My New Journey of Running Business.

Logogramm.etsy.com

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My new life journey has begun. 

Setting up and opening new online shop is serious job as much as launching offline shop, I believe. Of course for the online shop, I've got easy and handy tools out there ready for me to use. The good amount of efforts and time that I have to throw in is where producing good products to sell and marketing them—this is basically the same whether it is online or offline. Good thing is, I am selling products that I can make at home office. Selling something I enjoy to make and do pretty well was the key point of opening a shop. 

Maybe I am little hurry to do it, and I am not a hundred percent sure that I am shaping it well, but at least I am doing it. It surely better doing it than just keep thinking or wishing it. I may fail on selling as many as I wish or may not earn profits as much as I maintain the producing and running. But through out the process of running this business, I will keep learning and getting better on this. 

Girls are a gift from God

As soon as I found out that I am carrying a baby girl and will be a mother of two daughters, I was thrill more than I expected—my husband and I sort of wished having a boy just because we have a girl already.  Surprisingly, I was filled with full of joy and was happier than any other moments. So I sincelery gave thanks to the Lord about giving us another precious daughter and His plan is always perfect for us to live with God.

So I started thinking about how I express this moment of joy, then I came up with this quick pencil sketch saying, "Girls are gifts from God." I know my weakness are on grammars, spellings and common english expressions or phrase since it is my second language, so I checked my quote on google.

"Children are a gifts from the Lord"

I found this from searching and I noticed that it is a text from the Bible (NLT), book of Psalm chapter 127.




So I corrected my quote as "Girls are a gift from God" and finished artwork. I made it as screen saver for my own laptop display, and I also printed out in large so I can hang it on the wall of the two girls bedroom. Imagining that when the girls are growing up and saying, "this is beautiful mommy" is really melting my heart—they may not saying that though. But I am sure that they get some feeling about it in positive way.




My husband was happy about this poster and said, "why don't we selling this on our online shop?" Because it is not a fake but created with real story and true feeling, I agreed with him. So it is on our Etsy shop now. I really hope people, who see this piece from our shop or even have it as their own, feel the same way with us.

I am Beautiful

This piece is a part of a project called, "I am" and something has never be done. Through this project, I want to make a statement about some messages sending not only to myself but to people who has such low self-esteem. The messages will be started as "I am" and the followed words will be something encouraging and telling that basically "you are good" 

During the time of my youth, my family was perfect—perfectly normal as we all were experiencing those big and small sadness, madness and happiness. My parents were wealthy enough to support me and my brother's education. My neighborhood were peaceful and safe and not so much bullies in the schools. The environment or circumstances surrounded my life was pretty nice but strangely I had never been happy nor loved myself. I had never thought myself as proud. Yes I am a shy person and such a perfectionist. If I am really ready-ready—ready enough to talk with confidence and with full of knowledge—I am good. But I usually doubt myself and hardly satisfied about myself being ready. 

Because of my bad English with full of grammar errors, I avoid and hide to not talking to somebody in the conferences and meet-ups—even though it became pointless to being there! I blamed myself to have this such inconvenience personality or sometimes wondered why my parents let me growing with such a low self-esteem—which is totally truly bad thinking. 

Thankfully, things getting better after I got married with this nice guy who always being around me with love. He who is with plenty of kind words in a warm heart always compliments and encourages me. I am not saying that I am totally changed and become out-going person because of him and his love, but I started to thinking my way of communicating people and doing something similar to what he has done to me. Sharing warm heart with other people. Positive and kind words have a power of filling energies and refreshing minds for both of person who says them and who heard them. I wish I become a person who wisely helps people get vivacious sprit because I get them through someone else too. 

Beloved Doyald Young & Donizetti Project from Got Curves

Since my first grade at the school, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, I was suggested taking a class called 'Doyald Young's Got Curves' so many times from most of major instructors and friends who were in higher grade and who already had taken that class. In order to enroll that class, I needed to submit my pencil drawings to get approved my drawing skills, and also I had to take numbers of major required classes until the fifth term grade.

Because at that time, I was only a junior, I could not be able to take the class but I bought his books all three at once. I amazed tremendously just by looking at the images on the pages and pages, and I started admiring him. Those books are still my number one books that I flip through to get refresh when I get stock. Not only looking his hand done sketches but also reading his writing is really inspiring and motivating.

On the summer 2010, I was finally qualified to attend his class but the class was shorten than usual because of his recovery from hip surgery. I might think I was unlucky but I was actually lucky that he taught us despite of his suffering from the pain. In short amount of time, he taught me the most juicy working process of him and he became my mentor and role model as a letterer and type designer. I wish I had him longer, known him better and understood his telling and teaching more and better before we lost him. 

Class was assigned each name of person or company to do idea sketches roughly before we actually meet him in the classroom. He assigned Donizetti to me. I researched this name and it is the last name of a Italian Composer Gaetano Donizetti. I drew fancy flourishes around the name as much as I could and thought that were pretty. However at this very moment of writing this journal, I am embarrassed by looking at those initial sketches that have overwhelmed pointless curves with nonsense. Thankfully Doyald very gently suggested me to omit some busy flourishes and have nice and graceful curves perfectly enough to describe the person.

Doyald made us do tight pencil sketches over and over again until we get this right even after we digitizing the letters with putting quite a lot of time. Some students were upset and could not understand his process. I was not quite understanding the purpose of this process either at that time but I was just enjoying drawing perfect curves with pencil. I cannot quote him exactly but remember he told me something like this, 'not even you don't understand this process but you will see.' And I see. I see what he tried teaching us and still I do same thing for my own projects. 

 Doyald Young, Logotype Designer filmed by Lynda.com, 2010

This short film is taken by Lynda.com, and our class is viewed. In the scene I was sitting by next to Doyald and listening and watching his feedback on my work. Luckily or unluckily you may not see my face because I was too focused on him or maybe too shy to be seen. So, people cannot tell if I am girl or boy? Maybe...

Luc Devroye this blogger indicates me as "He" but here is a link of his blog about me but thanks to him—I guess—to wrote about my projects. 

Also this project was featured on Logo Designer—Thank you!