three little cameras

Goodbye blogger!

2010-04-19T13:27:00.002+02:00

Three little cameras have moved to asjaboros.com.

Apartment renovations, Spring cleaning and many sleepless nights

2010-04-11T16:36:00.003+02:00

Dear blog,
Sorry I've been neglecting you in lately, I've been very busy. Not only I have been helping my Mom with her apartment renovations that have been going on all week (changing windows, tearing down a wall and all kinds of similar "fun" work)but I also had some Spring cleaning to do in my own place. Things like putting in new air-condition system, dealing with flood in my bathroom and trying to fix super-slow internet connection. I've been also working late nights on some commissions and missing sleep.
BUT, dear blog, I also have some good news!I've already started working on a new project (in between renovations, cleaning, working and daydreaming of a new Canon DSLR and fancy lenses)that makes me happy and excited. For now, I'll keep it a secret but I promise, you like it :-)
Yours truly,
Asja

P.S.:
I hope you like these few doodles from my "archives":

Happy Easter!

2010-04-03T14:32:00.002+02:00

And special thank you to Mónica and Janine for giving me another Sunshine Award!I put it on my right sidebar! Thank you ladies!

Blogaversary print giveaway winner

2010-03-30T13:54:00.003+02:00

Exactly 2 years ago I started three little cameras and been having fun with it ever since!
Thank you for visiting , following and kindly commenting!

On the other hand, Random.org has spoken and the prints winner is comment #2, ArtSparker. Please e-mail me on forest.underground@yahoo.com with your address so I can mail them to you!

Art of setting goals

2010-03-26T16:36:00.004+01:00

In lately it's been very hard for me to find motivation to draw (at least when it comes to my personal art). I don't lack in ideas but it's becoming very hard for me to put energy into sketching. As soon as I pick up a pen I start thinking what's the point, why sketch when I can listen to the radio/read blogs/ stare at the blank wall/drink tea/frolic on a flowery meadow along with pink Easter bunnies/etc (okay, I don't actually frolic on a meadow with pink bunnies but you get the point).

So I decided I need to set a goal, to start a new personal art project that would be challenging enough to keep me motivated. Having a decent challenge makes me very eager to produce.

My first though was: I'll start an art journal! But that immediately made me remember dozens and dozens of journals (both art and written ones) that I started during my life and quit after three days or so. I could literally fill an entire room with dismissed notebooks and aspiring art journals. So, no, I know myself too well to start a journal just to quit the next week.

My second idea was to start a graphic novel! That would certainly be challenging enough especially since I'm quite inexperienced in storytelling. But I asked myself do I seriously want to commit my time and lots of energy intro writing and illustrating a graphic novel? No, not really, such ambitious project would most probably take all of my free time and leave me very frustrated yet too stubborn to abandon it until it's finished.

Then I thought I should perhaps create an e-zine or a new blog or re-launch my website or open an online art gallery or go back to school or move to Japan or become an astronaut or a circus acrobat maybe...my imagination has gone wild after that :)

Anyway, my new goal for the next few days will be to find a new goal that will satisfy me, challenge me and motivate me to draw again :) Wish me luck :)

Blogaversary print giveaway

2010-03-25T16:26:00.003+01:00

On 30th March three little cameras are celebrating their second birthday aka their second blogaversary :) so I'm having a little print giveaway. If you'd like to get these two 8x11 inch prints just leave any comment under this post until Tuesday (March 30th) and I'll randomly choose a comment to win the prints!
Good luck!

6 things about me

2010-03-22T17:06:00.004+01:00

A couple of days ago Maja whose blog Kreativni nered (which in Croatian means creative mess) is a real treasure chest of creativity and inspiration and source of many useful tutorials that she kindly shares with us, asked me to join in the game "6 things about me". The point of the game is, obviously to share six things about yourself, add some pictures and tag six other bloggers to do the same.
So, here are six things about yours truly ...

1. Once I made an animation on a role of toilet paper, honestly I have no idea what was I thinking :)
But I uploaded it so you can see it in all its trashy, lo-fi glory. (Yeah, that's the sound of flushing water in the end.)

2.I really love fruit, all kinds of it except maybe fresh pineapple because it makes my tongue itch, haha. My favorite fruits are probably cherries and apricots.

3.I'm also very fond of chocolate :)

4.When I was a kid I didn't like my name, Asja and I was certain that when I grow up I'll change it. But now I'm pretty used to it, and like it, so no name change for me.

5.When I was younger I believed that only "true" works of art are those that have some serious, profound message, that are thought provoking or educational , but as I got older I lost all interest in defining what art should be. I just want to create things that make me happy, that spread joy and positive energy and that hopefully make others happy too.

