10 BENEFICIAL THINGS BY IMAGINISM

Here's an article that I have read from Deviantart which I thought was meaningful and serves a good form of reminder for me! It is an article from Imaginism and I hope everyone gets the motivations and reminders as well!

10 Beneficial Things Artists Should Ask Themselves

Here's 10 important questions to ask yourself. Read them constantly as a checklist to make sure your are heading in the right direction and using your artistic potential.

1. What motivates you to create art? Write down your answer and think about how you can use this very important information.

2. What kinds of information have you been putting on the internet? The internet is the new resume. If I can find dumb pics or comments from you then other people can too...

3. Does your art express something interesting? Great art means something to its viewers, not just its creator.

4. Does failure push you forward? How you deal with failure will determine how skillfull you will become.

5. Do you enjoy arguing or flaming people's work? If you are the type of person to hate on others, it will come back to you. Especially with the internet and all the social networking.

6. Do you try out new methods/materials/subjects that might be unconfortable at first? Success is inevitable if you always choose to believe "It is my obligation to try."

7. Do you have a strong purpose or goal? When you have a purpose, you stand by it. Something special happens when you show an undying drive to achieve a goal.

8. Are you open to meeting new people and hearing others opinions with an open mind? Your heart & mind are the gates to success & happiness. Keep them open or miss out on great opportunities.

9. You can either let your environment shape you or choose YOURSELF to be who you want to be. The body & mind can be shaped into almost any type of person you wish to be. You just have to train it through persistence & constant search for knowledge. (*I started to be "good" in art when I decided to be extremely serious about it.) What kind of person do you want to be?

10.Do you constantly think about your goals? The best way to accomplish a goal is to have it on your mind all the time. Keep thinking about it until you obtain your goal. I'm not the first to say this one but I can't emphasize it enough.

I think it's important to mention that I don't believe I been given any natural talent when it comes to art, I believe I'm PERSISTENT. Anyone can be persistent.

Now PUNCH that laziness in the FACE and have a great day!!
Sending positive vibes to you all.

Bobby

FLAGSHIP GENIUS 2011

Shannon was suggesting to visit the Flagship Genius Showcase in one of our school's gallery after class today and guess what? I actually found my field guide being displayed there! I was informed that it will be showcase during the open house but I weren't told where it will be. Simply fated for Shannon to drag me into that gallery? Anyway, here's a brief description of the showcase from NAFA's Website and the details about the opening hours and dates..

"Flagship Genius 2011 - a showcase of works put together by the Departments of 3D
Design, Arts Management & Education, Design & Media and Fine Art. Now in
its second outing, the exhibition concept proposes to evaluate the various
practices by a spectrum of NAFA’s multi-disciplinary offerings. Works include
straightforward objects such as prints, paintings and sculpture, animation reels
and other digital media works; but also more reflective concepts such as models,
renderings and design graphics. Flagship Genius makes reference to the solid
foundational training of NAFA’s curriculum, and gathers the core of NAFA’s
contemporary artistic production. "

Dates : 14 January - 26 January 2011
Time : 11am - 7pm Closed on Mondays
Venue : Lim Hak Tai Gallery
NAFA Campus 1
80 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189655
Enquiries : artgalleries@nafa.edu.sg
Admission : Free Admission

ILLUSATRATION - YITING'S FIRST BIRTHDAY (B&W)

8 January 2011 / Pencil

Last December 11, we celebrated a little girl's first birthday at her cosy home! Her parents invited the almighty characters from Sesame Street specially for her Birthday! haha!

Here's some pictures that I took at the party, I suggested all the characters to be 1:1 size deco to mimic the real life characters. Well, that's the best I could do to deco the house with painted characters and cut out party hats all handmade with help from the family, rather than to invite the real characters! At least everyone enjoyed the party! Yay~

P.S.: That's the little birthday girl in the Elmo t-shirt!

AMERICAN TOURISTER ADS

This advertisement has been on the television for quite some weeks and I was kinda attracted to the catchy tune they have! I'm wondering where can I find that background music in full.. Hmmmm... Ideas anyone?

GROW OLD WITH YOU - ADAM SANDLER

Saw one of my friends sharing this interesting video on Facebook!
Grow Old With You - Adam Sandler , The Wedding Singer OST
Created by http://www.goodmole.com.

PAN'S LABYRINTH - THE CHILD EATER

I was researching about Spiderwick earlier on Tuesday, in school, and found out about Pan's Labyrinth, where I came to know about this creature or monster you would call it, that have eyes on his palms! I find it rather amusing actually but I have to say it's an interesting character!

IF YOU LOOK, YOU'LL FIND - A FIELD GUIDE

My semester project has finally started and here's the title:
‘URBAN HUNTER’ (If You Look, You’ll Find)

THE TASK:
To begin with, look around you – the next time you get out of your residence, your comfort zone or ‘hermitat’ (habitat) - IF YOU LOOK, YOU’LL FIND amongst you: the environment filled with man-made needs and provisions. The street, the trees, the car-parks, the bus shelter, the poster besides the bus stops, the lamp post, the banners hanging down from the lamp post, the banners hanging across the road, attempted graffiti left to weather conditions, the shops, their identity, the window display, the business, their products, the brands; and there’s the air we breathe in, the water we use and drink, the food we consume… but wait – there’s more to life than all these. What about urbanization in Singapore? What is the Singapore culture? They speak heaps, and we want you to get involved by designing its cultural and heritage landscape.

To begin, you will need to give some thoughts and ideas on our urban city to get a sense of direction. It’s your Assessment Project. Assume that a Client hands you this Project costing close to a million dollars to ensure that their Project works with the help of your creativity.

As a ‘Urban Hunter’, you must select ONE of the following topics:
1. Architectural
2. Environmental
3. Cultural


The week started well.. I started brainstorming with my classmates and we found quite a handful of issues regarding Architectural, Environmental and Cultural in Singapore. Having brainstormed about places related to Landscape Architecture, I've chosen Singapore Botanic Garden as my site and I had to come up with a design brief..


Children of today's context have buried their curiosity of the world around them into the hearts of advanced technology. They got themselves in contact with computer games at a very young age, getting younger in years to come, and lost total interest in the world around them.

Parents who have realised this fact will try to get their kids involved in educational trips like farm visits or tours, which tends to cost for hiring a professional tour guide to explain nature and bring the children around. In the other hand, the trip usually last for only one to two hours. Children may or may not take the information home with them during these trips and individual interactions for group trips might not be possible. Some schools have worksheets for the children to work on during these trips, to ensure that they have gained these knowledge, but it usually turn out to spoil the mood of the children.


I have a few proposals in mind but mainly revolving around the idea of a Singapore Botanic Garden Field Guide which allow children and parents to go down to SBG at their own free time, spending not only family time but also educational time together. The idea was either, to do an illustrated compilation of the plants, their parts and where to find them with a little animal mascot showing around, OR a story of a child meeting an animal in Botanic Garden one day and showing him/her around the place, OR make Botanic Garden into a fantasy world which MIGHT NOT exist but make the informations delivered in the story..

Well.. I believe, as a kid, everyone will choose the Fantasy World and I believe it will catch the most attention as compared to the rest. BUT! That will mean that I will need tons of informations and know Botanic Garden inside out within a short time frame. Good Luck to me then! haha..


References from Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantasical World Around You:









I was quite relieved actually that I can explain and know my project inside out, having no doubts about my concept (which so far has no doubts at all). I'm starting to love my current project..