First cards for the year

A couple of cards I made to be sent off to my aunties overseas.

More hand-made papery goods along the way.

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

"He's too buff, he's too spindly, he's too hard to draw..."

I actually had a different post in mind for today... but I'm just in the mood to do this one after a Disney-ful day. I am sooooooooo grateful that my friends over at BIG PICTURE STUFF shared this discovery with me (knowing my love, yes, LOVE for Aladdin).

The Making of 'Aladdin': A Whole New World was a TV- documentary released in 1992 (boy does that sounds like a long time ago). Please, just watch it...you can atleast get an understanding of today's title. I wish this doco was included on the special features of the DVD. If by any big-humungo-chance the person who uploaded these videos is reading this right now, I just want to THANKYOU TIMES INFINITY!!!!!!!! 

The behind the scenes with all the animators, the voices, the magical music team is pure brilliance :)

Learning that this movie was almost not going to be make it is quite insane... a childhood without it is 'unthinkable'!

I'm hoping as I type all this that I don't sound too crazy. Oh well. Everyone's got some sort of thing they can go on and on and on about right? Well..this is my thing (and held back just a notch). 

On to another one of my all time Top 3 favourites. Beauty and the Beast.

So I have the VHS but it's sadly missing it's cover :( It's been coverless ever since I was a kid actually... I remember attempting to draw one with Belle in that dress.

Fast forward several years  I've been wanting to draw the Beast. I was intimidated by him (well not by him...but drawing him). Since uni's just around the riverbend corner, I wanted to accomplish some sort of a drawing before getting back into the 'uni routine'. So...a couple of days ago I just did it. 

No better way to practise sketching.

Yes someone's missing from the picture (as you'll see at the end) but I think I'll save her for later on... humans are too hard to draw. (Another little thing to be accomplished.)

I was really anxious about drawing the eyes (can you spy a little eye in the second photo?) so I  had to do a test one before I added them to the face. Haha.  Eyes for me, they kind of seem like one of the most important 'elements', even if you do the rest of the body or the face nicely... if you screw up the eyes everything in the drawing comes down a level. 
(Arggggggghhh that BIG crease on the left bugs me quite a bit, that's the problem with me... I always manage to get a crease/s  whether I'm reading, writing or drawing and I hate it. Creases just sit there idly, teasing you while you look at them helplessly.)

Anyway...how does he look?

Oh another thing about eyes... I'm in awe of how animators can draw so much expression in them and so accurately too. How do they do that?

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

The making of...

The second birthday card of the year for V & V.

If these two girls looked into the Magic Mirror, he'd tell them they're the fairest of them all.

Take a look at this snippet from their invitation and
vous serez d'accord avec moi (=you will agree with me).

Instead of receiving gifts this year we request you use the money that you would have otherwise spent on our presents to help us raise $1425 for a well to make a difference in our world!!!

Need I say more?
 
They're pretty wonderful that way :)

When I discovered this (thanks to like-minded beings out there who also were on the hunt for papery craft), I was soooooooo happy. 3D letters on their own are so nice.
Simple, yet effective :)

LEFT: 'Elvis', RIGHT: 'Batgirl'

I've just realised I failed to take a 'final product' picture, hence the title for today's post:  The making of...

That's all for now. TTFN.

 From: An Ordinary Human Bean

Cartes noël

Here are my Christmas cards.

I've made 18 (and still counting) of these so far.

At the moment my desk is like some conveyor belt churning out a mass of cards.

Here's a look at my 'production line'.

Merry Christmas to all my fellow beans :)

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

Even more cards

Happy Birthday to my sister :)

My attempt at making Red Velvet Cupcakes

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Cartes merci

 Before

After



You've probably figured out by now that 'cartes merci'=thankyou cards.

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Another card

This was specially made for my friend's 18th:

It was preeeetty long-wasn't able to get a picutre of the 'pull-out card' in its entirety.

As for the state of my room, it was exam time. Full stop ( or if you like, period).

From: An Ordinary Human Bean



CARDS CARDS CARDS

So I decided a few minutes ago to post pics of the cards I've made during the year.

Let's say two cards/day?

So here's la première carte:

Joyeuses pâques!

La deuxième carte:

Bonne anniversaire!

From: An Ordinary Human Bean