Vectors & Typography

I've been working on some vectors like I've mentioned a few blogs ago.......  Well......they kinda s*ck haha.
And so I've been doodling with an emoticon tutorial instead. They're quite easy to make once you get the hang of the 'direct selection tool' options. I'll try some more icon designs later haha.

Vector EMOS created with Adobe Illustrator

The emo's are a creation I made a few weeks ago.
Here's something I started doodling with since this past Friday (12-02-'11). I wanted to try out this "stitching effect". After making the basic character style with Illustrator the rest was easy. I just had to assign that character style to whatever image, text or symbol I wanted and the program does the rest. Easy does it.

Icons in blue

Same icons but now in red

And here they are in yellow, just to give you a general idea

Close up, so you can get a better look @ the stitching effect 

Regal symbols with stitching added

I like this thingy

UBrand - ULabel

After playing around with lots of symbols, I decided to do something with my initial and turn it into a brand or label. Something that's stitched to clothing, jeans for instance HOOT!

Anywho......this ULabel stitch thingy made my interest turn to Typography. I love fonts and the things you can do with them! Here are the products of my imagination (and insprational tutorials) I made in Illustrator and PS for the past few days in chronological order.

U&D (Uma&Design) above the clouds

U&D glossy

U&D soft

"Seek not to know the answers but to understand the question" Old poster effect

"To reach perfection once must develop equally compassion and wisdom" Chinese proverb

Hue added, forgot the FONT name...jeez  - -" 

Another proverb ^^" 

Silly text making your eyes blurry, going to play around with layering and perhaps add some improvements some time again in the future

Added a color burn

Added a color blending option

Uma flowery initials

Uma flowery initials with a blue-ish light background

I was going for a dreamy atmosphere....... Anywho...I've done enough for today. My eyes are getting worse sitting behind the comp all this time. Reminds me of how I used to sit behind the comp doing stuff for school hahaha. I've had my share of all-nighters! Mostly just because I couldn't stop once I was in the flow of things.....not due to time deficiency LOL. But I also had some trouble with time management hehe..... Well, it's quite normal at that age I believe. Anything other than hitting the books is a better way to consume once time.

I rest my case for now.

Materialistic wishes

Lately I have been browsing for some goodies online, wishing to buy them one day for my own encouragement. I love electronical gadgets. I'm kind of a nerd in that department. Eventough the technical part can be a bit confusing. When it comes to cables, wires, connecting things and such....don't ask. I'm a fast learner when it comes to usage and getting an indept understanding of the equiptment.........just DON'T ask questions. lol

Anything related to photography, APPLE, Adobe or any sort of design grabs my interest too....haha.

Anywho, there's this funny item I once saw posted on a blog 2 years ago. I thought it would make a GREAT birthdaygift (FOR ME) haha, since I don't know a lot of people with the same quirky interest.

The item I'm talking about is a DSLR mug! There's also a vacuum insulated thermos shaped like a NIKON or CANON lens. It's SOOOOO realistic (I like that kinda stuff), people do mistake it for an actual lens haha.

Mug

Digital B-day gift

A friend of mine celebrated their birthday last month and due to the fact that he lives in Thailand, I of course couldn't congratulate him in person haha. So I created a birthday card for him in PS instead.

He once told me (a few years ago) that he loves candy.....but I apparently forgot because I asked him once more last month what he would like to have for a birthday present.
We have the kind of friendship where neither age, social status or heritage are important and so I truly value the little time we get to converse online (either by phone or comp hehe).
He'll always be silly Cyder to me haha.
Perhaps someday I get to congratulate him in person and treat him to a meal when I get to visit Thailand again.

Here's the result of my PS & AI work. The lollipop and flowery background are made in Ai and vector symbols found online. The rest is layered and finished up in PS.

Endless tears

Tears kept rolling from my eyes when I was listening to this song on my way back home from the hospital.
I don't know why but it reminded me of how I used to miss this special person in my life. The lyrics are literally telling my story. After ending my relationship with this person the feeling of missing became worse. The agony I went through lasted for 2 whole years. After which I promised myself to never fall that deep again.
But then again....you cannot control ones heart.
Nowadays I'm just cautious. When I even get the slightest inclination of leaning in too much, I'll stop myself midway.

Redesigned an old doodle & dinner pics

I've found a funny thing I made in Ai. The original image was worse that this version is haha.

It reminded me of some techniques I forgot all about.

Good thing I save all my unfinished files....well at least the ones I've made on my laptop during the time I still attended school.....(2 yrs ago already - -"). I'll spare my own dignity by NOT posting the original from way back when.



Ai abstract vector redesigned

This is still very amateurisch...but I had fun doodling with the tools I've rediscovered in Ai thx to the WACK original I found on my computer! haha



Finished abstract redesigned in PS

I've finished the abstract painting in PS by adding some layers, lensflares, glow effects, and some layer effects. It brightened up the whole thingy. The original (again found on a tutorial website) was supposed to convey a burning solarsystem. The jiddery waves surrounding it is supposed to be "smoke". Strange how there are different colours of smoke huh? Well I guess that's what makes it an ABSTRACT painting!