6.I've been fake redhead for several years now. But before that I experimented with many different hair colors/styles. I'm a natural brunette and I dyed my hair black, blonde, red and one time even purple and sometimes all colors at the same time. I wanted to show you the evolution of my hair in pictures but was too lazy to dig up old photos so I illustrated it instead:

Do you feel like doing this game? Please let me know and I'll gladly tag you!

Project 365-twelve months (finished!!)

2010-03-21T15:48:00.011+01:00

Exactly a year ago I've started a 365 photography project on flickr, you know, one of those projects in which you take a photo every day during a whole year. It turned out to be my favorite project I've ever done ( and I've done quite a few). I had a lot of fun, I learned a lot and it connected me with many awesome people, great photographers and inspiring artists. Although I didn't feel like taking a picture and didn't feel inspired every single day of the year and there were some photos I wasn't satisfied with, generally I enjoyed this project immensely and I believe this experience has enriched my life in many ways. I feel very grateful for that. I'd like to share some of my favorite pictures from the project and some more thoughts but first things first! Let me show you my favorites from the last four weeks ( a little ritual I've been doing every month on this blog).

Here we go, my faves, taken from February 21st till March 21st:

Day 344/365: exhibition

Day 345/365: creativity is the antidote

Day 354/365: blank canvas

Day 359/360: from my sketchbook

Day 360/365: reversal of roles

Now, let me introduce you to a collage of my personal favorites from the last three thundered sixty days. I consider these also my "breakthrough" images, since I learned something valuable while taking them:

1. day 31/365: shape of my thoughts, 2. day 52/365: blues, 3. day 68/365: yellow umbrella, 4. day 79/365: a couple of cherries, 5. day 85/365: me and my paper mobile, 6. black bird, 7. one of those days, 8. yellow line, 9. with my head in clouds, 10. polka dot tea pot, 11. little city looking down on big city, 12. upside down, 13. day 70/365: dreaming in blue

According to flickr statistics...

-this was my "most interesting photo":
Day 336/365: in my bag...

Yes, that's the content of my bag, and yes, that's a tripod in there, I lug it around everywhere I go (just like my camera).

-my most viewed photo:
Day 66/365: a cup of tea

-my most faved photo:
Day247/365: magic lamp

-and my most commented photo:
Day 192/365: rainy day

This was the equipment I used:

Olympus E-510 and four lenses: Zuiko digital 35 mm macro lens, Zuiko digital wide angle 9-18 lens and two kit lenses, 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm lens. I also have a couple of tripods and I used a remote for most of self-portraits (until I washed it in a washing machine by accident and it stopped working hehe). I prefer natural light and use it whenever I can.

Some stuff I learned about doing a project like this:
- it's a great, invaluable learning process, even if you don't intend to improve your skills or learn anything during the project but just have fun or document your life after a year of work improvement is inevitable and you will most definitely end it as more skillful/better/confident photographer

-taking a photo (or more) a day and sharing it gives you a great sense of achievement; even if your day totally sucked at least you know you created one photo and it gives you feeling that your day hasn't been completely wasted

- doing 365 helps you develop many qualities like self-discipline and it also teaches you not to be too much of a perfectionist (hey, you can't take a mind-blowing, outstanding photo every day and that's ok)

I would definitely recommend embarking on a 365 project to anyone!

Life after 365:
Many people asked if I'm going to do another 365 project, well, I won't :-) It doesn't mean I'm going to stop pursuing photography, though. I have many ideas and I would love to do more conceptual shots/manipulations in future. The 365 has turned my love of photography into a genuine photoholism so there's no way for me to stop clicking , even if I tried :-)

I also wanted to say big THANK YOU to all of you who followed my project, either on flickr or here! I appreciate your support more that you can imagine!

P.S.:I was tagged by Maja to share 6 things about me so that post is coming tomorrow!

Back to blogosphere!

2010-03-20T18:20:00.002+01:00

Hello! I'm back to blogosphere after almost a full month of self imposed blogging break. Although I was very busy for the last few weeks I also managed to get a lot of work done which makes me super happy. And I'm only a day and one photo away from finishing 365 photo project, ( big post about that coming tomorrow) . I missed blogging and even more I missed visiting your blogs so that's exactly what I'm gonna do now!

Feed your soul

2010-03-15T21:56:00.005+01:00

I'm posting this just to say that you can download one of my drawings (as well as work of many amazing artists) for free here (and print it yourself) as a part of Feed Your Soul (the free art project).

I'll be back to blog on regular basis and check out your blogs in a week :)
xoxox
Asja

Blogging break until March 21st

2010-02-26T22:38:00.004+01:00

Hello everyone! I'm taking a three weeks long blogging break, until March 21st. I need to focus on my work and on finishing my 365 photo project. I'll be back after March 21st with new posts and print giveaway to celebrate second birthday of three little cameras (that takes place on March 30th) and continue to blog regularly.

