Dreams and Demons

This week has been unbelievably good for me. I managed to make art everyday since Sunday! What an excellent way to start the new year.

So what do I wish for this new year? I wish to be more adventurous. Meaning, I would like my drawing and sculpting to interact with each other. I'd love it if they both could get together and produce some interesting off springs. Let's pray for lots of good things to happen between these two.


This week I did a lot of drawings. This one full drawing is actually an idea for a sculpture. I call it Dreams and Demons (see the dreams and demons crawling out of the person's head).


I bet these demons/creatures are fun to sculpt. I can hardly wait to start on them.




Besides drawing I also painted a couple of my sculptures. I love using oil paint.


I've had a productive week. It's awesome!

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way

Lately, I'm in the mood for The Highwayman. It makes me think back to high school, back to the time when I was sitting in class, learning about this poem. We were lucky to have a good English teacher. I must have like this poem since then. I love it even more as a song (even though it didn't cover the complete version of the poem).

I was listening to this song early this morning, and I did a rough sketch for The Highwayman. For some reason I just love the part where she let her hair down for her lover to kiss it.


And here's the finished drawing of the highwayman kissing the sweet black waves (I know, she is supposed to be at her window, not right next to him).

I guess deep down, I really am a romantic person.

Plant Woman

Last night I sat down and doodle some more...I was thinking of a pair of sexy eyes and lips...And the next thing I know, it evolved into some sort of evil-looking plant woman...


It's like Jack Skellington trying to do Christmas but inevitably turned it into Halloween.

Drawing as a form of meditation

I'm not very good a nurturing the artist child in me. I'm good at writing my artist pages, but I hardly allow myself to go on an "artist date" and just play freely with my art (see Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way). On top of that, a few issues in life have been stressing me out lately. So here I am, a little blocked; haven't been able to produce any sculptures that are to my satisfaction.

To remedy the situation, I started sketching since yesterday. Without any planning, I just sketched whatever that's in my mind.

Drawing is like a form of meditation. I managed to drag those demons and monsters that have been disturbing my inner peace out of my mind, and sealed them away in my drawings.

So there, I feel so much better now.


Stare all you want, bird creature. I feel really good right now. And you can't do anything about it.

Monster drawings

First of all, the serpent woman would like to wish everyone a very happy Halloween.

The one with horns is my first version of the serpent woman. I like to imagine this is how she looks when she's just a young monster.


And the second version is how the serpent looks when she matures. I wish I had done this in color, I'd like to see her as a crimson serpent.


Anyway, happy Halloween, and beware of monsters and ghouls.

Little Fox and A Dancing Lion

This is what I do when I stay home all day with my daughter. I draw cute little pictures for her. This is a draft for the little fox.


Here is the finished version.


And the goofy, dancing lion. Kids inspire adults in a very fascinating way, don't you think?

A demon taking a walk

Another handsome demon. He hasn't got a name yet, but I love how he looks. I'm even considering putting him on a t-shirt or something.

Got Shadow?

This is what happened this afternoon:
1. Had a strong cup of coffee (Dark as night, sweet as sin- Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman).
2. Played some Persona 4 (great game, by the way).
3. Listened to some Larc-en-cial.

Maybe it was the coffee, or the game, or the music, I suddenly had this question in my head : What would my shadow be like in the world of Persona?

What do I mean by shadow? Well, in Persona 4, the characters enter a strange world where they encounter their own "shadows" which are born out of the characters' repressed emotion.


In the world of Persona, I think my shadow would be a very spoiled brat. I originally wanted my shadow to use a gigantic lollipop as weapon, but claws and spikes are easier to draw. *Giggles* but a gigantic lollipop would be so funny!

Zip Zip and Yip Yip

This is Zip Zip.



And this is Yip Yip.

Are they demons? Are they some sort of spirit? I'm not sure. But I do believe they are harmless.

Demons

No, I'm not a satanist. I just have a lot of darkness inside me. You know, those little voices inside my head, telling me: "You're fat", "you're useless", "you're a failure"...etc. I just need to feel them coming out of me, leaving me. That's why I sketch them, those silly little demons and monsters, who think they can live inside me forever.

Maybe one day, I can finally shut the door and keep them out of my head forever. Until then, I'll keep exorcising them in this way.

Fan Art

I love Hellboy, especially Hellboy 2. Something about him just makes me want to draw tons of pictures of him.

Maybe it's because his face seems so...sculpted (lots of shadow and light areas...does that make sense?). He's a lot of fun to draw.

If I could throw a fancy dinner party and I could have anyone in this world as my guests, Guillermo del Toro would be one of them, along with Neil Gaiman, Yoshitaka Amano, Tim Burton, Kojima Ayami, and Garrison Keillor.