Papa 

Basil + garlic + cream cheese + sour cream = yummy dip for chips! [edm drawing theme #19] 

unplugged 

The Chocolate Kiss 

lazy sunday

So, I did watch Totoro again for the nth time. I prepared some cards for mailing tomorrow (there they are now looking really nice on my desk), and made some new cards (above).

I don't think I'll be trading those, though. Those are portraits of my friends, and I'm kinda attached to them. Maybe I'll eventually trade them (the cards, of course) but not just yet.

Self-portrait drawn on an envelope where I keep a couple of letters. My hair is longer now and I like to keep it up and away from my face with a claw clip. Spending the weekend alone with my new Dragonology book. Maybe I'll watch Totoro for the nth time. Maybe I'll make new ATCs. Maybe I'll just sleep. All these options, they all sound good to me. 

Summer

...is over in my part of the world. The rainy season is upon us! And I feel fine.

stick-figure fun

I recently got into making and trading ATCs (artist trading cards) and I wanted to find a style that was more cutesy than my usual 'can't-really-draw-straight-and-neat-nor-make-exact-copies' style. And I discovered that stick-figures were fun and a half!

I got the inspiration from browsing Kim's Suitcase's blog. Her gallery of ATCs on Flickr is wonderful. =)

Here's a page from my journal, made today at Starbucks, an hour before I had to meet my crew for a shoot. I was facing this table where two gents were having their afternoon coffee. Outside, it was a blustery day.

See my blog entry about ATCs.
Visit my ATC gallery on Flickr.

ATC Yahoo!groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/ATC_World
http://groups.yahoo.com/artisttradingcards

ATC Forum:
http://www.atcards.com/

the smoking area

The view from the new office. The production house where I'm currently doing a project just moved to a new office. It has glass panels all around. And this is what sits on the other side of one of the walls. I drew it while waiting for our host to arrive to voice the episode; I was hanging out on the conference table -- a huge wooden table that's so comfy to draw on, while my colleague was outside having a smoke.

I like the new office. The glass walls just took a little getting used to. On the first few days, people would arrive all excited and happy to be in the new office, waving to everyone from outside since they were in full view, and walk into walls. It's a little painful and funny.

We've put tape on the walls saying "glass" and we'll keep them there until the designers come to put the real designs on the glass.

This is for everydaymatters drawing theme #18.