Until first day of Spring I'm leaving you with few random illustrations:

(an illustration introducing the little Fox you already know so well :))

(one of the illos from my website, well, a similar version, a commissioned drawing from last year)

(another custom made illustration from last year)

P.S: if you start missing me , I can still be found on flickr everyday :)

Project 365- eleven months!

2010-02-21T12:36:00.006+01:00

Exactly eleven months ago I started a 365 project, shooting a picture a day. I wanted to find my own style, my photographic niche , so to speak, and I allowed myself freedom to shoot any type of pictures I want to, to see what kind of style attracts me the most. This entire 365 journey turned out to be a big learning experience for me and still is and I'm looking forward to the last month of my photo-adventure!
But for now, here are some of my 365 favorites from the previous four weeks:

Day 314/365 : an apple a day

Day 315/365: an experiment

Day 320/365: one of those days

Day 324/365: frozen

Day 327/365: refreshment

Day 332/365: bubbly

Thinking of Spring (and making origami flowers)

2010-02-19T17:27:00.005+01:00

I don't know about you, but I'm becoming tired of Winter, I feel like I've had my share of snow, rain, snow and rain at the same time, mud, cold, boots and coats and now I'm totally ready for Spring!
But since Spring still haven't decided to show up, at least not here in Croatia, I got crafty and made myself a bouquet of colorful flowers.

First I made five kusudama flowers:

You can find instructions how to make them here. Then I used some wire and buttons to make them stand in a vase, I just pulled wire through buttons and then through middle of a flower and I got a fun looking bouquet.

On this flower I used beads instead of button and added two extra petals:

I'm kind of hoping that looking at my newly created flower bouquet will stir up some magic and make me finish this flower painting that I started last year:

And to end my flower related post here is one big, drawn flower:

Have a happy Friday everyone!

Print giveaway on Fire and Ice

2010-02-18T17:32:00.003+01:00

Wonderful Heather interviewed me for her blog Fire and Ice ( a blog that reviews and highlights books, as well as music, photography and jewelry ) and you can read it here. There is also a little giveaway of my prints on Fire and Ice and if you're interested, you can enter the competition and win four 4x6 prints of the seasons:

Featured in Tomate de Arbol, Issue #2

2010-02-17T17:02:00.006+01:00

A couple of my illustrations (this one and this one) are featured in Tomate de Arbol, Argentinian e-zine, that can be both viewed online or downloaded.
My illos are in issue #2, themed luck.

Sweet dreams

2010-02-16T16:54:00.003+01:00

I wanted to write/illustrate a short story about Wolf's dream, just for practice but it turned out kind of crazy, so at first I hesitated to post it but eventually gave in :D
So, continue reading if you'd like a little dose of craziness on Tuesday afternoon...

During his afternoon nap Wolf had a very pleasant dream that he was fishing on a lake.

But instead of fish , Wolf caught a big cake. Even better, he thought.

Before he got to eat the cake, his boat turned into a big polka dot cup, lake turned into hot chocolate and the cake became alive. It started telling Wolf how it's bad to eat too much sweets and sugar. Wolf was confused.

Luckily he was rescued from a preaching cake by a pink unicorn followed by a flock of flying cupcakes.

While riding a unicorn Wolf saw a huge cake and decided to dive right into it and eat his way out.

But before he got a chance to taste the gigantic cake, Wolf suddenly woke up slightly disappointed. And hungry.

Happy Valentine's Day :)

2010-02-14T19:17:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone! After feeling pretty sick almost all week I'm finally feeling much better now and I hope I'll get on with my usual doodling/work schedule next week and catch up with your blogs too!
I hope you are having a nice Valentine's Day!
xoxo
Asja

Featured in Carpaccio Magazine, Issue #11

2010-02-14T18:51:00.004+01:00

Issue #11 of Carpaccio Magazine is out and it features one of my illustrations. The topic of the issue is :"Flowers must be born every instant"

The magazine is edited by Maria Cerezo and Emma Llensa.
Other collaborators are: Alexander Kostinskyi, Ana Cabaleiro *coquinete*, Anna Grimal *lagrimal*, Astrid Andersson, Camila do Rosario, Carla Fuentes *little isdrawing*, Davide Bignotti, Elise Hori, Erin Gilkes, Gabriel Miller, Helen Korpak, Jacobo Medrano, Jessica Polar, Jessica Tremp, Katja Sonnewend, Kirill Savateev, Laura Addari, Lisa *OPPY* Currie, Lucía Franco, Maike Hemmers, Morgaine Faye, Oscar Martín, Rafa Romero, Rebekah Campbell, Ricor, Riki Musafi, Simon Filip and Theo Firmo.

If you live in U.S. , Canada or U.K. you can purchase your copy of magazine here.

