1 Project of the Week 11- Pink Gown

Hello!

It's Constance again for the eleventh project of the week!

This time, I did a watercolour painting of a girl in a pink gown, inspired by One Paper Addict's fashion illustration. Here's the process.

First, I started off with an outline of her figure, in pencil, on watercolour paper.

1 Project of the Week 10- Tissue Paper Ballerina

Hi...

It's RuoBing again for the tenth project of the week.

This time, my project will not be a diy, but a sketch I did this week. It's a cute ballerina with a tissue paper dress and hair bow tie. There aren't any steps pictures though... Just wanted to share this.

0 Project of the Week 9- Diy Jean Back Pocket

Hello!

This is Constance and it's my ninth project of the week! Today's tutorial will be very fun.

And I will be sharing this super easy jean back pocket diy tutorial. It can be done in about 10 minutes, so I rated this tutorial difficulty a...

I was inspired by a previous Idea Friday, which you can see here. I basically followed the tutorial from the braided neck t-shirt from Her New Leaf, which you can find here, except I sewed it onto the back pocket of my jeans (which I felt were in serious need of decorating).

What you'll need

-sharp fabric scissors

-needle and thread

-an old pair of jeans

2 Project of the Week 8- Diy Sock Puppet

Hello, again!

Who loves.... sock puppets? I bet you do, and so do I. So that's what we're going to make for my eighth project of the week. And guess what? This is another diy, which means you can make this all by yourself at home!

What you'll need

-sharp scissors

-a small, stiff board (should be the size of your hand or larger)

-liquid glue

-miscellaneous fabric (the colour of the puppet's tongue)

-two buttons

-whatever extras you want to put on your puppet (eg. pipe cleaners, rabbit ears, etc)

-needle and thread

-and of course, a sock!

0 Project of the Week 7- Watercolour Flowers

Hi, guys!

This is the seventh project of the week (wowee). Yeah, I say that every day... Anyway.

Today, we're going to make a cool painting of watercolour flowers, which will look like this! I was originally inspired by a blog post from Bella Dia, which you can read here. I found it when I was looking at pictures of watercolour flowers, and I saw this picture.

It looked pretty cool to me, so I decided to try out the tutorial for my project of the week! Here we go.

0 Project of the Week 6- Padlet

Hey people reading this!

I've discovered this website (also comes as an app) called Padlet. You can make an account for free here: http://padlet.com/. Padlet is a software that basically gives you a wall. This wall can be used for anything, including presentations, profiles, and collages, or even as a blog itself! You can insert most media, such as links and videos. Padlet is very simple and easy to use. Take a look at the "About Me" wall I made with Padlet! http://padlet.com/wall/colourfuldecorations

Everything about Padlet is very basic: image, title, description. You can resize images and customize the background. However, like Bamboo Paper (an app I described before here), there is something appealing about it. I think it is a very effective way to convey whatever information you want to convey. So go ahead, and create your own wall here!

Sorry, this was a bit short. G'luck with your wall ;)
-Constance Wang

0 Project of the Week 5- Elegant Frame

Hey, everybody,

It's my fifth project of the week, and I'm going to share this elegant frame I drew- unlike, most, it's actually hand drawn. Yes, it might seem weird. I mean, why would someone just draw a frame? Recently, I've been looking at these lacy balcony designs. If you take a look at my fourth #5days2decor8 entry here, you will see that I used a lot of classy lace, or swoops and other patterns. Then, at school, I made a 'postcard', and the frames were amazingly fun. I decided, to well, design more frames. Here is my first:



I will hopefully do some more as the week progresses, and I have more time. However, if you have some beautiful frames you either found online, or drew yourself, you can send them here to colourfuldecorationsemail@gmail.com.

Happy framing,
Constance

0 Project of the Week 4- Charcoal Hand Sketches

Hi, guys!

It's the fourth project of the week already. These aren't really little projects any more, they're starting to become works of art, or ideas instead. Today I'm going to share two hand sketches I did with charcoal pencils on manilla paper. Basically, I did some shopping at Curry's yesterday, and I got a pack of four charcoal pencils- in white, light, medium, and dark. They were very bright, vibrant, and easy to smudge. You can find it here: https://www.currys.com/product.htm?Product=D39000&Source=Category&Category=DERWENT_CHARCOAL_PENCILS.



With that, I also decided to purchase a pad of manilla paper, which was pretty cheap! You can find that here: https://www.currys.com/product.htm?Product=MAN1824PA&Source=Category&Category=NEWSPRINT_AND_DRAWING_PADS.

For some reason, I like to sketch hands. It's like some sort of internal desire. So I made some poses with my left hand, and started sketching. As a general thing, all my poses are weak and hesitant. Like a bended finger pointing to the right. Or a curved, skeptical hand in the stop position. I suppose that's my style.

I used the light to sketch an outline of the pencil. Then, when I fixed everything up, I used medium to retrace the lines. I scribbled with the light for the shadows, and with the white for the highlights. I also added some medium to the darker areas. I then re-lined the whole thing in a bold dark. Here they are.

