04/07/2012

Not that I'd call myself a catholic (I'm not really OK with dogmatic stuff invented by the church in the middle-ages to get more money), but my family is catholic, and at least on every big holidays we go to the church. And you know what it's like, when you're get used to a whole different thing and then go back to the old stuff… It seems immediately unreasonable for some reason.


Attending to a kinda modern protestant church, I spend more time amongst people who, when God's grace is mentioned, are more likely start to perform King David's famous “holy dance” freaking out everyone who's not used to that. …Ok, well, maybe that's not very frequent (never seen it in fact), but it's a fact, that the worship style of this church is much more lively and – for me at least – natural, than what you can see in a more traditional church. I'm not saying it's better, I'm just saying, after it a catholic mass was kinda unusual for me (even if I spent the biggest part of my life going to catholic churches), and it inspired me on this drawing.

Because, you know, to simplify it to the bare facts, Easter is all about we don't have to get the punishment for our sins, means we don't have to spend the eternity in a place fully separated from God – i.e. the source of everything which can be good, so you're kinda doomed without him, cause what remains is the lack of every good stuff which is… well you can imagine – …So you can avoid all this sh*t, and be in a place where you can fully experience everything that is good – i. e. the presence of God –, and for this you don't have to do stuff or anything, only to want it, I mean to want to be with God, to want to get saved – i. e. say “that Jesus guy already  payed for it, soo…” I mean. That is what it's all about.

And on that day, in that church, in that mass, I didn't really feel that most people who're saying “Amen” and “Hallelujah” (in more modern words: “YAY to that!”) understand it. And to be just, it is not a catholic attribute. They might be the most moderate ones in praising but that doesn't mean anything about the inside thoughts. Yes, the phenomenon exists in catholic church. As well as it exists in every denomination. People can fake any reaction, and still miss the point of their supposed faith.


But, well. That's just another “stuff christians like”.

04/06/2012

That is true. Chinese people only wear green hats when they want to tell the outside world that their spouse is cheating on them. Without trying to philosophize on the fact that anyone would want to communicate such thing to the outside world, it's an interesting thing isn't it.

But as for Susi, my 17th follower, I don't even know where to start… Maybe the easiest way to sum her personality up is to say: she is the German me, while I'm the Hungarian Susi. It is hard to tell which one of us had bigger impact on the other. Although, it is a fact that after living together for a half year I passed my lateness-carma to her, the most punctual person I know – <cough> no cultural prejudices. Also, she's the person who's name probably gonna be well known worldwide from our (expectedly) famous musical: Susi Poppins. But more on that maybe later. 

As you might have found out, she currently lives in China, teaching English for little chinese children. But I don't have to be uninformed about her everyday life, because we can still skype sometimes, and she also reports her friends about her curious adventures in her newsletters written on literary work style, which will make a pretty good book sometime in the future.


So you'd better remember her name, people!

04/05/2012

Followerdrawing #15 for Dóri, the cutest little girl I know. Like seriously, the first word that most likely comes to one's mind about her is “cuteness”. That's it. Some people just born for that. And it's OK.

And when I asked her to follow my blog publicly, do you know what did she ask for? What? A unicorn. Like, seriously, a unicorn, that's all that she wanted.

Dóri. Unicorn. Cuteness. Followerdrawing.

04/04/2012

Followerdrawing #14 goes to Szilvi, one of my classmates. One of those who has a great tendency to think of morbid stuff. Not that it's a rare thing in our class, but she's outstanding in at least one other thing as well: having an extraordinary love towards dogs. And when these two come together, well, the results you can check out on her portfolio page. 

But as for typography, seems like her philosophy is “Everything has its limits” and as for freakness it's typography where man should say “stop”. Though you might remember when I said that one cannot read The Book without getting at least a bit typofreak, and though you might remember the drawing about Eszti carrying 4 of them (which were actually for my classmates, including Szilvi), but, well, seems like the magic is not working in this case. Well. Can't everyone be isolated freak!

04/03/2012

Followerdrawing #13 goes to Dusi, one of my closest friends. But in fact, it's not her first appearance in 365IP world. You could have already seen her as a bear arriving in Jászberény with her sister-bear; a bear who's afraid of a cutesy-wootsie giant doggy-woggy; an important member of the Spinster Club and a very upset working woman on 8th March. And now you have the opportunity to get to know a whole new side of her: the mature adult.