Love is in the air

2010-02-11T16:44:00.005+01:00

A case of pretty annoying cold is been keeping me in bed for the last two days and it's preventing me from doing any "serious" work that actually requires focus and concentration.
However, cold isn't preventing me from making fun, effortless doodles like this one :)

UPDATE:
"Love is in the air" has been featured on the creative JAR.
Click on the badge to visit site:

Illustration Friday: Muddy

2010-02-09T12:40:00.002+01:00

This is my entry for Illustration Friday this week., the word to illustrate is muddy. I haven't participated in IF challenge for two weeks, so I wanted to make something for this week's topic.
These mushrooms really love being muddy.

Return of the Octopus (and other animals visiting Zagreb)

2010-02-07T12:39:00.004+01:00

Remember the Octopus? Well, he's back, bigger and stronger than before! He went to the main train station in Zagreb to catch a train. He got on one of the trains but it didn't move, and soon Octopus became very confused, why aren't we moving, he thought. Octopus had no idea he sat on an old engine that is used merely as a decoration.

While Octopus was waiting for train to start moving, Fox and Wolf were hanging out with (sculpture of) A.G. Matoš, Croatian poet, on Upper Town in Zagreb. Wolf was doing what he likes best, ~~vandalize public property~~, express himself artistically.

Dino went for a walk and visited Croatian National Theater. Surprisingly, nobody noticed him and two girls almost tripped over his tail.

Bird decided she will not go unnoticed, so she built a nest on top of the Cibona tower. The view is great from there.

Bird sighting

2010-02-05T14:19:00.002+01:00

When talking a morning stroll through his garden Cat spotted a group of interesting little birds lounging on a tree. They looked so chubby, and delicious, mmmmm, and colorful like candy but Cat was too lazy to do anything, so he just walked on by.

But, Cat isn't the only one who saw little birds, I was surprised when some of them visited my home and found a cozy spot on branches in my vase:

I tried to strike a conversation with one of the feathery creatures and asked why have they suddenly decided to invade my world but the birdie just ignored me.

However a part of the flock did cooperate with me and helped me create these cards:

All in all, it was a lovely visit.

Today was a beautiful day

2010-02-02T18:30:00.002+01:00

Today was such a beautiful day, warm and sunny, but I didn't have free time to go outside and enjoy it so I did a little impromptu photo shoot on my desk to celebrate this beautiful day.

And Fox had to join in, of course :)

Dreaming of jellyfish

2010-01-29T17:27:00.004+01:00

Lots of jellyfish on my mind...

Jellyfish illustrated:

I wish you a happy Friday everyone!

Character study (sort of)

2010-01-27T17:59:00.003+01:00

Ever since I was animation student, (long time ago) I haven't done a proper character study.These days I just doodle my characters and let them turn out the way the want to be :)
But this little critter gave me hard time when I first sketched it, I couldn't decide what is this animal, some kind of squirrel, a lemming or marmot perhaps?
So, I felt like I needed to do some sort of character study ( which in my case means just some more doodling) to get to know this guy better . After that I realized this is a Vole :)

Ice-cream time!

2010-01-25T16:11:00.006+01:00

Yeti couldn't think of a better way to cheer himself up on a grey January afternoon than to get a delicious treat. He had vanilla, raspberry and pistachio ice-cream.

...and I had a chocolate one.

Free ride

2010-01-23T12:00:00.004+01:00

Everybody loves getting a free ride in life and so does the Octopus.

(This is also my entry for Monday Artday, theme insanity.)

Project 365-ten months

2010-01-20T16:16:00.003+01:00

As probably many of you know it, for the last ten months I've been doing 365 photography project on flickr and every month I post a few of my personal favorites here, on three little cameras. Well, this month is no exception, here are some of my faves taken from December 20th 2009. until January 20th 2010.

Day 278/365: simple pleasures:

Day 280/365: just wanted to say...

Day 286/365: world within a raindrop

Day 288/365: simplify

Day 298/365:little doodle

As you can see from these few pictures, I was really into simplifying things over the last month :)

It's a dog's life...

2010-01-19T11:46:00.001+01:00

...but according to this dog it's not at all difficult or heavy.

Illustration Friday: Wilderness

2010-01-17T19:54:00.001+01:00

Bunnies got lost in the wilderness.

Fly away

2010-01-14T16:58:00.002+01:00

Just a quick doodle :)
I hope you all are having a wonderful Thursday!

Illustration Friday: Confined

2010-01-08T16:16:00.005+01:00

Dog doesn't like to feel confined so every now and then he sails away on his tiny boat to explore new places and enjoy feeling of freedom.

I want to say big thank you to wonderful Rossichka for giving me this award:

I feel honored and proud!I'm supposed to pass this award on to 12 inspiring bloggers but I'd rather dedicate it to all of my dear creative friends in the blogosphere because all of you truly deserve it!

Illustration Friday: Renewal

2010-01-06T14:52:00.003+01:00

Bear thought that taking a walk in rain would renew his spirits and good mood but he was wrong.