I'll try to make some vector icons while I'm at it for the next update.

"Mama"- noodles Tom Yum flavour
IPhone pic

Something totally different: MY DINNER. Yes I do cook. If you can call this cooking. This to me is called "lazy cooking".

It consists of:

1. Boiling water,

2. Add the noodles when the water is boiled,

3. Add any type of meat you prefer (or going by the packaging flavour)

In this case it's prawns or as they say in Thai: "goong".

But I didn't feel like eating prawns so I added chicken instead HAHAHA.

Very common to do so.

Especially if you don't happen to have prawns.

4. Add the spice mix (added in the packaging)

5. Add veggies

In my case I've added some bean sprouts (taugé in Dutch) and put a few Thai basil leaves and fresh sprouts on top for decoration. But I also ate it OFCOURSE.

I've only "decorated" my bowl for the pic. So I don't normally do this....for anybody.

What am I.....a restaurant chef? NOT.

6. EAT

In my case:

6. Take pics

7. EAT

View from the top....yummy?
IPhone pic

AI & PS

Here's some stuff I've done when practicing with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop.

After the "Earth" poster I decided I needed some  more skills in AI. So I had some fun creating the Supercow.

I've recreated an image I found online. Changed bits and pieces to avoid copyright infringement LOL. Same goes for the Kitty. I just thought it was a cute image. And very easy to recreate hahaha....

Hey I've got to start somewhere.......

Earth poster, all PS

Can't sleep

It's 0:43 am........................I can't sleep.

Will turn off my laptop after updating.

Me in paper cut-out, my profile image.

Music!

The first time I heard this song I was only browsing through YouTube out of bordom.
He: Daniel de Bourg, did an excellent cover of the original. I just had to post it up here.
After I finished listening to the song, I've checked on Itunes if Beyoncés new album was already available. It was....and I immediately searched for a way to doanload it for free!!! Bad habit huh....but ermmmm....most songs I buy legally ^^".
All his covers are amazing by the way. I'm not so sure about all his collaborations with other YouTube artists though. He sounds best on his own.

Old pics

2008

Dusseldorf airport @ Germany

Outside of Suvarnabhumi Airport @ Thailand BKK

Lupus & Heartproblems

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Urggghh...
Heart problems, and I'm not talking about the emotional type.
For a while I've noticed an increase in my heart rate during physiotherapy. It didn't cause any alarmbells to me. But after it reached 180 bpm for the third time in 2 weeks I figured I needed a checkup. My physicaltherapist was a bit concerned since it's not a normal heart rate for someone my age....aherm. I was perspiring an awfull lot, was out of breath and felt a bit of pain on the left side of my chest. All that....just after 10 minutes of cycling! I was sent home immediately by my therapist after she wrote down the heart rate on a post-it for me. Once at home my chestpain had gotten worse.... - I don't know what it feels like to have a heartattack - .... It felt like I was experiencing a heartattack. I could barely breathe and laying down was the only thing that kept my mind at ease and body in check.

KDrama addiction

Hi, my name is Uma and I'm an addict. A KDrama addict.
My all time favourite has to be "Coffee Prince a.k.a. The first shop of Coffee Prince".

9-11

Wow....10 years already...
It's a bit hard to believe. I can still remember where I was at that point in time.
I just got out of the shower drying my hair and turned on the tv. The news was on, wich was kind of weird since it wasn't normal at that time of day for a news broadcast. Suddenly they showed a livefeed of the events happening in the US. I saw the two towers. One was filled with black smoke and a huge hole at the top and on the other side an airplane was headed towards the other tower. The Empire State Building was under attack.

Rumble in Limboland

While watching a KDrama (Korean Drama) online on my laptop in bed last night, the entire rooom started to tremble... I had no idea what was going on. It just felt a bit weird. My entire bed was shaking and I also felt the walls moving. Thinking it couldn't have been the neighbours, they're not that noisy, well not all the time...haha.
Anywho I brushed it off and continued to watch my drama.

It wasn't until the next morning my father asked me if I felt the tremble I figured it must have been an earthquake. And after that he told me it was an earthquake - -"... It could have been a 3 or 4 on the R-scale, not much of a tremble as you can figure. I immediately start to imagine how horrible it must be for people who go through such events on a regular basis... Scary, how frightning it must be especially for children and the elderly.

After that Japan was on the news. Those people who suffered the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima still can't return to their homes.
There's still radioactive material leaking and the coolingdevice is still not up to par. Some 80.000 inhabitants are still homeless. According to the officials it's probably going to take the next couple of years to clean up the area surrounding the nuclear power plant with costs reaching 10 billion euro's.

Ahhh...nature sucks at times.