orange and brown

finally! i have finished my sample and i'm ready to go. maybe a few little tweaks here and there, but basically i am done (sorry about the watermarks, but you know). remember my rant about the fabrics and my last disappointment? it is all forgiven:) i'm quite happy about the color, too, don't you think? there is one more tiny detail i never mentioned here about this bag, but that will remain unmentioned because that is the point which will probably make or break my design.

i am fantastically happy! (dances, dances all around!) now proceed to the next step...

resume

some interesting emergencies come up. they always do. and interrupt life. i have just resumed normal activity, and there is a huge pile of... life waiting for me to take care of them!

the professional sample did not happen. mine was far more professional than the one i got from the tailor. it was a huge disappointment (sorry, so bad that i can't even upload photos). i didn't discuss the matter too much with them, took my sample home and decided to... do it by myself!!! as usual. actually, i was expecting things would turn out this way, but hoping i would prove wrong...

one note on the positive side: my dear friend brought me lots of samples of shopping bags. a biiig thank you! i think mine is still the cutest;)

so i guess this means even more sewing machine time for me!

fingers crossed!

i have left my own prototype of my shopping bag design to a tailor couple for a (hopefully) more professional sample. i'll hope for the best! i will be getting the results tomorrow by noon. i'm praying to the prototype gods...

almost there

i still have some reservations on the answer i have come up with to my 'how to have your bag design produced' questions, but i feel i am getting to the end. whenever i am at that point of finishing a self-induced project, i tend to procrastinate. well, that is hard to confess. but there you go, i'm confessing it. i hope i don't fall into that trap this time and ever again. it's true, i have tons of other things to do, but i don't want to use that as a shield to protect me against putting that one last effort.

do you remember the video game street fighter? (attention: violent reference ahead.) there is a point at the end of the match where you are prompted to 'finish him!' (your opponent, that is. yeah, really civilized.) i sometimes find myself not being able to 'finish it!!' as soon as i am able to. but i always do finish them, somehow. does that sound familiar to you?

watch your step

look at this girl! she's such a cutie pie. she was walking around after a brief rain. maybe not walking, but shall we say... waving around? her bottom part was wavering in a funny way to push her forward. she was quite fast, too. once again, i would like to say, texture! oh, and i feel she is so much more intelligent than me nowadays:D

so meric, you haven't been talking about your projects in a while. yeah, i know. i actually made a lot of progress in most of them (mainly on the bag and the website), but they both are in a state where showing what is going on is meaningless right now. there are bits and pieces all over. but i'm getting there. and believe me, the world is full of crazy textiles! (the bag front). so thin, yet so strong...as for my animation project, i haven't forgotten that a tiny bit, either. i'll come back to it in a while. but first things first. i've suffered from too much multitasking before, so i'm watching my portions with that. that's what i am, a chronic multitasker. anybody taking too much on their plate as well?

endless repetitions

my lovely dear shopping bag is finished. i had to sew it again and again and again, until the constant 'ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta' clatter of the machine was filling my nightmares. you can't believe how stupid mistakes i made along the way (should i turn this backwards? oops-wrong side!). my next steps will be doing a lot of paranoid investigations. can i have it produced? in what volumes? at what price? who is going to be interested in it? those are some unanswered questions for now. but hey, if all questions were answered, it would be such a boring life, wouldn't it?

i think it might be around 45 degrees inside (i couldn't find the stupid 'degree' sign on the keyboard, do you know which key to stroke?) i need to go on with a lot of other work; my mom's book cover for one, but i'm kind of cooked right now. more images and animations are about to come, so stay tuned!

hasta luego

i'm excited. as i decided before, i need to say goodbye to my bag once more, at least in this blog. so here is the two colored version. and it does fit in the little pocket on the right:)

hope you are doing well!

misfit

once again it is time to make fun of my sewing skills. my shopping bag is here. believe it or not, it does carry quite heavy loads, considering it is only thick as a veil. and believe it or not, it does not fit in the pocket on the right. which it should, actually.

i will also make the bag two colored as in the previous presentations. i was quite surprised by the strength of the material, but also disappointed with the amount of space it takes. hm.. such is life. keep on trying, not?

the machine which you can partially see on the further right is, of course, the same guy mentioned looong before here. we still have a loving relationship, in spite of all his insistent attempts to consume my clothing.

this is not a bank commercial

so... slowly i am getting there. i will try to find some fancy fabric from the stores around here. i hate the 'scrappy' look so far. will i ever be able to make this look professional? although... i'm not annoyed by the stripes that much. now how to fit a bag in this thing...i am not sure how to get the curved stitch, either. i'll tell you when i'm done experimenting.

i can't quite pinpoint why this is taking me so long.

hehe next i will talk about the hero (and sometimes villain) behind all this needlework.

home sewing is killing fashion

hehe. since i need to prototype my shopping bag, i learned how to use a sewing machine. quite an amazing (and over-complicated) gadget. there was no way i could 'install' the string all by myself. i'm excited!! i already started sewing scrap clothes together. beware, i might sew you, too...

i really have no idea how to have my design produced, but that is a whole other story.

this is more like it

i think i like this presentation better. this is my first day of working like an illustration, so there will be some refinements. sometimes simplifying things seems better. what do you think? i'm not sure about many things-the fonts, the name, the background color, even the effect behind the main figures. i might use a non-3d approach here. at least it is more fun in this project!

my attempt to watermark my images is still a work in progress. this time i'm trying this overlay effect. i think something like a logo might be neater. and that means more work for me. naah, maybe just a better typeface will do. let's see about that.

rebel against technology

ok. i'm not modelling the bag in 3d. doing so seemed kind of

pointless. maybe i am fed up with the 'whatever you do, make it 3d' attitude. it's not going to be cnc'ed anyway (cnc on wikipedia for the non-designer folks). there are millions of ways to present an idea, aren't there? i'll try and explore them a little. or i can die of boredom. seriously, sometimes i get fed up with 3d so badly, i can procrastinate up to infinity...

nowadays i get this identity crisis. am i the person i resolved to be ten years ago? twenty years ago? i feel i owe that person. that child. i don't want to betray her. but i feel i am... i don't want to keep the paths that i don't feel i belong to. are you the person you resolved to be ten years ago?

hmm. i also have this habit of exaggerating my emotions. i feel that living in denial is much worse than exaggerating true feelings, though. i don't know. all i know is i'll feel much better when i finish this baggy baggy. graphic design gods, come and help me!

amnesia

this is pathetic. when i don't use a program for 6 months, it's like i've never ever used it. the menus look as if from another planet. does that happen to you? i just wanted to fit these two stupid curves to get a nice curved surface. the sad thing is, i've done this like one million times before. how do i do it? help!!!

i was planning to show you a nice fancy render of my baggy bag, but i'm stuck in the first level. game over for me tonight. i'm going to kill my fury by watching pointless tv. next round coming soon:)

watermark

here you go. this is my first attempt in 'copyrighting' my images. i'm not even sure if the progress i made is worth copyrighting, and i think you actually do something quite different than ruining your image with some ghost lettering, but i wanted to try anyway. hehe. a logo could be more 'chic', i guess. hmmm.

i'm finally back to working on my industrial design projects. i promise, no more new projects until the present ones are finished!:) i drew a 1/1 scale technical drawing of the parts of my shopping bag (i know, very old school, but i will always be crazy about hand drawing-go rulers, pencils, and marquers!). i'll go on with the actual 'bag' part and then back to 3d modelling. will i be able to present my idea in a 'woa!' way? let's see. tricky part again.

brr, it's been tough to convince myself to work again.