Daydreaming

What have I been up to lately, well trying to enjoy the English life, drink tea and keep myself from panicking every 2 minutes about finding a job / school / money - at least I  have sorted my room out.

Room - I have found a lovely attic room in northern London, which is going to be my home for the next 9 months. Its bright, cosy and has enough storage space for my shoe collection :D (important things!!). The only thing that will probably be a challenge at first is living without a hob. It will be weird to prepare food with the help of rice-cooker, vegetable steamer, kettle, microwave and a toaster only. Reassuringly, my future room-mate has already adapted to this kitchen last year.

University - Has unofficially already started. As soon as I enrolled online , I already got my first homework, well 3 of them. I can see already that this is going to be completely different education system than what I am used to. Our collage has its own blog, that we are supposed to post on, comment and meet people from other fashion courses. Homework no1: design a shoe inspired by our own national heritage and make a 3d model of it (I will keep you updated when I get around to doing it :D)

Drawing - I have been trying to pick it up again as a habit. started with drawing some details from each room in the house (so far only my room and the laundry room) and joining a fb group for daily speed-paint challenge. So here ae the 2 traditional pieces and a 30 min speedpaint; theme Secret door.

DAY 36

Drawing ..inspired by X2 (X Men) and some strangers on Omegle.

DAY 31

Sketching my classmates. I found some pictures form our class and this years spiritual retreat. This is not necessarily my best work, but I had tons of fun drawing them. Wonder if they can recognise themselves^^.

DAY 29

It goes without saying that today was a happy day (Friday before vacations!!). Anyway I saw this guy on the bus. It was one of the old buses and in it was torrid. I have no idea how he was surviving it dressed in that costume.
Next thing that brought a smile to my face was a pair of gloves. LEL. Beautiful packaging XD
Later I went to visit my wife. + This spring's first ride with Soruru - my electric motorbike. :)

+some art experimentation - Alex Annie Alexis Ann - SPN s9 ep9 - Iwas just absolutely fascinated by her eyes ... its not my best work, but it was a quick sketch and I had fun drawing it. I'm probably going to fill the rest of the paper with different magazine cutouts or write a poem ^^.

Sending Postcards

I have been a member of an online post-crossing community for over a year now. It's basically a site that gives you an address of a random person, their description... and you send them a postcard. For every postcard you send, you get one back. So far I have sent 28 postcards and received 31. It has really been amazing so far, I have cards from Russia, China, South Africa, USA ... I have been inactive for about half a year, but started sending postcards again just a couple of days ago. Today I'm sending off these 3. One to China, one to USA and the handmade one to Taiwan. Again drawing Cherry. It seems to me, she is just an infinite source of inspiration and she is really fun to draw.

DAY 28

Update on my sketchbook and more of Cherry. I'm also using the last picture as today's happy moment :)
 1. Just a collage (its a shame that the sharpie bled through and ruined the face.














2. Cherry - word: Hanger (when I'm out of ideas I like to ask my classmates for a word, and then draw inspiration from it, its not always direct and logical, but it helps with getting out of art-blocks)















3.Cherry in a kimono. It is not completely transparent, it just looks like it because of the weird lightning ^^'' - platforms from one of my favourite movies, Memoirs of a Geisha.














4. Drawn during history class, while listening about WW1. Firs I decided to draw something connected to Germany, hence the colours, but later I decided to go more towards Russia, gave a nod to the babushkas (her bustier) and drew her a traditional Russian hat (bottom of the picture).













5. The special thing about this one is, that I coloured the background with fresh orange peels. I wanted it to smell nice. It gave an unexpected light orange colour, but no smell. Oh well experimentation.
















6. This is actually my favourite Cherry outfit. I love the colours and how different fonts from the newspaper worked on the dress. Pockets <3

DAY 24

New source of inspiration - Studio Killers, more specific, their character Cherry. I juts love the style, overall vibe, colours, animation...in this video. After doing some research, I discovered that Cherry even has her own tumblr style page and facebook. I was just really intrigued by her outfits, make-up, body ... While listening to their songs on repeat, this happened. I hope I get to colour it, but right now I have to get back to work. Taking an hour off to sketch and have fun is always a good idea ^^.

DAY 21

For about three weeks I haven't been able to attend art school because of my trip to Spain, difficult math test, sickness... Well, art school is always more than just drawing, its the people you are with, the atmosphere, the silly jokes, little talks...everything just makes it an invaluable experience. Today I first drew a portrait(charcoal -1,5h) of the girl that posed as our model (I love it when we get to draw living people instead of just dead objects). Anyhow, after 2 hours of standing up I got pretty tired (whole weeks worth of work and sleepless nights) ... so I posed as a model for some quick sketches, since the first girl left. I enjoyed both to the fullest, drawing and being drawn. I hope next time I get a bit more time to do a full body figure drawing.