Happy Belated New Year

Happy super duper late New Year's Day!
Since mid December in 2024 my PC stopped booting and couldn't recover so I didn't have access to computer all this time.

I hope everyone had wonderful Holiday!
During the time with no PC I spent time making things as usual and had so much time to cleanup my home studio that I've been delaying for about a decade. Still working on it but hopefully I can have something to show soon!

So while I was gone offline, this is what I have done so far!





My usual Moleskine cover decoration!
I went to get leather paint to see how tough it is to use leather paint on leather surface. I hear this brand Angelus is well known for leather surface so I want to give it a try.

I've been wanting to do leather work from re purposing leather jacket into pouch or something small where I can use leather paint to put design on it. So this is a test run to see how durable this paint will last.











And this year, I would like to go through DIY kits that I purchased very long time ago!

I get excited when I buy these but most of the time I'm still in middle of project to complete something and then these guys get pushed back later and later and now it piled up too much where it's just sitting in my studio.





Soooooo, here is my first kit I completed!

Have you guys checked out Diana Watters Handmade? I bought this at OOAK(One of the Kind Show) I went few years ago.

Super easy to make, it's great start just to try out what it's like to cross stitch.

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Doodle Blue Hair Girl

Busy work week so I spent my Friday night doodling and chilling.

 

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IKEA Upcycle: Dining Table

Spent my weekend decorating my dining table with simple color change and upcycle what I already own.
Time to do some IKEA hacks!

With my new kitchen I had some theme to go bold with color on any metal furniture mixed with natural wood furniture:  





Photo below was a IKEA dining table I owned 17 years ago at my old apartment I used to live in. I bought this table as temporary so someday when I own a house, I want to replace it with really nice wooden dining table that I would love forever.





But turns out after 17 years, I care about not wasting what I own and decided to just dress up my old dining table to how I like. So what I did was re-paint the table frame and replace the table top!

I used spray primer for extra hold and spray painted with a color I want:

Used these:
• Rust-Oleum: Painter's Touch
2X Interior/Exterior Ultra Cover Multi-Purpose Paint And Primer in Semi-Gloss White,
340g Spray Paint

• Behr: Premium
Interior/Exterior Aerosol Spray Paint and Primer
- Top Tomato -
Satin Finish, 340g

One spray can just BARELY covered so plan your priority where you need it sprayed!





The old white table top was made out of masonite with thick white paint where you can imagine it bubbles and cracks the paint as it ages and not at all good with water tolerance. But kept this table top for another future project!

After the kitchen renovation, I no longer need the wooden counter table(photo below and also from IKEA) and it's so hard to let go full wood tabletop as these are quite expensive now to purchase by itself.

so I re-purpose the wooden table top for my dining table and sold the bottom piece on Facebook Market.





And voila!
This is my new forever dining table!
I love this bold orange red table and it's matching with wooden table top so well.

Hello my new table!

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Digital Ink 2

Did another sketches with digital ink method

First attempt click here:
https://yukikotsu.blogspot.com/2024/04/digital-ink-1.html

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Digital Ink 1

Tried new method that I never thought of all this time.

I didn't think of actually doing ink style in digital. There's billions of people doing this but I was too caught up on inking must be done with natural medium!

So here is my first attempt with ink style in digital of how I do in my sketchbook. 

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Purple Girl 2

It came across my mind that I felt like drawing her again.

Another art that I started last year and never finished it. I was actually 90% done but never when went back since then.

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Mirabel

I have some drawing I did from last year that I didn't bother to finish cuz I got lazy or moment has passed to complete it.

And it was just last year that I watched Encanto and wanted to do fanart of it. I got up to her face and torso done but I wasn't happy with the composition so I cropped it out and kept the area I was happy with(Which is usually just a face).

I enjoyed Mirabel character how crafty she was with her additional embroidery art she sewed on her clothes. There was so much detail on her skirt that you just don't have time to observe while watching the movie.
 

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