sketches and irony

last weekend, i was practicing with my electronic drawing tablet, a christmas present from mimi of sleepless in kl (thanks ate mi!!!). i'm still learning to get the hang of it, and in the end, somehow i finished some illustrations of pink and blue birds. maybe i'm color-blind, but when it comes to coloring my subjects, i have no boundaries between reality and make-believe.

i stopped tinkering with the drawing tablet when my right hand got too cold and stiff to make more lines. but that didn't stop me from doodling yet, as i was still quite in creative mode. with colored pencils i sketched myself from my pictures and i'm pleased with the girly drawings i finished. i took a picture of it, cropped and posterized it with picnik, and i'm loving the result!

on an ironic note, i saw on the news how one teenage girl in the UK suffered burns in her body after spending a wee bit more time with the sunbed, because she wasn't tanned enough after the first try. i was surprised the extent to which some people do just to get a tan. in the philippines, so many women (and some men) wants to be "white". tv commercials are flooded with whitening products, city centres are flanked with billboards of more whitening products from lotions, to soaps to creams to pills, to the astonishment of my husband when we were there. where's the world going to? i was working last week in the charity shop, when a woman asked me where i'm from. when i told her i'm from the philippines, she told me she likes my color very much. hmmm. not that i tried the whitening products myself (i have strong warnings from kj), but i tried to avoid the sun at all cost then, i didn't want to be darker. only to find out how people on this other side of the world crave for it. unbelievable. help me understand.

anyways, we're almost at the end of the birthday giveaway. if you have joined but couldn't see your name on my sidebar, do let me know before the deadline so i can include you in the random generator machine. if you'd like to support my shop, i would be really really happy, plus you'd get a chance to win some paypal happiness at the same time.

thank you soooooo much. for everything. {{{loves and huggles}}}