Wandering with the Wind...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I'm back! Had a long stay in China over the past one month and - probably - a half, with no connection to blogger, so I had to put this aside and stuff up my DA journals instead. Goodness it looks really dead. =_=

Well anyway, the hols weren't very interesting, just math tuitions everyday, homework, draw, writing fanfictions and listening to music...and maybe meeting a couple of relatives from the rural places. They just came up without preamble, it's kind of, um, uncomfortable for me. And they always seem to come on days whereby I am either very busy or very free. So it's not a fair trade either way.

In the end what really is worth noting is that I had my first flight alone on 28th Dec 2009. :D It felt really good, disregarding certain irritating complications. The flight was relatively smooth and the plane was pretty big, but it got delayed a little more than 1 hour due to some...what they call airplane rotation? What's that? O___O Well mechanical problems I suppose. I was kind of pissed because I was going to have SAP selection test and interview the next day at 9am, and I needed to get to SG as early as possible to sort out my portfolio.

Speaking of which, I finished and edited a small part of my portfolio on the plane, I think it was the...abstract and fractals section, and maybe also the manga sketches / digital art. Just basically running through the stuff and clearing out funny things. In the end I got home at 12.30am, printed out the stuff and slept at 2am, and then woke up at 6am, took photos of bigger artworks and printed another bunch of stuff, and rushed to school at 8.20am. I was almost late cuz apparently we didn't have enough time and my dad was in a frenzy - ended up taking a couple of wrong turns and got trapped in some ulu place facing this huge police bus that was trying to come out, and we were in its way. Wasted 5 minutes trying to turn out.

But whoa, all these were really worth it. Yup I got into SAP! XD I just had a feeling that the interview went well.

The selection test was a little funny though, they gave us this bare tree (I think they carved it out of wood or something), a square cube and a plaster face, and told us to incorporate these three elements into our sketches. We had 1 hour for it, thinking and drawing and all. Mine was pretty messed up. At first I wanted to draw the tree sticking out of the head, something about "roots of thought and imagination" blah, but later felt the idea was overused and the distribution of the work wouldn't be nice on the paper. The tree was so much larger than the head, it wouldn't achieve a nice balance.

So I flipped over the paper and started anew. My finished work was...something like the plaster face connected to the tree by the neck, and there were many little cubes hanging off the branches by thin strings as if windblown. I don't really know what I wished to imply, but all I was thinking was just "tree spirit" and the like, and most of the time I was just drawing by feel. Nothing else, really.

The test and stuff ended at around 11.15am. I was hiding from Guitar because the day was CCAO and apparently they didn't know I was back in Singapore already, since they didn't put my name in the shifts - but nooooo, Ming Wei was there for his sister's orientation and of all things, he got LOST.

It wasn't even a funny place in RG, it was just the Evelyn Norris Hall with the foyer a little ways to the left and there are so many ways to get there. =_= He called me and said he didn't know how to get to the main gate. *Sweatdrop*

Yeah, so in the end I got dragged back to the school under absolutely non-existent pretense (from my CCA) to help him. We ended up sitting at the *cough* somewhat conference table somewhere around the 1st floor staff room, and drew for about 1h. We went to Takashimaya after that, with my parents, to grab lunch and get some stuff from Art Friend.

Mm hm that's where I got my Copics 36-colour box set. I was waiting such a long time for it - it cost a whole lot more ex than the internet had stated, so I believe the supposed $118 was US dollars for me; the actual thing cost SD$209, almost a hundred bucks more. I paid $130 which I got partly from *cough* my grandpa's kind of accidental kindness, and also translating my mom's work review, and my parents kicked in another $79. So there goes.

I tried it. :D The blending was really amazing, and really nice to use, but now I realized I needed lighter skin colours. The lightest I've got in my box is "Flesh", which is a deep pinkish beige colour, commonly reckoned as a darker shadow tone for skin instead of the base. It makes the skin look roasted if you apply it on every part of it. I'll have to get the lighter tones individually, maybe "Eggshell" or "Cream" and the like.

Oh, and there's also the colourless blender that I need to get. Wow. This thing sure punches a hole in your pocket, despite being worth it.

Well yeah so I'll be posting some of the sketch dumps and art works I did over in China, maybe sometime in the next few days. Not now. I'm kind tired and pissed after Blogger cut off the entire chunk of my ending and I had to retype this again. =.=

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~~~*Played with the winds at 9.55am*~~~

Aurinya blogged at 9:24 AM

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