Caprese Salad for non-diet

-tomato

-garlic powder

-oregano

-thyme

-olive oil

-fresh mozarella (the squishy white one)

Slice the mozarella and tomato. Add the powder, spices and oil to the tomato and let it marinade a bit. Fry each slice carefully.

Serve alternating a slice of mozarella and one of tomato in a plate.

Enjoy!

Wow. It's been a while.

A lot has happened since the last time I posted my anime-wannabe art here.
My career (and some social websites) started taking most of my time, and I had some problems with organic chemistry, and calculus, and thermodynamics, and ... well let's just say I was getting used to being in college. Tip: No matter how smart you are, leave behind those days when you could pass an exam studying the night before.
But anyway, even after flunking a bit of subject due to my passion, I managed to finally be able to do both things and actually improve in both at the same time.
I had to quit some luxuries like my wacom, for instance, but the emancipation from the digital tools made me realize I was forgetting to actually draw things well and just focusing in the color.
I have made some style changes, some experimentation with non-manga characters, and realized that my problem was actually in trying to draw manga instead of everything else.
You see, manga has a lot of shortcuts and tricks to make the work done faster, but these can only be mastered by someone who already knows about structure.
Anyway... I still don't have something definitive to post here, but if someone out there really reads this empty blog, he/she could visit this link and get a slight idea of where things are going.

Anyway, I'll try to come here more often and work on the blog, because that image in the top banner is making me crazy.

Goodnight! :3

moo's avi art

Now, here's another avi art i recently finished. ive had a very productive week ^^


Here i tried a comic-like style coloring.

making of

sketchs

not a lot of time to write. sorry.
But rejoice! as i have finally achieved some sketches to share with you.
Both are, as in gaiaonline are called, aviart. Drawings of their avatars.

First one here is a chibi style avi which will have a color of mostly black,


Next, is my own avatar on a more comic like style


I shall say what ill do to them in the next post.
now i will sleep, as it is late for me. :p

Personal Stuff

Inside this blog, there will be entries with no art at all. Just random thoughts, comments, or things that I'd like to share with the readers of this blog so they understand more my personality and hopefully, understand better my "art".

SO, here's the first random post of this blog, which will have to do with my personality. If you aren't interested in this part of yours truly, I invite you to come back later when some attempts of art are posted.

Favorite color: Depending for what its used. Each color can be beautiful if used in something that will honor that color, goes with the color, or is being helped by the color. For example, the color I'd honor by painting entirely a car with would be orange. The color I'd buy a t-shirt of would be depending on the pants i want to wear them with, or if I'd just buy it because of the message it has, or great design, it prefer it to be red, because it goes with my skin tone. guess which one it is.

Favorite TV show: In the highly popular and overrated form of entertainment I am not so cultivated, as I rarely sit in front of my TV to watch the local or satellite channels available at my house. But nevertheless, I do have a certain preferred series. Many of them are cartoons: The Fairly Odd Parents, Duck Dudgers, and some anime titles are on my list, as well as Junkyard Wars and Mythbusters, to go with my engineering side.

Favorite food: I'm sure it will be easier to mention the foods that aren't my favorite, as I have been brought up by two amateur gourmets, and learned to appreciate all the flavors natures has given to us, except bamboo. I hate bamboo. And a certain type of olives.

Lifestyle: I live in Mexico, which I'm am certain is not a third world country, as that is the level in which poor countries in Africa plagued by terrible diseases and hunger are. Of course, some places of Mexico will have the same problems as Ethiopia but as well as many countries that are said to be global superpowers. Still, in Mexico one will find the best and the worst. Its as well as a luxury as an adventure to live here.

Anyway, you may want to know a little more about my life. An artist's life is usualy dark and tragic, but sadly mine is not the case. Maybe that is why I'm not a truly devoted artist. Who knows?
As for what I do everyday, I get up, go to the university, and come back home, play Wii, waste time in the internet and all those basic things a human has to do to live. At weekends i go out to normal weekend activities, as the movies or family/friends reunions, and do some homework.Yup, I'm quite an inactive girl, plus, I hate sports. Except martial arts, but when I practice them I have found that I start acting aggressively towards everybody, so I decided to avoid everyone the pain of having a 22.5cm foot kicking their butt and not go to karate classes.
As for my past, well, nothing really tragic in there, at least nothing that changed my life forever, but that I will talk about in later posts, I think.

Word that has defined my life: Moof.
A word from which I have learned many different ways of expression, as well as being a simplistic way for me to say anything I wouldn't be able to in real words. As you can see, I'd rather express myself with tones of voice than words, but as this has proven to be impossible to me in the blogosphere, I have learned to be patient and right my thoughts as they flow from my head. Thats why some sentences won't agree with the english grammar my teachers have tried to get on my head all this years.
Anyhow, I do have some words that can give a general idea of my emotional state at that time. Meef, when I'm angry, meow when I'm sad, to name a few.
As you may have already concluded, i have the mental age of a 6 year old, which is corroborated by the facebook test of the same name.

Now, for those curious enough to know where moof comes from, there's a wikipedia article on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moof . Meef is just a derivation of the word.

First Post

This is my first post on this blog, so lets get you started with a little art I'm currently working on.
You may find my art quite... commercial and senseless, but from time to time I can get some emo piece up on my gallery.
My tools: wacom graphire, a mac mini that overheats with running youtube videos, and a really cool flat screen 1280x1024 :D.
Quite modest, you great graphic designers may think, but i dare say I'm above the average sketcher. But greatly below the students of the fine arts. You'll have to bear with my lack of ratio balance, and proper ambientation, as I am self-taught, and quite stubborn.

Most pics you'll see here are what i like to call, practice, as they are mainly intended for wowing less cultured people, or getting some life into an online community character. You'll have to forgive me for this, but as everyone knows, an artist has to eat. Yet i wont eat with virtual money, but at least have some fun, which is why i got the internet in the first place.

As I was saying, the next drawing wont be an exception to the tasteless and dry drawings of modern day anime lovers, but as that is a style which has been with me quite a while, I refuse to deny it or suppress it. So here it is:As you can see, its still unfinished, and willing to recieve any commentaries, suggestions and critiques of any sort.

Next here, its one of my latest works. This is a comissioned drawing for what i was saying earlier, an online comunity character, called gaiaonline.


Here I tried new ways of cging, as well as more detailed backgrounds.

And lastly, here's a pencil drawing I did at school. (Not at art school, though. I'm studying chemical engineering. Don't ask why.)



Hope you add your comments and suggestions.