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Posted by u l a n on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 6:09 PM.
More doodles from my journal. I enjoy being quiet and looking intently at things so I could draw them (how well I am able to draw them notwithstanding). I like the squiggly, sometimes rebellious lines that don't go where they're supposed to go; yet, the whole bunch of them somehow giving a relatively recognizable image anyway.
Lazy Monday. It was a holiday. We brought up a couple of collapsible chairs to the rooftop. I brought my journal. I spaced out and doodled. I traced the Makati skyline, the steel bars jutting out of the concrete post of the apartment building, the electric whatchamacallit beside the roof. The sunset was beautiful.
Today, still a free day. Doodled in Starbucks. I think I've doodled everything I can doodle inside a Starbucks coffee shop. I filled several pages just tracing the outline of the coffeemaking merchandise on the display rack. When the aircon got too cold for me, I stepped out and looked up and doodled some more.
Tomorrow will be hellish. No time for my journal for sure.
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Lazy Monday. It was a holiday. We brought up a couple of collapsible chairs to the rooftop. I brought my journal. I spaced out and doodled. I traced the Makati skyline, the steel bars jutting out of the concrete post of the apartment building, the electric whatchamacallit beside the roof. The sunset was beautiful.
Today, still a free day. Doodled in Starbucks. I think I've doodled everything I can doodle inside a Starbucks coffee shop. I filled several pages just tracing the outline of the coffeemaking merchandise on the display rack. When the aircon got too cold for me, I stepped out and looked up and doodled some more.
Tomorrow will be hellish. No time for my journal for sure.
Labels: art, paperjournal
analog recording
Posted by u l a n on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM.
I'm a signature away from finishing my current journal. Actually, a signature and a few spreads. It'll be good to start a new one, a smaller, more compact journal as this is too heavy to lug around. And I lug it around all the time, complete with an assortment of pens, markers, and a date stamper. It takes up quite a bit of space in whatever bag I'm using. It'll probably take me three more weeks to finish it.
I doodle mostly the same things, the same sights. I'm a creature of habit. I like killing time in the same places. I have a regular drink. I like it like that.
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I doodle mostly the same things, the same sights. I'm a creature of habit. I like killing time in the same places. I have a regular drink. I like it like that.
Labels: art, paperjournal
handmade
Posted by u l a n on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 11:29 PM.
I couldn't go out to shoot because it was raining hard all day.
So, I took my craft bag (a canvas bag filled with various art supplies - cutter, cutting board, lots of paper in different weights and colors, scissors, pencils, pens and markers, glue) to a nearby coffeeshop and made this sleeve for a mix cd that I put together.
Made of 220 gsm board, I fashioned a simple sleeve that opens into a (very short) accordion fold booklet.
It is held shut by a cardboard band.
I love paper and old songs.
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So, I took my craft bag (a canvas bag filled with various art supplies - cutter, cutting board, lots of paper in different weights and colors, scissors, pencils, pens and markers, glue) to a nearby coffeeshop and made this sleeve for a mix cd that I put together.
Made of 220 gsm board, I fashioned a simple sleeve that opens into a (very short) accordion fold booklet.
It is held shut by a cardboard band.
I love paper and old songs.
one more booklet (lomo sketch)
Posted by u l a n on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 9:19 PM.
hobbit buttons!
Posted by u l a n on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 1:38 AM.
I got the buttons from the BM (button-maker) today! Yahoo!
hobbits dig parties (yeah!)
Posted by u l a n on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 11:49 PM.
My friend Lau is visiting from Chicago and since she's one of the founding members of TPTS, we thought it's the perfect excuse to throw a hobbit party on Saturday!
For those of you wondering what a hobbit party is... well it's really just a party. We threw in the word "hobbit" just for kicks haha. We're serving mushrooms and taters. Um, that's about as hobbity as it gets.
I'm having 1.25inch buttons made with these designs. My friends Data and Benc helped me with the silly slogans hehe. Some will be included in the party loot bags, the rest will be sold.
Can't wait! It should be real fun.
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For those of you wondering what a hobbit party is... well it's really just a party. We threw in the word "hobbit" just for kicks haha. We're serving mushrooms and taters. Um, that's about as hobbity as it gets.
