it feels good :)

i bought myself two books today, first official books of 2009 that I'll be reading on. First book is Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking.. and Steve Martin's Born Standing Up. I was interested in buying Steve Martin's book when I saw him do SNL a week or two ago. I heard he was a wonderful writer so I looked up what he wrote and I decided to pick up his autobiography. When I went to Borders today I saw Carrie Fishers book in the front, guess it was a new release. Also about Carrie Fisher even though I know everyone knows her from Star Wars (like duh..), but I also knew she's the daughter of Debbie Reynolds, a very funny person, and an acclaimed writer as well. Also.. why do I have a feeling that I might have a lot in common with her? Could it be the forever sucking vortex of Nerdworld, the almost royalty status of mommy and a developed sharp wit n talent?

I hate saying stuff like that about me, but I'm trying to be blunt an honest nowadays.. and less bashful.

Late Night Drawings

My Dad had asked me to scan some documents for him this evening before bed. I told him that the new printer/scanner we have is down (its a crappy $85 HP Printer that was supposedly "state of the art," but I've noticed that stores have been cutting down its price or attaching it to packages and deals just to get rid of the product.. for it is LAME). So, I said that I'll scan it with my scanner that I had put away. He didn't care, "Whatever."

And since I had set up the scanner with my laptop neatly on my bed, I thought that I might as well draw some stuff, scan them, and post them online. And so I did.

Drew myself on my way to school, which I'll be doing tomorrow. First official day for me this 2009 Spring semester. Little on the schooling, a lot on the job hopefully *wish me luck!*

This chick's attire is based from the fashion magazine ELLE's website where it does a STREET CHIC blog. The exact that this was based off can be viewed if you click here.

I drew this originally on Jan 5th. I was smoking some hookah at a friends place and usually hookah gets me very inspired and I get in a draw-y mood ten fold. I kept feeling breezy and flowy in the wind and I wanted to capture it. I was feeling very chill, relaxed, and pleased. I was feeling less with the happy and jubilation but I felt like giving this girl a smile and that feel at the end.

Thanks for viewing todays quick sketch blog. Tomorrow I'll be signing up and running around campus looking for a concrete class schedule and it'd be all good from there. Currently it's pouring VERY hard.. hope that it doesn't interfere too much tomorrow.. Gotta take the bus and whatnot :(

- Y.

Sesame Street and Muppets

So my brother and I were on youtube all weekend and we were watching clips from our youth.. realizing that the stuff we grew up on actually had a lot of comedy intelligence backing it up. I had totally forgot about the two headed monsters

and also Grover.

My brother and I came to the conclusion that they need to bring back monsters on Sesame Street, they were great. And Elmo's a weak little representation of what true monsters are supposed to be.

Anyway, this is what's been cracking me up:

Then, like whenever I get on youtube and start digressing, I remembered another puppet related clip that always made me laugh. And it was a levi's commercial with a yellow puppet, hella bobbing his head out to the techno music:

His name is Flat Eric, and he was originally from the music video for this song by Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat. Made me want to go search for it online and buy my own Flat Eric, and then I wanted to buy a puppet so I can mess with one on my own and make little shorts.

Anyway, to cut things short, i plan on making my own puppet when I get the time. Much cheaper, and easier for me so I can make exactly what I want. I went to How to Make a Muppet and it seems simple enough. When I get time, here's another project for myself :). In the meantime.. should be goin off to bed now.

- Y.

Late Post - Birthdays

Feel like posting these clips now from my siblings recent birthdays. My brother Justin, who I call Abung (means older brother in Indonesian), turned 25 on Christmas (12/25/83). Leliane, my younger sister, turned 19 this past Sunday (1/4/90). I take a crazy amount of pictures each time, however these are my favorites.



I had made my brother a cake the previous night at Gabe's house. It was just instant cake, I didn't have as much money as I'd like to make it even more special, and also I had messed up on it several times and this was the only good take. It was good though, next year I'll make a super duper Dr. Suess cake with colors and whatnot. That night he didn't want to do anything and we just stayed in. It was a quiet and chill Christmas.

Leliane's birthday we had gone to San Francisco and her plan was to go ice skating in Union Square and then go eat at Blondie's Pizza. That afternoon while we got ready, she asked if it would be better if we ate at the Ghiradelli factory. I said it was up to her, and then she changed her mind and the plan was changed to eat there.

...Leliane didn't plan anything consistant. Once we got to Union Square the ice rink was "too small," and she didn't want to skate. We ended up walking around Union Square, then we headed toward the Cannery behind Ghiradelli. We find out there's no specific Ghiradelli factory restaraunt..

so ...instead we go to South San Francisco near the airport to eat at Beijing Buffet. ...What the hell Leliane.

And here she is talking to herself after the whole night. She was changing the bed covers and she didn't realize I was recording.

..My family.

- Y.

Princess Jasmine

I was stumbling through sites for inspiration. Can't force these things ya know? And I looked her up, and I realize I never drew her before and she's the one Disney Princess I really like (and her name being real similar to mine is a major plus too).

And here's the image I'm basing it all off of too:


Really memorable scene/image of her. I'm actually gonna move on from this point. I don 't wanna work on this too hard. I started on coloring it, but I'm actually gonna experiment and use the pen tool through illustrator. Completely vectorize this piece..however.. I just don't feel like it at this point. I feel like working with colored pencils or markers. Get off the computer for a bit and put something tangible. So.. be right back again :D

- Y.

Ok, more sketches!

Starting on the sketches again. Listening to old school hip hop like Slick Rick and classic Ice Cube. And once in a while Busta Rhymes - Arab Money (remix) -- "Bismill hirRah Manir-Rahim! Al Hamdulilla-hiRabbil Alameen!" OOOh.. -this songs the issh, SON :D!



SO fun.





Anyways.. back to the drawing.

- Y.

2008 - Back to Reality

I finally had the guts to check my grades for Fall 2008. I have two Bs and an F. Sucks.. but I deserve all those grades. I didn't give the proper time to my Art 28 class. Also, since I didn't pay for my classes on time, I was dropped from all of them, and being the procrastinator that I am, I am now waitlisted. I kind of wanted that effect too... money's hard and I didn't want to ask for that much money right now from my family. Classes don't start again until Jan 22, I'll be hunting classes down again like how I did last year. I'll get the proper classes that I need. If the schedules work out, and if I get a proper job, I'm going to get Art 28 with the same teacher again. Once again I deserved that F. If I get that class, I'll only have just that class and show some A work.

Once again, back to reality, I have to find a job and work hard at that too, so honestly I won't be in school as hard as I was. I'm only looking for 1-2 classes and light weight work. Summer time I'll be focusing on GE classes again too.

Enough of this about the classes.

NYE was cool. Got to hang out with my cousins and I even got to meet up with Mel. We miss each other, and she was a little on the drunk side... later on I'll be meeting up with her to talk again.

I remember I was talking to my cousin last night about New Years Resolutions. I only have one:

Take better care of myself.

That's it.

- Y.