napiraiz #072 + Happy Valentine's Day!

Well, technically it is still Valentine's Day in Hungary, sorry if you're in a different timezone... Actually, what is time for a Doctor Who fan anyway! Right?!

First I was like let's do something Spinster Club for today, but no, that would have been cheap. See instead:

Actually they had a live chat on youtube today which I happened to miss, I leave it to you to point out the irony of it.

What? What that you ask? Who are Simon and Martina? Seriously. Have some culture!

Fragments From My Sketchbook

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Fragments From My Sketchbook

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I know, I know. The 16-year-old me would probably be amazed that the ten years older herself is not only allowed to go to concerts, but even earns money only by participating such events and writing about them. (This would probably compensate her for the fact that – much to her disappointment – I am still alive at such an old age.)

But you know it's much less fun when you're there because you are obligated, surrounded by complete strangers and people that either irritate you or are irritated by you. And you know... eventually you hit the age when at 10 p.m. you don't wish to be at a loud and crowded concert but to be at home at your warm and comfy little bed... What you say dear reader, that said age people usually hit in their 70s? Sorry I can't hear you well...

All right, you got me. I'm a helpless antisocial. A real proper spinster. A “musically uncool” person – or something like that I just read that night in that book of Miranda Harts when I got laughed at... In my defence I was reading Salinger just a half hour before.

My entries 4 Sandra and Woo Fanart Contest 2013

Okay, I'm not starting from the beginning of time and everything, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go check out last year's one.

That gave me like a ton of new visitors (well, it's a popular webcomic with fans of excellent taste...), so it wasn't a question that I'd attend this year too. I decided to submit two kinds of drawings again: one that represents my work, and one that... well, make people think that I can actually draw. Here they are: (note that to fully enjoy the first one, you should know a bit about Larisa...)

 

(click on the pictures for bigger size)

UPDATE: I made it to the posted submissions with the “cool” one. And I'm quoting: “Eliza submitted one of the funniest drawings of the contest.” Shall I add anything? :D

Fragments From My Sketchbook

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E56 – Workplace commentaries on my exam work.

“True story!” – as they say.

Fragments From My Sketchbook

E11 – It was Hermann.

Invitation. To love.

So I decided not to continue my 365 Illustration Project the way I did it (my other option was to scratch out sleeping from my daily schedule). But I still feel the need of doing something similar, and sometimes, only sometimes, even doing it similarly to the “good old days”. Now I'll show you some of these (don't mock the topics. I'm still an isolated freakish spinster, so what.)

Until the next episode of “fragments from my sketchbook”,

yours sincerely

07/20/2012

Today you're lucky enough to see the third part in a series of me, sitting in the right corner of the picture with the same face thinking about the same stuff... 
First there was this: 02/25/2012
You know what he answered to that question of mine?? Know what??? He said that maybe the Oldstyle fonts are even capable of that.
Then in the summer I got to this conclusion: 06/23/2012
Then – just to make completely clear that I am not normal – there was this:

 ... and thus starts the very last week of me posting 365IPs.

06/23/2012

Drawing #1 

Do you remember Dóri? Well...


Drawing #2

1st part of this: 02/25/2012

04/29/2012

04/14/2012

Followerdrawing for Helga, my flatmate (well, saying I'm staying at her apartment on fridays so that I can go to school on saturdays is much closer to the truth). One can say a lot of cool things about her, but it is clear, that she has absolutely no sense to become a freak, let alone typography freak! OK, maybe Kindersley was a bit too old for Lida (marrying a guy who has more common themes with your grandpa than with yourself is maybe not the best idea), and OK, maybe he might have had a wife when Lida fell in love with him, but hey, he kept a distance (as much as it was possible while showing her the proper way of holding the chisel for lettering). And nothing happened between them for 2,5 years… Well, the book doesn't tell about it, and other sources are laconic on this as well, but I sense that his wife died. …OK, maybe not, and he finally divorced and he's a horrible man anyway, but let me believe that he was a nice guy. I mean, afterall, it's David Kindersley!

Well… where was I? Oh, yes. Helga. Followerdrawing. Do not read typofreak stories for normal people. And stuff.

03/15/2012

Do you remember the rightly popular Spinster Club? Well apparently not spinsters are the only group that must face isolation. But who cares until we have our little freak-clubs, right?

It has been said though, that maybe it's not representing the people in this picture well enough. It has been said, that it's too feminine, as much that the gentleman on the right look like a “typo-gay”. Though I just can't understand why in the world do people assume it, it is not right to do so. Another picture must have been made, a more masculine one. So here you go:

“… Titles of course can be written only using capital letters. There are certain typefaces though, which are unsuitable for this form of use, since they're illegible that way, so it is highly prohibited. These are the gothic typefaces…”

(The Book and my poor translation)

* I must mark here for the sake of truthfulness and for all who know Eszti, that she never said anything suggesting the execution of anyone, neither is she the member of the mafia, not even the TypoFreak mafia, and she never ever killed anyone. Thank you for your understanding. 

03/10/2012

A new follower-drawing again. This time it's for Eni, my best friend, who I know since elementary school. That's a history, eh? And on Saturday she came over, to discuss new stuff happened in our lifes lately. Being an isolated freak, the things I could report were mainly drawings, and being a typofreak… well… yes.

02/25/2012

Time has come to post the first “follower-drawing” (I mean, the good version of it, not those lame photos I've already posted). If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look at the sidebar on the right. In short, I draw a dailydrawing featuring anyone who follow me publicly.

My very first follower (and sorry Meli, but I have evidence for this) was Tamás Asztalos. If you follow my 365IP from the beginning, you already know some things about him, like at his name even Photoshop-demons obey, or that being able once to follow his lesson was one of my greatest success in life.

He teaches us all those digital stuff (you know, like Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and stuff like that) and some typography as well (or at least he does his best trying to… my classmates are just not that into the whole idea of becoming weird, isolated typofreaks, you know). Besides all this, he is the IT system admin at the school, and he did a pretty good job surviving until now. In fact, he takes stress so well (like staying super-kind and -helpful to everyone 24/7, smiling all day, never hitting any of the school's MACs with an axe…) that some of my friends suggested that he either is a dedicated believer christian – kinda like Mother Theresa or something – or he is doing drugs. 

But seriously, he is one of my favourite teachers, and I'm not alone with this opinion.

Now that I've done everything to upgrade my nerd/geek status to a whole new level, and also to improve my grades (right?… right?… ehm…), there's only one thing left to say:

follow me, and I'll write nice things about you too!

02/21/2012