#6. Designing A Place A Day - Day 1 A Flower Shop

For this week's project, I chose to design a place a day for my new story project. (http://blog.naver.com/haejinsung)

I chose it because I thought it would not be so time-consuming. How naive of me.

It took about one hour to collect information and inspirational images concerning that place

and more than thirty minutes filling in the place and fitting it into my story.

:P (when shall I study...) 

But other than that, it was a tremendously enjoyable exercise. 

If you are a writer or aspire to be a writer like me, please try. You won't regret it. :)

The first place that I designed was a flower shop.

A few of my characters like flowers and use flowers for various reasons--art, hobby, decoration, as a present for one's wife or to flatter and flirt with girls, etc.

It is a place that many, if not almost all, of my characters pass by, enter, and interact with each other. Therefore it is a place that we can peep into their lifestyle, history, and secrets.

So, again, I tumbled and googled for information and images about flower shops.

What would I do without Google, Tumblr, and Springpad? :/

(above says: "A gathering place for:" Some characters are regular, some occasional visitors, some just window shoppers. And these characters, as the story advances, come and go and interact differently)

I made notes and began constructing the space a bit further.
Actually, I gathered information yesterday and scribbled down my notes and doodles today, so I think I forgot some of my ideas about it.... I hope I'll remember them. :P

Here is my florist. I imagined her to be a bright, smiling middle-aged woman with a chubby and matronly constitution. Her name is Baek-Hap Nam (Baek-Hap in Korean is Lily). She loves flowers and loves wearing clothes with floral patterns. *_*

And I also drew a cat in the shop. He is one big ugly lazy fatty kitty (actually, not a kitty; he is kinda old). His thick, white whiskers and eyebrows fall down like an the beard of.. well, an ill-tempered wizard. :P
His name, by the way, is PANSY. (~~the flower, ye know~~) What a cute name it would be, the florist lady thought when she picked him up on the street several years ago. What an unsuitable name for me, the cat may have thought then.
Perhaps that is why he doesn't respond when the lady calls him "Pansy~". He just ignores her and turns his head away and cuddles up his tail.

He responds, though, when called "BONAPARTE." (~~the dictator, or whatever he was, Napoleon, ye know~~) Ji-Eun calls him that way.
Ji-Eun is a regular in this shop because she makes miniature art with flowers. She (her image can be seen here: http://projectmacy365.blogspot.ca/2012/03/5-doodle-day-day-12-drawing-character.html) is the only one who can handle this bad kitty. :)

By the way, I think this is probably the first time that I tried to draw a.. cat... (I mean, not cat emoticons)