About is Love (大约是爱) Cdrama Review

                I just finished watching a Cdrama also known as: 大約是愛 , Da Yue Shi Ai. I started watching dramas that involves art. I first started watching the Cdrama Art in Love. The story is about college classmates who developed feelings for each other, but were separated along the way, and they crossed paths again in the future. Not that impressed with this drama.

So I decided to try and watch another drama entitled, About is Love. This is about a poor art student, who got involved with a rich guy who runs an Art museum, and who has an OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder with regard to cleanliness.

I really enjoyed the story line the lead actor and actress (Yan Xing who played Wei Qing and Xu Xiao Nuo as Zhou Shi) are really good looking, I also like the supporting role cast. My favorite is the character Fei Fei, and Xiao Ran. 

I also like the message of this Cdrama. That you should put your heart in the artwork that you are doing. Aesthetic beauty is not enough, the emotions of the Artist should also be seen and felt in the portrait or painting. This drama has 30 episodes. If you have not seen this drama I suggest you should. This is for the romantic at heart, and art lovers around. 

Rekindling My Love For Art 🎨

           I started buying art stuff, and my interest in watercolor painting started in 2016. My first watercolor set was Faber-Castell connector paint watercolor. Almost all of my art materials came from that popular art brand, which started in Stein, Germany. They are know for their quality pens, and pencils.

I am in my 5th month of pregnancy, and while I am on-leave fron work (pregnant women during this quarantine period are not advised to go out of the house often, risky to catch covid) I did a vlog of my collections -- my art books, drawing, and sketch book. I noticed I didn't have a watercolor book, so I purchased 3 ebooks (The Art of Creative Watercolor by Danielle Donaldson, Everyday Watercolor by Jenna Rainey, and Your Year in Art Watercolor by Kristin Van Leuven) from an online store. 

I also did a few watercolor swatching, with my two old watercolors, Faber-Castell connector paint, and Zig Kuretake pearlescent watercolor. I posted this on my YouTube channel. I am waiting for my latest watercolor to arrive which is the Simbalion watercolor cake. I bought the 36 colors. I saw a lot of reviews about this watercolor online, and most commented that it is chalky. I even watch a lot of vlogs about this watercolor brand. Well, as a beginner watercolor enthusiast, I think this just suits me. I also like its bright, and pastels colors. Plus, what I learned in the arts. It is not how expensive your instrument is, it is how the musician plays it. For me, its just the same in art, it is the artist that makes the art beautiful. Sure, you will see a difference in the quality of watercolors, but it is the artist who makes the outcome sketch, drawing, or painting impressive. I noticed artists who used cheaper watercolor, and painted something, the outcome is still stunning!  

I also bought a Van Gogh sketchbook, and a few att stuff this week. I am also happy with my new Artis Decor watercolor in 36 shades. I have already swatched it. I love the outcome. Would love to share with you my future artworks. Stay tuned!

(P.S. I also enrolled today in an online watercolor course at Udemy. Will share my artworks with you all soon!) 

My Favorite Pens

  I love to write and draw. This year I purchased a calligraphy pen set, from a local arts and crafts store, and a beautiful glass pen. I believe that each of us has our own favorite writing instrument.

Growing up, I'm not that particular with the pens that I use in school or at home. I often use Panda ballpen because it is available anywhere, and its very cheap. I also tried using Pilot pens, they cost more than Panda ballpen, writes smoothly, but what I don't like about them is when you drop them they blot. I also tried expensive ballpens because my aunt had a few (Cross and Parker pens). Good quality, and it also writes smoothly but because of the metal casing its a bit heavy to hold. Up to now I still use Parker pen. I rarely use Panda ballpen now. For affordable ballpoint pens, I prefer Titus pens. They have this nice neon colors. I like their sky blue colored pen. It also writes smoothly.

When it comes to drawing, I have tried a lot of drawing pens and waterproof pens (Zig, and Faber-Castell). But my most favorite is Uni pens. I just like the simple design of the pen. The outer color of the pen is black. It is also waterproof, and you can erase the pencil markings without worrying if it will smudge (like in my experience using other waterproof pens) because the ink dries fast. I also love the way how it glides smoothly in my mini-Moleskine sketchbook. Even if the ink color is not that dark, it works just fine for me. I recently bought a set of UNI fine liner. The set contains 9 pens in different pen points. The set is a bit expensive but its worth it. For drawing and rendering.

Arts and Other Stuffs, Things I love

   I have been a long-time member of deviantart  (an online site for any forms or art/and photography). 7 years to be exact. I love music and arts. I have a collection of drawing and sketch books, aside from my calligraphy, and hand-lettering books. I bought a glass-pen recently. It is China-made even so its not that bad. I bought it in a local arts & crafts store called The Craft Central. I have tons of art stuffs. Faberr-Castell connector paint, watercolored pencils, and pitt artists pens (Faber-Castell 24 pitt pens that I bought for a thousand bucks). I usually buy Faberr-Castell because even if they're a bit expensive, they're of good quality. For my drawing pens. I also have Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment pen (just tried it), Zig Drawing Pen, and Uni Pin Fine Line pens. Out of all the waterproof and drawing pens that I mentioned I really like the Uni pens. I even ordered a set of drawing pens. I like how they glide smoothly to my Moleskine mini-sketch notebook.

I almost took a Fine-Arts course wayback in college, I already passed the exam in Fine-Arts major in advertising design, but I chose a Science course (pre-med) instead. Still, my love for the arts didn't die. Aside from drawing, I have a few graphic drawings, I also do paper cut and crafts, polymer clay art (I like to do miniature food art, and cutesy stuffs). I already finished my Inkvember dare. The words were given by a Geeks Under Grace member in fb. You can check them out in GUK's fb page and in Artists for Christ, also another fb page group.

I admire local comics artists, namely Harvey Tolibao who owns his own studio and who's working for Marvel, Pol Medina of Pugad Baboy (Pig's Den). My brother likes his work, mostly its about local Filipino modern culture, and politics comics strips with humor added, I also like the works of Ariel Atienza, a Christian Artist who did an amazing Christian comics entitled His Story, his works before were featured in a US based newspaper, he is also one of the founding members of Komikon. Thanks to him this local comics convention is huge now. I also like his compiled works "Hand Drawn and Quartered and Other Tell-Tales", another Christian artist that I have known is Rommel Estanislao his strips ('Kokoy Kolokoy') have been appearing in a local newspaper, he is also a good polymer clay artist. He's been a guest in local tv shows featuring his works. I have met them all personally since I've been attending local comics convention before (for about 3 years, started in 2010).

I also admire foreign comics artists, like Grant Snider, Debbie Tung, Marcie Wilson etc. (You can read my previous posts about the foreign comic books that I bought before). I like their works because they show the life of an artist, poet and introvert. They exactly know my world!

If you want to check out my deviantart page. Advance thank you for visiting. Here's the link: My Deviantart Page