Dear readers,

new year, new me? No, not really. I just focus on what I am progressing since beginning of 2017. I'm still working on my body, still evolving my skills and focussing on my career. Especially focussing on college. Since I've been working so much, I never found time to paint and draw. I had so many time before work to improve my sketch skills, but now I realized I let it slide a lot.

In my portfolio I found a lot of interesting sketches I made for my application for the study course advertising design. I remember this work. I put a lot of time and work on this sketch. I can't really remember why I was inspired by the Johnny Walker logo. It was so complicated to sketch the behaviour of ice on water.



It's not really my favourite drink if you're asking me. I am more the cocktail type. Sweet, fruity and delicious. By the way. One of my resolution this year is to drink more. Yeah, exactly. Drink more. The last few years I drank less, as I always thought I get older I have to drink less. But I don't mean drink more cheap alcohol or loads of cocktails. I mean to try out expensive alcohol like the one time with Niclas in an expensive restaurant. We were trying out an expensive drink served in a skull bottle filled with rose bloom syrup booze and wood smoke.

2017 was very hard for me. Mainly, for my relationship to Niclas. 2018 won't be better, but we make the best out of it.

Dear readers,

if you are following me on Instagram, you might know, that I started studying Advertising Design. I decided to study beside working, because I wanted to keep my job as digital media designer and web developer. I have to commute a lot, but it will be three years I have to go through.

The first week is over now and I had a lot to plan and a lot to reorganize. I knew it before, I won't have time to breathe, but I am definitely happy with my decision. We saw a lot and my college offers us a lot of possibility to be creative. Workshops, laboratories, studios and a lot more. I can't believe I will study there for the next three years.

The first course was absolutely stunning, where we need to be creative and we had to show our skills. Not only the college is amazing, the people there amazed me too. They were all so talented I felt like a wallflower in first grade in elementary school.



I prepared my portfolio for my bachelor and I had to tidy out so many works, but there are some I had to show you. My work includes my personality. As I'm working on my blog I had to think about the word "ruby", so I actually created my own character. But since I change the logo of RubyliXious, I never used it.

I have to warn you, I will have less time for my blog, but I attempt to post regularly. Happy weekend!

Dear readers

the best part of being a woman is having all those pretty clothes and stuff, makeup, attention and long hair. Okay, nowadays men can have it all as well. But in this case I am pretty conservative. Men shouldn't wear makeup and long hair should match to that type of man.



In some way I either like drawing woman than man. I don't know if it's because of the hair. I test my skills in drawing with fineliner pens lately and drawing hair was the easiest part. I took a picture of myself as a little helper. My hair is really way too long.

I needed to sketch it with pencil first because I'm not that good. Drawing hair is unbelievable relaxing. And I need to sketch more as college starts in a few days. I'm pretty nervous to give up my full time job, but it is a new chapter I have to accept.