I didn't find any time this year to sketch but I really wanted to post something so I doodled this last night, it's my first "official" doodle of 2010. :)

The first "unofficial" doodle of 2010.(also made last night) would be this:

Two blue strange looking rabbits having a conversation.

Happy New Year!

2009-12-30T13:23:00.002+01:00

This time of the year is usually time to reflect and think about the past 365 days. To me year 2009. was probably one of the most creative and productive years of my life! I've been completely focused on creating art and I felt a deep need to put most of my energy into finding my own illustration style and figuring out what I want to do with it. Since I spent a great deal of my free time and energy working on it a lot of other aspects of my life have been suffering (my social life suffered the most) but I'm really happy because I feel I've learned so much as an illustrator and I'm looking forward to further developing my work.

I hope you all had a great and productive 2009.!

This time of the year is also time to celebrate , of course! I've never felt so ready to embrace a new year and I feel good things are coming!
I didn't make any standard New Year's resolutions but I do have many plans that I'm very excited about. Do you have any plans for 2010 that you're thrilled about or maybe some resolutions?

I'd like to thank you for all of your visits and comments on my blog in the past year! Your support means a lot to me! I wish you a wonderful, joyful New Year 2010!

Back to basics

2009-12-27T15:07:00.002+01:00

I spent some time yesterday and this morning just drawing. It felt like I was going back to my basic since I was using only graphic pen and white sheet of paper and no PS, layering or textures I usually use nowadays to finish my illustrations.

And style of these drawings (particularly the second one and the last one) is inspired by this artist.

Happy Holidays!

2009-12-22T19:36:00.001+01:00

I wish you all happy and joyful holiday season!

...and so do the animals who gathered in foxes lair to celebrate :)

(You can see the card larger on black background here)

Project 365-nine months

2009-12-20T19:36:00.004+01:00

Here are some of my favorites from the past 30 days from my photography project on flickr. I've started a 365 challenge (one of those projects that include taking and posting one , or more photos every day) 9 months ago and despite occasional periods of feeling uninspired I''m still doing it :)

Day 247/365 : magic lamp

Day 251/365 : birds

Day 259/365: bird doodle

Day 264/365: black flowers (paper cut outs)

Day (272/365) : believe

You can see all 274 pictures here.

Illustration Friday: Undone

2009-12-19T18:55:00.001+01:00

Even though he ate almost all the big plants in the area Dino decided to go back and eat the last one too because he doesn't like to leave his work undone.

Just a thought (and featured on the creative JAR)

2009-12-19T12:30:00.005+01:00

Illustrated:

...and photographed:

I'm sending you lots of love :)
I hope you're all having a great weekend!
xo
Asja

p.s.: I'm off to take some photos of blizzard we're having right now in Croatia and I plan to post my entry for this week's Illustration Friday later today... that is if I don't get swept away by snow and wind hehe :)

UPDATE:
I just found out that "Love is enough" illustration has been featured on the creative JAR.

Yay!

Dodo wondering

2009-12-15T17:26:00.002+01:00

...who am I? Why am I here? Shouldn't I be extinct? And why am I covered in this silly pattern ?

Illustration Friday: Hatch

2009-12-12T14:59:00.002+01:00

When he found himself in a scary part of the woods, Fox knew he needed to hatch up a plan to escape quickly before those black trees turn into black hands and get him!

But don't worry eventually he finds his way home :)

Pantsless Santa

2009-12-11T13:09:00.005+01:00

This is a quick, silly doodle I did for a friend who gets annoyed by many aspects of over commercialized holidays ( too much decoration, cheesy Christmas songs playing everywhere all December long, etc)
It's a Santa, who is pantsless and probably slightly drunk, too :)
(Hm, maybe that's why he forgot his pants.)

And Sretni blagdani means Happy Holidays in Croatian ;-)

The joy of making snowflakes (paper cutouts)

2009-12-09T14:37:00.008+01:00

I've been having a lot of fun making paper cutout snowflakes. Originally I started doing them so I can scan them and add them as layers so some of my illustration( such as this or this) but then it became very addictive :) and I noticed that snowflakes can look pretty on their own (not just as addition to illustration):

And they are also very useful as photo props , I used them on a couple of my 365 photos on flickr yesterday:

Four seasons (card designs)

2009-12-04T16:15:00.003+01:00

Recently I did a set of card themed four seasons so I thought I might show them to you.

Spring.
Originally, this was ought to be a Summer card, but then I remembered Summer heat and blazing hot weather and this pinkish card suddenly seemed too timid and inappropriate to represent the hottest (and my least favorite ) season of the year.

Summer.

Autumn.

Winter.
This is my personal favorite from the series, mostly because I'm dreaming of snow and really cold weather which always brings happy childhood memories to mind.

Illustration Friday: Entangled

2009-12-01T18:41:00.004+01:00

She was entangled in her own daydream.