I'm having 1.25inch buttons made with these designs. My friends Data and Benc helped me with the silly slogans hehe. Some will be included in the party loot bags, the rest will be sold.
Can't wait! It should be real fun.
a bunch of goodies
Posted by u l a n on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 11:44 PM.
Had some badges made for the blooms. Turned them over to Pat already, but I saved some for me and a few friends :-) Yummy, mukhang kendi!
My TPTS friends and I finished packing the bookplates that I had printed. They're packed in sets of 10 (5 of each design).
One design is Ringbearer by Gary Mayoralgo. The other one is Tom Bombadil by Isabel Montes.
Check ordering details for the bookplates here.
Labels: art, crafts, the bloomfields, tolkien
dots and stripes notebook
Posted by u l a n on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 4:22 AM.
Got off work early today, so I dropped by the bookstore to get more supplies for my bookbinding foray this weekend. Those scrapbooking papers looked really yummy so I got a few packs. I thought the printed papers were light enough to be pages, but they turned out to be light cardboard, so I decided to use them as covers.
I still followed this tutorial, except I didn't use photo prints (didn't have prints that I especially liked). The glue worked well enough, even if I made my book a little thicker than my first.
I combined different kinds of paper: graphing paper, ledger sheets, and regular paper in cream and green.
Can't wait to use it!
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I still followed this tutorial, except I didn't use photo prints (didn't have prints that I especially liked). The glue worked well enough, even if I made my book a little thicker than my first.
I combined different kinds of paper: graphing paper, ledger sheets, and regular paper in cream and green.
Can't wait to use it!
new notebook
Posted by u l a n on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 10:42 PM.
Fiveandahalf.net posted a great tutorial on how to make an adhesive-bound notebook with photographs as covers. Of course, I didn't come up with anything as great as the samples they had on the site. I wasn't ready with all the materials, and my EQ isn't all that great. I couldn't wait for the glue to dry!!!
I used prints of my shots of Chiyomi from my Witch Project photoshoot as covers. I think I'll have to find a way to have the images printed on board, and not photopaper. And I'll choose BWs next time. Maybe I can have these images printed as BW. Hmm.
The color of the spine doesn't go with the photos, i know. But I was impatient! And I wanted to make the book already! So, I just grabbed whatever I could find. The pages aren't as secure as I had hoped to make them. But, you know... low EQ and all that.
This weekend, I hope to make other notebooks. Perhaps I should stick to sewn ones. Coptic or buttonhole should be good. We will see.
UPDATE:
The binding works ok :) The pages aren't falling apart. I doodled on some of the pages to make it look like the book was printed on :-P
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I used prints of my shots of Chiyomi from my Witch Project photoshoot as covers. I think I'll have to find a way to have the images printed on board, and not photopaper. And I'll choose BWs next time. Maybe I can have these images printed as BW. Hmm.
The color of the spine doesn't go with the photos, i know. But I was impatient! And I wanted to make the book already! So, I just grabbed whatever I could find. The pages aren't as secure as I had hoped to make them. But, you know... low EQ and all that.
This weekend, I hope to make other notebooks. Perhaps I should stick to sewn ones. Coptic or buttonhole should be good. We will see.
UPDATE:
The binding works ok :) The pages aren't falling apart. I doodled on some of the pages to make it look like the book was printed on :-P
Labels: art, crafts, paperjournal
finally some rest
Posted by u l a n on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 8:02 PM.
Finally, I get to go home and rest. Not the kind of rest that I had last night (a 3-hr nap), but a real break from work. We pick up our tasks again on Monday, and hopefully, it won't be as tough as the past few days.
The project involved a lot of waiting time, as people who are in my line of work are aware. So, I got a bit of doodling in. Most of the doodles are items that are on my desk. And this other one, which I drew early today after my so-called break from 3AM to 7:30 AM, while waiting sitting with my editor. Yep, that's my editor. Still hard at work after 24 hours.
The office was abuzz with 3 projects at one time, it was chaotic. By lunchtime, I was a bit of a zombie already. I like my sleep. I don't go for the insane and unhealthy schedules that some media people thrive in or even find cool.
Let me chill out at the end of the day. Let me have a proper dinner. Let me have time to read a book or click around the net.
