Big Hero 6 Fanart

I love Big Hero 6.

Also, I couldn't sleep last night, so then I drew this.

"Are you satisfied with your care?"

I still suck at shadowing and lighting.

But oh wells...

It's the passion that counts.

Miss drawing like this.

Abby Lim

Remembering Michael Jackson

I'd loved to share a bunch of quotes about him and how he made some changes and differences to our lives who are inspired by him. But then, the post will be too long if I do that haha. Well, he is a legend, a great entertainer, a great father of 3 children, a king of pop.

"Be the instruments! Feel the music!"

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with." 

I remembered. My first memory about him is I asked my mum "Um, mummy? Is that a girl or a guy?" She then said "That's Michael Jackson! He is a guy.." And then I go "Whoah! He is amazing! He is so talented!"

I remembered. When I heard of his unfortunate death, I was in the midst or near of having my Form 3 or Form 4 3rd Term Examination. Sad.

Today, I shall share some of my art work that I did last month in the remembrance of Michael Jackson. He is an inspiration.

We may not know him in person but his songs touch many souls.

Remembering Michael Jackson.

Abby Lim

World Turtle Day 2014

I am a day late, but it was World Turtle day yesterday!

I like turtles, do you like turtles?

:)

Enjoy your weekend!

Abby Lim

Some Sketches: Me

I was bored last night so I came out with these. Just some sketches of my character. Hopefully more to come in the future!

Enjoy your day~

Abby Lim 

Crayon Pop (Uh Ee) doseofabbyness Edition

So I've tried out something different last night. It took me about 2 and a half hours and came out with this.

I played around with layers and backgrounds.

Also, if you don't know what am I drawing here, here's the link to the kpop MV. I got hooked and want to look like one of the girls because it's funny haha. I don't know why I draw tears btw. Maybe because I reference the drawing as I recalled that I saw a Korean cartoon drawing that have shiny tears. I'm really random. I guess I could say that this is a "fan-art". I'm a fan of funny things haha. Binggeul binggeul binggeul binggeul~

Enjoy :B

Abby Lim

Grasshopper Hunting

What's one your favourite memories back in pre-school?

I have one, a great one actually.

I used to hunt grasshoppers with my great friend, Jess, back then when we are in primary four. I've studied in an international school back in Shanghai for two years.

It was a great experience.

So then, every recess time, we would always run to the hilly field of our school right after we had our lunch.

Let me tell you, there weren't just grasshoppers that we hunt.

There were PLENTY of different types of bugs in the field.

It was almost like a bug kingdom or some sort.

Anyways, that's not the point.

The point is that me and this really good friend of mine were used to LOVE hunting grasshoppers and set them free individually at our own home's garden.

Hey you, you despise bugs?- I wasn't. But now I do.

Now that I'm living in a landed house, there's always bound to have grasshoppers hanging out in my garden. I've even seen a ton of hatchlings/ babies on my mum's freaking potted plants.

Seriously, I'm cringing while typing these.

No thanks, I'll just 'nope' my way out of your sight.

Side note! 

I have officially made a Facebook Page to reach out to you readers in an easier way. So go on and give a 'Like' and if you want to be notified, click 'Get Notifications'. Thank you! :)

www.facebook.com/doseofabbyness

Abby Lim

Butterflies In My Stomach

You like someone, you have that tingling feeling in your guts.

No, not the pain you get when you're about to diarrhoea, silly.

"Butterflies In My Stomach."

How it feels like to me?

Let's just say it feels less like some insects flapping its wings in your gut.

That just sounds so so so unappealing.

It's more like...

trembling/ shivering,
Smile for no apparent reason even when staring blankly to nothing,

the thought of the smile that itself could lit up the day,

the thought of wanting to know more about this person,

that feeling of doubt whether or not I should just say it,

the fear of being CRUSHED instead of crushing.

Uh... Yea... He'd probably thought I'm heading off to the washroom.

Why?-"Butterflies in my stomach."

Holding your stomach/ tummy and then say you head somewhere else is just...

He'd probably think I went to poo. HAHA

I suck... TT^TT

Abby Lim

Year of Horse (2014)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

It's the year of horse!

My sneaky wish though...

"More Tao Hua for me please."

And yes, I'm born in the year of rooster.

Shouldn't I be a hen...?

Anyway, I wish those who celebrates Chinese New Year a prosperous one!

龙马精神！

马到功成！

步步高升！

Oh hey, my Chinese ain't that rusty YET.

Also, I've tried drawing horses early this month.

Oh yea, I can't wait until around the middle of the month.

So enthusiastic for it.

Haha...

Failed a little here and there, but I'm pretty satisfied with this one.

Inspired by a Disney film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002).

