~ Cavidanny ~

Relax Boy, Relax Day

2009-06-12T14:19:00.002+08:00

I try to use my cartoon style plus few background colors
for my new drawing, the outcome seems not bad :p

This is the moleskine from Fatma and all of us illustrated
in different styles. It looks cool that various artist styles
can all be intergrated in same book.

Potato, Fresh Bean and Herb Salad

2009-05-23T09:34:00.002+08:00

This time I try to make my food drawing in a bit more cartoon way, as I love the entries of other artists in this book, they are all presented in a happy way :)

So let's start and see how the salad is prepared!

Ingredient:
200g/70oz potatoes, peeled and cut into 1.5cm 3/4 in cubes
300g/1oz sugar snap peas, trimmed
300/1oz French beans, trimmed200g/7oz broad beans, shelled6 tbsp finely chopped mixed herbs, such as tarragon, dill, parsley and chives

For the dressing:
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp runny honey
1 tsp Dijon mustard
8 tbsp fat-free vinaigrette or French-style salad dressing salt and freshly ground black pepper

To garnish:
lemonzest (optional)
finely chopped red chilli (optional)

Process:
1. Boil the potatoes in a large pan of lightly salted water and cook for 8-10 minutes, or until just tender.Drain well and set aside.
2. Bring a large pan or lightly salted water to the boil and add the peas and beans. Bring back to the boil, then drain and refresh under cold running water. Drain again and place a salad bowl with the potatoes andchopped herbs.
3. Mix together all the dressing ingredients, season well and pour over the vegetables. Toss well and garnishwith the lemon zest and red chill, if using, before serving.

Another simple but tasty entry, hope everyone enjoy~~~

Mussel and Prawn Pasta

2009-04-19T12:44:00.004+08:00

Having been very busy for my new work and stop drawing
any art for a month, it's time for me to have fun from drawing
again~

It's a new drawing for moly_x_57 which is a group of theme
about food~

My entry this time is about mussel and prawn pasta, it is done
by filling will color ink pen and watercolor. The background is
using torn glister paper, actually it changes from yellow to blue
from different view-angles but I can't demonstrate here :p

Anyway, it looks interesting to me!!

My New Entry ... Lamp (Instead of Lamb)

2009-03-11T00:03:00.002+08:00

It has been quite busy for me recently since I have to move
into a new house plus change to a new job, all my work about
art are stop for some time and luckily I can continue again~

It is my another entry to moly_x_57 and the theme are all about
food. This time I choose Roasted Crown Rack of Lamb as
the topic as it looks juicy to me always in winter time~

Getting familiar with this line drawing plus watercolor style and
I love this drawing this time too ... but I just found a BIG typo
mistake after mail it out ... how come?!!

Mini Thank You Card

2009-02-13T10:41:00.000+08:00

ho ho ho, yesterday it's my birthday (which means another
year older TT)

my teammates have prepared a mini birthday party in
office and i draw them a mini thank you card in return~

Cavi and Its Talking Puppet

2009-02-12T10:54:00.002+08:00

One of my plan this year is to work on more cartoon drawing,
apart from line drawing and digital painting ~

My Pet and My Portrait

2009-02-02T11:36:00.002+08:00

Finally I completed my entry for moly_x_portrait4!! The theme
of this group is to ask each artist to put their portrait into art.

This time I try to put the portrait of both me and my pet at home.
It looks like I can handle the watercolor flow on moleskine
media this time, that makes me happy :)

Happy Chinese New Year!!

2009-02-02T10:18:00.002+08:00

Wish everyone good life this year!

Cover, Sign-In Page and Recipe ~

2009-01-23T13:58:00.001+08:00

My moly cover by silver marker.

The concept of my sign-in page is to collect all our people
inside the fish and keep it swimming around the world and
seeking for its yummy food.

Quick Sketch Practice

2009-01-21T09:48:00.003+08:00

just try a quick sketch with shading
which is little bit different from my
typical line drawing

Lobster Linguine Drawing IS Done!

