Origami Kiseki

I didn't want to write it over on dA in case it biases the image or get me "pity" comments, so here is the story behind it~!

Originally it was just going to be a birthday gift for my friend who has been in the hospital for.. about 2 years now. One day I was visiting and she had an origami crane set so we folded some.. Well in my case I "tried", apparently I'm one of very few asians who FAIL at folding origami D: She also asked me to draw on her whiteboard in her room whenever I go visit. Drawing on whiteboard is like 100000 times harder than drawing on paper and pencil, I always felt that I wasn't drawing anything good for her... so I really wanted to actually draw something DECENT :( She's been having a bad bad year and I never know what to get her for her birthday...

Then I found out Kiseki Magazine was holding their contest around the same time as her birthday, and figured hey I might as well enter! Of course I failed to finish for her actual birthday, but I think she'll forgive me. (I hope)

Also this month, I wanted to challenge myself.. Back in October I had a Miyazaki movie craze and rewatched almost all of the ones I love. I was twittering about it and another friend (who I highly respect her tastes in entertainment) said that her favorite was Whisper of the Heart. I never saw it, so I gave it a try. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this film now, seriously there's not other film out there that I know of that has such a strong message of working hard like this one. So I wanted to try and challenge myself the same way Shizuku does.

I really wanted to do 1000 cranes in the pic, but lack of time and didn't want to clutter it too much.. So I think I'll tackle the theme again later on and actually fit 1000!

Now to tackle that mountain of schoolwork I've put off... only like 2 weeks left!