Eat, Sleep, Draw

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS WEBSITE. (Yes. The capslock was necessary.) Here's why I love eatsleepdraw.com.

one. It's the perfect place to show your talent in drawing, paiting, sculpting, or what have you.

two. They do not judge your creations. At all. Everything that's submitted is guaranteed to be approved. (As long as it's your OWN work.)

three. With the way tumblr works, if that submitted art is posted on the site, and gets reblogged, then others will also get to see it as well. It spreads all over the community which gets your name out there.

It is seriously a feast in the eyes, in my opinion. I recommend this site to anyone who loves checking out different kinds of art.

"Hip" personal cards?

This was the first personal card I made for myself and for my sister.



I was really into the black or white background mixed with the vibrant colors (pink, green, blue, etc.). The style of the card with the boombox creates that urban hip-hop vibe to it, which I really enjoyed making. I also had fun making my own personal card. I coordinated the black silhouette look of the birds on the branches with these bright colored rectangles and made them look like planks.

More dot-eyed cubes!

These cubes just started off as sketches and doodles, and now, after scanning them, and outlining them on Photoshop, here's the result.
These are going to be part of my personal website. Now, to animate all of them....
Please anticipate. :D

My attempt of making a chibi...

As simple as chibi looks, it seems hard making one. You have to have the perfect face shape, features, colors or shades, expressions, etc.
I remember looking through photoshoots of one of my favorite boy group member,



and suddenly having this urge to make a chibi out of it. I only wanted one so I can have a default picture for twitter. So I decided to make one.

It took me a few hours, 5 sketches, and a few annoyed grunts here and there, to get the chibi that I want.

Then the fun and frustrating part was applying the design through illustrator. I'm not really an avid user of the program, but I thought it was a good program to use since I would rather have the image as a vector. I remember staying up until 3 in the morning getting that done.

After all that hard work, here's the result.



I gotta say, I was, and still am, pretty satisfied with my first illustrator-based chibi. ^__^

Making gifs online.

Whenever I see an animated gif in an online community post, I always wondered how they were able to make one of those. Did they need to use a certain software to get that to work?
Well, the word out there said that there's a website that would let you make a gif straight from a youtube video.
The website is gifsoup.com.

To get started, you have to sign up for an account. All of your youtube gifs will be saved in that account. After you're fully registered, you can now start making gifs!

So, first you copy the link of the video you want to make your gif from.
I chose this video for my gif.



On the gifsoup page, paste the link on the link bar, and click on Create Gif. It'll take a few seconds for the site to load the video, for it to be ready for gif making.

After it's fully loaded, it'll take you to this next page.



What I do is I play the video, then pinpoint where I want the gif to start and to end with the Start Time and End Time button. With those options, it'll save the time on each end. Afterward, you press the preview button to see if that's the right cut you wanted. Don't forget to select a category and a title for that gif. Also, take note that you can only have a 15-second gif, which I think is long enough for one.

When you're satisfied with the cut, you press finish.

Here's the result!



I did an edit on this gif by cropping off the label and cutting off some of the frames through Fireworks.



I kinda think this one is funnier. XD