Today was my 51st post of creating hand-lettering type on a post-it. My original plan was not to post daily, but since I’ve started, it gets harder and harder to break the streak of not doing one per day. In the beginning, I just wanted an outlet to release my creativity for type somewhere, and to finally have a use for my Instagram account. Now, I cant go a day without touching my nib pens and getting my hand dirty with the black ink. Hopefully the streak continues, but I will for sure wont stop exploring the world to typography.

Another Tuesday and another doodle.
Also, here’s the latest from my post-it upload in instagram.

After neglecting my instagram for more than a year now, I finally started using it in my ipad. I didn’t really want to post pic in there, because I already have that in flickr. After much thought, I decided to upload post-it art I’ve created. Its mostly hand-drawn type work and/or illustrations. And yes, I used my ipad’s camera to capture it. I don’t get how people post pics that are taken by SLR or other device that didn’t have instagram in it. Instagram is an app to enhance the picture taken by a mobile device, it’s not a computer editing software. I woudn’t even want to go on screen capturing and filtering it in instagram. See why it took me more than a year to start using it. haha.

Instagram user: urbsters

Here are a few samples that I’ve have posted so far.

I was one of the participant that got selected to The de Young’s annual art slam last week. My work was only shown for two days, Thursday and Saturday. It was a privilege and honor to have my work seen in a museum with that much reputation. It wasn’t in the same realm as their permanent collection, but to be in the same location as all these famous people in history, I felt extremely blessed. I think the best part was having free tickets in those days to check out the whole museum. I had several tickets under my name, but I really don’t have friends that’s into what I’m into, so a lot of the tickets were unused. My teacher from 5th grade showed-up though, with her husband all the way from Sacramento. I’m very grateful for them driving all the way to San Francisco to support me.

Taking the bus to the museum was a breeze on Thursday, but Saturday was tough. It was raining early in the morning and my umbrella turned inside-out. Once in the museum, I took advantage of everything, including a free tour of their exhibits. Luckily, I had a solo, private tour because I got there early and no one else took a tour with us. Ha, never thought I’d ever get a one-on-one tour to myself…it was GREAT!

I was listening to Varsity – “Like I always do” and all I can think of is this scene, so I made a quick comic out of it. Nothing related to the song, it was just a little cute scene that matched the cuteness of the song.

This year’s Valentine’s card was inspired by treadmill. If you’ve ever used a treadmill, one of the options you’ve played around with is the speed button. Either you want to run to eight or ten miles per hour or to a walking pace of three MPH or slower pace. Looking at this everyday, I happened to play what’s a “perfect” pace to walk while having a conversation with someone. I figured 1.5 MPH was good, but slowing it to 1.3 would gives a slower pace that would enable anyone to half-walk while able to listen and have a conversation with someone. 1.3 also gives two people freedom to play around and be animated with walking and at the same time, its not too fast and be out of breath after a few minutes in the walk. To take it up a notch and be riskier, slowing it down and taking away two-tenth MPH would slow the mood to holding hands pace. A good pace for both parties while enjoying the physical connection still able to maintain the great conversation. The speed pace can bi played around with, but those are the numbers I’ve played around with in my lab using my treadmill.

My past Valentine’s card from previous years (link)

Here are the line drawings from my sketchbook.

I never thought I would actually have an exhibit up anywhere, but I have to thank God for all of his surprises. He does have a way of opening door(s) even though you thought it can never be open. From this exhibit, another door was opened, but I’ll wait till I blog that later on.

First Show of the exhibit

Here are my six prints from the show.

Character and cover design of the card

Sketch of the character

I was also assigned to do some pre-production/concepts for a comic around September. My assignment was to help on some characters of the comics.