But, I guess I have to bear with occasional uncomfortable deviations from my regular sched. And as long as it remains occasional, I think I can bear it ok.
Now, to try to sleep. Usually when I'm really tired, it's hard to get my mind to settle down.
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The project involved a lot of waiting time, as people who are in my line of work are aware. So, I got a bit of doodling in. Most of the doodles are items that are on my desk. And this other one, which I drew early today after my so-called break from 3AM to 7:30 AM, while waiting sitting with my editor. Yep, that's my editor. Still hard at work after 24 hours.
The office was abuzz with 3 projects at one time, it was chaotic. By lunchtime, I was a bit of a zombie already. I like my sleep. I don't go for the insane and unhealthy schedules that some media people thrive in or even find cool.
Let me chill out at the end of the day. Let me have a proper dinner. Let me have time to read a book or click around the net.
But, I guess I have to bear with occasional uncomfortable deviations from my regular sched. And as long as it remains occasional, I think I can bear it ok.
Now, to try to sleep. Usually when I'm really tired, it's hard to get my mind to settle down.
Labels: art, paperjournal, tv work
cupcake part two
Posted by u l a n on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 at 10:02 PM.
So, I went and gave Sonja's cupcakes another try. She gave us a dozen when we shot there yesterday. And I really liked Berries and Cream, which wasn't too sweet. So I bought myself a couple, plus one of another kind which I'd been curious about.
I think next time it'll just be berries and cream for me. Perhaps in July when the tingling from the sugar overload stops.
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I think next time it'll just be berries and cream for me. Perhaps in July when the tingling from the sugar overload stops.
Labels: art, paperjournal
whale mail
Posted by u l a n on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 8:15 PM.
What's better than snail mail? WHALE MAIL!
This is a drawing of a postcard I received last Friday. The kid (young lady, I should say) who sent it has long since arrived from Germany. I guess she posted it just before flying back here.
That's the journal entry written on the drawing of the postcard's back side. What's written on the actual postcard were some holiday and birthday greets plus some very nice words that brought a smile to my face.
She always strikes when I least expect it. =) And when she does, it's always a happy moment.
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This is a drawing of a postcard I received last Friday. The kid (young lady, I should say) who sent it has long since arrived from Germany. I guess she posted it just before flying back here.
That's the journal entry written on the drawing of the postcard's back side. What's written on the actual postcard were some holiday and birthday greets plus some very nice words that brought a smile to my face.She always strikes when I least expect it. =) And when she does, it's always a happy moment.
Labels: art, paperjournal
space
Posted by u l a n on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 9:32 PM.
And the doodling mood continued.
I went on to doodle random things on my desk at home: bookpiles, a mug of markers and other stuff (like a hairclip and a nice yellow butterfly pen that I got from Keisha's party), Lightbox my snapshooter, my box of Moo Minicards, pens and pencils, a sharpener with pencil shavings, a drinking glass, and juice.
After that, I figured I could try drawing the whole desk to fit into one of the everydaymatters challenges (#82-art space).
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I went on to doodle random things on my desk at home: bookpiles, a mug of markers and other stuff (like a hairclip and a nice yellow butterfly pen that I got from Keisha's party), Lightbox my snapshooter, my box of Moo Minicards, pens and pencils, a sharpener with pencil shavings, a drinking glass, and juice.
After that, I figured I could try drawing the whole desk to fit into one of the everydaymatters challenges (#82-art space).
Labels: art, paperjournal
sick
Posted by u l a n on at 5:21 PM.
Caught a bug of sorts. Spent yesterday and most of today in bed, but now I'm feeling much better. Journaled about it and drew the things in my immediate surroundings.
Also decided to doodle the view outside my study. It's the view I space out to most of the time, my neighbor's green and white house.
I really am trying to start drawing and journaling more regularly again. To do this, I've started participating in the everydaymatters group drawing challenges. These drawings fit into three different themes (#87-lunch; #29-architectural; and #102-plug).
I didn't journal in the plug spread yet. I'll probably fill it in another time. I'll be going back to work tomorrow, but thankfully, not necessarily at the office. I'm not needed there and they said I can do my writing here at home and just email them the scripts. I'm glad I'm allowed another day to rest.
