Happy Birthday, My Love

I have a cousin that I grew up with and we were attached at the hip for the most part of childhood into adolescence. A few years ago she moved to Hawaii to start a small frozen yogurt business, which also became the subject of one of my projects in school.

Long story short, she came back to New York to visit this month. Her birthday also happens to be around the corner so I decided to make a little something to feed her obsession with...can you guess?

It's Hello Kitty! 

Pseudo New York City Scape

So its been a while since I've made a post. And, its definitely not because of laziness. For the entire month of February until now, I'v been working on updating my portfolio as well as building a brand new portfolio website. I'm no web developer so I'm still learning along the way. But with the help of my awesome significant other, its almost finished!

Above is a sketch of a background I will be using in the website.

I made some changes during the transition from paper to screen.

The finished product that I will be using as a background for one of the pages in the website. I call it a pseudo New York City Scape. The Empire State building is there, but Manhattan most definitely does not look like that. 

The Form Grows Organically

Yesterday afternoon I decided to revisit my childhood and had a Chibi Maruko Chan marathon. I borrowed the dvd from a friend ages ago. What else to do on a Sunday afternoon? However, I've never been a fan of passive television watching. Such activity calls for multitasking. As a result, I have a semi-finished version of the doodle I started two weeks ago. I also finished 42 episodes of Maruko Chan - not so bad considering each episode was only 10 minutes.

Sketching with Harmony

I'm currently reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I know I'm a little late on the subject but this novel is a great read. Its weird, twisted, suspenseful, and very well written. And, not to mention, I am in love with the idea of a world with two moons. It's such an unnerving and beautiful imagery. 

I created the sketch with Harmony, a online sketching tool. Its a wonderful idea and very simple to use. I spent hours playing with. More doodles to come.

Air Crystalis.

Doodle on down time

Swirls are often my choice subject for doodling because I never know what form they may take. Of course, my notebook is littered with these doodles - none of them finished. I wonder what the finished doodle would look like. Then again, maybe doodles are not meant to be "finished". I will attempt to "finish" this particular one. Just to see where it goes.