Hello Productivity!: Sleepless

"Sleepless" Graphite + Watercolor on Watercolor paper. 12" x 12"  (c) Trisha Salonga

I was practicing for my upcoming thesis that is why I decided to make one yesterday. Okay, every element in this drawing has meaning. I shall explain it here:

• Circle - We're running in circles. Endless cycle. Of life. Your decision making. Consistent in inconsistency.
• Small branches - Representation of the good memories, the girl is stuck in the situation, she cannot move forward.
• Owl - Night. Night is my partner. Night is my witness. 
• Blue background - I'm feeling blue. Also, mid-darkness.
• Colorless hair - Hair is a sign of vanity. I took away the vanity from this girl. Being selfless and giving.
• Green eyes - Envy. Green with envy, but pretending not to care.
• Tears on the right eye - Sadness. She's sad but as much as possible she's trying not to show it to people.
• Expressionless Face - Immunity.

So, hahaha, instead of posting a status update in Facebook, I channel my emotions by creating something new or being productive. The current state that I'm in--inspired me to do this.

That's the weird thing about me, whenever I get sad/mad I produce good art. I don't know why.

I hope you like it :)

Hello Productivity!: Zombified Jimi Hendrix!

Adobe Illustrator CS5 + PS (c) Salonga

Zombified Jimi Hendrix! I made this through Illustrator, my reference was his iconic black and white picture. I'm planning to make Zombified The Beatles next :) This is the skull progress.

Hope you like it :)

Flashing Lights

My brother and I got nothing to do, and decided to take photos of ourselves. 

Hello Productivity!: Isometric Trisha

Adobe CS5 Illustrator (c) T.Salonga

I made this for our college's event poster, I made 2 options one is 8 Bit (the one I posted earlier) and this. And I made this--manually (ish) I used pentool, I didn't use the 3D effect for shapes/text.  I wanted to choose the proper colors for the shadows. Like this:

I had to align them properly--Trial and error again. Hahah, it was fun doing it though:) Hope you like this one.

Hello Productivity!: 8 Bit

Adobe CS5 Illustrator (C) Trisha Salonga

This is my first attempt to pixel art. I enjoyed it very much becos I have to be careful with the simple details. Actually, the other version of this is for CFAD UST's org bazaar that happened just this week, I hope I can get the large tarp. HAHA