I LOVE that film!

That horse is so handsome.

*ehem*

Ok... What?

Here, as you can see, I used a forest green and a blue watercolour pencils on the edges of the horse.

This is how it looks like after I go over it with a wet brush.

Who needs a unicorn when our beautiful world have beautiful Stallions?

Abby Lim

Reason Why I'm Single: #2

Another reason why I'm a fail.

I fall for those who are most likely impossible to be with.

Well, at least that's how I was then. Not much of these situation currently as I speak.

So I'll break it down for ya.

Too lazy to colour in everything for this post. I'm still figuring out what kind of style I want.

So yea... I can't be the only girl with typical reasons like these.

Very typical...

If you haven't seen part one, here's the link! :)

http://doseofabbyness.blogspot.com/2014/01/reason-why-im-still-single-1.html

Abby Lim

Fan-art: From The Sticks (#1, 2014)

This is the first fan-art for From The Sticks in 2014 that I did.

I could never forget to make you guys one once in a while. :)
Like... How could I not?!

Well of course this is inspired by your songs all put together, especially Ocean Flaws!

Keep it up lads! Proud #stickhead over here! Hahaha!

Links to their band:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Fromthesticksmusic

https://www.facebook.com/FromTheSticks

https://twitter.com/FromSticks

https://soundcloud.com/from-the-sticks

Abby Lim

How to Fail at Life

My life currently is literally consists of my face stuck to the screen for hours every day.

And you know what phrase I use?

"Become a potato."

Yup, I'm a potato all day errday. Why potato? Because uh... couch potato you know, then uh... I'm on the internet... Oh, I don't know! Just... POTATO.

I don't have that bean-baggy couch though. I wish I have one. Wait, no... Or else I'll REALLY become a potato like this one.

I have no life... *cries*

Abby Lim

Reason Why I'm Single: #1

Have you ever wonder why you're still single sometimes? Not one bit? Ah, it couldn't be.

Anyway, this is one of the reason why I'm still single.

Protective mum...

But hey, most of the time, mum knows what's best for you. So don't take anything for granted. When you're down, they will always be there to pick you right back up.

My cartoon skill is... *bangs head on le table*

Chinese New Year haven't even start, and I see so many Valentine's Day deco/ gifts/ chocolates all over the malls. Chill please, chill...

Abby Lim

Drawing: The Big Hair and Hibiscus

Hi everyone!

So this post is really random. I have heck no idea how I came out with this piece here but here it is.

While I was drawing this, I was all aimless. All I used was watercolour pencils, marker pens and black gel pen.

I wanted to practise drawing asians as I am REALLY bad at it.. then aimlessly drew a face out which I have heck no idea who this looks like. Then, aimlessly just coloured the hair BIG. Then just used my black pen and scribble the freaking hair. At the same time I wanted to add a flower on top of the head. Then I added Hibiscus, because I thought that's my national flower, so why not eh?

Then this whole thing just became a piece without a plan. Just random thoughts at the moment while drawing.

Well, most of what I draw throughout my life are not perfect looking. There's always mess and things that don't make sense. At least to me. But the more I look at the mess, the more I like it. I'm weird in my own way.

Haha...

Abby Lim

Drawing: Pink Roses

Hi there!

So this will be my first ever serious art blog post as well as the second blog post of the year. As you can tell by the title, yes, they are some pink roses.

I've always been loving roses. They are one of my favourite type of flower. However, the white roses are just not my taste. In my opinion, they just look dead. :/ Ahaha..

Other than roses, I also love tulips, daisies, water lilies, pertunas, carnations and morning glories. Well, I'm not a green thumb so it's sad that I can't keep/ grow any of these. Besides, the weather of where I live, a big no no. They will all just die.

Enough of me babbling about flowers and lets get to the drawings.

So for my drawing here, I used Crayolas' Super Tips Washable Markers (the only markers I have for now), Faber Castell's Manga set which I own for years (barely used it often), Faber Castell's watercolour pencils, and lastly Monami's permanent marker pen. 

So I start of by sketching out the desired roses in the positions I like.

Then I used the pink marker and light green/ lime green marker to go all over the roses and the leaves. 

Used the red and the green marker for the shades.

After that, I go ahead and used one of the shade off the Manga set to do further shading to give some dimensions and depths.

Added the background shade with a black coloured watercolour pencil and used Monami's permanent marker to outline everything. 

This is the result!

Roses are really difficult to draw. They take really long for me to even finish sketching! But roses aren't meant to look perfect most of the time anyway. Their petals go everywhere and anywhere.

I used an iPhone 4s to capture all the photos by the way. I have no fancy shmancy DSLR camera.

Thanks for viewing! :)

Abby Lim