2009-01-19T11:30:00.003+08:00

yummy yummy ~

this time i can control the way how to make more color contrast
by using watercolor on the moleskine, compare to the angel
drawing for my last entry at moly_x_41.

this is my final drawing for moly_x_57, and my dish is
lobster linguine with fresh squid ink sauce.

well, filling color really can give more emotional feeling to
people ~

The line drawing is one, but what i need is more color and
more personal touch~

Ketupat, Another Palm Leave Figure

2009-01-16T10:49:00.001+08:00

Food Drawing for Moleskine Exchange

2009-01-12T22:16:00.003+08:00

After finishing two drawings for moly_x_41, it's time to start with
moly_x_57 which is themed with food.

Inspired by a receipt during the Xmas time, I start with the
lobster noodle drawing. My concept is to put those ingredients
and the dishes on the same drawing~

I apply my most familiar line drawing this time, and will put some
watercolor as background afterward, hope it will be a nice one
after it's done :p

Here Is My Angel ~

2009-01-06T11:00:00.002+08:00

Finally my angel drawing is done! The watercolor outcome
is not too bad though I find the flow of watercolor pigment
is somehow different from those watercolor paper :p

So I clear all the books in this group on hand, and I am waiting
for the up-coming books and drawings from other members ~

The Beauty of Ladies

2009-01-02T11:27:00.001+08:00

Kinaban Dako, Another Palm Leave Figure

2009-01-02T11:24:00.004+08:00

The original photo is provided by a Flickrian Elmer Nocheseda.

Another very nice item by weaving palm leaves, and a good media
for my line drawing practice~

Moly_x_41 - Pencil Draft of Angel Theme

2008-12-30T10:41:00.002+08:00

i continue the moleskine given by Dear Executioner.

the theme I use is angel which represent "hope", continue
from Dear Executioner's story line about "despair"~

"Siu Bik Bik" and Its Father

2008-12-29T21:26:00.001+08:00

That is me ;)

"Siu Bik Bik" At 0 Degree

2008-12-29T21:25:00.001+08:00

"Siu Bik Bik" At 90 Degree

2008-12-29T20:59:00.002+08:00

"Siu Bik Bik" At 180 Degree

2008-12-29T20:58:00.001+08:00

Plush + Card = Xmas Fun to My Girlfriend

2008-12-29T20:56:00.001+08:00

Xmas Plush that I Made

2008-12-24T23:43:00.003+08:00

I made this plush to my girlfriend with 2 socks and few
buttons bought from a boutique Baleno.

It takes me 6 hours' work but it worths after watching her
smiles. I joke with her that I brought her a free gift given
by Baleno after purchase and she really believe with that!
Well, I am not sure if my joke or my plush sounds too real :p

08 Xmas Card with My Greeting

2008-12-24T23:42:00.002+08:00

Wish you all a Merry Christmas!!!

Hey Guys, This Is My First Moly Drawing!

2008-12-15T14:13:00.003+08:00

For my drawing this time I try to use the theme "civilization"
to apply my line drawing to tell how time tells our history and
the monkey witness the whole process~ (I am cast as human
being :p)

My Lovely Moly Covers

2008-12-15T14:09:00.002+08:00

For my first moly cover I try to apply pastel as a media as it
seems no other cover using the skills, so I try to make some
fun with it~

The powder looks stands out enough yet it is too easy to
come off from the matted surface, finally I use some shiny
protective layer to cover it.

For the inner cover I use the cartoon drawing style which
is also one of my styles for cartoon series.

I leave some interactive area to you all to put your country
stamp here .. you see, we are living in same global village!

Another Birthday Gift

2008-12-12T21:55:00.003+08:00

There is another colleague has her birthday today,
and we make a pop up birthday card for her

This is my drawing of my colleague's face, hope
it is not too much difference from her real person :p

Surprise from Dear Executioner

2008-12-12T21:50:00.002+08:00

Wow wow wow, I got the envelope sent by Dear Executioner
when I was still enjoying the sunshine on my bed on Sunday
morning ... what a big surprise!!

