Christmas Cards

I was making a card to print out for my parents to give it to their friends the christmas cards. here they are.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

In Love

I'm dating someone right now so I'm feeling the love. I don't know I'd thought I do something on illustrator and make a heart. check em out lol

High School Years

I was so lonely during high school years and I had few people making fun of me. It made me very less talkative and I've changed since I moved to Toronto in 2002. I had few bad days through high school days and I had my things stolen from my locker. I was just doing my own thing and I would eat lunch alone everyday which is weird sitting by myself. For Art and English class, I would just write and draw about how I feel. The teacher kind of found it interesting about the way I felt and they learned few things about me. I spend a lot of times with teachers than talking to my classmates. I was also the oldest classmate in high school and I was also completely different from them. I wasn't like those teenagers. I was called into counselors office and they helped me with my problems that I've been dealing with loneliness. She introduce me to some girls at lunch table but they barely talked to me so I went back to sitting all alone by myself till few nice people came along the next yr. I couldn't wait till I graducated cause I didn't feel like I fit with those people who never invited me to hang out with them out of school. Now since I'm in college and I'm a lot older too. I've met few interesting people who has same interest and we all love art so we have few things in common. It makes me feel like I really fit with them. 

Two Ladies Making Out

I drew this picture of two ladies making out about few months ago when I got bored. I felt like drawing something like this so I did it lol. 

The Legacy of Learning

Avoiding Widows & Orphans

Spacely - New Typeface Design

New Typeface Design

I used this base typeface of Myriad Pro and designed to look through it to make it to new typeface of Bauhaus Era. I called it "Spacely" for my new typeface design because it has space on each letter in alphabet and it's all horizontal. 

Bye Bye Typography

bye bye typography lol but I still got to learn a lot more about it. It's interesting.

BookJacket

I did think bookjacket for design III course, I had to make up a story. 

Font Font

I'm not sure how I miss this the first time around but the entire Font Font cataloge can be viewed online over at issuu. YOu can flip through the 2009 cataloge, zoom in for higher resolution, and even dowload it (you might need to sign up).  

In addition to that, this page has a list of every single Font Font PDF specimen. There are still some foundries that do not offer PDF specimen. I'd never ever purchase a typeface without first seeing it.

http://issuu.com/fontfont/docs/fontfont_cat_2009

Two Naked Ladies

I drew this with my tablet I bought few months ago. It's easier than drawing on paper to scan it. I did this when I was bored.

AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario

I went to art gallery last weekend for my 500 words assignment, we had to pick one of the piece to write about it. I was in line and it took me an hour to get inside!! but it was worth it. We were not allow to take pictures of the art works inside the gallery so I try to remember it to sketch it. I took few picture from outside of the gallery to show the transformation that has changed.

Walking through the revolving doors made me gasp in awe, no stairs, only a ramp. Where shall I go first? The galleries are large and spacious with good lighting. Wonder around for a while and you come back to the central foe. Here you see an almost modern wonder. A spiral stair case stands out on its own and leads to practically no where. This stair case holds it’s own as there are no displays around it. Walk again to the front of the building and the feeling you get is that you are in the inside of an up turned boat with the ribs curving inwards and around you which gives you an immense sense of spaciousness. On the opposite side of this are planks of douglas fir carved out to show the inner half of this mighty works of nature which I did not know existed until I saw it. What a wonderful insight and a genius of imagination. The redesigned art gallery in my opinion is something that was long overdue.

The most extraordinary exhibit that I found interesting was in the Corking Gallery on the second floor. This piece of sculpture was the work of David Amejd. The entire room was filled with a sculpture of immense proportions that was morbid, thought provoking and illusionary all at the same time. The first thing you see are mirrors everywhere that reflects the sculpture it self and the observer together which gives you a feeling of being a part of the sculpture.

You then see an animal may be a bear torn to bits by shards of pointed mirrored crystal and a human form with the head of a bird standing over it. What does this signify? Are the shards of crystal the will of humans destroying everything around it? At this point you don’t notice that the head of this animal is missing. Turn around again and there stands another human with the same birds head embedded with crystals in his hand stretched out. All this is happening in a tranquil forest atmosphere with birds and squirrels on the trees and life as we know it going on regardless of the events that you see. As if to side track all this a figure of a flying owl with star of David painted on his head and an eagle with wings spread out, but all the parts of the eagle are depicted by human fingers. What’s the connection? To summarize, this piece of work was the most outstanding and challenging experience that I recognized during my brief tour.

Depression & Lonely

I've been lonely for few years since I moved to Canada. I felt like drawing something about how I feel. I was blaming myself and taking all the guilt like I was too lonely. It hurted be a lot and I felt like no one needs me as a friend. Like people would say something mean to me over small things. I felt left out most of the times when I'm sitting in a table with group of friends or family members. I normally draw pictures and write the words based on how I feel to let it out. Sometimes it helps but I'd rather scream out loud or kick something so hard. 

Amazing Paintings

These are some of my favorite art work and I love it. It just gets my attention. Some of the art work could be based on feelings or what they are thinking.

Stella's painting are all woman and probably want to show that woman needs to be strong. Stella and Audrey's art work looks similar but different style. They are night and day...although they both frequently choose to use females in their art work, there is a massive difference once their vision the canvas/wood, tool. Stella just spent time overseas and returned with a tangle of emotions about the dark aspects of relationship. "Raveled" is described as the young painter's cathartic stab at sorting through "the side of human nature that is suppressed or unspoken in most people.

Te themes in Audrey's work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey's precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter.

Audrey Kawasaki

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com

Stella Im Hultberg

http://www.stellaimhultberg.com

Nanami Cowdroy

http://www.nthread.net/

Amazing Art Work

I've been trying to figure out who the artist is and I got an e-mail from a lady. So it's Stella Im Hultberg and I went into her site. Omg! I'm so in love with her work and it's so amazing. So many paintings of beautiful woman on tea stained paper.

www.stellaimhultberg.com