Ola tinola!

For our Design Communications class, we were taught basic rendering with markers and colored pencils. Namely Kurecolor markers and Prismacolor pencils. yehey makalearn na jud kog rendering ^,^

Before any of this, I had always been afraid of markers. BECAUSE THEY ARE MARKERS. one mistake and your whole work goes *poof*. sayang-sayang pa jd ink na perteng mahala sa usa ka pen. 

                                                                 Also, markers naturally have very visible stroke lines. 

                                                                 See la, strokes are quite visible.

If you're aiming for the "smooth solid color" look with markers, you gotta even out your strokes and apply 2-3 layers or the strokes are gonna be damn visible. So we had to keep doing stroke practice. I think I used 3x the amount of one plate on practice alone. And i think one classmate's pen ran out of ink right after the first plate. haha

But in the final output after a considerable amount of casualties & repetitions (HAHA)....... no more visible strokes dbaaaaa?? While working, edges were masked with magic tape.

(uneven lighting due to plastic cover)

3D Shapes Basic Rendering

The cubes were done with markers while the spheres with colored pencils. The gradient effects with chalk pastel. 

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Next we gotta render a real 3d object. Our teacher gave us a sample and we had to recreate it.

First I filled in the colors with the markers. After exhausting my marker pens on the previous plates, the ink was starting to fade, hence the visible lines. So gotta invest in refill bottle since pens don't magically refill themselves.

Never mind the jagged edges, since we gonna cut-out the final product anyway. Also magic tape and scratch paper are there to protect the blue while you color the black and vice versa. 

Can you guess what it is? 

Almost done color blocking

                                     Starting to add some shadows and highlights with the colored pencils

   Can you guess now?

   

    yeah yeah its a drill gun

 There were also some mishaps ofcourse. Do you see that HOLT TZ750 lettering? that's terrible. 

And that was the last step. Admittedly I need to work on my lettering skills, and find a better white pen. hahaha

Zig Painty white pen, the bane of my existence!!! I'm gonna preach to the world how bad you are.

Do you hear me????

Probably if you're doing free-form, this pen would be okay. But for everything else, it is terrible. ALL of us in class agree that it is completely uncontrollable. The ink doesn't come out evenly and it isn't free-flowing. You're going to have to always practice adjusting to it, to be able to control it right. 

So yeah, if you're one of those who can easily use this pen, my respect goes out to you. It's a gift.

Good thing I managed to cover up that mishap. 

Lettering still sucks though. 

But I did my best. next time don't cram that.

Pit Señor! HAPPY SINULOG! :))

Dear Older Shari

So much for sentimental year-ender post, when it takes me forever to even decide the first sentence.

I had always envied people who had their way with words; the kind of people who do "creative writing". They write and blog with such good choice of words that you can actually feel what they're feeling. I could never have thought of a better way for expressing a thought like that. 

                         I wonder, is it an innate talent or a skill acquired through practice?

"For me, words are sacred, they are what translate through the spectrums of humanity"

-Lana Del Rey

I used to think that writing was lame. Then I realized that it was just me being so unconfident in expressing myself. Low-esteem child.

But don't feel sorry for me. I don't. In fact, I'm pretty proud of myself.. HAHA mahangin si ate. (ACTIVATE self-admiration! haha) 

So this time, I decided to start a diary. When I feel spontaneous, I will write. And this time, I write without hesitation and bias, but with direct honesty.They say that keeping a journal relieves stress and keeps you healthy. I hope that really does work for me since I easily get stressed by the smallest shit possible.  And hopefully it also improves my writing skill. 

ON TO THE NEW YEARS ...

Dear Older Shari, 

   

                      I know that when you are bored, you like to look back on moments that make you smile like a dirty old man. So when you decide to go all retrospect on yourself and wonder what happened in the year-of-the-mayan-apocalypse, you won't have a hard time. Because I have already compiled the important events that made your 2012. All because I love me. :)

                                                                                                         -Shari of December 31, 2012

Made a costume and cosplayed for the first time. Mad Hatter Yeah!

Joined Miss UP Cebu and came out 2nd Runner Up. Yehey!!!

My first summer job! Summer Art Workshop 2012

Art and Design for kids 6-9

after EMCEEing the kid's program, kinda losyang

le student teachers

As Sleeping Beauty for Kirsten's Modern Disney Princess Fashion Show

UP COOKOUT 2012

As a Design Student

first-time material projects

Machine Gun from foamboard

Dragonfly wire armature

Rubber Foam crazy hat

First time I learned to render in photoshop!!!! 

Or more like I learned to use photoshop in 2012.

I know what you're thinking, "a 17 year-old design student just learned this now?! NOOB."

Haha but I am so proud. I've never rendered on paper before. My first rendering was directly on photoshop. Since its first time ofcourse it looks noob compared to expert ones but i am quite proud of me. (struggle baya kaau ni na)

 EMCEEd debut of a friend

Black Bodies

and right now patiently waiting for SNSD's comeback,.. i mean the New Year. haha #lifeofaSONE

Happy New Year everyone, may God Bless us All!