2011 July |

Almost done

I spent almost all day on this piece, I only need about a hour more to finish it up, but I’m collapsing so I have to leave it for later in the morning, it turned out a bit easier then I had thought(which was why I was procrastinating so much with it before) but I’m pretty happy with the progress I made on it today, heres a pic of it in progress:

Tomorrow is my day for shoes, but I will spend one hour of it to finish this piece up. Now with the shoes, I’ve decided to go with the quilting on the blazers but I will take a small break on them and work on something else. I got an experiment to try out tomorrow using two different glues, I’m gonna use my Converse weapons for the test since the last glue I had used on them completly didn’t work. I’m also gonna change up the toe/tongues on them from the camouflage nylon to duck canvas to give it more breathability.

Patterns done

Today I dedicated my day to “shoe work”, I finished up the patterns on the computer, I was hoping to also finish up the quilting pattern too, but I couldn’t make up my mind on what kind of quilt I want to use, and at one point I wanted to just trash the quilt idea. In the end I still haven’t decided what I’m going to use for it, so I’m just going to sleep it over and hopefully in the morning I will have something. If not I can just continue thinking it through tomorrow, which will be my day dedicated to the portfolio.

I was hoping to put some work into the portfolio on Friday, but I stayed up really late on Thursday and got up really early on Friday, so on the time I was supposed to dedicate to work on it, I just basically napped so that I wouldn’t fall asleep while riding my bike. Somehow I did manage to fit in about a hour to start up the patterns on the computer for the blazers, but it wasn’t supposed to be for that day ha ha! I’m gonna make sure I make up for the lost work in the morning.

Here is the fourth art piece from the “color and composition” group I have to finish:

This was a lot harder then it looks, I ended up making this almost four times, the first two I was using India ink which had a nice tone, but I didn’t know that it wasn’t waterproof so while working on it I put my sweaty hands(from hours of working on it) on some of the black parts and viola, I had smear marks on it, so I had to start all over, I went on to look for some markers instead and bought myself some Copic Multiliners, of different point widths and various refills, after a couple of more hours(spread through several days) I finally ended up with the piece above. I’m pretty happy with it, its not something exactly mind-blowing but it works for what I needed.

The past couple of weeks

I have been working on some sketching exercises and “visualization” basically perspective stuff, but I had gotten way too into it, so I haven’t been able to actually work on the portfolio which as some of you might know, is why I’m taking the break. I decided to change up my daily schedule a bit to put less emphasis on those sketching exercises I was mentioning and dedicate more time on other things, one being the portfolio and the other being shoes, I’m gonna get more active with them then before, so hopefully if everything goes as scheduled I should have a new shoe done within 1-2 weeks, and probably a month from now I will start taking orders again.

Heres how far I’m at the portfolio, on the last update I had done three pieces, now I’m at the fifth(I’ll upload the fourth later today) which is supposed to be based upon this piece I did a about two years back:

The top section is pretty easy to do, just time consuming, its supposed to be a trace of the left paper piece in order to make a trail. the bottom piece doesn’t exactly take as much time, but its just a bit of a brain exercise to get the right panels in the inverted colors by the edges. I’ve been procastinating on this for almost a month so today I finally gotta put some work on it, heres how far I’m on it:

Well yeah, thats gonna be fun haha!

Now with the shoes, I’m currently working on some blazers for my sister over at Japan, initially they were supposed to be the vans I had posted a couple of months back, but due to the lack of a last they had turned out all wonky, this time I actually got one in hand so it should be a different story. This is the base:

I already took them apart, and started the pattern making so I should have some interseting pictures later.

Concluding what I had mentioned in the beginning I will be alternating days between working on shoes and my portfolio, so later today I will be working on the portfolio and tomorrow(Saturday) I will work on the shoes, this will keep me posting basically daily and you can see how things turn out and how long it normally takes me to work on such projects.