Dating maCelebrities (from animation to African novel)

 
Salad Chick's star actress has decided to expand her empire from animation into novels. This move shall see Ambivalence Chiweshe debut novel "Dating maCelebrities" being released sometime in 2014. Her animated short films like Salad Chick have been screen at film festivals the Stuttgart Festival in Germany, and she has also won awards like Best animated short film during the 2009 Zimbabwe International Film Festival.


 A lady this gorgeous must have tonnes of male-skeletons inside her walk-in closet. I have just finished designing the cover for Miss Chiweshe's debut upcoming novel. It's going to be a calabash of African love, juicy secrets, and scandals. Those of you who love our Salad Chick films are in for a slightly more matured treat, rich with suspense and drama as Miss Chiweshe puts on red heels and leads you down into the burning pits of her darkest imagination in "Dating maCelebrities" (the novel).

Novel sample:

........Blistered feet caught the attention of two black souls smoking by the sidewalk, as I passed by barefoot. Grains of rough pavement pricked into my torn flesh, like expensive salt. Injecting a numbing pain into my stride. The odour of my drenching sweat was even stronger than their cheap cigarettes. As I passed the suits, nothing else was cheap about them. I lowered my red eyes to the ground in shame, and my sight was met by their matching pairs of fancy Italian leather. Those over-priced kind, I've only seen in newspapers and the magazines I sleep on.

A church in the northern suburbs used to feed both soup and hymns of grace, to the destitute. They used to. I only ever went there for the bread their colourful newspaper advert promised. If I hadn't drooled all over that paper in my sleep, I would've known that it was all just temporary for them. These oil stained African hands relieved me of my agony, as I scrapped off the sand in-between my cracked sole-flesh. Whilst awaiting for the little green man's appearance, as Durban's traffic bulleted past. Pigeon Valley has a lot of potholes, someone says behind me! I strongly disagreed in silence, potholes? Maybe here and there. His gorgeous female companion kept nodding and smiling, in her perfumed animal-fur coat, and glass heels. To him she's just temporary. Very temporary.............

Author: Miss A. Chiweshe

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so Disliked's Halloween

With Halloween here I have just created some so Disliked posters to promote the new theme "You know I'm bad." The posters feature a comical version of so Disliked's model Kyla. Now that November is upon us you can expect so Disliked tshirts to come out this November!

Checkout the website:

www.sodisliked.com

Like so Disliked on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/sodisliked

so Disliked (the introduction)

INTRO:

It's finally here! I have been tirelessly working at crating a t-shirt line for the rebellious and young. After about a year or even more I have refined and kick-started the brand so-Disliked. I have now created the first t-shirt line which currently consists of 3 very unique designs under the theme "You know I'm bad."

In November so-Disliked will officially launch with the unveiling of these works of art online and who knows, if you follow @soDisliked on Twitter you might end up winning a tshirt or two ;)

THE NAME:

so-Disliked is best described in one word "REBELLION." On Twitter I stated in the profile that "The t-shirt range for the rebellious revolutionaries. Other people hate change, they can't evolve, not you. That's why you're so disliked".

That description covers part of the thinking that went into the name, I had the vision of wanting to create a "rebellious" brand. Who are my target market rebelling from? Any form of oppression really, be it social standards or otherwise. I see it being a brand for women mostly, not that men can't wear so-Disliked t-shirts but I gave the brand a level of lustful energy. A lust to be free to act and speak your mind. 

THE LOGO: 

 The Brand's logo has a heart and tail, with a star and a pair horns. The single star is a constant feature in the identity of so-Disliked. It's based on the 5 star rating system that judges use to grade products and services. 5 stars mean the product is the best of it's kind, however I use a single star to identify with so-Disliked. Since its rebellious, so-Disliked doesn't aim to fit into the existing system. Other people hate change, they can't evolve, so-Disliked is the "black sheep" you love and hate.

The heart is a symbol that's used to represent love, but so-Disliked uses a heart with horns to represent a mixture of three feeling envy, jealousy, and lust. The tail also serves the same purpose in the logo. Being an owner of a so-Disliked product is expected to make people react to you in one of those three ways. It's definitely a teenagers' and young adults' brand, no doubt about that. I started this brand with a specific target market in mind and every element is designed to attract and please that target market. Attempting to please EVERYONE with a single product is a bad idea cause people will pull you into a million different directions. So Grandma and Grandpa might not like so-Disliked, reason being it's targeted and the young, the risk takers and the rebellious

The red star is also a subtle reference to revolution and uprising, which ties in with the element of rebellion so-Disliked is building on.

THE MODEL:

Kyla Terblanche is just perfect at being the face of so-Disliked. She has tattoos and the right energy for this kind of brand. Visit the website to check her photographs out www.sodisliked.com. I will be doing a lot of shoots with her to keep you up to date with the latest designs and fresh updates on whats happening. Expect to learn a little bit more about her when I do my interview with her sometime next month.

Website: www.sodisliked.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/sodisliked

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sodisliked

I'm back

Hey, I know I've been away from my blog for a while now but it's time to say a few more things. I would like to start by congratulating my friend and fellow blogger Ackie she is going places. I just tumbled upon this post on her fashion blog:

http://ackiekingdomrags.blogspot.com/2012/09/im-on-news-paper.html?showComment=1346761620604#c5864927314604398870



Congrats! Now the picture above is one of my latest work :) it's two creatures; a bird and a fish stranded in the middle of.. nowhere. The bird Bobo is using his drinking water to cool down his scorched friend (whom I haven't named). Needless to say I enjoy Angry Birds a lot but this designed wasn't really motivated by that. I've always liked a good and nicely illustrated cartoon bird like Tweety Bird. I'll keep you posted when I have something new to share.

Speaking of new things I'm working on a series of comic strips, the project is looking AMAZING. Once the client publishes it I'll get the links and stuff for you to see. Thank you for dropping in :)


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Orient Islamic School

Hey! It's been a while since I last posted anything. I've been slaving away at college, and just pushing my side-jobs in comic books, character designs etc.

Today however I went with the rest of my class to Orient Islamic School to do our presentation. We had been there before taking pictures for this very project. In my presentation I had a brochure (is that how you spell it) I also had a document folder and a CD sleeve. The picture above is the front of my 2 fold brochure. The images work really well together, and we had been asked to cover sport and obviously religion.

I really enjoyed this project and hope to keep improving on my design and photography skills. the school treated us really well and they're currently deciding which one of our designs they want to use. I might upload the other stuff later on today my internet a bit too slow.

Currently I'm working on my comic book project. It's going super well. Have a wonderful day!

To know more about the school just visit:

www.orientschool.co.za/