Another update:

It has been a very long time since I blogged on this blog. I just decided to start practicing my colouring again anyways since it is the holidays and I'm bored stiff. I actually thought I would not touch Art anymore, but I guess it can be quite fun too. After quitting Art, I definitely feel much much free'er than before. Not only that, I don't know why, but I don't feel pressured whenever I pick up those coloured pencils anymore. Even when I start colouring, I could afford to be more daring (switching between colours and swifter strokes etc.), because I know that this is no longer for o-levels, it's just for recreation. If you ask me personally, Art should not be a subject, but a recreation or leisure. Art with pressure is no longer Art. But sadly, I'm too free, but at the same time lazy to do revision for other subjects =.=" Here's my progress of a practice piece which I'm currently working on. The witch skull was picked up from DeviantArt.

The picture quality is not that good. My colouring in real life looks sharper and the colours are more defined (if that makes any sense?):

Here's another exploration piece about gears, which I'm just practicing to colour since it is most likely to occur in my final product, so might as well. Besides that, the skull in green is done in green ink pen - Uni-ball Signo 0.5 Green pen, which I would say is quite nice to use. Anyways, here are the updates:

Finally completed with the hourglass, took me about one hour just to complete the bottom half! I was actually experimenting with water colour 'wash', but since I did not have any water colour at home, I used poster colour, which is not waterproof. Then, after diluting the paint and putting it on my paper, I realised my paper is not the special paper meant for water-soluble paints, so I practically screwed it up, and I had to hairdry the whole piece every time I finished one coat of paint, which resulted in an irregularly crumpled paper plus WASTED TIME. I'm not sure if you know what kind of 'crumpled' I'm talking about, it's like those times where you get caught in the rain and your notes and paper stuffs get wet, and then eft to dry. There's a picture anyways, but I doubt it's clear enough. Should have just left it as it was I guess...

Here's my 90% completed exploration. The white part, I need to ask my teacher how to colour glass? Which is kind of hard, since its usually transparent, and I don't have a background to show the highlights of the glass. I believe I'm going to have to use water colour, but unfortunately, I don't have any, so I must either wait for Thursday for its completion, or I will just complete it today. Haha, anyways here it is:

Yes, this is another on-to-completion exploration piece. This is my original idea, unless someone out there have already thought of this but I haven't seen it anywhere yet, so, I will just claim it as my idea for the time being. Haha, so if I complete this, I can say I will be proud of it. Anyways, its about an hourglass, with a earth in it, crumbling and disintegrating as it reaches the bottom half of the hourglass. This shows that as time flows, the earth is being destroyed. Get the chim meaning? Another genius idea MUAHAHAHA! Here's my current status (the picture doesn't look as good as the real one =.="):

Finally, I produced yet another exploration piece. Although it turned out to be nice, I don't really take much pride in it because it was a copied idea from DeviantArt.com. I wish I am able to produce nice exploration pieces, WHILE the ideas are all mine. Now, that is what I take pride in. Anyways, just for keeping track of my art, here's the exploration piece (done in 2B pencil - shading):

Yes, I have not been blogging for a long time now. As mentioned before, I am just beginning on my exploration. Oh yeah, by the way, I have been busy with my Visual Art Task (VAT) paper, that's why I have not been blogging regularly. Now, my VAT is almost 95% completed. My exploration now is at a mess, as I'm trying to get fixed on a specific idea, rather than jumping about. Which makes me kind of scared because I scared my final piece will screw up. Aiyah, in conclusion, my idea is not fixed and in a very messy state. I just need to get it fixed soon or I will honestly suffer. Here's my progress of my exploration and an extra publicity poster for my VAT art exhibition:

First stage of 'Research' (purely replicating images by drawing them out and colouring/shading them) is over.

Now, I'm going through a new phase known as the 'Exploration' stage which means right now, I'm experimenting with my art works and decide which styles I like, which art pieces I'm looking for etc. This stage is relatively easy, because no shading and colouring in involved except drawing it out on a piece of paper. This stage is more of the thought process and conveying of ideas and creativity to the examiner. So, this makes it an although easy, but crucial point of ideas development.

Anyways, here's my first exploration piece (theme of marine mutation due to pollution):

Here's the other prep works I've done throughout the first quarter of the year:

Here's the completed version of my crab claw. Almost midnight, which means almost 'tomorrow'. Anyways, have to sleep early, tomorrow got school. Don't ask me why, but my current primary 6 class party, I have a hunch, that it just might not turn out according to plan. Just have that hunch. Pray to god I am wrong, because I want this class party to be fun haha! Yep, here's the picture of my progress, plus I'll try to add the photos of the other 5 of my prep pieces which I mentioned before, but haven't uploaded them onto the blog:

2nd picture of the crab claw I'm currently working on, now 80% completed, an improvement from the 30% completion in the previous post. Either completed by tonight, or tomorrow afternoon. Here's the picture:

Yes, this brings me to another day of my art. I think this blog will be dedicated to the progress of my artworks, unless I have something really interesting to talk about. Mrs. Ong smsed me today saying that I need one more research piece to beef up my research page, so I've decided to do a crab claw, which I think can be completed by tomorrow. I completed around one-third of the crab claw already. Hopefull by the end of today, two-thirds will be done. So the final one-third maybe tomorrow. Either that or I just finish the whole damn crab claw by today. Here's my progress (1/3 crab claw) and my 'art corner':

I just finished my art TA1 and I must say I'm quite proud of my progress. However, there is always room for improvement, and I'm very sure I will improve a lot. Anyways, I had a headache because I was thinking too much about art. Stressing me out very much, but I can't help it. I want to be the best artist amongst my friends! There was a visit from St. Gabriel's to our SJI art studio to study how we manage to obtain 100% distinctions from years in a row. My artwork is mediocre, yet they are damn amazed by me and my friends' artworks. That made me feel proud to be an SJI's art student. But I think I should maintain that reputation, and not let my friends and teachers down! Yep, here's just 2 out of 7 of my prep work: