Started out as a quick ipad sketch of Cloud Strife. Then got Body Kun to pose for me to enter phase 2. Final Fantasy 7 Remake was a much better game that I thought it would be. I played it last year in the height of quarantine. The original is still better but they made combat interesting and fun. The OG helped cultivate my love of video games and its art when I was a kid and early teenage years. 

Giiirrrrrlll I'll just leave you hangin. Like get back to you like soon? A minute or two or never? I didn't take this one.  I'll have to find my screenshots from my playstation. I take more joke screens than anything. Compared to other people I caputred Tifa's Dolphin punch. Where she does a uppercut and a Dolphin spawns out of nowhere. 

My Resident Evil 2 Remake ones were pretty fun as well. 

In the next few weeks my time management should be under more control, and have more free time for art and more detailed posts.  

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Quite often when you want your passion to be your profession and in the pursuit of perfection...Often can one forgot to have fun. Not everything you work on isn't a magnum opus or I mainly get stuck in the rut that I have to utilize my time as efficiently as possibly. Where everything I draw/paint has to be good. Or get caught up with just only doing theory and practice.

I'm only showing one sketch, but I want to clean them up and color and create Vector art with these. 

I was just watching tv and started thinking/sketching about food based puns as cartoon like characters. Normally I wouldn't draw these types of things, but I drew a couple pages worth of material that I think would make awesome t-shirts. Despite not initially setting out that "This will be an efficient use of my Time" it became something more that just efficient but creatively out of my normal box.

Right now I am totally into What We Do in The Shadows. You kind of have to watch the movie before the show, but I think it is great. Full of brilliant writing and dry dark humor. It is a Mockumentary about these 3 Vampires living in Staten Island New York. The icing on the cake that I do not want to spoil is that there isn't just one type of Vampire, there are multiple and some of the examples are real life examples. This is the Clip that got me to watch the show, found it by accident but glad I watched the movie and starting watching the show.

Spotify Tunes

Do you remember the 21st of September?

Well I do.  It kinda started the 2nd of September but technically it was the night of the 6th of September. 

 It has been a year since I moved to Seattle for a change of scenery and more career opportunity. 

I started my journey a day later than planned. I was running on a lack of sleep altered state, I realized it wasn't safe to start driving cross country. I have a high tolerance for driving, but if you are tired best to not chance it. I can drive 8-12 hours, around there is when I get tired. 

It took me longer to pack and clean the apartment I lived 5 years in. Then there was also the factor there were a few last people I did not get a chance to say goodbye to. I didn't realize I had so many friend and families I got adopted into. One of my friends joked that her parents treated me better than her at times. I even got money on my birthday from those parents. 

Honestly I never liked the place that I lived at but the people and connections I made there was made it bearable and wonderful. But then every place I lived at I at least had 1 lifelong friend, where I come back to town we have fun. 

Here I thought moving here to Seattle I would find myself, complete that entire journey. Boy was I wrong. Still I find myself asking so many questions and still am on that journey to find myself and find those answers. Even thought I am in a different chapter in my life. There has been so many highs and lows. The quest to find yourself seems like it is a continual journey. 

Playlist of Stuff I've been Listening to

Ever since last year maintaining balance has been an important aspect of my life to me. At least attempt to. Too much or not enough of something isn't good. I blame it on my upbringing I don't know how to relax at times, or I feel like a terrible person for chilling and relaxing. Its either work hard or play hard, one or the other. I'm trying to balance where I don't work too much or be a total slouch.  

It's great to catch up with friends I haven't heard from awhile. Once again balance, it is either I am not available or too available, not just always being consistently around.

The other week I felt like not eating dinner at home, and went to a local park named Gas Works. I took some photos there for reference. I have a huge soft spot for old buildings.  

Then Last week I attended 2 workshops online back to back marathon. 

Apparently some of us from Brainstorm are senpais now. As I say from the Season 1 OG WB1 of Keshan's class from 2020. 

 

I mentioned I took pics of some old buildings that reminded me of the game The Last of Us, and there were a few artists interesting in seeing steampunk like stuff, I uploaded my images on discord. 

My Sensei ended up seeing the reference and wanted to paint something after getting his work done. He asked if he could use my photo as a reference. Ended up staying up with another artist watching a demo until like 4am. As far as I know its called WTF01.  

I don't mind sharing artistic ideas as long as it is not like my Middle School class whom half of the class would look at what I was drawing and try to straight up copy what I was doing. I think it is interesting to share an idea with another fellow artist and see what they come up with, and usually it is something completely different that what I would do, even if it is the same theme. 

Check out Keshan Lam's work here

& Brainstorm 

My Current Tunes & Jams on Spotify

 Just use Helvetica. 

Nah, probably not.

Just kidding.

One of my bosses used to look over my design work and say, 

".....Why don't you use a nice font like Helvetica?"

Helvetica is the vanilla ice cream of fonts. 

The sweatpants of fonts.

Almost all sizes fits all. 

To change it up at times I would throw in Futura just for kicks.

Find more GFDA here. 

One quirky design site has some powerful words to say to keep me motivated at times. 

Check out the shop here as well. 

These images are low res on purpose to buy the posters. It's tough at times especially when things are rough to be motivated and create! 

Current Spotify Playlist

Looking at other people's artwork can be inspiring. One of my favorite artists is Scott Listfield. Surrealist artist paints with Arcylics? Check out his art and prints at  Scott Listfield Art 

All of my wallpapers are his artwork. :)

Sometimes I disappear and take a bunch of time for myself, spend time alone to rebalance my thoughts, emotions and goals. Remerge and then I'm motivated again to work on things.   

Spotify Music Stuff