Officially A Junkie

The thing is, among the stuffs that I grabbed the other day a the art shop is this.

These are magic colours! I'm totally back to kindergarten! Who cares, anyway.

So, to make it less lame than what it is, I came out with these... 

This one went to my roomie, K. 

this is what I'm looking at every time I wanna plug in my MagSafe... 

This was dedicated to my babe, S but the physical of it went to my girl, R.

Alright, that's all. For now. Stay tuned, guys! :D

P.S.: This is what happen if I don't have assignments... with assignments, I'll just go crazier but without assignments, I'm back in the zone. You know what I'm saying. 

Weirdness,

Of Weststar Art Shop and KLCC.

It's Saturday and it's the opposite tradition of my family where I'll go off campus every Saturday. Therefore, as for today, I went out to Weststar Art Shops to replenish my art supplies with a classmate. 

We took the bus from the campus around 12 noon and took a cab from Wangsa Maju station to the shop. it's gonna take a long while before the bus going to move from the station so... 

After we went to all Weststar branches around there, got all the stuffs we need, we took a cab back to LRT station and headed to KL Sentral. Well, that was the plan. 

We went to KLCC, and after hanging out like 20 minutes in Kinokuniya, my classmate went off to see his brother at KL Sentral. Leaving me with Steve Jobs' biography.

 

I read like 30 pages, check out some more books on the second level where awesome architecture books filling out two-third of the area, and read some of the latest releases by my favourite author on the 'vampire' section. 

I went out of Kinokuniya around 4.30 p.m. and while I was on the way towards the elevator, I saw this. 

It's Faber-Castell's mini corner right in front of it. As you guys already know, I did missed the launching of the awesome exhibition in Pavilion KL last month, so I decided to just take some pictures. Though there are not much of things to see, still... Just bear with me, okay! 

Would love to get some of these paster colours... 

Still got to ask few questions to the sales person. Do you guys know that on the pencil colours, especially the expensive ones that are being used by professional artists, they have stars on it and every star represent 25 years of durability? 

Around 5 p.m., I went down to grab some drinks and Auntie Anne's pretzels and headed back to campus right after. 

Yes, babe... drool some more! I know they're your favourite!

Okay, peeps! It's time for another tradition - Horror Night. For tonight, I'm gonna watch A Nightmare on the Elm Street, 2010 remake of the '84 movie of the same name, directed by Samuel Bayer and produced by Michael Bay. BTW, the movie original score is damn good. Scored by my favourite composer, Steve Jablonsky, who're also the composer of Michael Bay's Transformer's Trilogy original scores. Check it out!

Enjoy your weekend, y'all!

Awesomeness,

Charcoal.. Again

As for the GC class yesterday, we're working on the entourage, in this case a group of people sitting together and therefore to accomplish this, some of us (including moi) took turn to be the models while others draw within half an hour.

I was in cadet when I was in secondary school so being still for half an hour is almost effortless. One trick will do just to make it through the whole time of stillness.

At the end of the class, me and some of the classmates are planning to go to the West Star Art Shop most probably this Saturday. Good plan I guess, as I need to replenish my colour supplies too. Probably gonna get some medium charcoal to explore some more on the medium itself.

The truth is, this is the most relaxing week I ever had since the 3rd week of this semester. of course, I have to use this time to read some more on colouring techniques and finishing up the reading on Built Environment topics.

I borrowed this book from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu via Inter-Library Loan, entitled "Environmental Science: A Global Concern" as our library's copy is still in process. Lots of easy to digest contents! Totally recommend this for those who want to read on pollution, natural resources, and global environmental issues.

As for the assignment, (finally!)  we're required to pick a full body picture of someone and tried to re-produce it i.e. re-draw it. I'm high on Pirates of the Caribbean movies right now so I'm probably gonna draw jack Sparrow or something. Hmm, nice! This adds another theme on my sketch book!


Alright, guys! It's almost 3 in the morning! I probably need to get back to bed~


Stay awesome!
E

Introduction to Charcoal

To be honest, the only time where I saw charcoal drawing is in Titanic... Wait up, some said Jack actually used coloured pencil..

Anyway, today in GC class, we were introduced to another medium, charcoal. After showing us some examples, we all then got our hands dirty and tried to draw using soft charcoal.

