My First 3 Paintings

Well, as I wrote in the previous post, I posted a thread on the Marketplace section of the SW forums. These are the three first paintings I made. I made it in July - August 2011.

Music Girl

I used a ref pic (reference picture) for the girl in the painting and I added the musical notes. This is my first attempt in painting, it took 3 days to finish.

Awaking Angel in the Night Sky

I also used a ref pic for this painting. It took days for me to paint the wings!

Samurai Siluet

I didn't use a ref pic for this painting. I was inspired by the samurais I saw in animes but I think this picture didn't really come out as I imagined XD. Well, this is my second painting actually. I painted my original one but then I clicked the wrong button and it's gone D: !! So, I repainted it but this painting is not as good as the original one.

Paint!

I love to draw, to paint! Especially drawing animes XD. Well, but in my high school there are no art -I mean art like painting or drawing- subject. I was really sad about it but luckily my friend introduce me to this game, SmallWorlds.

Smallworlds is a 3D virtual reality game, where you can do things like missioning, meeting friends, playing together (chess, fastdraw, etc.), playing in an arena, etc. There are skills with levels and tokens (the currency) to earn. It also has gold as currency but you have to pay in real life to get it.
So, my friend actually introduced me to SW when we're in junior high -I've been playing since Feb 2009- but I was into it since I had the long holiday after the junior high school national exams.

First, I was into it because I like missioning. I looked at the forum and tried so many good missions. Most of the story lines are touching and I'm impressed by how the mission makers made the missions so real. Then I joined the mission community and leveled up my skills fast.

Then, something caught my eyes. Yes! It is the canvas! I thought "Oh why did I just realize that I could paint here now?!" XD. So I tried to make paintings from the canvas and post it on the forum -for the first time, I just wanted to make money so I post in the Marketplace section lol-. The next day, I got an unexpected mail! It was from an artist, a famous artist in SW and she invited me to join an art community named Artistic Alley. I was extremely happy and I immediately said yes! So I became a member of Artistic Alley Junior since I was just an amateur. There, I developed my painting skills quickly. I befriended with many amazing artists all over the world and I even had a mentor from Australia! I will post the paintings in other posts because each painting has its own story and it's too long to write it all here!

PS. Well, at first, I made a boy character -lol, I do love making boy characters in games- named Van Samuel. And for the signature, I used the word VeL -you can see them in the paintings later-. But as the time goes by, after I made many paintings I felt uneasy so I made a girl character but as the signature is VeL, so I decided to name her Vanessa Gabrielle XD

♫ About Us ♫

This is a school project for music and english subject. The tasks are: create a song with english lyrics, arrange the song, perform the song live, and make a music video from the song. My group consists of 9 people with me as the leader. I chose 4 girls and 4 boys as my teammate.

At the first week, we all were tasked to make lyrics and I must choose the best 2 from them and give it to the teacher, then he will decide which lyrics we have to make the song with. So, we picked a lyric and for a week, I asked my other friend to work and finish the lyric.

Then, we started to make the melody. I had so many ideas and references in mind that I didn't know where to start. At last, my friend gave an idea for the first melody part and I accepted it, then I just continue to make variations within my mind. The first melody part that my friend had given was inspired by "Good Time" and I made a view modifications for the last chords of the part. After that I made the melody for the chorus first, I was inspired by "Everything To Me" for the transposition part. At last, I made the melody for the pre-chorus part. I was advised by my friend to make the melody sounds happy XD and he recommend "Luvly, Merry-Go-Round" song from an anime, so I did.

The next part is to arrange the song. I was very passionate and wanted the best for this song, so I kinda made it hard and complex. Each of us had to play a music instrument besides vocal XD. And I realize that's hard, but I still go with it. Good thing a had a friend that's good in music too, so he helped me arranging the song. The music instruments are as you can see at the video below: piano, bass, guitar (rhythm and melody), guitar (rhythm), cajon, maracas -I don't know the exact name for it-, triangle, gallon, voice (rap).

Last two week, we record the sound in a music studio owned by a senior student and last week, we asked our teammate's brother (a senior student too) to help with the video. And so, this is the music video! Enjoy :D

There are a few mistakes from this video :

1. We're the first group, not the third from our class.

2. There's a teammate missing: Pamela as a percussionist (cajon).

3. We forgot to put the names of the creator:

• Music: Gaby and Florence
• Lyrics: Pamela and Fenny
• Arrangement: Gaby and Irvan

About Us

You're always there on the bench sitting next to me

Talking to each other, wondering what our life will be

You're always there listening to me

When no one else does

As time goes by

We realize that we've always been together

And as time flies

The past will go just like the shadow following us behind

Chorus

Time goes as we will never aware of

We've got to be what we're meant to be

In time when our life change

We will always be friends... Forever

Rap

Time flies, season change

And by the end of the year, we all know we gonna leave

Walking on our pavement, leaving each other, chasing our dream

But the chain of friendship won't break us down

Last Friday, we performed this song live. The teacher said that this is one of the most well composed song from all classes. I was lying if I said I wasn't proud of it XD. This is one of my first steps of living my dream.

Thank you God!

Thank you all of my teammates who already worked soooo hard for this and kept supporting each other.

Thank you our music and english teacher who gave us such project XD.

Thank you for all who has been our inspirations.

Morning Jog

This morning, I jogged with my friend as a practice for my school PE exam. Her house is in different block but not too far from my house. I woke up and go there at 5. My friend's mom was shocked when she saw me alone because she knew my house is quite far by foot and it was still very early and dark to go there alone. Well, at that point I realized that I am braver than most of my friends but seriously, I feel very safe to go there around the blocks alone.
Then my friend and I jog within her block for around half an hour. She felt really tired. Well, me too, but I still got stamina to jog again to my house after I accompanied her back to her house.

I listened to music while jogging and it was much easier that way. I just realized that my feet kept on jogging with a pace while my breathing was controlled by the rhythm of the music. So my feet and breathing is not in one harmony but it was both controlled. When I jogged at school yesterday, I didn't listen to music so my breathing is controlled by my steps and it made me tired quickly.

This morning, when we finished jogging and returned to her house, the sun started to rise and so did my spirit. I faced the sunrise when I jogged back to my house. I passed her block's guard, I passed few man who morning walked, I also passed some women who walked -to the market, I guess-. I can't help to smile to them, and they smiled back. I really love it to see people smiling. Well, maybe it is normal. But it really made my day!

So SMILE! Maybe you will make someone else's day by smiling!