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Also decided to doodle the view outside my study. It's the view I space out to most of the time, my neighbor's green and white house.
I really am trying to start drawing and journaling more regularly again. To do this, I've started participating in the everydaymatters group drawing challenges. These drawings fit into three different themes (#87-lunch; #29-architectural; and #102-plug).
I didn't journal in the plug spread yet. I'll probably fill it in another time. I'll be going back to work tomorrow, but thankfully, not necessarily at the office. I'm not needed there and they said I can do my writing here at home and just email them the scripts. I'm glad I'm allowed another day to rest.Labels: art, paperjournal
cupcakes
Posted by u l a n on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 9:37 PM.
At the last minute, I picked up my journal and stashed it into my bag and brought it to the office today. I've done this a few times before and I end up just lugging it back home without having written anything in it.
Today was different.
I had some time to kill this afternoon while waiting for our graphics artist to render some slides for a presentation. Without even thinking about it much, I pulled out my journal and flipped it open to the last page that had anything in it --- which is just around 3 pages from the beginning of the book.
I had stuck a Cupcakes sticker there last Sunday, after buying three cupcakes by Sonja in Serendra. Yes, yes, I got curious about it.
Before I knew it, I was drawing cupcakes on the page. I filled in the opposite page, as well as the next spread.
I missed drawing.
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Today was different.
I had some time to kill this afternoon while waiting for our graphics artist to render some slides for a presentation. Without even thinking about it much, I pulled out my journal and flipped it open to the last page that had anything in it --- which is just around 3 pages from the beginning of the book.
I had stuck a Cupcakes sticker there last Sunday, after buying three cupcakes by Sonja in Serendra. Yes, yes, I got curious about it.
Before I knew it, I was drawing cupcakes on the page. I filled in the opposite page, as well as the next spread.
I missed drawing.
Labels: art, paperjournal
illustrator
Posted by u l a n on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 10:57 PM.
I had a lot of time to kill at the office today, so I figured I'd try Illustrator one more time (and ask our graphics artist to teach me the basics)!
Here is my first vector creation:
Hehehehe.
And of course, I just had to make another bookplate. When I get home (yes, I'm still at the office huhuhu), I'm going to print it on sticker paper. Just got a new pack at Office Warehouse early this evening.
Mwahahaha! I couldn't draw a dragon in the same style as the mountains... so I drew it in my 'can't draw a dragon so will just squiggle one' style. It was kinda tough, having to use my lappy's touchpad. But, I guess it works alright. I like it, anyhow. I like that the dragon is all squiggly, and the mountains fairly solid.
I have to like my squiggly dragon cos it'll be a while until I learn how to draw one properly. If I learn to at all. Hehe.
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Here is my first vector creation:
Hehehehe.
And of course, I just had to make another bookplate. When I get home (yes, I'm still at the office huhuhu), I'm going to print it on sticker paper. Just got a new pack at Office Warehouse early this evening.
Mwahahaha! I couldn't draw a dragon in the same style as the mountains... so I drew it in my 'can't draw a dragon so will just squiggle one' style. It was kinda tough, having to use my lappy's touchpad. But, I guess it works alright. I like it, anyhow. I like that the dragon is all squiggly, and the mountains fairly solid.
I have to like my squiggly dragon cos it'll be a while until I learn how to draw one properly. If I learn to at all. Hehe.
i'm too obsessed
Posted by u l a n on at 12:25 AM.
After printing out the downloaded bookplates, I decided to make my own using images I made on my old journal. I printed them on eggshell paper and will stick them on using glue.
Time for bed.
i'm too silly
Posted by u l a n on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 10:43 PM.
I'm so happy that I was able to preview our episode early today -- 8pm! -- and was able to get home before 9. That gave me a bit of time to try printing the bookplates I downloaded from My Home Library onto sticker paper.
At first I printed the image too large. I had forgotten to resize it.
And then, I printed them too small. Only 1.5" high.
And then finally, I printed them just the right size.
But, on the wrong side of the sticker paper. Another try and I get the job done.
Ahehehe.
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At first I printed the image too large. I had forgotten to resize it.
And then, I printed them too small. Only 1.5" high.
And then finally, I printed them just the right size.
But, on the wrong side of the sticker paper. Another try and I get the job done.
Ahehehe.
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