We're sitting in a big circle and then we're required to draw the person who was sitting right in front of us. I drew Nabil... and Mirwan. I don't wanna go into the details so I left out their faces... of course, some went disastrous, some just go crazy with it, while some just go with the flow - like me.

I don't really care about the turn outs as long I'm trying my best. Well, that was the first time I draw a person figure so as long as I got my proportion correctly, I think it's more than enough.

I'm going to get some charcoal to practice some more. probably I'll get those hard ones so they won't smear so much. Bro. Zack said another method to draw using charcoal is to ground it and spread it on a paper then by using fingers, erasers and whatnot, we tried to work those graphite sprinkles into shapes. I haven't tried it out but it does sounds interesting.

Names like Marcel Duchamp came out so we did a little discussion on some of his works.

...and for the very first time, we don't have any assignment for the next class! Weeeeeeeee~!!!! This actually gives me some more time to work on my previous assignments.

For those who want to try out this medium, be prepared with wet tissues or good soap to get rid those dirt on your hands later. =)


Signing out! ... To the Math class!

GC: Assignment #10 Part I

As for today, we walked from KAED's Tutorial Room 4 - where my usual class is being held, to the Main Hall in Cultural Activity Centre (CAC), went to the top of the tower - the one that you can see the river as if it running right under it. We even saw some students were kayaking on the river!

Finally, we ended our little tour in CAC's garden... 

For this assignment, we were required to choose either one-point or two-points perspective view. Me and another classmate chose the same spot, which is...

Looking at this, I'm planning on not to draw this view according to the original view which mean, I probably going to edit few things that I don't want to appear in my drawing later...

When the time's up, I was only done with the lines sketch and same goes to some of my classmates which is why most of us we'll be coming back to this garden this Saturday, all with the same purpose - to finish our drawings.

Other than tired after walking for quite a long way just now, I'm still feeling slightly disgusted with what I found in the tower earlier today. Believe me, you guys don't want to know.

Anyway, I'll see you guys in the part II of this entry...


Warm regards,

Campus Tour Series #1

So we finished IBE class a little bit early today so I decided to go around E0 building. The reason to do this? I need some materials for my sketchbook.

I think E0 is where most of the Engineering Faculty's administration offices are located. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the pictures!

One of the hallways... 

Compare to other Kulliyyah i.e. faculties, I love KoE's fences the most.

Across this path is Cultural Activity Centre (CAC)...

As for the last 2 photos, these were actually taken from the bridge that's connecting KoE and KAED. 

That my friends, is KAED. Well, from the back. I couldn't spot Jeremy from up here though. 

Okay! That's all! Next stop? Well, let's just wait and see. 

Signing out!

GC: Assignment #9... Part I

It's almost 2 and currently I'm sitting in front of this... Can You guys guess where is this?

So... after trying to get the rough sketches like 2 to 3 times... and shivering as if I got pneumonia or something (it was raining, man!) I finished up the lines and I'm going to decide on what medium I'm going to use on the drawing later...

Well, most probably watercolour pencils... Or maybe watercolour... 

Alright, that's all for now! Need to get up and go back to KAED for IBE class! 

Chill out, peeps!

Regards, 

E

GC: Exercise #6

As for today, we learned about two points perspective drawing some more as the lecturer gave out some more examples.

After that, we went outside the studio to find places with this element and ended up in Kulliyyah of Engineering's garden in the E0 building.

For this exercise, we're required to sketch using pens i.e. pigment pens...

...and this is it!

Of course, this isn't finish yet as we couldn't stay longer as it was starting to rain. Which also means we finished class earlier than usual.. weeee~!!

The assignment that is to be submitted on Thursday is we need to find another place with the same element of perspective but draw it this time. I'm thinking to just use the same garden but draw other thing instead... I'll post about it later!


Anyways, do tell me what you guys think!


Regards,

GC: Assignment #8 Part I

The thing is, I already submitted a one-point perspective drawing of my mahallah's i.e. hostel's middle area and it seems to me the final drawing isn't really good. Therefore, I decided to go and look some of the potential I supposed we could say material for me to draw and while walking around the campus, I saw this.

You know that kinda feeling of seeing something for the first time even though it's been there since forever but you just never notice it?

Okay, I guess this makes the first candidate... 

I'll post some more later on... 

Awesome Weekend!

