(late) mondayMAKINGS #6 ~Vacation Memories~

Drawing beach treasures...

  Dear patient readers! 

Finally I manage to take some time getting back into BLOGGING! YAY!^^
THX for stopping by, and not forgetting about my Bastelbar! =D
It's actually Tuesday already, I know... but now that I found time to blog, why wait another week? ;)
(good thing about being the one who made the rules... means I can break them whenever I have to)

After a hard and long exams period I had the chance to break out of everything here at home and
went on vacation for two weeks to the beautiful, magical, sweet and awesome coast of Lyme Regis.
It's a small town in South England, with a famous harbour, great landscape and friendly inhabitants.
Here's some offspring of the(re)creational time I took there.
Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to leave a critique in the comments below! ^^

   xx,  Yours Tiki

Drawing at the beach - what could be more relaxing?! ^^

the original still life

the outcome

almost 3D....okay, ALMOST

mondayMAKINGS #5 ~3D Chair design & rendering~

Maybe you didn't notice it, but last week the mondayMAKINGS had to be skipped. =/
Having some exams in college next week, I'm kinda busy I have to admit...

But today I'll give out a quick post nonetheless. The following picture is a simple rendering exercise I did for a Cinema4D course about 2 years ago. It was all 3d-built, formed, textured, lighted and rendered with Cinema4D R11.
Hardest part was forming the cushions, so they look as if someone sat on the chair before... but it was fun!
I love working with C4D. Visualizations are my favourite part of working on an architecture design. ^^

mondayMAKINGS #4 ~Urban planning research video~

Hey folks. . . today was reeeeaaally one of those days. . . X(

I don't want to get to much into this, but the reason for my bad day was not so much the task itself, that I had to finish for a presentation, but some technical problems.After 5h of working on a video we have to present on Wednesday (about a random city trip we had to do in groups, researching an area and stuff) the Movie Maker program hung itself due to my excessive cutting. . .
Having no choice but to restart the laptop, I found the file "broken" when I tried to open it again. . .
All self reminders for saving every other minute were useless... the well saved file couldn't be opened anymore.

-___-' yay!!!

BUT, I pulled myself together and did it all again. . .

Therefore, it's the simplest logical conclusion now, to take the finished mini-movie 

- even though it looks rather like 12minutes, than 12hours of work - 

and post it here in the mondayMAKINGS today.

. . .Because it IS a HOLE MONDAYS work. . .

(P.S.: brief ad(d) - all songs used in the video are written and recorded by my little brother's one-man-band project. . .credits below)

Just a quick warning: since I was limited to a 3minutes presentation by the professor's order, the following footage might cause dizziness or epileptic fit

 MUSIC credits . by Nevermind the Name

Label page: ntn-music.bandcamp.com

Facebook fan site: www.facebook.com/nevermindthename

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/nevermind-the-name

mondayMAKINGS #3 ~Tinkering with Paper~

Because of the tight schedule I had during the last week (4 family birthdays, college tasks, job and other organizational stuff) I'm still not able to show you some NEW "makings" here today. Sorry for that!!
But since no one knows my "old" stuff either,. . . (therefore wouldn't notice anyways) I suppose you won't mind when I post some crafty output from the last few years. ;b

Last week I showed a drawing, and the week before that there were also sketches and paintings. So I thought, why not go one dimension further and post 3D objects I (re-)designed. . .

I mentioned  my handmade goods shop on DaWanda.com before. . . And that I plan to build up on it in the near future . . .

SOOOooo looking forward to jump into that adventure!! =D

So, to let you get a hint of what it could - maybe . . . somehow - look like, what I'm going to offer there I'm posting some of the crafty designs I've made as presents for friends before. 

I don't like giving loved ones something unpersonalized,. . .simply bought in a shop kinda stuff. All of my friends have more money than I do anyways, so they can better buy things they want for themselves. But what they're not so likely to do is create or design things for themselves.
So I take a chance whenever I can. ;b

Here are some more or less kitschy examples.

I know, things like that are maybe not necessarily suitable for the masses... 
But for a handemade-business-to-be it's at least worth to work out...

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decoupaged calendar diary book

customized Ikea wall clock design

Hawaiian surfer style customized Ikea mirror with keys hooks

fancy key holder board

So... what do you think?!

Would YOU have liked these as a present?

Do you see yourself falling in love with a tinker thingy like that enough to purchase it?!

mondayMAKINGS #2 ~Drawing a Dream Home~

Drawing of a Black Pearl Farm Hut - 2009

This drawing was made in 2009, when I had one of my peak phases of dreaming wildly about my future, and what I want to do with my live. . .
I was in preparation for the entrance exam and portfolio needed for architecture college, when I found a photo somewhere in the web of this stilt house. It immediately triggered fantasies of becoming a (pearl) diver, living a poor but happy life at a beautiful beach. . . 
hahhh. . . 
woudn't you want to live in that hut, too?! =)

Anyways, of course I had to draw it. And here it is.
Still not my house. . .not even similar to my current home, actually. . .(besides, maybe the leaky walls;b) but still loved and dreamed of.

Someday,. . . I'll built something like that and declare it HOME. ^^ 

. . . Who's with me?! . . .