Archive for April, 2008

Printers Ornaments
April 30, 2008

After reading an entry at BibliOdyssey, I decided to try doing a Printers’ Ornament.
Printers’ ornaments are decorative motifs used to fill in page space, signify the end of a chapter or the end of a book and generally add an aesthetic quality to the printed page. They have been around since moveable type printing commenced [...]

Beginning!
April 17, 2008

Here are some patterns that I drew out, for my own reference when I do my coursework, because sometimes I forget what patterns I’ve drawn before.

All these were done with pen on paper, but I’m still rather confused about what medium I’m supposed to do my coursework in.
All the same, I’m excited that we’re going [...]

Diary and Doodles
April 12, 2008

I drew these ugly monsters with zig markers the other day during Chemistry lesson:

These monsters are like me, they’re allergic to Chemistry too. Can you see the green rash on the giraffe guy? The purple monster is puking out blue fur. And the small brown dude vomitted all that yellow stuff you see in the [...]

Overdue
April 9, 2008

Here’s something I did in FEBRUARY. It was Chinese new year and being in the festive mood, I drew the overlapping patterns from my angbaos. I did these even though I was celebrating CNY in Malaysia! Sadly, the festive mood died out shortly after [within a day], which explains why my carp is incomplete

Here’s what [...]