I’m really happy that my illustration entries for Illustration Friday received lovely comments from everyone, and I’d like to thank everyone who left sweet words for me. There’s quite a lot of you, so I’m still writing my thank you emails!

I could spend hours drawing small sketches (which then turned out to be entries for IF), rendering it in Photoshop during the wee hours and not feel tired. In fact, I feel satisfied and happy. Not that I’m smug, no. There’s much to learn and so much to see that I’m hugely excited by it all.

I remember I once took my parents to an education exhibition and proudly proclaimed that I would like to be an artist or a designer. They frowned, of course, and I, knowing full well how much college costs, put my lofty thoughts onto the back burner. Still, I managed to work (or weasel) my way into a public university and got into a design-related course that’s heavily based on gardens and the study of trees (hence you’ll see lots of flora-inspired themes going on…)

I never did look back, and although I now am doing something different from what I studied, my thoughts always go to illustration and how much I’d like to explore more possibilities in the field. I used to think that being around lovely fabrics from my shop was great (and it is!), but somehow, looking at all the lovely patterns, I get wistful. And I get this huge yearning to take up a pen and draw.

Now, I know my dear friend might proclaim my passion for illustration as lofty and slightly hippy-ish, but it’s always been something I’d wanted to explore beyond me and my Moleskine.

Just a warning though: there’ll be more crazy illustrations and doodles as I find my style, so I hope you’ve got your goggles on for the ride. I know I do. Yippee! :D