Very special cover page, a bit of spooky feeling :p

Cyber + scientific comic feeling comes into my mind immediately!

The art from Dear Executioner is done mainly by
fine line + marker which gives me a strong impression,
especially the eyes of the terminator-like-executioner
(I guess :p)

I still need to take some time to digest this interesting
story and see how should I continue. Oh wait ... I still owe
my start-late-moly to Michael :p I have to buy my moly
and start my art tonite~

The World of High Fashion

2008-12-10T15:28:00.001+08:00

Those People Who Likes Funky

2008-12-10T15:27:00.001+08:00

How Do You Know Its Fashion

2008-12-10T15:26:00.000+08:00

November Flower

2008-12-10T15:25:00.002+08:00

Old Fashion Beauty

2008-12-10T15:24:00.004+08:00

It's All About Fashion

2008-12-10T15:24:00.002+08:00

Badbaranay, Another Palm Leave Figure

2008-12-10T15:23:00.002+08:00

Sneaker from Lacoste

2008-12-10T15:22:00.002+08:00

Handbag and Boot

2008-12-10T15:21:00.002+08:00

Zara Sales

2008-12-10T15:20:00.001+08:00

Hot Chocolate Drinks

2008-12-10T15:19:00.002+08:00

Riding Along the Riverbank

2008-12-10T15:18:00.001+08:00

Nilubid, Another Palm Leave Figure

2008-12-10T15:17:00.002+08:00

Elegant Model 2

2008-12-10T15:15:00.001+08:00

Elegant Model 1

2008-12-10T15:14:00.002+08:00

My Model Drawing Practice

2008-12-10T15:12:00.002+08:00

Gucci New Shoes

2008-12-10T14:49:00.001+08:00

Birthday Gift Idea

2008-12-10T14:47:00.002+08:00

My Items Being Recommended for Xmas~

2008-12-10T14:43:00.002+08:00

Pahi-Pahi, Another Palm Leave Figure

2008-12-10T14:42:00.002+08:00

A Cute Lady-Fish

2008-12-09T17:09:00.002+08:00

A Cute Gentle-Fish

2008-12-09T17:05:00.002+08:00

Palm Leave Figure in Palaspas Form

2008-12-09T17:02:00.001+08:00

Chanel Make Up Set

2008-12-09T16:59:00.000+08:00

Ranch dressing and Greek Dip

2008-12-09T16:58:00.002+08:00

Spaghetti and Meatballs

2008-12-09T15:06:00.003+08:00

Raspberry Meringue Gateau

2008-12-09T15:02:00.004+08:00

Chicken Alphabet Soup

2008-12-09T15:01:00.003+08:00

Ideas for My Planet Stuff

2008-12-09T14:22:00.003+08:00

Falling in Love

2008-12-09T14:20:00.002+08:00

Princess and Her Lavender Guardian

2008-12-09T14:02:00.003+08:00

A Naughty Lady-Cat

2008-12-09T14:01:00.002+08:00

A Hungry Gentle-Cat

2008-12-09T10:30:00.007+08:00

A Cute Female Whale

2008-12-09T10:30:00.003+08:00

A Funny Male Whale

2008-12-09T10:29:00.002+08:00

Fendi New Handbag Series

2008-12-09T10:27:00.001+08:00

Fashionable Lady

2008-12-09T10:26:00.000+08:00

Fancy Dream In Midnight

2008-12-09T10:24:00.002+08:00

Let Us Be Closer

2008-12-09T10:23:00.002+08:00

Its Our Tea Time

2008-12-09T10:00:00.004+08:00

Even It Is Raining We Are Still Happy

2008-12-09T09:58:00.002+08:00

Chocolate Foundue

2008-12-09T09:56:00.002+08:00

Lets Be Happy

2008-12-09T09:52:00.004+08:00

Shall We Dance

2008-12-08T15:33:00.003+08:00

Your Old Memories

2008-12-08T15:29:00.002+08:00

Lotus Couple in Green Passion

2008-12-08T15:28:00.002+08:00

Woolrich Fahsion Display

2008-12-08T15:02:00.002+08:00

Angel is Fun

2008-12-08T14:49:00.002+08:00

Apple Fritters and Cherry Compote

2008-12-08T14:47:00.001+08:00

It's Time for A Vacation

2008-12-08T14:46:00.001+08:00

Joyce&Peace New Release

2008-12-08T14:45:00.002+08:00

Whale is Fun - Boy Version

2008-12-08T14:38:00.002+08:00

Model in Elegant Wear

2008-12-08T14:37:00.000+08:00

Old Fashion Ornaments

2008-12-08T14:36:00.000+08:00

Lotus Couple in Happy Greenbeans