04/02/2012

Ahh, inside jokes! So annoying when you're the one who just stands there and doesn't understand why everyone else is laughing hysterically on something that sounds like an ordinary phrase, but, on the other hand, so great, when you're one of those who have the key to understand it.

Well, sorry guys, but this time you'll be in the former group, except if you're Betti, who is my 13th follower, so here comes followerdrawing #12 (remember: follower 6, Emese didn't want one, because I did dailydrawings starring her anyway).

04/01/2012

For what else reason do someone go to a christian student retreat, right?…

(FÉK is a christian student organization, which – amongst many other programs – organizes two student retreats a year: one at fall and one at spring; one weekend of talks, seminars, small group discussions, fun programs, fellowship and lots of laugh – all this to learn more about God while having some fun.)

This is an extra-followerdrawing for Vikky, who not only followed my blog, but also brought here many people who followed it. So if you've already got your followerdrawing, but want another too, you know what to do… 

With or without text – the results of my poll

So my survey has ended with the following results:

Based on the votes of those 21 people who wanted to let me know their opinion at all, it seems, you are quite OK with the content of my blog. 5 people said it is fine the way it is now, and 10 people doesn't even care what do I draw as long as I draw something.

Now only two people said that they want the bears back, and that's not a significant crowd (even in a crowd of 21 people), especially considering that one of them was me voting in place of my cousin who told me in November that he loved the bears more. So I won't go back on drawing bears, but maybe I'll find a way to feature them more…

The thing I'm most interested in, is the question of “with or without letters”. 4 people said that they prefer drawings without text on them, which might be only 19%, but considering that it's almost the amount of people who said it's OK, I cannot ignore them. Besides, I was also thinking that maybe putting words on them might have reduced the quality of my illustrations. It is true, that in the beginning it was more about the drawings, the way I illustrate things, and by starting to add text to it, to put it in a context, I've slowly started to tend to focus on the content of the text, and pay less attention to the drawing part, especially to their quality. Another negative consequence is that – as a result of my lazyness – the texts I write on them are often ugly, also does not really fit to the drawing.

So as the result of the poll, the things I've decided to change are:

#1 I'll try to make illustrations without text as many times as possible

Writing text on drawings can make one lazy: not trying to express the thing by the drawing, but just writing it down.The lack of text will keep my mind exercised, having to find ways to express visually instead of just verbally.

#2 I'll work on the “typography” of my drawings (not a wrong idea from someone who calls herself a typofreak, eh?)

Besides making them nicer, I really want to work on the way I place text on the drawing. I want to integrate the text in it, so that it won't feel like it's just “accidentally” there.

#3 I'll think about a way to get some bears back into 365IP world. ;)

But as you know, I'm posting exactly one month old stuff, so you'll be able to see these changes only next month. So please don't think – seeing the drawings of April – that these were just empty promises.

Magyar fordítások (about Hungarian translations)

Mivel szerettem volna, ha a külföldi ismerőseim is értik a napirajzaim, illetve ha idetéved egy-egy ismeretlen (jó eséllyel nem magyar; és idővel remélhetőleg jó sok lesz ilyen), számára is értékelhető a dolog, s mivel a magyar ismerőseim nagy része is tanul/tanult angolul, úgy gondoltam, célszerűbb lesz angolul készíteni a napirajzokat. Így 2012. január 1-jétől angol nyelvűek, a régebbiekhez pedig angol nyelvű fordítást készítettem.

Ugyanakkor ezzel hátrányba került pár ismerősöm, akik nem tanultak angolul, vagy nem tartozik éppen a kedvenc nyelveik közé, így – mivel a látogatóim túlnyomó többsége továbbra is magyar – úgy döntöttem, mostantól a képek szövegeinek magyar fordítását is közlöm a bejegyzésekben. (A többi szöveget sajnos továbbra sem fogom lefordítani, mert az már végképp meghaladná a kapacitásom, viszont mivel általában csak kiegészítő rizsa, az sem marad le semmi fontosról, aki nem érti :)

A magyar fordítások a „rizsa szekció” alatt szerepelnek majd, a jobb elkülönülés érdekében lila színnel. A blog főoldalán a bejegyzések alatti „Read more”-ra kattintva érhetitek el.

Another 365 bear illustration project

I've just found this. Didn't know about it when I started my 365 Illustration Project, so the thing seems a bit scary (especially considering that you can't find many 365 illustration projects out there). But well, his devotion to the bears lasted much longer than mine...