strange feeling

We just worked through the whole of our Christmas holiday! Last week we worked on fai chuns and a book.. drawing furiously every day late into the night (early into the morning). It was crazy!!!!

A few things were going on at the same time:

-drawing furiously
-stressed out by deadlines
-racking my brain for ideas
-crazy photoshopping
-warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment
-having lots of ideas
-being in the zone
-secretly complimenting myself on my drawings

So the strange feeling that I am trying to describe is: working really hard but at the same time feeling like it is not really work. (?)

We are 4!!

All Things Bright and Beautiful 四歲啦！4歲的一些想法：

1) 4 年中，有咩事件係最印象深刻？


Jo: 很多很澎拜的東西：見到印好的貨，一箱箱疊到好高，見到好澎拜的人在市集買我們的東西，見到電車上面有我們的畫，見到剛剛買完1000個信封，一下子又無晒。

Li: 有一次去幼稚園教小朋友畫紙屋，那兒的老師叫他們小心，不要弄到衣服，但過了一陣子，他們一個一個在叫，好像病菌傳播一樣，每個都把顏料弄到身上！ 每一次想起都覺得很搞笑。

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2) 眾多作品中，你最喜歡那一個?

Jo: Sunset collection, 因為全部都是我真的在不同地方collect 回來的，每一個我都記得!

  

Li: 喜歡 We are all travellers 動畫，因為會動的畫真的很有趣，而且不是一人能完成的作品，剛好有朋友幫忙錄音、彈吉他、吹口哨才可以完成呢！

https://youtu.be/rT5XBaXgRCg

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3) 黎緊最想做什麼？



Jo: 最想有人每天幫手寄貨和計數。最想一個人在山洞裏畫畫，但都維持到個生意！（妄想）重好想養柴犬！

Li: 想每樣野都做好d （好似無講過野咁）

Back from Taiwan

We love Taiwan style breakfast !!!

design job rates

It's hard to set rates for design jobs. We usually estimate the time and difficulty of the illustration. But I don't think that's enough.

Picture frames

We are having an exhibition in Taiwan this November. We went shopping for picture frames today. But I have a strange hatred for picture frames. If their function is to hold a picture vertically on a wall.... they are doing it in a very inefficient way. I don't see why they have to be so big and heavy. Mankind has been using picture frames before Da Vinci but no one has invented something better? (Blue tack kind of works.) It is hard to explain why I don't like them. But we are still going to use them.

How to mail stuff

I have totally mastered the art of mailing stuff !!!!!! YEAH! (for cheap)

And here are some more rules:
1. Don't go to the courier at lunch time or after 7pm because the guys there will ignore you.
2. The post office is crowded on Mondays. 
3. If you don't seal your air mail package, postage is cheaper. (It's considered printed matter).
4. Don't forget to calculate the weight of your bubble wrap, box, packing paper and tape.
5. Always stock up on stamps! You'll regret it when you run out.
6. Some mail boxes have extra small slots. So beware.
7. Google-map (verb) suspicious addresses (suspiciously wrong) or you'll just have to mail it again when it gets lost.
8. Bring change for the courier but the post office will always have change for your $500 bill.
9. The courier sometimes gives you discounts. Yay yay yay! But the post office won't. (But the post office is losing millions of dollars every year)

How we draw pictures

Pencil sketch

trying out some color

Refining it in illustrator

Testing different markers on different kinds of paper

smooth paper

textured paper

trying different brush strokes

some photoshopping

final picture!! :)