Well, the previous 3 days was just crazy! With my parents and lil' bro in KL, my big bro and his pre-fiance came down to meet us all at Seri Pacific Hotel. 

On Saturday, their flight arrived at 10 in the morning and I arrived at the hotel like 12 p.m. after meeting up with Kak Ida at KL Sentral. That night, we all went out to have dinner (and LOTS of snacks) literally everywhere! Most of the time me and mum just talked about lots of things - about this semester in Gombak campus, the start of studio  and everything, while my big and lil' bro just went out to other places around KL. 

On Sunday, we went to Times Square, did a little shopping (finally I got myself a backpack! Bought one from Body Glove) and had Papa Johns pizza afterwards. Back in hotel, mum and decided to just chill out there so me and my cousin went to The Mall, right in front of the hotel and checked out some hot sales in Adidas warehouse at second level. I grabbed some socks and a bottle water. I can't spend so much as I know tomorrow I'm gonna spend a lot! Yep! 

Finally, today, me and my parents went to Taman Melawati West Star Art Shop to get all the stuffs I need for my Graphic Communication subject. Colours, designer portfolio bag, drawing protectors, T-squares, sketch books and lots of other things. The thing about this trip is, it's not that I can't just the get the money from them and go myself but there was this once that I went to the shop and saw some girls with their parents, so.... Yeah, kinda lil' jealous over there... 

Around 12 p.m. my parents sent me back to campus and off to the airports after that. 

feeling down while walking back to Mahallah, a friend called me and asked if I want to join her and some other friends to have lunch in the campus. So yeah.. I said to myself that time, that instead of feeling sad and whatnot, I decided to be awesome! hahaha :D.. Yeah, Barney! Right back at cha'!

My room is just bit crazy right now with so many things on the floor, on the bed and of course on the table. Yup1 Let's get some shelves, shall we?

xoxo,

V

New Weapons

...Kidding! As you guys all know, I'm doing this heaven subject, Graphic Communications... Therefore, when my parents came all the way from Sabah due to some reasons previous weekend, I took them to the Neu Weststar Art Shop, located at Jalan Bandar Melawati Square,  Taman Melawati, KL to buy all the stuffs I need for this subject.

Throughout this entry, I'm going to show you guys some stuffs that I bought at the shop and some that I bought earlier so you guys can make this entry as KAEDian Starter Kit list or something...

First, let's go to the paper sections. I bought few sketchbooks... Well, bought like 6 or something as only 18 sheets per sketchbook...

Next, to the 'weapons' section...

Three T-Squares (35cm - easier to use for A4 sized papers, 60cm - for A3 and A2 papers, the 108cm - for drafting tables in the studio later), and Faber-Castell's Adjustable Set Square. I bought the Maped Compass Set, the 360º protractor, drafting brushes, Rotring Squares sets, Rotring French Curves when I was in Sabah.

Next, to the pens and pencils section...

Faber-Castell's Ecco Pigment pens (ranging from 0.1mm to 0.8mm) and Castell 9000 pencils (12 grades, ranging from 8B to HB, F, H and 2H). If you buy these pencils separately, the cheapest would be RM1.0 but if you buy this set at RM12.80, you'll get eraser and sharpener for free. The pronto eraser is awesome especially when you need to erase small area - erasing shield works too so I'm planning to get it later. 

By the way, I grew up with Faber-Castell's pens and pencils so... 

Next, is the best part of all... The colours section... 

In the shop I bought Prismacolor markers in 8 colors as other required colors are not in stock so I have to wait until early next month, Artist's Alpha Water Colors - with the brushes and palettes, and Faber-Castell's Watercolour Pencils. I bought Faber-Castell's Colour pens yesterday at Dar Al Kutub in Azman Hashim Building and as for the 20 Stabilo Pigment pens, I have them since school and just replace those that already ran out of ink with the new ones as they can be bought separately... These pens are awesome especially during the brainstorming sessions... 

and... Not forgetting this one... 

Poster colours... 

I guess that's all for now... I did bought some other stuffs but I'm going to post them later... 

Signing out, 

E

Do I Really Want to Go For It?

Big question. Do I really want to be an architect?

Should I just proceed to Applied Arts and Design Department instead?

NO!

I want this so bad I can't even sleep at night, thinking of what buildings I'm going to work on later. It may be in next 5 years, maybe in 7 years... But right now, all I need is to focus on what in front of me right now, and really strive for the best. 

