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

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

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

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

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

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~

Moleskine 01.01

This is my first drawing in Moleskine and it is talking about
the love connection between people. There are lots of guys
and gals in the world but love is a kind of miracle that it is
very hard to be a couple. Guess who is the couple who get
a bingo in the drawing? Of course that is me and my girlfriend
:p

After scanned the drawing and I find the color on Moleskine
is a bit different from normal water color paper. My drawing
looks a bit colorless. I decide to fill in background color as
well......



Finally I did! ~

My First Moleskine Starts

Since I upload my drawing in Flickr, I found many artist
mentioned a term "Moleskine". At first I really have no idea
what it means, but then the more I read I understand that
is a kind of famous sketchbook. Some of my favorite artist
actually also have their daily sketches on Moleskine,
though it is a bit expensive to me (I have bought a similar
one from China but the quality is much much different!) finally
I buy one and start with it~