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My Sketchbook Project

Reg — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000

Some time last year, I ordered a blank sketchbook from The Sketchbook Project. The premise is that anyone can order a sketchbook, fill it out, and send it back by a certain date so that it can be part of a big, traveling sketchbook exhibition all over the world. Sounds good, right? Unfortunately, I never got to sending out mine. I never even got past filling out anything beyond the second page of my book. I’m not surprised– I have so many personal projects left unattended and this was just another one of them.

However, I did bust out the sketchbook recently to test out some new acrylic paints I bought. Some of my old paints have dried up, leaving me with this:

Tumor-like globs of acrylic paint that jiggle when you poke them.

I really was just looking to test out my new paints so I quickly sketched on the sketchbook cover and came up with this:

I love working with cardboard– it’s so “unfinished” and not as intimidating as
a blank piece of white paper. It screams out, “I’m brown and blank! Do something with me!”

It’s basically just a doodle with color, but I like how imperfect and loose the overall look is. Might have to consider working in this loose style for future paint work– it’s fast, spontaneous, and raw in this digital age where everything is clean and perfect and polished.

So maybe the sketchbook project isn’t a bust after all. At least I have a cute, personalized cat sketchbook to use when my current one is all filled up?

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iPhone retina wallpapers

Reg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:26 +0000

I’ve updated my iPhone wallpapers for the iPhone 4/4S. I had a 3rd generation iPod Touch where I’m using one of my illustrations as a wallpaper for the lock screen. It looked fine, but when I got an iPhone 4S, the same wallpaper looked blurry and pixelated due to the upgrade to a retina screen. I then reworked the existing iPhone wallpapers I have for download to fit the new resolution of the iPhone 4/4S, and added some new designs for both iPhone and desktop.

The iPhone wallpapers work best when set for the lock screen; they are already sized to fit so you won’t need to scale or adjust. Check out the Downloads page to get these, as well as their desktop counterparts and other wallpaper designs. I’ll be adding more wallpapers from time to time!

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Wordless Wednesday #007

Reg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:04:35 +0000

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DIY Muji colored pencil tube

Reg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:44:13 +0000

What happens when you have a plain cardboard canister and an afternoon of procrastinating?

I have a lot of personal projects brewing in my head all the time but I usually have no ~~time~~ motivation to act on them… except when I’m procrastinating on more important tasks at hand.

Last year, I bought mini colored pencils from Muji, a Japanese lifestyle brand with beautiful, minimalist, and “unbranded” household/stationery/travel/furniture/clothing products. The colored pencils came in an unmarked brown Kraft tube– perfect for personalizing, I thought, as with everything else Muji sells. It took me a few months before I thought of what to do with it, and when I did, I used my Letraset Tria markers.

Three nibs in one marker!

What’s special about these markers is when used right, they blend very nicely and you can layer and mix colors and they’d come out looking like watercolors. I’ve had my eye on these markers since college, but couldn’t afford it with my college student allowance. I was only able to afford it when I started working, but then I had no time to do anything with the markers, so I held off on buying them. It was only early last year that I finally went and purchased them. Let me tell you, it’s a good feeling to be able to work for something you’ve wanted for a long time but couldn’t buy before with your own money :)

This is how I used those markers. I’m still trying to get the hang of working with this medium.

I thought I’d make a Japanese kokeshi doll since the stout canister shape was perfect for it and because the pencils are from a Japanese brand. Nice logic, no? Haha

Oops… that year under my name is supposed to be 2012, not 2011.

The coloring could be better/smoother, but for a first try, I don’t think it’s that bad :P

This short tube of pencils is perfect for traveling and on-the-go drawing, which is why I purchased them in the first place. It holds 30+ pencils with room inside for a small sharpener (non-Muji, which I bought separately). I went back to Muji yesterday to maybe pick up a few more tubes of pencils I can dress up but unfortunately, the short tubes were out of stock. They had the tall canisters of 60, full-length colored pencils but they were too pricey at Php 1,000++. Better grab the short ones next time you see it in stores so you can also DIY and customize it :)

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Wordless Wednesdays #004, #005, #006

Reg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:38:14 +0000

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Instagram-ing!

Reg — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:12:20 +0000

I lost my phone just before the holidays. Let’s not get into how I lost it, but it involved stupidity. I wasn’t too bummed though. If anything, I was slightly relieved– I hated my old phone as it was hard to use and counter-intuitive. Losing my phone was an excuse to get a new one! :3

I went phone-less for a while because I couldn’t be bothered to get a new one in the middle of all the Christmas holidaze. So for two weeks I walked around, unwired from the world and without a care, as if I put everyone/everything else on the backburner. What a great feeling!

I can’t be phone-less forever though, so eventually I walked into my phone service provider’s store and waited for over three hours to get myself………. an Instagram account ;) Hahahaha!

Colored pencils from Muji

At the Greenbelt 3 cinemas

A spread from my travel sketchbook (more on that in a future blog post)

The novelty has not worn off yet. I’m really enjoying the prettiness other people upload on the app. Here are more of my other if-this-photo-did-not-have-a-filter-applied-to-it-it-would-look-like-crap snaps I’ve taken so far (no latte foam art and sunsets… YET):

01: walking around in Greenbelt 3, 02: mess on my desk part 1, 03: mess on my desk part 2, 04: candy jar

Are you on Instagram? Follow my artsy-fartsy-bordering-on-pretentious (haha!) feed there. My username is @wedgienet :)

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Wordless Wednesday #003

Reg — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:59:25 +0000

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Illustration Friday: Messenger

Reg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:34:24 +0000

In an effort to get back to Illustration Friday, I am shamelessly re-posting an old drawing as it’s a fit for this week’s topic, Messenger.

I drew this a year ago on Odosketch, a simple, online drawing app with limited, muted colors and no undo function.

Throwing in an unrelated, just-finished drawing also made on Odosketch. It’s a drunk cat! No particular reason for the drawing but I did just buy a couple of bottles of San Mig Light just waiting to be opened (which I will get to after I post this) :D

The interesting thing about Odosketch is that you can replay your drawing stroke by stroke, mistakes and all! See the replay of the bear here and the drunk cat here :3

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Wordless Wednesday #002

Reg — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:55:16 +0000

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Wordless Wednesday #001

Wordless Wednesday #001

Reg — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:12:07 +0000

(In an effort to keep this space fresh and updated, I’ll be posting Wordless Wednesdays every week. Just a picture (or pictures) from my everyday life/that particular day, as much as possible falling within this site’s genre (art design illustration crafts paper cats cute cheetos!). No words, no explanations. Well, this week’s an exception… gotta explain what this is all about, right? :P)

P.S. I’ll also post Wordless Wednesdays on my Facebook page: http://facebook.com/wedgienet.net. If you comment on the photos there, I can reply and Wordless Wednesdays will probably just be regular Wednesdays. LELZ.