A Pixel's Journey

Hi! I am an inexperienced, amateur artist and a wanna-be designer. The purpose of this blog is to document my endless journey towards improvement. Check the top left menu for some links!

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Dubai Schoolism Live Workshop (6th Nov, 2015)

Yesterday was the Dubai Schoolism live workshop. I only attended one of the 2 days (the second workshop should be taking place as I am typing this). It took us a while to find the place since the Jam Jar turned out of be a warehouse and there was no indication to it except a small sign that said the Jam Jar lol.

Anyway, the first instructor was Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau. He showed us some of his work, some of his students’ work and before & afters (which was extremely motivating!). He talked about how to become a successful digital artist and how to grow as an artist, in general. He also discussed fanart and how to build a fanbase. I took so, so many notes. His lecture was truly inspiring.

After that was a one hour break followed by the second lecture. The second instructor was Kris Pearn. He showed us some of his storyboards and actually acted out the scenes. He was incredible; he got us laughing like crazy! He also asked us to choose one of two scenarios and had people come up and draw the storyboards one after the other till a story formed from that one image. Of course, I didn’t have the guts to actually go up there sigh.

There was a small break after Kris Pearn’s lecture and then Bobby Chiu followed. It was supposed to be Nathan Fowkes but Nathan was too sick to attend. Bobby Chiu told us how he started as an artist, how he started Schoolism and how life just seemed to be constantly pushing him down but he stayed positive and always looked at the bright side. His was positivity was so big, it was contagious! He also showed us demos of his paintings and then asked people to throw adjectives at him which he then used to draw a creature! After Bobby’s lecture I was amazed at how bright and positive he was; I didn’t think it was possible but my admiration and respect for him increased.

(Bobby Chui drawing in someone’s sketchbook)

The whole experience was incredible. It was so informative and fun and I’m so grateful that I got this opportunity. Thank you Schoolism!

p.s. three of the photos above were taken by my sister and sorry I didnt take photos of Kris Pearn :(

Here are photos of the Schoolism goodies we got:

Punch laziness in the face wristbands

A print signed by Artgerm!

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This is the last of what I can share from the gesture drawing course: Extrapolation and Story. It was incredible! I loved it and I love schoolism for providing it♡ Currently taking Fundamentals of Character Design with Stephen Silver.

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This is long overdue..more from Schoolism's Gesture Drawing: Silhouettes and Exaggeration.

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Inktober days 23-27. Mostly originals except for The Beauty and The Beast fanart.

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Seems like I mixed up the dates..the above are days 14 & 18 of inktober. Kamiki Izumo from Ao no Exorcist and a doodles of a hogwarts student.

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Days 11-15 of inktober. The landscape is from a kusanagi book. Gon and Killua for Hunter x Hunter (I miss this anime 😭), Okumura Rin from Ao no Exorcist and Palm Town fanart♡

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Days 1-10 of inktober Howl's Moving Castle, Koe no Katashi (A silent Voice),and random characters and doodles :) More info on each post on my Instagram

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Here is some of the Gesture Drawing class homework; Line of Action, Shapes and Silhouette.

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Its been SO long since my last post orz

Anyway, I decided to join Schoolism yesterday and it was the best decision I ever made! :’) I finished the first lesson and am looking for line of action in everything now! haha I love it!

Planning on posting my homework and more sketchbook pages later.

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the worst feeling about trying to draw is being a mediocre artist. You realize you’re not terrible and family and friends who can’t draw at all tell you all the time how amazing you are, but you, as the artist, have seen what amazing really is and you realize that it isn’t you.

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500% me

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“ but you, as the artist, have seen what amazing really is and you realize that it isn’t you.”

No ill intention to anyone, but this line bothered me and what bothered me more that over 160k agree with this.

This is a drawing of mine when I was 16. Mum wanted to build a shrine for me, like “have you seen the snow flakes falling?! Using tipp-ex is really smart!!” and I used to put it in a clear file coz it used to go rounds between classes in school coz I was “the best artist who will make it to Japan” and people wanted my autograph just in case.

This, isn’t mediocre artist. This is BAD. Like background? trees?@ what about anatomy? And wolf, where do I begin? It’s like a sticker!!! Covering his legs coz I couldn’t draw it. Being smart again huh?

This is me latest full colored illustration.

And I can say even with mistakes here and there, it’s a good piece that I’m still proud of.

What irks me isn’t the feeling behind what’s written coz self-doubt comes naturally with being an artist but don’t say it’s not you.

It CAN be you. Takes time and effort. but,

Make a decision it IS going to be YOU.

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Another instagram dump :)

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Instagram dump! 1 & 2 - head studies from Loomis's book 3 - no erase meme 4 & 8 - random sketches 5 - dresses from Ulyana Sergeenko's previous collection 6 - All the sketch books I filled in 2014 7 - Gaia commissions WIP

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Gaia Online is an online hangout, incorporating social networking, forums, gaming and a virtual world.

Gaia commissions open! :D

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Latest instagram posts.

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More sketches! Opening Gaia store soon :D

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Noses painting practice based on one of Concept Cookie's sheets! I wanna do as many tutorials/exercises of Concept Cookie and others to improve! So expect more soon haha :)

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1. The first picture has a fashion drawing ref-ed from lookbook and there rest are ref-ed from Toshi on pixiv.

2. Anatomy studies

3. Birds are probably then only type of animals that I can draw ;-; lol

4-8. Took anon's advice about focusing on weight distribution and watched some Glenn Vilppu videos. He's incredible! *-*