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wave to the big blue sea

September 26, 2011 – 6:46 pm

wave

“slow wave”; pen, watercolor, marker on bristol; 9 x 12″

Feeling really sleepy lately, gonna ride a wave to sleep and non-drowsiness.  But, I gotta put some drawing paper and some pens on that surfboard.  Plus, my latest obsession: my sewing machine…!

(left) shortened linen skirt from Seoul (bought a decade ago lolol), (right) skirt I made from fabric I bought two years at Tokyu Hands (using this Childhood Flames guide)

hem lines

I’m slowly getting better at sewing , but I kept messing up  the hemming on the linen skirt, so I just decided to go with it and made some colorful, not-quite-straight hems.

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It feels goooooooooood to use things I’ve had for years but have been sitting on chairs and in cold, dark closets all this time.  I almost want to get out a hula hoop and hula hoop my joy, but a) I don’t own a hula hoop, and b) I’m extremely unskilled at hula-hooping.

Best yet, I have some ideas for sewing (in a drawing-esque way) on found materials.  Updates on that soon, after a couple of naps and a couple cans of soda.

 

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pangcakes drawing + ruminations about my sidewalk

August 11, 2011 – 6:57 pm

pangcakes illustration

A drawing of Pangcakes, currently one of my favorite style blogs.

As a person who has taken not-very-many art classes, it’s always kind of hard for me to draw human figures, as I’m not technically skilled at a lot of aspects of drawing.  I’m trying to get better, though, by practicing more and what better way than to draw bloggers I see?  OK, so it’s probably a little creepy, but I have to find inspiration from somewhere.

I see lots of interesting people on the streets (for instance, all the loiterers near the laundromat on the corner and the man at the cafe who keeps whiskey by his side in a plastic, zip-up lunchbox), but it’s usually not possible for me to look at them long enough to get a visual imprint in my head that will later transcend into a nice drawing.   So sad.  I just will have to suck it up one day and be really conspicuous and work from an easel on my sidewalk.

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