Topsy-turvy went this weekend… As did this year in general.
There were good things, bad things and ugly things… Lessons were learned, things were drawn and breads were baked. Or some variation of the three. At least I was more organized! Speaking of Bullet Journals, here’s my setup for 2018:
Oh no, was I too busy drawing wonky letters to make my final Project Boonka video? Continue reading “2017 Conclusions”
This has been a surprisingly uneventful week. One would think that with my husband gone for a whole 5 days I’d get up to all sorts of mischief like burning more pans, losing all the remotes or flooding the bathroom, but the worst I did was teach Eli how to blow a whistle. I even managed to keep the house clean till his arrival (he’s been home for one day and the living room already looks like we were attacked by marker shooting bandits).
I even recorded and edited episode 6 of Project Boonka a freaking day in advance!
In this week’s video I stress about deadlines after a worrying realization… Kinda hard to write these video introductions without giving the contents away, because since I’ve stopped adding Dish, who’d want to see this anyway? Passive-aggressive teasers aside, I was almost good this week, and I’m trying a new way of recording my voice-over (inspired by a conversation I had with Fluffie earlier) so give me all the feedbacks!
Speaking of sudden things, Eli has developed a taste for fart jokes. There’s so much material there, I’m feverishly writing things down hoping I’ll eventually draw diary-comics out of them, but between Inktobering and Boonka-ing I doubt it’ll happen any time soon. Our poor cats though! I don’t think they enjoy our noisy farts and fart sounds as much as we do (and I’ll happily fart my glasses off as long as it makes Eli giggle) and that might be part of the reason Dish doesn’t hang out with me as much any more 😦
Do your pets react to farts? Anyone willing to make bets on how far I actually get with Boonka by December 31st? Know any good fart jokes?
Everyone on Instagram seems to be excited about October – it’s either #Inktober or Halloween or both. Inked witches, travellers, robots and monsters galloping around, while I’m sitting here, in the middle of Sukkot, sick and bummed out about silly long kindergarten holidays. Once I had that taste of freedom it’s hard to go back to 24/7 home baby fun…
Inktober is going pretty well – one week down, three and a half to go. So far I’ve smudged the ink once, ruined only two drawings by not stopping in time (although for one of them I took a photo before the inevitable happened, so you’ll never know!) and tried one new technique.
And here’s this week Project Boonka video:
How’s your week going? Anyone going to dress up for Halloween?
Hello, Dearest Blog Reader!
Between being sick, adjusting to a new schedule, battling my child’s horrible sleeping habits and drawing my wrists off, life seemed way too simple and quiet, so I decided to spice things up a bit. Behold, my first Project “Boonka” Video thing! (Because you know me, always up for more motivational humiliation!)
While I cover my reasons for putting my animation struggles into video form in the.. erm.. video, I also wanted to put my art frustrations into words for today’s blog post. Continue reading “Project “Boonka”: Witness my Frustrations in Animation”
Soooooo, there’s been a rather big change in my life lately – my baby started kindergarten. She’s still getting used to the place and the people, and I’m adjusting as well, but all in all it hasn’t been as scary and stressful as I feared… yet.
With a whopping 5.5 hours all to myself daily there’s a whole lot I can get done, and hopefully the results will soon show in this blog!
(I’ve been meaning to do this comic strip for a few months now, but I only got around to finishing it now, so there we have it. This is exactly how I first heard her call me “mama” properly, and if it doesn’t quite make sense to you, then this post will clear things up a bit. )
Whenever there’s a new topic for the RubberOnion’s animation battle, I usually spend a few days brainstorming and trying to come up with something somewhat original. What defines a “lame” theme park?
Continue reading “Lame Theme Park: July’s Rubber Onion Battle”
I’m sorry about the title, my poor overheated brain is finding it pretty funny for some reason. And we just ran out of watermelon >.<
It is still very very very very hot. The AC isn’t managing very well in the living room, the fan does little but create soothing background noise in my “office” and Eli’s hair needed cutting but I didn’t risk taking her to my hairdresser just yet.
So with the Bad Magic exercise out of the way I finally have time to work on Boonka.
In my head, most of the backgrounds are done in watercolour. I’ve kind of maybe done it once before, and I liked the general idea of that look, as far as I can remember… You see where I’m going with this, don’t you? Once again, I have no idea what I’m doing.
I decided to test my ideas by drawing the simpliest background I have: plain blue skies. When in doubt, look at pictures… and an hour later I found myself with 14 pinterest tabs open and still no clue whatsoever. Okay, that’s cool, I’ll just start putting water and paint onto the paper, no biggie.
I do enjoy putting paint onto paper. I kind of wish I didn’t spill the water all over my desk though, but I was fortunate enough to not get any liquids on my tablet, keyboard or phone, and a short wash might even be a good thing for all these pens and pencils anyway.
I’ve scanned my experiments and played around in photoshop, and I think I have a better idea now. At least now I feel a little more confident with the direction I should be moving in. And I know for a fact that I should stop twiddling about with the backgrounds and get onto fixing my animatic first. So there’s that!
Rediskot 