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When three humans of different world collide to create an art blog
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An Introduction
Hello, internet.
This is Elyna speaking. On the internet, I'm more known as Lynn, and among Radhii and Nenek, my genderbent version is called Eli. Call me whichever you're most comfortable using. if you know me in real life in any way though please try sticking to Elyna thanks.
I am the 'youngest' and most 'inexperienced' among the writers of this blog, but since I designed the blog I shall begin the intro post. I am a graphic design student, and I'm not very familiar with prospects of this subject since the vastness varies between universities. You might have noticed but I'm more of a writer than an artist, but I love art in all forms all the same, including literature and performance arts (well, watching it).
My experiences in art include sketching (realism and semi-realism is sort of my style right now but I started off with manga style) and I'm still learning with digital art. I hate coloring traditionally but the texture of paper when touched with pencil is ecstasy to me. Doodling when my thoughts are astray seems to be a habit. my illustrations are highly influenced by Korean idols and style.
I will be mostly posting experiences about trying new things and learning as a graphic student in INTEC, including figuring out template codes without 3-inch thick books and trying new brushes and color pallets on SAI. I'm quite a sullen person unless I start talking about something I'm interested about (which includes things that might bore you; sorry about that) so please forgive my boring writing style!! when it gets casual I can be considerably humorous though, so please anticipate that!
And that's all, reporting from my bed, 11:22pm, first of September 2014! Elyna, Out!
Salutations, friends!
Radhii, speaking! It took me a while to post my own intro, so I'm going to go all-out! Radhiah Ibrahim is my "official" name, Radhiah is my "usual" name, Radhii is my "pet" name, and Haidar is my the name of my "genderbent self."
In terms of art (in all its vastness), I'm only experienced in a tiny spec of it. I began drawing (seriously) at the age of 12 with our handy-dandy columned elementary school books, which I've used to make a comic called Idiotic Impulse. I started drawing digitally in 2011, and have continued to do so til' this day. I also post most of my art online on Twitter and Tumblr (with the user name Toddintops)! Mind you that as much as I am able to draw, COLOURING IS A HUGE CHALLENGE FOR ME... But! I am working on it, and will never give up until I can!
In this blog, I'll be covering multiple fields! My specialty being reviews, particularly reviews on events (because I am a convention junkie--)! But, I will also aid Elyna and Nenek with anecdotes and tips or tricks of my own (if Nenek hasn't covered them all already...)! At the end of each of my posts, I'll share with you a recent artwork/doodle of mine, just so I can keep track of my progress and so you can grow with me as well! I really do hope you'll enjoy our blog, it's super fun to write in, so I hope it'll be super fun to read, too!
So, that's all there is from me! Until next time, do take care, and have a nice day!
Woop~ Hello and welcome to the “get-to-know-you-bloggers” section of this blog.
I’m probably the last person to submit my bio but whatever.
So, my name is Nur Atiqah binti Hassan but you can just call me Nenek. Yes, I’m that Nenek Harmoni and yes, I’m a woman so stop asking about my gender and look in my damn profile. [You lazy ass bums..] Also, my genderbent self/human/creature is called Atif [some of you might have seen him somewhere on the internet, goofing around and being dumb.]
I’m also the creator of Haidar, Eli and Atif .
So yeah, I started drawing seriously when I was 12 and I started with comics mostly. Now I think I have about more than 20 comics created [only 1 is completed though.. *sweats*]. I got serious in drawing because of a friend of mine who also loves to draw. [Unfortunately, he quit drawing as we grew up and that is sad..]
After I got my own tablet on the 25th of December 2011, I went digital and crazy-mass-producing artworks since then. I also gain lots of friends and I’m glad to have them so I guess it’s a great life as an artist.
Enough about my background, I’m going to talk about what I do in this blog. Technically, I just draw tutorials and make tips on how to draw something or how to get inspirations. I think that’s all that I can do because I don’t have any other talent except for drawing..so yea~
Have fun looking around our blog and thank you for visiting~
BLOG: inspiration and motivation.
Saturday, 11 October 2014 @ 12:38
I went all over YouTube for this video. I don't know why I don't have it on my liked list, nor my Facebook, or my blog. It actually gave me a lot of inspiration to work harder on my creative work at that time.
When I first watched this I was still in school, maybe 16 or 17 years old. At that point I was writing a lot, not really drawing as much. I was working on my realism by then, inspired by fanart of B.A.P I've seen around. I was like, I have history in drawing, and although for the past couple of years I haven't really been working to improve I can still do it, so why not try?
One day I took a picture of Moon Jongup from B.A.P; his teaser picture for Stop It and sat and drew it in my sketchbook. I took forever. I used like a normal 2B pencil (until it was blunt, istg) and my usual eraser and started around noon until just before evening before I was satisfied with what I did; drawing and erasing and drawing and erasing again. And it was maybe 6x5cm in size? That was how it all started. I worked my ass off. I still am, actually. Being a graphic design student, I feel like I have to sort of live up to some sort of expectation to do well in the arts department and sometimes I become inferior to my fellow classmates - one other graphic design student who can really work Photoshop when I'm possibly scared of using the thing; one animation student who can doodle the most terrific things and I just... scribble my art.
But like the video said, your taste never changes.
Your taste is killer, I keep telling myself. I'm good with resources. Give me something to work with and I might do something worthy of your time. Innovative, not creative, I keep seeing myself as that. Although sometimes I don't know if that's good enough, at least it's something.
And writing. I haven't been writing a lot lately. Lies. I've been doing a lot of academic writing and this non-depression phase is really wrecking me out of my inspiration. I can't find a decent thing to write (creatively) about. And I realize that not all my stories are dark as I thought they were - they're just really... out of it. Maybe a bit too out of it - I might even describe it as 'syok sendiri' in Malay - which basically means when I wrote it I wrote it in context of my own world and no one else can really get what I'm trying to say. I write for the fun of it, after all, but I do feel like I lack something there.
I went through my old works the other day and found my Black Flies fanfic and it was really good, actually. But I can't find anything to write anymore. I've come to a blank point - not in the story, but in the writing. I can see it, just vaguely, how the story will go, but when I sit down to write it I just, zzp. Nothing. When I type some stuff, it just doesn't sound right. One thing I'm most worried about it is that when I do finish the story, there'll be an obvious change in writing style because of the huge time span put in writing it. That'll be the worst. It'll be like different people wrote it.
Oh well. I hope the video inspired you to never give up as well. Although I'm not one to be preaching about it, I hope I can relate to all of you out there who are still trying... trying to get
there, wherever that is.
-Lynn-
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