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November 2011
December 2011
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Hullo :) I'm Christelle, and I love art. This blog makes me really happy. Location: Singapore Say hello - tomakeartnotwar@gmail.com
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Wednesday, 30 November 201112:59 am
Flowar Powar!
My mum reeeally likes flowers. Our house always has flowers all over. But I don't think that's why I like to draw flowers! Hahahaha. Maybe it's 'cos I find them fun to draw. Anyway, have a looksie.
Flowar Powar! Labels: art, black markers, doodles, fetish, flower, sketchbooks, sketching
12:39 am
The Medusa Hat
So I sat down with my sketchbook, took a pencil & started moving my hand around. Somehow, it came to this..?
I'm balding aaahhhhh...
Side note: I "support" Man Utd, but only because I have a Man Utd t-shirt. I don't actually watch any football. :-/ From the front: ZIG Laundry pen Why the heck did I even buy this thing. Tombo Calligraphy Pen - from Kinokuniya It's the shit, I found out about it at the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention, or STGCC - used it for the Medusa Hat girl's face ZIG Clean Colour Markers (Black) Don't laugh at the sticker with my name on it, it's so that I can differentiate which markers I've started using! Don't h8 on the stickers. >:K Staedtler Fibre Marker I bought a set of 12 for $5 at Popular - I think I've said enough hahaha.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of the ZIG Laundry Pen. He breathed his last breath today. He was a good & faithful marker pen. Let us have a moment of silence in remembrance of this wonderful marker. *cue moment of silence* *end moment of silence* May he RIP. Hehehehe. And there you have it! A Medusa Hat (black marker, A4). Labels: A4, art, black markers, calligraphy pen, coloured marker pens, medusa hat, sketchbook, sketching, ZIG
Tuesday, 29 November 20112:16 am
All Wrapped Up #2
Been obsessed with clothy things, I reckon... All those tempting creases and folds and whatever. Drew this one just yesterday (28/11/2011) Here's the step-by-step progression of another All Wrapped Up (pencil, graphite, A4).
From left: architect's pencil, 3 normal 2B pencils (the black one is from Muji), an abused eraser and a Cretacolour 6B graphite
Shading of the little lady swathed in cloth done! I used the 3 2B colour pencils (all of which seem to produce different shading effects) and the abused eraser.
For the swathy cloth, I only used the graphite. It's so nice to colour with.
Now it's time to wrap up this post (pun intended). Labels: 2B, A4, abused eraser, art, Azone, charcoal, creases, folds, shading, sketches, wrapped up
Monday, 28 November 201110:22 pm
Whazzat in the Sand?
I was abandoned on a Bintan beach by my mum & her friend back in Sep 2011, so I decided to entertain myself. My only regret is that I couldn't take a pic of the nostrils :( The sun was pointing at it funny.
Someone actually asked me if there was somebody underneath. Yes, in fact, there was.
I say booyah for the newfound beach activity! Labels: beach, bintan, medium, sand art, sculpting
8:03 pm
All Wrapped Up #1
I did this on 15/10/11 (just over a month ago) and it was my first time experimenting with drawing folds and creases and blah blah blah. Surprisingly turned out quite ok!
All pencil, A5. Labels: A5, art, creases, folds, pencils, sketches, wrap
7:39 pm
Brain Dead #2
I was just thinking that I'd really love to have t-shirts with this stuff on it. :B
Labels: art, black markers, blocks, circles, colours, design, geometry, shapes, sketching, squares, triangles
7:10 pm
White on Black
2 weeks ago, I bought an A4 Azone sketchbook., the black kind that you can decorate yourself. Those are really fun!
At first I did a random white thing and I stopped there. And then I realised it looked a bit like a bird, so I continued...
Now I think the bird should be a tad more obvious, with its eye and open beak & all. This was just the front, so I did the back too.
Alas, say hello to my new sketchbook! Labels: A4 black paper, art, Azone, back cover, boring title, drawing, front cover, oreo cookies, sketchbook, sketches, white pen
2:44 am
Stuff I Draw When I'm Brain Dead
Sometimes I don't want to use my brain. But I still want to draw. So I have found a compromise! Basically when I'm brain dead I really enjoy drawing shapes and then colouring them in. It's like designing your own colouring book! I have an entire sketchbook dedicated to this stuff, but for this post I'll just show three. Maybe more in another post. It's pretty fun 'cos I get to choose colour combos and then mindlessly colour while listening to loud dance music (hahaha).
I drew these with black markers (you have no idea how many black markers I've gone through in the past month alone - it's ridiculous) and coloured marker pens. Pretty easy! In order to prevent that streaky pen-mark look that you sometimes get from using coloured markers, what I do is that I colour the shape continuously & evenly with the marker in one direction only. After that I colour another even layer over it in another direction. It works! Actually in the first one on top, there's one grey bit with streaks on it. That's the kind of effect I try to avoid. >:( Something else to be careful of is your black marker. Once you start colouring the black shapes with coloured markers, the black ink may start streaking onto the coloured bits! That really irritates me (grrrrrr). AND SOMETIMES, the black marker shit gets onto the coloured parts (you know, fluff from the marker nip that comes off when you use it - ugh). Even more irritating but not the end of the world still. Stuff to draw when you're brain dead. Labels: art, black markers, brain dead, colour combo, coloured marker pens, lazy to draw anything else, marker shit, markers, shapes, sketches
Sunday, 27 November 20115:12 pm
Pedo-saur
Hi there, Say a hearty hello to Pedo-saur.
