January 1, 2010 | First post of ‘10!!!!

Get excited.

This website will get a whooolleee lot cooler in the coming months. Well…let’s hope so anyway. I’m sick of procrastination!!!

I have found out this website doesn’t exactly work very well on the iphone..or any mobile device for that matter…HAH!!! Oh well. I’ll worry about that laterrrr….in the meantime, I have a LOT of stuff to add here. Random photos, and lots and lots of different sketches and drawings. I’ve made it a new year’s resolution to draw something every week, and I plan on sticking to it!!! I want to at least finish my entire visual diary by the end of the year, because right now, its been stuck at around 25ish pages in and I’ve had it since the start of 2009!!!!

Anyway, I STILL haven’t finished that door illustration which I started wayyy back in March in Singapore!!!! I haven’t even LOOKED at it, so yeah, I really don’t know when I’ll even put that up. But anyway, I haven’t actually done anything in Illustrator for a a while, or Photoshop for that matter, so I am really very rusty. I even have to do some graphics for my CTV work experience(doing storyboarding, stuff like that) and it is SO hard for me to get back into it….sigh.

For what has been lacking in the digital drawing department, I’ve done a lot of sketches though, and I’ve been feelig totally inspired lately. I don’t know whether its because I just want to do something productive, or because I just need to keep my mind off things, or because of all the other stuff that has been happening in my life lately. I’m kinda glad I AM feeling motivated to actually do something though…it’s been a while since I’ve done ANYTHING remotely creative!!! I actually was cleaning out my room today, you know, being the first day of 2010 and all, and I stumbled across some very old sketches in my old visual diary, and my old sketchfolio. Amazing how nostalgia can get to you. its the most amazing, weirdest feeling…but its so….nice to see how you’ve progressed in terms of style and ideas. Anyway!!!

I have actually nearly finished the website for my mum’s friend so go check it out here. I just need to add in the photos and it’s pretty much done, but yeah, the text and stuff still need to be touched up. It’s not exactly meant for screens smaller than 1024/768 by the way…..but whatever, who even uses 800×600 these days anyway?!?! So yeah that’s basically all that has been happening……I’ll try add all the new stuff soon. Promise!!

Jakki posted ~ 6:04 pm | Comment

July 24, 2009 | Is this a sign?

I had a really weird but cool dream last night.

Me and my family had these 5 seater connected chair things you see at maybe fotball stadiums or something like that. They were attached to a bunch of balloons. So one night we all sat down and the chair started floating upwards. There was no scary stuff happening or anything – pretty calm actually from all of us. We were looking at the surroundings which were mostly black, and as we passed through the sky into space, there was no ozone flare up or any of us gasping for breath.
So we eventually float around in blackness which was actually quite nice to dream, and we eventually land on a planet much like Jupiter. There is this humongous crater in front of us, which has murky brown water. Now this crater is HUGE – pretty much like a lake and it is very deep and wide.
I start swimming in the crater and suddenly my family starts shouting there’s a shark in the water! This is where I save myself from imminent death and somehow end up back on shore, even though I dreamt I was in the middle of the crater.
So we all float off on our 5 seater chair again, and I’m thinking to myself *I wonder if we should make a space capsule when we get home in case anyone falls off?*
We sightsee a few other planets before heading back to our house.
I start thinking about how to build the space capsule but then I wake up.
WEIRD huh!? it was quite trippy though and I had fun dreaming of the crater…haha.
Perhaps inspiration for my next digital drawing.