     

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Think this is pretty awesome ;)

0 Project of the Week 3- Social Media Icons

Hello!

It's the third project of the week! I've been blogging for almost a month. WOW. Anyway, let's get started.

Everyone loves social media icons, right? But some of them are just too... plain. Like the ones I had on my sidebar before this... I wanted some that matched my theme. So I decided to draw some. For this, I used an iPad app called Doodle Paper (you can go read my post about iPad art here: https://colourfuldecorations.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/ipad-art/).

I basically drew a set of nine social media icons, following these simple steps.

1. Draw a watercolour blob. Yes, it's very simple. Just select the watercolour function and the colour you want, and scribble out a blob.



2. Draw a smaller, darker, watercolour blob to inside. This will mimic the gradient effect.



3. Then, select the pen function, and draw a sketchy, inverted picture of your desired social media icon.



4. Crop it. Put it into the size you want, and then post it in some online photo dumping grounds. I believe Photobucket is the best, and you can get an account for free here. http://photobucket.com/.

Don't worry, you don't have to make a social media icon this way. The possibilities are endless, especially with a very flexible app like Doodle Paper. You could even draw it on paper. However, if you want to grab my social media icons, you can find the images here:

Reddit:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/ec099a7c-c6b7-46f8-a00c-93e37514303d_zps7262da25.png

RSS:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/4c9e19a7-6d53-4aaf-9dd0-2145b8762ab4_zps3fbf7f90.png

Instagram:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/c29ec0b8-c9b4-49f5-bc22-abfb953555df_zps7dfc8763.png

Facebook:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/85d7f4d0-091c-40b7-ae20-3ea5e376bcf0_zps4ecefd34.png

Email:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/98df89cc-49c4-49ef-825b-7fac1db80011_zpsb099a673.png

Twitter:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/f5ce0a0c-e2c1-4c95-838f-d3938cc00c25_zps81e16f18.png

Google Plus:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/e56bfcda-8a7d-4365-81cd-2c121e9fce3e_zpsa6e18f83.png

Pinterest:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/899540da-0347-45c1-a04b-7865f665e612_zpsc6819ac8.png

Wordpress:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l333/constancezwang/4798d0a5-c003-4a3f-b1da-e4364f6fb38c_zps3667f3ed.png

Happy drawing!

0 Project of the Week 2- Plaid Watercolour Painting

Hello, all!

This is my second project of the week, and I really do like it! It's a cool plaid watercolour painting, with black pen over it. It took around three hours. Here it is!

I started out by lining up all of the plaid pattern (which I made symmetrical). I got this idea that I could do it in split colours, a blue theme, and a red theme. I actually ended up copying a large portion of my pattern from my plaid shirt. I layered thick and thin lines, and came up with this.

Then, I started painting. I tried to use a ruler to make my lines straight, but the paint bled through, which looked cool. I started out with the blue side, and used cerulean and prussian blues, with some purple and green. For each blue colour, I assigned a red colour. This painting was made messy on purpose to contrast with the neatness of the black pen.

When I waited for the paint to dry, I ended up getting impatient and just dabbed the water away with a tissue. I outlined all the pencil, and tried to erase what was left of it. And then, almost as an afterthought, I dipped the end of my paint brush into some dense watercolour paint, and scribbled with it. The effect was hard and chalky, which I found contrasted nicely with the watery neatness.





That's how I made my painting. You can recreate this if you want, maybe with a thicker pen, or different colours. If you make one that turns out nice, you can send them to me at colourfuldecorationsemail@gmail.com.

Thanks for reading this!

0 Project of the Week 1- Patterned Bookmark

Hey, people!

I've decided to start a periodic post called the "Project of the Week." I'll be posting a new project idea on a weekly basis. Here's a bookmark I actually made a while ago.

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The inspiration of my bookmark actually came from my backpack. I loved how random the plaid patterns were, and how the whole theme was based on rectangles. If you don't know, my favourite shapes are rectangles. They add an urban feel to everything. I especially liked to look at the polka dots, and the various designs inside the rectangles. I decided that I wanted to recreate something like my backpack, except, with more colour.

Hence the design of my bookmark. Since I didn't feel like doing a whole page, I just cropped a section. I did what I could with the rectangles. Although it turned out very different from the original backpack design, it looked pretty cool to me. I used thick and thin sharpie, sparkly yellow gel pen, purple gel pen, and pink gel pen. Long after I completed this bookmarks, I suddenly decided to add the silver and gold swirls of dots.

I glued my bookmark to a piece of green bristol board, to give it a hard back. As an afterthought, I hole punched the middle to attach a string of beads. And tada! There's my bookmark.

You don't have to use this design, but whatever patterns you see, on a backpack, binder, maybe even the wallpaper, can be some really nice inspiration for a project. When you're not sure how to express that pattern, you can always do a bookmark!

With love,