Surrounding. I'm tutoring 2 people for my Mathematics class. This given me much more opportunities on learning about people's character. Their needs and interest. I don't really give a damn about this before but I need to change my mentality on this certain topic. Because I'm sure one of the best quality of an architect should have is excellent social skill. 

So, how do I fight negativity? Less motivation? Unwilling to work hard on certain subjects? Time management? 

Needless to say, we all have the same issues. We all are university students. Therefore,  it goes without saying we have problems in these things. 

For me, one thing remains. My goal. My target to be in Architecture Department next semester. I have to remember that it is not a given opportunity by the members of the faculty unless I appealed to them with high scores in my bridging subjects. 

Simple as that. If I get lower than 3.0 overall CGPA, don't even think of stepping into the studio. 

This is it. It's up to me. The future is in my hands. Either to hold it tightly, or just hold it with 2 fingers and eventually let it go. 

"And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important." Steve Jobs

Waiting and Jumping

Jumping dolphins! 

Oh, another one... 

Weeeeeee~!!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!

Hell, yes! I am excited! WHY? hehe... Let me tell you the beginning of today's tale first.

It's Friday and you guys know that I don't have any class starting from Friday to Monday, right? yeah, yeah... don't be jealous! Hehe

Other than replenishing my 'How I Met Your Mother Moments with Barney' supply, I pretty much didn't do anything. Right, Barney?

Watching one of my favourite episode, where we learn how to 'plot' a 'graph'...

Oh, complementing this one is Season 4's 22nd episode, 'Right Place, Right Time Episode' where Marshall had addiction with his awesome charts... :D

and this... 

Of course, this...

This, too!

Wait for it, this one...

Not forgetting... 

But of course, you guys know where this leads, right?

Oh, Marshmallow.... 

Wanting to go out but it's okay, I love my room today. =)

I went for Math tutoring at the library from 4 to 6, but decided to continue for another hour after dinner when I got an awesome text from my lil' bro. It seems that I forgot something.

My parents and lil' bro are coming tomorrow!

Which is why I decided to finish the first 2 chapters with the girls as I don't want to be disturbed until Monday. Sorry girls, but this is once-a-year-thing.

When I got back in my cube, I cleaned the room right away. After that, I did the laundry and arranged my stuffs on my shelf and on the desk. When I'm done, I'm feeling tired a bit. But I don't care.

Grab few books, started to read something. Tried to read a thing. I can't focus. So, I online instead.

Surfing and surfing and surfing. Nothing can ease my mind. Unconsciously, I'm planning this and that.

Look at me! I'm just too excited! haha I miss my parents so much! Well, lil' bro is just plus... Kidding! he just finished his PMR so this is kinda a reward for him...

Anyway, it's almost 5 in the morning and their flight will be arriving at 10.

Only now I'm feeling sleepy. :)

Okay, people. Wanna hit the bed and wake up in few hours.


Weeee~!!!

Wonderful Day

Still feeling happy about today's Graphic Communication assignment's presentation. :D

if you guys wanna check out this so-far-the-best-piece-from-me, go here... 

Anyways, I had my lunch for the first time in KAED cafe! I know, right? The dishes were kind of awesome in term of varieties, and being cheap is definitely a bonus. 

As usual after lunch, I went to Kulliyyah of Engineering for my Maths class. The class now had moved to Level 4 but with sufficient seats compare to Level 3's classroom. 

After the class, I went back to my cube to get enough rest as I slept like 4 in the morning and woke up at 6.30. 

It's almost midnight... Owh, I forgot. Enjoy your weekends, y'all!

GC: Assignment #7

Second assignment for this week was to create pattern, at the same time to show some examples of the usage of colours, to choose either one colour and degrade it into few different tones or choose 2 colours for example blue and yellow and try to have different tones and get mixtures of the two colours i.e. green in the middle of it.

As for me, I chose the first option as I did this exercise before with my serial planes. Wanna check them out? Click here.

Thinking of this pattern, I came out few things that I want to include in this pattern design. So first, I came out with the theme which is graduation. It's graduation week so it's inevitable to see people with robes everywhere. Literally.

Thus, I decided on purple. One, because it's KAED's colour and two, because it's S's favourite colour. Plus, I have 3 extra Buncho poster colours - leftover from my serial planes project, so... 