I wish you a happy first day of the last month of the year. I hope you have a magical December :)

Ready for winter

2009-11-28T18:58:00.002+01:00

With its new hat and scarf Fox feels perfectly equipped for chilly Winter weather.

Here is a little Fox printed:

A present

2009-11-27T19:52:00.002+01:00

Girl knows that fawn adores fresh apples so she always brings him one while strolling through the woods.

Illustration Friday: Music

2009-11-22T17:13:00.000+01:00

The animals found an old gramophone in their forest that can still play records so now they can dance to some old fashioned music.

Project 365- eight month

2009-11-20T17:26:00.002+01:00

So, another month of my humble photo adventure went by and here are some of my personal favorites taken over the last 30 days:

Day 222/365: lights in the distance

Day 230/365: acrylics

Day 235/365: a star

Day 237/365: tea time

Day 240/365: this morning

Day 241/365: clueless

Blue bird

2009-11-20T17:10:00.001+01:00

One of the drawings I finished recently:

Illustration Friday: Unbalanced

2009-11-13T18:10:00.002+01:00

My very first unicorn

2009-11-10T20:00:00.003+01:00

I haven't posted anything on my blog for a week so I thought it's a about time to put something here until my blog starts feeling neglected. In lately I've been very busy and haven't had much time for personal projects so I decided to upload one of the private commissions I did recently. It's an illustration of a unicorn, a very first unicorn I made in my life :)
I enjoyed using color combination I usually wouldn't and I'm learning to start liking pink :)

From my (digital) sketchbook

2009-11-03T18:02:00.004+01:00

Here are a few drawings from a "work in progress" folder on my computer.

I made these two sketches back in April, scanned them but couldn't find a way to finish (color) them in a satisfying way. They simply refused to cooperate with me. So I decided to post them today as they are, to show them who's in charge :)

I love making patterns. Sometimes before I fall asleep I make some really simple drawings that are later turned into patterns and used as layers in my illustrations.

A few weeks ago I was really into drawing anything that's got to do with Autumn, like mushrooms and leaves:

Illustration Friday: Skinny

2009-11-02T16:54:00.002+01:00

Two skinny birds in their nest.

Winter friends

2009-10-29T17:16:00.006+01:00

Wolf and Fox are best friends. Winter is their favorite season of the year. They can't wait until the pond at the end of the forest friezes so that they can go ice skating.

They love going into Bear's home and try to wake him up from sleep by poking him with a stick. Bear never wakes up, just keeps on snoring but Fox and Wolf think their game is endlessly amusing.

When it gets too cold outside Fox and Wolf visit their friend Badger to have band rehearsal. Fox plays accordion, Wolf loves his drum and Badger can't decide if he'd rather play or eat his pipes.

(an idea for a picture book or a short animation- I enjoy drawing these silly characters so much!)

All that blues

2009-10-25T17:55:00.002+01:00

A quick study of shape and color, done yesterday, on a rainy afternoon.

Project 365- seventh month

2009-10-25T17:32:00.002+01:00

Five of my personal favorites from my 365 photography project on flickr over the past month.

Day 192/365: rainy day

Day 196/365: made of stars

Day 211/365: Autumn

Day 212/365: sunset

Day 216/365

Illustration Friday: Fast

2009-10-23T17:52:00.002+02:00

Nothing can stop Fox from driving fast, not even fog, drizzle or muddy road.

Illustration Friday: Frozen

2009-10-16T16:37:00.002+02:00

Wolf didn't want to become frozen in the cold winter air so he decided to wear his new fancy sweater.

And this is how the Wolf looks printed and framed:

Illustration Friday: Flying

2009-10-12T08:16:00.002+02:00

A very quick response to Illustration Friday this week, done early this morning to warm myself up before "real" work :)

This super dog is flying to rescue someone.

Orca

2009-10-08T18:39:00.004+02:00

Last one of three whale illustrations I did. First one is here, and the second one can be found here.

Another little tiger

2009-10-06T20:04:00.001+02:00

Acrylics on canvas, 16x22 cm in size. Done just for practice.

Illustration Friday: Pattern

2009-09-29T13:47:00.002+02:00

On his stroll through the jungle tiger noticed many interesting patterns.

My new portfolio site

2009-09-25T18:50:00.006+02:00

My new portfolio site http://asjaboros.com/ is officially launched today! It still needs a lot of work to be done on it but I'm happy it's out there. I'm especially happy to launch it today because it's also my birthday! I'm 27.

Project 365- sixth month

2009-09-24T22:03:00.004+02:00

Huh! I've finished already more than half of my 365 project! I can't believe how time goes by so fast.
Here are some of my favorites from the previous 30 days:

159/365: a cup of colors

168/365: with my head in clouds

170/365: yellow line

173/365: little city looking down on big city

178/365: upside down

181/365: polka dot tea pot

182/365: mushroom painting

Colorful room

2009-09-22T20:46:00.002+02:00

Two fennec foxes lounging in their newly redecorated room.
Another illo to add to the "rooms series". I love creating these whimsical rooms and hope to make at least 10 for the series.