Pedo-saur here is my pedo-buddy. We love to sit together at Starbucks and perv at people who walk past. Pedo-saur, you are truly my best friend. (In all honesty I didn't mean to draw a pedo-looking dinosaur, but my friend saw it and immediately called it out so I guess there's no turning back from that one.) Some background info: I love dinosaurs. Always have, always will! The fact that they're extinct means that pretty much every picture you've ever seen of a dino is an artist's impression. This is the only animal that has been left to a person's imagination, so who's to say Pedo-saur's neck is too long or his feet are too stumpy? Enjoy his pedo-face. All pencil, A4. PS. I just made a tumblr (check the links). Surprisingly easy to use, rather idiot-proof actually. This make idiot-like me quite happy. Labels: A4, art, Azone, dino, dinosaur, links, pedo, pedosaur, pencil, sketching, tumblr
5:21 am
Let's Doodle on a Poodle Eating a Noodle
HELLO! I am here to advocate the greatness of doodling. I am a BIIIIIG fan of doodling. Doodling is a brilliant way to pass the time when you feel like your teacher really isn't worth listening to at that point in time. It also opens the gateways for your creative juices. Great doodles have great power. Sometimes I find it even helps me concentrate better since my hands are preoccupied with doing something else, so I'm not distracted by looking for stuff for them to do - true story. Let's go!
A pencil quickie that took about a minute or two. She's a nice pretty girl that I drew in a class where paying attention didn't really seem all that fun. Her neck is exceptionally long (me likes ze long necks).  Attempt to draw my physics teacher, so you can guess which class I wasn't paying attention in! Ah, the joys a nice red pen can bring you. Great thing about doodling is that it's so damn informal! Just grab anything that can make marks on paper and doodle away.
Yeah. The caption says it all. I took my table partner's orange & brown marker (they were the closest things to my hands). Again with the nice long necks.
I did this during chem class actually, and my teacher was watching me draw it the whole time he was explaining goodness-knows-what. I think he thought I was weird 'cos I didn't draw hair. :-/
Say hi to my friend Amylea. That's not actually how you spell her name, but well her leg happened to be within drawing distance (hehe) so I thought, "heck, why not" MORAL OF THE STORY: Doodle at all times and opportunities. I am always surprised by how unplanned art can turn out best! I like to doodle on a poodle eating a noodle. Doodler4Lyf Labels: art, doodles, hehe, noodles, not paying attention in school, pencils, photos, pictures, poodles, red pen, sketches, to make art not war, you are a tag reader
Saturday, 26 November 20115:12 pm
My Maiden Post
Hi! My first post on this blog! Wowww. I'm excited already. I'm crazy about art, & have been since I could hold a pencil. Ok... Let's address this in a nice orderly fashion. Kinda like how they ask you to get off a plane. 1. Why did I make this blog? Great question, myself. I recently met a fashion/travel/beauty blogger (who I will be linking later) and her blog inspired me to do something about ma grande passion, which is art. I love all things artsy fartsy. Not the pretentious kind where someone puts a plunger in a red toilet bowl and sells it for $2mil. More like individualistic art, art with meaning, art that doesn't conform. Another thing is that I draw a lot, and I want to show people. I basically have a dozen sketchbooks lying around doing nothing. Gotta put these lazy sketchbooks to work! Sending pics to people via WhatsApp (miracle app) is no longer an option for me. :/ And hence, this blog came to life. 2. Why did I name it "To Make Art Not War"? Another great question asked by.. me. I was thinking of a name that would reflect what I wanted out of this blog. And well, you know how the world is all rife with war and violence and uncoolness. Why not make a blog to counter that sentiment? I thought it was a really cool name, and so I got the domain, made the email, blah blah.. Imagine how I felt when I finally googled it and found out there are like.. T-SHIRTS all over the net with the same words. Oh My Lampshade. Are you serious. Oh well. Please know I have no affiliation to them. But I would love to! *cue blatant advertising pleas* 3. Who is this blog for? It's for anyone and everyone who likes to just look at and read about art stuff. I tried to find an art blog that didn't just offer opinions and critique about famous people's art. Couldn't really find one that caught my fancy, so I figured I'd just make my own (praise the Lord, Blogger is free). I would love for this blog to be a place where people can share and appreciate art. I'd rather have people do that than make war (y) So that's about it. In the next few days/weeks/months/years, I will be posting lotsa nice things, like art work (be it my own or someone else's), product reviews and drawing tips when using different media! Ooh I'm excited already. :) Labels: art, blog, excited, first post, me wonders why you are reading the labels, to make art not war |
