Chapters, drafts and sketches

Instead of continuing with the abstract thingy I mentioned yesterday, I took a complete different route....
I finished up adding a few more swatches in Illustrator...just to bulk up my collection  - -"...and came up with an idea for a page in my portfolio.
It all started with this idea on paper.

One night I was scribbling away on little pieces of paper I had laying around on my desk. After coming up with an idea on how to present my stuff to the outside world physically, (being it potential clients or employers) I now had to figure out what I want say and what my work is going to portray.
You can see the results in the following pics.
The colours I've chosen are just for contrast purposes...and to get a general idea on the physical look of the design.

Portfolio

Oh gosh, I was supposed to update more regularly but failed again.
I haven't been sitting still though...

Done some soulsearching....some what true...but not entirely.
Have been messing around with a portfolio or what not.
And I've figured it's pretty hard to put together something you haven't been able to put your mind to for quite some time. I wish I wasn't as ill as I have been. I wish I had enough energy to just be able to scribble on a piece of paper long enough that could have been of some use to me now, instead of having to take a 30 minutes break every time I moved an inch in or out of bed.

Other than fatigue, I was also lacking inspiration. But that's what you get from facing 4 walls(more or less) over a time periode of 2 years. And that's aside from visiting a few friends every now and then (once every 2 to 3 months). Just because I wasn't physically able to.

I've been missing photography a LOT. Once I was able enough to sit behind a computer for more than 10 minutes I finally bought a battery charger! And I've been taking some pics lately. Too bad I'm not happy with most of them hahaha. They're all nature and shots of doggies. I'll upload them soon.

But back to the portfolio. My interest are pretty broad in the literal sense of the word and so it's making it very hard for me to decide what to USE or create that's good enough for my portfolio.
I want to keep it simple and clean with an explosion of my eclecticness on DISC...LOL...
I've been wanting to create an abstract thingy with Photoshop today but decided in the end (after nearly finishing the darn thing) to RECREATE it in Illustrator! But then I stumbled upon some lovely color swatches that I HAD to add to my collection...and ended up adding them to my Illustrator swatch library.... I don't have a lot of money and so I just added them by hand which took me an entire evenening! Hence making it impossible for me to finish the abstract thingy in Illustrator before DAWN, having not even started with creating the much needed basic PATTERNS.

Abstract thingy in PS nearly finished

Swatches in AI

Anywho, I'll start on that first thing tomorrow! And so I bid you goodnight for now....

Poem for Nickelodeon

I got a little restless and so I've created a birthday card (poem card) for a

former colleague. His name is Nick (but my nickname for him is Nickelodeon), a married man with two children. He does have the link to this blog....so I hope he wont visit anytime soon, unless it's AFTER he received this card! I still have 20 days left, till the actual day, and so there's some editing time left.

The birthdaycard stays. 

But I think I'll keep the color variety, variety in layout and the font "Baar Sophia" for the poem part.

Everything else is susceptible to change haha!

Birthdaycard
Gefeliciteerd = Congratulations (in Dutch)

Bad memory

I can't recall when I've last written a letter...

Things used to be so simple. 

As a child you'd have the least worries in the world.

The hardest thing you'd have to think about was how to win at a game played outside with friends or how to please your parents in order to receive affection or praise (or gifts ....hehe).

Proverbs

Kind of hard to do when you're unwillingly put into a certain situation that makes you the way you are.
But I'd love to let go of what I am now.....a bit of a contradiction huh?
I'm trying so hard to literally let go of what I am. I am fighting this disease with all my might and will not give up until I've become my old self again. But then again I can never go back to the way I used to be so in reality I'm trying to become a better me. And that is sort of what this proverb means to me. Better oneself, pysically, mentally , emotionally and spiritually.

Delfts Blauw - Delft Blue

I'm inspired by the Dutch "Delft Blue" style nowadays. And so I've created a Delft Blue pattern, background, and Iphone wallpaper haha.

I started off drawing some vector images with Illustrator. I actually copied some photo's I've Googled and recreated them in Illustrator as drawings haha.

I only made 6 drawings, because I was getting drowsy and wanted to finish before I fell asleep entirely......

Food and stuff

I've tried something new........

DIM SUM pork flavored

It tasted great! It wasn't home-made though. Just a prepacked item I bought at an Asian convenience store.
I couldn't finish everything - -".... It was a bit too much for me alone. Moms didn't want to help eat some.
The only thing I did was mix the dip....... Haha. It was a mix of tomatosauce, dried pepperflakes and hot sauce.

Taken with my Iphone