favorite

And that's how it should be, really. I'm an artist. I'm working towards my fine art degree. Drawing class really should be my favorite. My past drawing classes were loathsome, but this one is nice. I really enjoy it. Once we finished with the still life that I mentioned a few days ago, we started drawing figures. Plaster casts of famous sculptures. It's been pretty fun so far. Here is a little peek at the homework I've been doing for that class lately.

 We had to make a little movable figure so we could see how the hips and shoulders align in the contraposto pose. (putting your weight on one leg- kind of casually slouching) I actually made this before he really talked about the assignment, and I ended up making it too small.. So much for being pro-active. :-P  I'll have to do it over. But eh, oh well.

 Some 30-second gesture drawings of people in the library. This was super awkward for me.. I was so afraid people would notice me drawing them, and be creeped out.

 This is the full spread of the page I posted the other day. I added some song lyrics and a crow to the skulls to give it sort of a theme, just because it's my sketchbook and I wanted it to reflect how I myself feel about the skulls. They remind me of Halloween and Taeyang's music video for the song I'll Be There. So I wanted to incorporate my thoughts. <--- if you haven't seen this music vid yet, you NEED to see it ;) one of my favs.

so here's what i got so far

so you may have noticed my recent re-kindled interest in illustration lately. I haven't had much time lately to work on anything, since school started this week, but I did manage to do a little sketch of one of my favorite outfits. You may be familiar with the flickr group Wardrobe Remix. Well I've always liked the group What I Wore Today: Drawing's Only. I'm planning on submitting this. I know it's kind of simple, and not the best thing ever, but I'm still pretty proud of how it turned out.

Live the Dream Life.

 sketchbook version

adobe illustrator version

what do you think? constructive criticism encouraged! :-P