passing time...
Monday, January 16, 2012
Well, after all that drama, why not pick up the mood? :)
As I looked for new things to try, I came upon my old hobby--Origami! Being that I had nothing else to do that night, I found some pieces of paper and tried my hand at it again.
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| a little blouse and culottes |
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| I actually made this a long while ago, but still. :)) |
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| A bigger origami blouse and culottes. Kind of looks like a uniform, doesn't it? |
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| a fun, little toy frog that jumps about. :)) |
Another hobby that I'll be revisiting is poetry. I used to write random verses, and I came up with something rather maniacal or random. I guess I might post one of my poems one of these days if I feel like it...
Well, as they say in German--gute nacht!
doodle dares
Friday, January 13, 2012
This is one of the little steps I am taking to get back into drawing. :)
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| A doodle I did when I was bored in class :P |
I used to doodle a lot when I was in grade school. Emphasize A LOT. Me and my friends even gave in a lot of effort into them, writing and drawing all sorts of things on our notebooks, pieces of paper and illustration boards. Then somehow, it just eventually stopped. Not completely, but all that fanciful effort we gave diminished.
So I was downright glad when I started doodling again and came up with that thing above. ^^ :))
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| My good friend's "Doodle Dare" |
The doodle above is by a friend of mine whom I "doodle dared" into making this. I dared him to doodle something filled with a lot of interesting details on my sticky note. The thing was, my little sticky pad is only about 1 1/2 X 2 inches in size! But of course, lo and behold, he came through with that doodle up there.
So, the creative push I've now thought of is this Doodle Dare. I'm going to get as many as my friends to get into it and see what kinds of dares we can come up with. I for one am considering one which involves leaving something a bit permanent somewhere in our school.
What kind of dares would you come up with? ;)
Labels: art, doodle, Doodle Dares, inspiration, photo
creative outbursts
Thursday, January 12, 2012
For what seems to be quite a long while now, my level of creativity has gone considerably low. I'm pretty sure I've been complaining for too long already about how I'm constantly uninspired and unmotivated to continue my artistic pursuit.
Then one day, it all just caught up with me. I was fed up with being in a state of creative stagnation. I wanted to start over and get my creative juices flowing once more. But then, I didn't know where to start and what to do. I pondered long and hard, but I just distracted myself from what I needed to do. I'm a mess of thoughts after all, so I ended up not getting anywhere. At times like this, I always end up on Google for help.
Then I had a chance encounter with this wonderful little list of rules from creativesomething.net. It helped me a lot, and even inspired me to add a few 'rules' of my own (as shown above).
Right now, I haven't really gone back to that creative drive yet, but I'm slowly making my way there. Bit by little bit.
Labels: art, creativeomsething.net, list, photo, rules of a creator's life
art never comes from happiness
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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| Photo from deviantART |
The best art comes from an emotion deeper than what happiness can bring.
Labels: art, Chuck Palahniuk quote, personal quote, photo, Photo from deviantART, quote
SANS HÉSITATION
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| from flickr |
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
- Oscar Wilde
The beauty of art and of literature really has a way of
capturing me.When I see a beautiful image, a work of art that moves me, it’s
almost as if my heart would break. It seems dramatic, yes, but it is true for
every piece of art that touches my heart. I can’t explain it to the utmost
point of how it makes me feel, the desire to know every inch of that piece of
art, to see the story within it. It almost feels like love, seeing something so
moving.
There have only been a few stories that have really
gotten through to my core. Something deeper than just fancy words and
descriptions. Though I do admit that these pull me into a story, nothing pulls
me in better than really knowing the character, feeling the story. I love
stories that make me think, that make me wonder “Why?” These are the stories
that leave me speechless and silently begging for more. Even if I’ve gone
through these stories numerous times, I want nothing more than to do it all
over again, to try and feel more than just the pages within my fingertips.
One would
think it almost obsessive. One can only be obsessed with something they can’t
get enough of. And it is true; I can never seem to get enough of the beauty of
art, of literature, and even of human nature, because truly, these all pique my
interest. I thirst for knowledge on it all, the curious nature of which they
come about to entrance us. What is it about these things that make my mind tick
and my heart race; that make me curiouser and curiouser?
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