Illustration Friday: Infinite

2009-09-18T17:23:00.003+02:00

In lately, (and you can see this by my 3 last posts) I've been having fun with drawing rooms. This one is an orange room full of infinite possibilities :)

Green room

2009-09-16T11:53:00.002+02:00

She likes to sit in her cozy green room and read stories to her dogs but they don't seem to be interested :)

Yellow room

2009-09-13T15:10:00.003+02:00

A warm place perfect for daydreaming.

Illustration Friday: Welcome

2009-09-11T16:55:00.001+02:00

Welcome to the blue room.

Travelling whale

2009-09-08T19:33:00.002+02:00

Another whale illustration, it's second from the series. First one you can find here, and the one more whale is yet to come :)

Something cute

2009-09-02T18:28:00.003+02:00

Last night I made this illo of elephants in love and today I wanted to see how it looks like framed. It was fun arranging it like this.

Little elephant lino print

2009-08-31T17:38:00.004+02:00

Last night I started working on a little lino print, haven't done one in about thirteen years so it seemed like an exciting thing to try. I found an old elephant doodle in one of my sketchbooks and it looked appropriate to turn it into a lino print.

Carving process was a lot of fun, I started it last night and finished this afternoon.
You can see the first print I made on the right (and sorry for my ink stained hands :-)):

The print didn't turn out as precise as I'd like it to be (and I really like precision :-)) but I wasn't totally unsatisfied either so it was used as apart of a card:

Red garden

2009-08-30T17:26:00.003+02:00

Last week I made some paper cut-outs to use in collage and mixed media pieces. I didn't have a specific idea on how will I use them but I thought it would be cool to document them before they get used. I put my materials on a table and floor and took a few pictures:

On the floor:

On a table:

I decided to start working spontaneously without any previous sketches or definite ideas and let the piece develop itself. But I did know I'd like to create a larger piece than usual so I used a big red background (100x70cm in size) as a starting point. I was adding a paper cut-out after paper cut-out and then outlined them using black paint to enhance the shapes and ,sort of, tie them together. After that I glued some more smaller cut-outs ( parts of pages from my late English dictionary :-)) and painted some lines.

This is a "work in progress" photo collage:

Finished piece reminded me of some sort of abstract garden so I called it "Red garden":

Some card designs and one friendly whale

2009-08-28T17:10:00.003+02:00

I was asked to make these cards. First three say "Happy Birthday" and the one with a hedgehog and a pear says "Thank you!" in Croatian.

Here are some ideas for characters I been working on:

And, finally, here is one strange looking, but friendly whale:

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Project 365- fifth month

2009-08-22T11:48:00.005+02:00

It's another month gone by of my 365 project on flickr. Every day , for the past five months I've been taking some time to practice my photography skills, come up with new ideas or just document my drawings and illustration on photos. These are a few of my favorites over the past thirty days:

day 129/365: a flower

day 130/365: i heart art

day 133/365

day 137/365: inspired

day 144/365: 2 little prints

day 145/365: stripes and dots

day 151/365: sketchbook on fire

Bird doodles and a "making of" video

2009-08-17T11:09:00.003+02:00

I made a "making of" video of this little mushroom birdie doodle. It turned out pretty trashy (but no wonder since it was taken with 7 years old mini dv camera, and I compressed 7 GB of materials into 1.5 MB and turned 32 minutes into 32 seconds :)) but I decided not to be a perfectionist and post it anyway! And that strange sound is actually a sound of my pens sketching, just 7 times faster than usual.

A bouquet

2009-08-17T11:07:00.002+02:00

Some sort of "cosmic" bouquet.

Little paintings and other stuff

2009-08-05T17:54:00.001+02:00

I wanted to share some pictures of things I recently created:

Three little paintings (on three little cameras, :-)), the bigger one is 20x30 cm in size and smaller ones are 16x22cm, all three are acrylics on canvas.

Ok, so this is still work in progress, I hope to finish it soon, gouache on paper.

I've had some photo paper that was very low quality and I couldn't use it for printing so I decided to use it anyway and play with ink a bit.

Two drawings, done very quickly with golden and silver markers.

A page from my sketchbook.

...and some more pages from the sketchbook.

Envelope doodles. These are done maybe a month ago, but I forgot to post them here.

A simple collage.

Illustration Friday: Modify

2009-07-31T18:39:00.001+02:00

A world that could use a little modifying :)

Study of shape and color

2009-07-26T19:04:00.003+02:00

I had so much fun making this quick studies of shape and color! They are hand drawn and digitally colored.
This is how some of them look printed and hung above my desk:

Eruption

2009-07-23T14:42:00.002+02:00

I had a lot of fun drawing this little erupting volcano last night. I stayed up until wee hours in the morning sketching and coloring it.

