I think that this would probably be the last time that I will be doing an outdoor stall at MAAD Fair. Which means that Thumbforlego would not be there! I have quite a lot on my plate now. (It's funny how I am taking Nutrition now in university and plate has a so much different meaning.) But I still think that it is better to rework the idea of Thumbforlego; the presentation, the marketing effort, the image. The pricing too will also need revision as I have been doing it as a non-close-to-zero profit margin and it is largely unsustainable. While the past months have been extremely rewarding learning how to better market my products and chatting with so many people. However it is time to change! Change doesn't necessarily equate that it will be better, although I feel that it would be better :) and that it would be more justifiable for the amount of work that I pour into every piece I make.




These few weeks have been really busy and hectic, preparing for the MAAD fair while still reeling in from the tiredness over the past weeks. Which also explains the really untimely post! But still, I've decided to devote more time and energy and money to revamp Thumbforlego and hopefully that works out~ There's a certain inertia to it, that when you see such a big thing to do in front of you, you just procrastinate because that is the easiest thing to do. To find a new packaging, deciding on the new layout of the stall, what kind of props to use, how to catch attention better, setting of expectations for customer, etc etc. Maybe I'll miss the velvety-horror looking red walls of the Red Dot Design Museum.






Here is featuring the youngest stall owner ever! He dug out his $80 piggy bank savings to get a stall like this! Such entrepreneurship at a young age :) More than that, such daring self exploration at a young age. From my perspective, it just seems like Singaporean kids are not really doing much of self exploration and more of accepting the cookie cutter education system of studying and studying. Moreover it is so much easier to just stay at where you are. From my point of view, I feel that self exploration partly stems from a need and is partly due to being inquisitiv, while treating every failure as a learning opportunity. Surely it sounds easy and straightforward to treat every failure as a learning opportunity but really coming to terms with failure can sometimes be pretty difficult. But it seems that the more you are used to it, the easier it becomes -- that the next time you fail, it becomes second nature to you to treat it as a learning opportunity, overlooking the "failure" aspect.




The beauty in reaching that artwork is not just the end product but the process in reaching it. Keeping a log from how it first started out all the way till present. I've noticed this with so many well known illustrators, that they keep a whole log about the different designs that they have done all the while, the modifications done to each of them. Seeing how these artists at Portraits After Dark come up with their artworks is really interesting! Some paint, some draw with a pencil, some with a pen and all the artworks look so diversely different! Looking at the photo, you can see how everyone has their own way. That domokun bag on the woman's lap though, just how do you draw with that on your lap?! I wonder how some of their previous portraits look like.