{"id":346,"date":"2008-02-17T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/2008\/02\/17\/and-i-feel-so-free-yeah-i-feel-alright\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:44:16","slug":"and-i-feel-so-free-yeah-i-feel-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/and-i-feel-so-free-yeah-i-feel-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"And I feel so free, yeah I feel alright."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week when I was organizing my workspace, I found some of my raggedy old sketchbooks ((Back from when I was a college freshman so hello, that was 20 years ago!<\/span>)) and suddenly got a burst of inspiration to pick up a pencil and draw for no specific reason — not for a job requirement and not for anything other than fun<\/em>. I’ve been trained ((By my OC self. There’s no one else to blame, really.<\/span>)) to sit in front of the computer and work, work, work for so long that I was concerned that I didn’t know how to draw in freewheeling fashion anymore; you know, draw without having to think if it’s “marketable”, “on-strat”, or “what the client wants”. I’m the “client” in this case. My Arn<\/a> ((He’s the other way around, he churns out illustrations like they’re liquid.<\/span>)), the true artist in the household, says that sketching is just like riding a bike ((Yet another activity I haven’t done in years. Let’s see if that metaphor is true… <\/span>)) — once the ability is in you, it’ll always be in you — and that one should never overthink what he or she doodles.
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\nArmed with that thought, I sat down and came up with the following. Don’t ask me why I decided to draw cutesy girls in nippy weather wear, that’s just what came out. Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Swedish pop<\/a>?
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\n\"Cynthia
\n“Jumper Girl”; “Scarfed Sweetie”<\/span>
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\n\"Cynthia
\n“Kitten-Smitten”; “Mittened Miss”<\/span>
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\n\"Cynthia
\n“Bohemian Belle”; “Pleated Posh”<\/span>
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\nAnd because I’m ever the multi-tasker, I just had to slap the illustrations onto some items over at my shop The Paper Basket<\/a> so do feel free to spread the love and purchase a tee or two if you like. \ud83d\ude42
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\n\"Oh!
\nClickety here<\/a>.<\/span>
\n***<\/p>\n

Now to prove that I never really stop working, here’s a real project. Lori of Dessert Comes First<\/a>, one of my favorite food blogs, recently asked me to design headers for her website using photos that she took. The food shots were gorgeous so I made a simple template to allow the images to do the “talking”.
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\n\"Dessert
\nYummy, huh? The fourth one is my favorite – photo and layout-wise.<\/span>
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\nFortunately she liked 5 of the 6 studies I submitted so I suggested that maybe she can ask her programmer to make them all load randomly each time the page refreshes, kind of like what I did for my friend Tippi<\/a>‘s site. I’m happy to see that it’s now being implemented. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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