Birdwatching

2009-07-21T16:15:00.001+02:00

Daily drawing.

Project 365- fourth month

2009-07-21T15:53:00.005+02:00

Some personal favorites from my 365 project on flickr taken between June 21st - July 21st.

day 95/365: reflecting

day 101/365: untitled

day 102/365: expansion

day 108/365: lights on

day 111/365: a tree

day 116/365: more reflections

day 122/365: light candies

A tree of life

2009-07-20T13:05:00.000+02:00

Just a simple design made for fun/practice.

Sprouting

2009-07-17T11:31:00.001+02:00

I'm growing some new ideas.

Too many bottles and one cracked vase

2009-07-14T11:37:00.003+02:00

I like drawing simple shapes, like bottles and cups, it always relaxes me.
To me, drawing patterns and repetitive shapes is , in a way , a process similar to knitting or crocheting, it can be very relaxing but it also requires focus, planning and is a mental as well as physical activity. And in both activities you need to be constantly focused on the details while keeping the final creation in mind and I find that process mentally engaging yet relaxing at the same time.
Having said that, I actually don't knit or crochet but I do love sketching same shapes and patterns over and over again :-)

Featured on All Things Girl

2009-07-13T11:21:00.003+02:00

My illustration Daydream is featured in July/August issue of All Things Girl in arts section, along with works of some other talented ladies, so check it out if you have a minute to spare.

Boat parade

2009-07-11T20:15:00.002+02:00

I was going thought my archives a few days ago and realized I have a lot of uncolored illustrations so I decided to finish them one by one and upload them. So you can expect more frequent posting, here, on three little cameras!

Robots like flowers

2009-07-10T20:09:00.001+02:00

Well, at least this one does:

I started drawing this totally spontaneously. First I made some swirls and then realized I need shapes to contrast them and make the whole thing more interesting so I drew this simple robot. A robot who enjoys flowers :)

A lighthouse, sea and some fish

2009-07-02T16:08:00.003+02:00

Here are a couple of maritime doodles I did recently, inspired by Summer and sea. Or, better said inspired by thinking of nice, warm Summer days as opposed to stormy, humid and gray weather we've been having, here, in Croatia over the past week or so.

Project 365- third month

2009-06-21T16:35:00.002+02:00

Wow! It's been three months already since I started this photo project on flickr which means there are only nine months of everyday photography adventures left for me:)
Here are some of my favorites from the past thirty days:

day 62/365: in between

day 64/365: feeling abstract

day 68/365: yellow umbrella

day 75/365: sharpened and ready to use

day 79/365: a couple of cherries

day 82/365: beauty

day 85/365: me and my paper mobile

Illustration Friday: Drifting

2009-06-19T16:26:00.004+02:00

Daily doodle: daydream

2009-06-11T15:08:00.002+02:00

Yesterday I've been daydreaming all day long about traveling and being somewhere out on the road.

Blog De Ouro Award

2009-06-10T16:10:00.004+02:00

I'm very happy and honored to be given this Blog De Ouro award from wonderful Rob from Trieste Daily Photo.

These are the rules associated with this award:
- Put the Award in the blog
- Link back to the blog who gave you it
- Pass the Award on to other blogs
- Inform owners about Award
- Make rules visible

I thought a lot about to whom to pass on this award to but since there are so many wonderful blogs created by so many talented people it was very hard for me to pick ( blame it on my indecisive Libran nature :-)) so I decided to give this award to all of the people who visit my blog and wish to participate because all of you truly deserve it!

Illustration Friday: Craving

2009-06-08T18:56:00.003+02:00

Daily doodle: big bird, small house

2009-06-03T17:16:00.003+02:00

So, here is one of my daily doodles, better said, nightly doodles, because I usually sketch at night, before I fall asleep and then I scan and color the sketch the next day.

I just realized today is 3rd of June which means it's only 3 days left until the Drawing Day 2009. I think that's such a good idea, to dedicate one day in year to drawing so I'm definitely going to participate on Saturday. How about you?

Illustration Friday: Adapt

2009-05-31T15:46:00.002+02:00

Daily doodles: chairs

2009-05-29T16:40:00.003+02:00

I also added some parts of these two doodles to one of my photos and I'm satisfied how it turned out so I'll keep on experimenting with trying to combine my drawings and photos.

Project 365- second month

2009-05-21T18:00:00.004+02:00

It's already more than 60 days gone by since I started this fun but sometimes challenging project of taking a picture a day!
Here are some of my favorites from the last 30 days:

day 32/365: cornered

day 34/365: connection

day 35/365: untitled

day 41/365: out of focus

day 47/365: draw

day 48/365: (bee) creative

day 49/365: collage

day 52/365: blues