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It's been a loooong while!

I miss life as an artist (art student) T___T

I just read through my blog and realised how much passion I have for drawing.

Well I hope I will slowly pick up drawing again during the semester break.

University life has been a busy but fruitful one! 

I wake up feeling that there's something exciting waiting for me XD.

Anyway, here's an update of what I have been doing these few years.

With the exception of a oil portrait that I plan to finish during my birthday month :D

It's inspired by this Japanese artist called Miho (See below!) 

A side note, hope I can get the painting course next sem!! Let's start off with my family!

The following are just some artsy moments in my life!

Lastly, myself! I drew myself most when I am stressed or feeling emotional.

The oil portrait below was a project I started since June this year.
I really like the idea of combining Chinese Calligraphy and oil painting! Artist Miho uses semi-realistic style to incorporate sensual figures and symbolic subjects like birds, koi fish, flowers frequently found in Chinese Calligraphy Paintings. This is just my observation but it's really interesting to juxtapose the best of the two worlds! I wanted to paint this for myself as a birthday present heeheehee XD

 Thanks for reading!

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Animated Resume

https://youtu.be/vkfnNZGkKmk
I really like this!

Interesting Finds

WOW this guy
https://dribbble.com/rikitanone

fundamentals (too much to read)
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ui/

12 principles of animation
http://markgeyer.com/pres/the-art-of-ui-animations/#/4/4

cool animated articles
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/

Familiarize yourself as much as possible with CSS animations and transitions, SVG, canvas, the web animations API, web audio and video, and even the WAI-ARIA spec. (How does that audio sound when muted?) Sites like MDN make great reference material, while HTML5 Rocks covers many poorly understood APIs. Codrops showcases experimentation, and Kirupa.com covers CSS animation more deeply than anyone else. O’Reilly’s books are the gold standard, but it also helps to follow recognized names working, speaking, and writing in the fields of interaction design and HTML5 game development like Val Head, Pasquale D’Silva, Jesse Freeman, Seb Lee-Delisle, and even yours truly.

Many developers and designers have also been giving hooks for animation events to frameworks like Angular.js and building animation-capable prototyping tools like Framer. Libraries like D3 can take the mystery out of generating SVG charts and their transitions. For page-based animations, several companies offer visual user interfaces that ease timeline manipulation, from Sencha’s Animator to Adobe’s Edge Animate to Google’s free (albeit ad-oriented) Web Designer.