hello.

This week has been extremely hectic. Packed with two tutorials, one quiz, two lab sessions and an assignment, I barely had time to breathe. It's crunch time for end-of-block exams, First Professional exam, Elective Research aaaaaannd Family Health course (presentation and report for the second year that's filled with activities such as urine sampling, feces sampling. yeah. ew.) To make matters worse, we have a mini research for a generic course that's compulsory to graduate. It got overwhelming this week, I must admit there were waterworks on my part. On a less depressing note about school, I got to see a case of Von Hippel Lindau disease (I know I'm not supposed to be excited about someone being sick, but it's a really rare disease.)

I digress. This post isn't about venting, it's about doodles! The first was done this week while killing time in class and the second was my first attempt to use watercolour (since 5 years ago, so don't judge me!)

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In the forrest we will hide, unmarked graves where flowers grow.

Two more weeks till Chinese New Year holidays! Wohoo! Let's hope I survive until then.

Much love, people!

my first IF!

There's this pretty awesome website that throws out a theme each week and people draw, paint, whatever based on their interpretation. Do check it out, many many talented people send in their work. The theme of this week is wilderness, and I thought I'd give it a go. The first thing that came to my mind was getting lost.

wilderness= lost

lost= reading books

Therefore, wilderness= reading books?

That explains my current situation in the world of academia quite aptly.

It's not the best thing ever, but it's okay. It killed my boredom during class for an hour, so it served it's purpose. The trees actually have words, but I think it's too tiny to see ):

liquid.

If I was a robot, I'd be dancing all day.

om nom nom.

I haven't posted a doodle for a really long time. So this is for you, fresh out of the oven!

I was hungry. Need I say more?

During that guy's class, I make puzzles or guess-who-doodles to pass time, like this:

Apparently, the person I suck at doodling is myself. Everyone else got the other guess-who doodles right.

Next week, I shall attempt to recreate Where's Waldo!

I would like to state here that I'm not obsessed with Aztecs as I have been falsely accused. It's just that when I do eventually find something interesting enough, I tend to read up and think about it a lot, and naturally it comes up in conversation and artwork. I did this last week, too bad my scanner sucks and a lot of the soft colours have faded. The real thing is AMAZING, with feathers, shells and pebbles. The Aztecs deserve the Noble Prize in peace and chemistry for finding chocolate!

Headress of Moctezuma II using crayon, pencils and colour pencils.

I've been busy illustrating for little projects like gifts (so many people are December babies!), t-shirts, canvas bags and button badges. The amount of support from friends and family over the imadethis! project has been terrific, and I am truly grateful. Thank you for planting the idea in my head, convincing me to do it and believing that I CAN actually do it. I'm meeting manufacturers and printers in January after my Cardiovascular and Respiratory System block exams. I'm hoping to maintain a B at least, as a yardstick to whether or not I pass my First Final Professional Exam *insert nervous nail biting here* (It's this big exam after you finish your preclinical years, to determine whether you get to move on to the clinical years) and more importantly, if I get to go to Uganda!

Much love.

Tuesdays are just as bad as Mondays

Sometimes I try so hard to focus in class...

... but it just doesn't work

until...

...I get my (almost) daily cup box of jo!

hello new week.

How my weekend was spent:

1) catching up with my lovely family and friends

2) lying in bed for hours reading about the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas

3) making mashed potatoes and other gastronomical delights

4) watching a ridiculous amount of Family Guy

How my weekend wasn't spent:

1) studying anything related to medicine

2) being productive

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

C:

pharmacology blues

Most of my detailed doodles can only be done during the worst scenarios; being stuck in class.

Need I say more?

down Grizzly, down!

So therapeutic.

I've been posting a lot of cutesy stuff, so now it's time to show the things I doodle when not everything is going fine and dandy.

There have been times when I was younger where I get so frustrated to the point where words fail me and hot tears of anger come streaming down. When I was around 16, my aunt gave me my first sketchbook after one of those episodes and told me to just draw everything I feel out.

selamat harijadi!

One of my favourite person turns twenty today. She's superfantasticabsolutelymagic in so many ways. She's so awesome, she deserves TWO cupcakes!

Happy 20th Birthday Dinah!

Much love!

portions of foxes

Early mornin' doodle

I woke up this morning and had a fox in mind. This is only my second attempt to use photoshop for colour editing, but hopefully practice will make perfect. I spent around 3 hours on it, not a wise decision when I have exams the next day. The IMADETHIS! team is thinking of putting Mr Renard as a tshirt print.

Mr. Renard

C:

Miss Lady and Mister Gentleman are in love.

I finally learnt how to use photoshop, thanks to my good friend CTK! Yay for her and her photoshop abilities! I haven't learnt how to vectorize yet, just to fill in colours so that doodles like the owl will still have its colour.

stay up late, get up early

One of the very few times I had colour pencils with me while doodling.

It's too bad the brown and purple can't be clearly see.

I've been living the nocturnal life for the past few weeks. My sleep-wake cycle is messed up that by the time morning comes, slumber comes too. The perks of this is that I finally get some quiet time alone and by the time I rest my head, I'm greeted by the chirps of birds and the beautiful morning skyline. It would be perfect if I don't have to get up 2 hours later for class.

Alas, nothing in life is perfect.

forget pie, how about a big slice of doodles!

Boredom kills. To save me from stabbing myself with a pen to end my misery in classes, I doodle. It's on automatic pilot, I see anything capable of being drawn upon, I will draw on it. Sometimes they turn out cute, sometimes they turn out strange, but they do reflect where my mind is at that point.

I don't do it as much now as I used to. Even though it doesn't take long to doodle something funny (subject to opinion), it is pretty distracting. It would be hard to explain to patients why I don't know what's wrong with them because I wasn't fully paying attention to the professors.

The product of trying to recall anatomy lecture.

Scribbled for a t-shirt designing project with two other lovely people.

I just realised I should really get a sketch pad.