Then, I started to think which pattern fits the most. I chose IIUM's logo for a start and  I just went on from there.

So, this is it. Might seemed a little bit messy but it's okay as those purple squares represent us, the students.. None of us perfect, so here it goes..

Assignment #7

As you guys see in the picture above, there are 5 tones i.e. I degraded an upgraded (is it the right term..?) by mixing the purple colour with white and black. For purple and white mixtures, I did 3 tones (the ones outside the IIUM logo), as it represent the Architecture students from Year One to Year 3 (Part I - Bachelor of Science in Architecture) and for the purple and black mixtures, I did 2 tones as it represent the Architecture students from Year 4 and Year 5 (Part II - Bachelor of Architecture), and comes the black square in the middle shape like the trencher or in American, mortarboard or simply the graduation hat, representing the graduation or convocation itself. 

Other elements in the pattern, such as repetition where the squares are repeating, covering 95% of the design, and focus as the pattern is heading towards the same direction.

Took me one whole day to conceptualize the pattern, deciding on the colour and everything and took me the whole night to finish up the colouring process. Well, thanks to the 1cm x 1cm squares... 

I was so excited while presenting this in front of the class as designing pattern is something that I do all the time. Thanks to COLOURlovers.com ...

I think that's all about this assignment. Feel free to drop some comments, kay! 

As for today, we learned about one-perspective drawing and as for the assignment, we are required to find a place and draw the one-perspective view. 

This one is linear-perspective so it's kinda easy to find one but the challenge is, we need to colour it. Hmm...

Still considering what medium I'm going to use this time... Most probably, I'll go with water colours pencils. 

Alright, peeps! It's time for lunch. Au revoir!

E

Not-Wordless Wednesday

I woke up like 6 this morning and went for a walk literally around the campus i.e. no shortcuts. It was great. I feel great. Fresh air in the morning is one of my favourite thing. Though we were walking side by side, me and K didn't talk so much as we kinda retreated to our own thoughts.

I snapped this while catching my breath. Seems familiar to you? This path holds special memory to me.

Guess where is this? Correct answers will get choki-choki sticks from me. =)

Then around 9 in the morning, I went to library level 4 to do some community service - Math tutoring for the first few chapters. FYI, this is just personal tutoring, definitely not under SLEU. I'm not that good to be a qualified tutor... hehe

Had lunch around 1 afternoon and decided to finish my pattern design. Love the turned out. The theme is 'Graduation'. Yeah, thanks to the still ongoing Convest'11. :)

Around 2.30, I went to KAED, Tutorial Room 10 where I had my only second (this is the fifth week, people!) Introduction to Built Environment class. Overall it was fine as we're still in general topics. Lots of global issues were brought in and the class went to discussion-mode like 80% of the the whole time. This happens a lot in merely 8-students class, that's why.

After the class, I went for my dinner alone in Mahallah's cafe and only around 9 p.m., I started colouring my pattern. 

Looking at the half-way coloured paper.... yeah, yeah... I'm coming~

That's all people! 

Skuad Perodua Era

... hit us the IIUM citizens! As usual, they stayed for mere 20 minutes and gave away lots of things.

I got some Mountain Dew drinks and Gardenia's waffles! They also gave away music CDs and some toothpastes and some other stuffs like cosmetics from AVON. Enough with the talking, enjoy the pictures!

Starting of the giving-away-stuffs! People were gathering and participated well in answering the easy questions given out by these guys!

Official Car - Perodua Myvi

I think this guy just got Mawi's CD.

Yes, bro.. Pull out some more! LOL

It was so much fun. Not because of getting the stuffs but more on seeing these kids (kids, huh?) so excited! 

Anyway, I met with K while heading towards Jeremy and we went back to mahallah together. Went to gym right after and took the hellish stairs on the way home... 

Owh, I snapped this before running and leaving K behind. LOL

At 8, I met up with Belle and had our dinner together at the Human Science Cafe. While we were catching up some old stories, 2 other friends came and joined us. It is nice to be with these people cause when we're together, things definitely will just go crazy! We talked, we laughed, shared stories... If it not because of my busy (really?) schedule, I definitely will stick to these people more. hahaha

I hit my cube around 11 and continued with the design intent for my pattern assignment. 

With that, au revoir!

xoxo, 

V