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Some of the doodles I did yesterday while watching season 3 of Dexter.

Trying out some colour and whatnot.

Since it’s the new year, I’d just like to post my resolution for 2012: I will update my blog more frequently – with projects I’m working on, doodles or just creative process.

Here’s the first illustration I’m posting for the new year. It was my studio project for school, which lasted the whole semester. I call it my “Running/Falling diptych project” because I intended them to be viewed together.

I also created this mini process to hand-in along with my project.

A wee drawing of what I’ve been working on. The semester is ending soon so I haven’t been posting things. I’ll upload the final product in my next post.

On another note, the exciting news I wanted to talk about previously is: one of my illustrations is on an electric box in Vancouver! My school and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association collaborated to beautify the electricity boxes along Granville Street. They also wanted to stop people from graffiti-ing the grey boxes by putting different art work made by the students from my school. It’s called the WRAP Project (’cause the artwork is wrapped around the boxes…haha at least that’s my interpretation of it). There were about eighty submissions for this…and I was one of the lucky ones to have been chosen! I feel positively giddy to have been chosen. It was a great experience because a few of my friends‘ designs were also chosen. If there are any Vancouverites reading this, go down Granville Street and see the amazing work on the electric boxes!

The photos were taken by Ivy, the creator of the WRAP Project.

And a screenshot of the school’s current website (to immortalize my 15 minutes of fame):

I call the doodle above “Short Hair Triumphs” because the girl on the far left was inspired by Once Upon A Time’s take of Snow White. I really like the TV show’s Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard (and the actress who plays her, Ginnifer Goodwin).

This sketch actually was for homework:

I was really happy to find the right size clear plastic bags from a couple of dollar and toonie (that’s $2 for non-Canadian readers) stores. I really enjoyed thinking of the packaging for my buttons. The wood grain backing is suppose to be a picnic table (pies at a picnic!). The idea of making pies as buttons came to me while I was on transit. It was yet another late night coming from school and I was craving apple pie. In the end I didn’t get my pie, but I’m still glad of the end result.

Apple pie was my first button. I then branched out to cherry pie, blueberry pie, pecan…and eventually got to some more daring flavours such as apple rhubarb.

I made a total of forty buttons! Each one was individually pinned through the backing and packaged. If there are any Vancouver readers out there, I got my buttons done at The Regional Assembly of Text. They are incredibly helpful and friendly people!

Stay tuned, I have an exciting post coming soon.

On that note, I guess the only thing left to say is: what’s your favourite pie?