Crumb Update

Well, boys and girls, if you've been following previous episodes, you know by now that my ankle isn't what it used to be. It has a new, uncalled-for guest:

a tiny talus crumb! or as i like to call him, Crumbberry Finn. Now can be witnessed in a live portrait photo with full color:

Actually the doctor thinks it's quite bad. It's all fun and games till someone loses a foot!
there's even talk of necessary surgery. I know it sounds serious and all, but it also sounds pretty ridiculous. So though it's quite restricting not being able to really walk, I have a hard time taking it too seriously at the moment.

See, most offices in the clinic are shared by a couple of doctors, using it in turns throughout the week. So instead of focusing on my crumby (ha!) predicament, I just think how funny it is that the room next to the orthopedist is shared by both a hand experts, and a breast surgery expert.

I can always trust Barney Stinson to illustrate silly dirty ideas:

(i'm just making a point, HIMYM episodes property of CBS, of course, i don't own this material, etc.)

Prom Night - or - I *heart* my colored pencils

Put on your best face - it's prom season!
Well, there isn't one style to unify all these girls, i just had a lot of fun coloring them with fancy Prismacolor pencils :D

the Jolly 20's

Based on this photo of Binnie Hale and Seymour Beard from 1925, featured in Alan Jenkins' wonderful book "The Twenties" (p.14, published by Book Club Associates in 1974, London), I drew this:


Don't you just love the 20's? :)

"All I say is, taluses is taluses"

So, it turns out a bit of my talus broke off from the bone itself.
My leg started hurting at the ankle whenever i walked, but i never thought a tiny bone crumb could spontaneously detach itself and take a hike on top of the bone (right under my tibia!)
So after an X-ray AND before an MRI scan (such a loud machine! they make it look so much simpler on Grey's Anatomy), I imagined this bone crumb setting out on its own, with a straw hat and a stick with one of them red handkerchiefs at its end. You know, gain independence, see the world, or at least what the tibia has to offer:

Do i smell a fourth-year film? no, it's probably just Osteoporosis.

Pillows Galore!

If you know me up close, you know I have a thing for pillows (and soft, fuzzy things in general :)). And my online nickname "karit ktana" doesn't have anything to do with Japanese weaponry. In Hebrew, it means "small pillow".
For my own private pleasure, and as an inside joke of the family, i draw anthropomorphic pillows.
exhibit A: the name slate we were asked to do in year 1



but being 2D isn't enough for pillows! It does not encompass their whole potential. Thus, i started sculpting pillow figurines out of polymer clay. Here are some latest creations (stationary is placed next to it for scale):



Pillow lady and her pet piggy (yeah we have a thing with piggies too)


and going back to prehistory, their ancient ancestor - the mighty Pillosaurus:




Here displayed are mother Pillosaurus Magnus - and spirited offspring :)

fast forwarding to Victorian times, I'm delighted to present Sir Pillowingtonshireham the First:




A small birthday present for a very blond friend (with the sunny personality to match):



(The white parts are glow-in-the-dark clay, also mixed in with the yellow)

and my largest creation, the first Pillow Pilot (and female, too! check out the silvery ribbon on her pilot hat):

'Threadless' Competition!

Hi everyone,

Threadless.com (the wonderful Tshirt website that sold me pretty much Tshirts for life...) is having a Threadless+Havaianas competition! This time you design not only a Tshirt, but a pair of flip flops to go with it, and the two lucky winners get a buttload of cash $_$

So, I gave it my best shot, and i'd very much appreciate it if you vote for my design (a 5 will do :P),and spread the news around to friends and family!

View this design at: http://threadless.com/submission/265554/Under_the_Palms

Thanks!

A bootilicious sketch-dump

Some curvy ladies from the past year

from the old to the new - this is one of the first sketches I did during first year:

which turned into this, our first character design:


Dec '08




Sometime in semester 2...






and this little one from this month! so there's no voluptuous body to see here, i just wanted to throw it in..

Ye Olde Life Drawinges

Toronto Zoo trip, March '09



Royal Winter Fair, Nov '08



Hand and Feet Drawings, Oct '08