2008-12-08T14:35:00.002+08:00

Mr. Lotus in Yellowish Banana

2008-12-08T14:34:00.002+08:00

Whale is Fun - Girl Version

2008-12-08T14:33:00.002+08:00

Caviemily is Fun

2008-12-08T14:10:00.001+08:00

Kite is Fun

2008-12-08T14:09:00.000+08:00

Robot is Fun

2008-12-08T14:08:00.002+08:00

Mushroom is Fun

2008-12-08T13:55:00.002+08:00

Elephant is Fun

2008-12-08T13:53:00.004+08:00

Mrs. Lotus in Oceanic Blue

2008-12-08T13:53:00.002+08:00

Lotus Couple in Healthy Green

2008-12-08T13:50:00.001+08:00

Three Little Etsy Shops

2008-10-28T17:24:00.006+08:00

I am so happy that finally my three Etsy shops are opened!!!

My very first idea is to give a little surprise for my girlfriend a
little surprise for our 4th year anniversary and leave us a very
good memories. My personality is to try to challenge on different
areas and to explore myself to new things, so instead of single
drawing styles I do have many (or may be too many :p) styles
during my drawing practice period.

That is the reason why I finally decide to open 3 separate Etsy
shop instead of single one. Let me show you how different these
3 Etsy shops are:

Caviemily - This shop mainly sells those cute drawing by various
media. Currently I mainly apply pigment liner, pencil, pastel,
watercolor and color-markers. The main character I apply most
of the time is a little cheerful girl which is a cartoon image of my girlfriend :p

Caviyummy - This shop mainly sells those food illustration
which is drafted by pigment liner or ink pen, and the colored
digitally by computer via Photoshop. This shop is derived from my illustrated diary~

Cavilotus - This shop mainly sells those cute drawing which is
created by computer via Illustrator. Some of them are converted
into postcards and sell at my friend's teahouse called Lotus Teahouse in Australia~

I hope getting more and more people love my art in the coming
future. Though at this moment I still have no sales yet (yeah .. I am
writing this blog after the shops have been running for 2 months :p),
I still feel more than happy whenever I received some support
and encouragement in both Esty and Flickr. THAT motivate my creation on and on ~

New Bread Taste Experience

2008-10-28T17:08:00.004+08:00

In Hong Kong, there are quite a number of bakeries in both
Eastern and Western styles. To me, I didn't resist in any kind
of bread (except those with dried fruit inside :p).

This time, when I celebrate one of my friend's birthday at a
steak house, we find out the bread is really soft inside whilst
we can sense the taste of "brown sugar". It is very interesting
because normally we can't find such kind of taste from those
breads in Chinese style. So this time it gives us a very new
taste experience ~

It's really yummy and gives me even more surprise than the
steak (well .. it's true :p). Yummy anyway~

Getting My First Blog Interview posted~

2008-10-28T16:52:00.008+08:00

I am very happy that being invited by another Blogger Kittyanydots
and having a blog interview via email. Apart from my job interview,
this is my first ever interview :)

Here is the webpage:
http://kittyanydots.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-caviemily.html

If you are interesting to know more about me, my design, my
inspiration, my shop and more, you can take a look there!! ~

OH MY BLOG ... am I too busy or too lazy?

2008-10-27T12:16:00.002+08:00

When I just re-visit Blogger today, I just notice that totally one month in my life gets lost here!

