Archive for January, 2009

Tachikoma, AKA Ghost in the Shell Robots

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I have slowly been moving all of my things back into my room after I had to empty it for painting and installing a new carpet. The other day I placed all (or at least, most of) my figurines onto my window sill.

The light was lovely, so I decided to take photographs, and it turns out that my favorites are the ones I took of my little Tachikoma trio! I think they are so visually interesting. They were also my favorite part of the whole Ghost in the Shell anime. So cute!

Anyway, here are the rest of the photos! They are Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial licensed by the way.

Green Robot Close-Up.

Green Robot Close-Up.

Blue Robot Close-Up.

Blue Robot Close-Up.

Blue Robot Close-Up.

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Inspiration: Rubik’s Cubes

Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Photo by Great Beyond

Photo by Great Beyond

Recently I discovered that one of my good friends has learned to solve Rubik’s cubes. Now I have been making attempts to learn it myself via youtube tutorials… it’s not as hard as I thought it would be as there are specific functions you can learn and repeat to get consistant results. I can solve 2/3rds of it now on my own without looking at any references, but after that my memory gets fuzzy. I’ll nail it soon, mark my words!

After pouring over one for so long, I began to notice and appreciate the bold colours and patterns and was inspired to do an illustration based on it.

Clarity

This is my first work of the new year! ;D

I’m calling it ‘Clarity’ because of the feeling you get when you finally solve a Rubik’s Cube. So zen!

You will probably see Rubik’s Cubes pop up in my work later as well.

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Gift Wrapping and Card Making

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Photo of my gift wrapping and card.

Yesterday, my cell phone fell out of my pocket when I was getting on the bus! Luckily, a nice person picked it up and called the last number I had dialed; my boyfriend’s number. Luckily again, I had just arrived there at his place. If they hadn’t called, I doubt I would have noticed my phone had gone missing until the end of the day. (Hee hee.)

To thank them I wrapped them a small present and made them a Thank You card. For the present, I gave them pieces of chocolate from Christmas (which is good, but I’ve been having too much of it). I used some tissue paper and wrapping paper, bunching it up at the top and tying a ribbon. I usually default to this style if possible because my box-wrapping skills are … not quite up to par. For the card, I used some plain paper, newspaper, black pen, scissors and white glue. It is pretty simple, but I think it looks great! Next time I will try to locate my rubber cement because the white glue made the paper a little wrinkly.

Close up on the bow!

Front of the card.

The back of the card.

However, it turns out I could not give it to them directly because they decided to drop my phone off at a corner store that is mutually close to our homes, so I left my present there when I picked up my phone. I hope they return there soon so they can get it! If not, I guess the corner store folk will get to eat it. (And yes, I wrote a nut allergy warning inside the card. ;D )

This small project was partially inspired by Creature Comforts, and their Freebies and Tutorials section which has a selection of DIY/printable projects. While I didn’t use any of their templates for this, I just may in the future. I also want to try their ideas of wrapping soap and chocolate bars with your own wrapping for gifts. Yay!

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