Eye

For the last month I've been obsessed with embroidery, so I decided to make an entry on my thesis with such media.

It's been loads of fun... until I got to sew on the moleskine paper.

Since there are many things I still don't know how to do, I'll go through the web and see what different things could be done, like this "flower"

The complete eye piece. Took me a while to finish but I'm very happy of how it looks

And some close ups

WIP's

I've been working on this two drawings for the last past week, and I'm feeling very happy with them, though the first one needs loads of work. Maybe it'll take me more tome to complete.

Here a few shots of details:

And the second drawing, for Viernes de Ilustración page.

Spoon #7 Final

I'm happy to know I finished first challenge. Go me ! :D

I also know I'm terribly late with this entry, but weekends for me are crazy enough for being late. Classes, teaching, even attending to lectures... ufff ! but not one day of going to the movies :( They're screening "Dr. Parnassus" and I want to go ! Also to watch "Robin Hood". When ? When ?? T . T

Well, today I watched at home Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi", wich is one of my favorite movies and film directors, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, with no further delay here the last spoon:

Today while dressing the piercing that I had - a microdermal - got caught by the shirt and I pulled if off. It was all too fast and painful. Now I have a hole on my face !

I'm not planning to go and have it done all over again, no, not for me. Actually I'm relieved is gone because was causing me troubles when dressing or cleaning my face :/

In other news...

My brother found a cat with her babies living in this place, outside where we were having our lectures this weekend. They were 5 kittens, all so very pretty, and the cat was most friendly. The other guys there brought her food and they were saying something about taking the cat somewhere else because soon it will be raining.

At the end I don't know what happened, if they took her away, if they're going to come back, I just don't know. The kittens are too young to be taken away from her mother.

*I want one, but that's a secret, ok ? *

Spoon #6

Almost done... almost, and for this time I drew the spoon without looking at it, trying to remember how it looks like, not even cheating by going pages behind and have a quick look.

Another thing was that I didn't use pencil before the ink, which is a big challenge for me since I always work in the same way.

I'm so happy that tomorrow (well, today since is 12 am) is the last time I'm going to be drawing the damn spoon.

Let me say this: It gets boring at some point....

Aren't you bored yet ?

Spoon #3

Three spoons and I haven't quit yet.

Today I decided to use the 3 colored pencil for making the 3rd (Oh! the cleverness in me). To make the drawing didn't take much time, about 20 mins or so. Seems that working with this kind or material makes artistic life easier and faster, still is a challenge trying to get the right colours and mix them.

Working this fast is great since is so hot in the room and I want to cry ;P

This wonderful pencil was a gift from my comrade Siddartha.Babbii, a great guy and amazing artist. Several persons have tried to steal it from me (the pencil, not Bejamin), but I manage no keep it away from them and use it when ever I please :]

Photos today are not the best because I don't have my camera right now :( so I had to take them with the phone's.

See you tomorrow, spoon :)

Spoon #2

Day two, so second drawing of the spoon.

This time I decided to use just one colour to draw it, and I must say not top quality; this little yet big, and believe me when I say this, element, made me so difficult to achieve what I wanted on the matter of contrasts.

Well, let's be honest: it doesn't looks that bad ;)

While I was drawing it I was "watching" the movie Nowhere Boy. It didn't disappointed me, thought I didn't know about it until today, hehehe. A long time ago I read a book about Lennon's younger years while he was still living in Liverpool and the movie is very much alike it. I have to come back to UK and go there one day :) (Yeah, beatles sucker).

So

I leave here the latest Beatles song I've been listening everyday for the past two weeks (Two weeks ??! Yes ;P )

100 Idea Book project

I've started a new project based on Keri Smith's 100 ideas.

Some days ago I was talking with my best friend and the feeling of wanting to do this took over me, so she sent me the list and I printed it.

Picking the right notebook wasn't as easy as I wanted: "One big ? No, because I would drop the project out of boredom". "One small ? No, too small" "What about this one ? Hmmmmm... not quite right". At the end I chose this one:

The way I wrote the letters and the colours makes me think about a cereal box :] (Yes, is a moleskine)

First entry is:

45. Draw the same project every day for a week.

I wanted to draw a spoon, just because I love spoons. Perhaps one day I'll have a tattoo of one, yes !

The cover of the book I made it with the new gel pens I have.

Aren't they sexy ? ;)

Stay tuned for the next entry...