Author: mishu

RAH kit for Denmark

Supplies

A @radandhungry post for the art blog. I usually post to my tumblr, but I felt like I could start posting stationery reviews on this little art blog of mine.

To catch you up to date, Rad and Hungry is a little business I stumbled upon over a year ago while I was poking across the net for notebooks. I can’t remember exactly how I found it, but it has been an awesome find. Each month a kit goes out full of stationery from a specific country. This kit comes from Denmark.

The Denmark kit is by far the highest quality stuff I’ve seen (at least it’s my favourite since all kits are pretty quality). This time I put in a little extra in for the booster pack too. I’ve already received a blank and dotted notebook, so for this pack I chose to go with the lined option. The most awesomest part of this pack was the GIANT sketch pencil and the all-blank notebook. Getting these kits have made me a fan of Viking and makes the “Always Buy” list for me.

some more sketchbook express

Sketchbook

Even though drawing on a 13″ laptop seems kind of annoying because the screen is so small, it’s convenient to sit on the couch while the TV is on and doodle.

I’ve tried to sit myself in front of my desktop and use Corel Painter X but for some reason the application feels cruder than I remember it. Maybe because I have that version installed on my Winbox or maybe it’s because the version of the software is over 5 years old. Or maybe it’s just because the chair I have sucks.

At least Sketchbook Express is beginning to grow on me. One doodle before the new year and one doodle after. I definitely like the second better because it looks softer but it’s just nice to see something complete.

Sketchbook Project mailed!

Projects

I finally submitted (on time no less!) my sketchbook from the project I signed up to do.

This was hard to complete for me. If I did have more time, I would’ve done more ink work and perhaps may have even used other colors. The most difficult part was keeping up with the idea I started with. Somehow I knew it would come out to a bunch of portraits. I wanted to add more text to each image but thinking of titles or headlines is the worst part.

I’m just glad that I feel like I completed something, especially so early in the new year. I’ll post an update when they post the scanned version. (Hopefully that blue pencil comes out.)

3doodler

Crafts

Kickstarter is an interesting beast. The first fund I decided to jump on was the 3doodler.

I am not disappointed. It works like a hybrid glue gun and solder iron. Since the holidays came and went, I haven’t had too much time yet to go into more in depth designs, but as it’s aptly named, I like how these doodles came out. There is a bit of a learning curve because melty plastic is not a precise tool. However, once you get the handle of “soft plastic suggestion”, you can start forming what you envision.

 

Happy Christmas

Sketchbook

testdraw

I woke up Christmas morning and unwrapped a new Wacom Intuos Pro – small. THAAAANK YOU SO MUCH my dear!

I hooked it up to my laptop and then realized that I didn’t have my copy of Corel Painter X installed. So I searched Apple’s App store for something free to doodle with and found Sketchbook Express. It’s a neat little app but I have to get used to the interface. I think I still may prefer Painter. Above is the doodle that I made in a few minutes.

I debated for a long time about what to put on my wishlist; staring at websites and crunching numbers on different tablets (which also included new computing set ups as well). The best option right now was a basic drawing tablet. What I hope for in the future is a reasonably priced stand alone drawing tablet (real operating computing system). Wacom is almost there but the Companion model is completely overpriced right now. Let’s see what goodies next year will bring us.

 

 

The Sketchbook Project

Projects

There’s a project out there that anyone can participate in called The Sketchbook Project. I haven’t been to the Art Library in person, but I thought the concept was a great idea. You get the sketchbook and it just looks so small and compact. Once I started drawing in it, I had this idea to draw on every single page, but I’m only a few pages through, so it feels daunting. I’ll just have to keep plugging along and we’ll see. I want to be able to submit it in time for the “tour” they take some of the books on. My only request is that they make a stop in DC.

NaNoWriMo 2013

Writing

I’ve started again! A day late but off to a strong start. This time I’ve actually worked out an outline and some characters which is very different from what I’ve done in the past. I’ve always tried to start from scratch and would always get stuck.

But this time, I’ve got an outline! OMG how different it is. It’s like having goals throughout the story that I can see and move towards. Eventually, I’d like to go back to some of the previous stories I started and flesh it out with an outline.  Now back to writing!