Oh my, it seems I focused the whole past one month in:
1. Doing many experimental drawings in both Caviemily, Cavilotus and Caviyummy
2. Running the Flickr group
3. Running the Etsy shop
4. Starting my first course of MBA and attending my first tutorial class
5. Working working hard in office
6. Searching for my new home with all many home decoration stuffs
7. Waiting any progress in Moly_x_41 and Moly_x_44 (but seems no, so far :p)

Suppose the point #8 should be "updating my Cavidanny blog" ... but I miss this one ...

"Hey Cavi, what are you doing here?" I tried to ask myself.
"Well, I have been working quite busy for a short while.."
"Except updating this blog?"
"Well ... oops, I gotta work right now, busy busy ..."

:p

Our 4th Anniversary

2008-09-02T17:59:00.009+08:00

In the past three (should be four now :p) weeks I spent most
of the night time working on my "surprise" to my girlfriend for
our 4th year anniversary. Basically, I am a kind of people who
like to make little gifts, so for the past 3 anniversaries apart
from buying a real gift with value I will prepare some hand-made
gift as well.

Luckily recently I am practicing watercolor cartoon drawing for
my Etsy I don't have to think too much what should I prepare this
time :p My only problem is usually I draw in A4 or A5 (mostly) size,
I want to do something even more great to my girlfriend, so finally
I decided to try A3 size which is really very difficult to me! The
feeling is like putting 10 or more of my normal drawings into one
and completed them all within 3 weeks' spare time. I almost used
up all my spare time but at the same time I still out with my girlfriend,
sharing Olympic Game 2008 (we are super fans of volleyball women,
China!) and not let her know from any hint :p

So I begin from the idea how my big painting should be ... one night
when I was watching a TV program I suddenly inspired from a nice
French restaurant that I can draw something like a gallery to show all
our great times through mini paintings:

After that I picked up the best 10 photos from all the photos
we took in the past 4 years, and then turn them into pencil
sketches in cartoon way:

After all the drafts are done I redraw all of these drafts
once again but put them together in a A3 watercolor paper:

And finally this is completed after watercolor is filled, yeah~

P.S. She likes it really much after I gave and she frames it
and hang it on the wall in her bedroom :)

DFOMP26 - Wasserkrug und Zwiebel

2008-08-11T17:36:00.002+08:00

There is some days that i do not have time to
take challenge in the DFOMP group, last weekend
luckily I can stay home and so I decide to pick up
a small drawing pad and start to think which one
should take the challenge this time.

Since most of the time I love to draw something
about food and drinks, I suddenly find a photo with
an onion in it and I think " here it is ! ".

Having been using computer painting for some times,
I decide to do it with original water paint again. The
fine brushes makes the color not bright enough, it is
quite soft colors yet I feel quite pretty. But after I scanned
the final drawing and post it into Flickr, it looks a bit
too pale to me :p I have to show more colors next time~

New Blogger Banner

2008-08-04T15:58:00.003+08:00

Since I made a banner after I registered Blogger I keep the
same banner until now (that is, 3 months ago only :p). But
recently the more blogger site I view, I find that each artist
tries to show their style in the banner. As I mainly focus on
fineliner drawing and water color paint, I decide to renew the
banner. But I am lazy, finally I go to use the quickest way, that
is, make the collage :p

Yet it turns out to be quite nice~

Moleskine 01.02

2008-08-04T15:50:00.004+08:00

One day when I view the blogger of the other artist, one page
is about chess. Then I suddenly have an idea, it would be fun
to put all chesses into some characters. So I decide to make
some simple sketch and then put them together in the
Moleskine. The process is not too easy as all the characters
I designed are flatted and when I draw I have to put them into
something that can show depth. That means I have to convert
all the sketches again on the Moleskine.

I put this work aside for a whole week as I have some other busy
stuffs need to complete first. Then I go to paint them yesterday
with water colors. It takes me a long time to complete it as I fill the
color with a very small size brush! Oh my god, I know what I should
do next time .... luckily it turns out to be quite nice~