Rounding Up my 2017 with a Touch of Photoshop
2017 has been a playful year for me as I started to explore the artistic side of myself, trying to manipulate images with my mediocre photoshop skills which would perhaps be seen as a joke to those experts out there.
I probably found my source of inspiration and editing style leaning towards gamification and escapism. The Japanese anime "One Piece" would be my escapism while unrealistic landscapes and predicaments were influenced by the gamification concept. Somehow my overly wild escapism concept, together my editing got a little off the grid for some to tolerate, as seen in 2 to 3 of the following images below. Still images got a bit lifeless and I played around with gifs during the last few months in order to input some life/motions into them. If only I could handle motion graphics/animations and have more than 24 hours a day, I would definitely create more digital artworks for fun. Each edit took me an hour or more to complete.
Anyway I finally completed my part time studies of 2 years duration, in order to attain a degree while working. Loving the sense of freedom and the thought of not having to flip through notes while camping at Starbucks any longer. I even attended a hobbyist short course in jewellery fabrication as well, that lasted about 3-4 months and I have yet to blog about.
Spending my Christmas volunteering and performing a small role as a delivery boy / thief in a church related performance was indeed thrilling, fun and satisfying. The play was about imparting good values to the audience and thankfully I need not speak much since the play was in mandarin.
I did not travel overseas this year but had a staycay with mum at Sentosa. I spent my New Year's Eve with the same group of bffs as during pre-Christmas. Although they were always annoyingly late for meet-ups, we had fun and took plenty of wefies with filters. Thank you to my different group of friends whom I still continued to hang out with, be it a meal or catching up throughout 2017.
Bye bye 2017 and hopefully 2018 would be more fulfilling and inspirational!
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"Thousand Sunny" from One Piece anime spotted |
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World in Flames |
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Static Storm |
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(no edits, mundane right?) |
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(no edits, mundane right?) |
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First Gif created of candle illumination. |
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Pokemon Suicune |
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Mystical skies |
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Dystopia Escape |
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Rune Stones and Blood Moon |
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Inspired by Hidan of Akatsuki in Naruto's episodes |
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The "plotagraph" of the swirling aurora animation could be found on my instagram feed. |
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Newby Advert Calendar |
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Beer running wild at Turf City |
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