Lotus Couple in Healthy Green

Three Little Etsy Shops

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

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~

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?

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~