Rose

Haven't paint in a long while... just a translation of a postcard that I found in the library last week.



Kind of like the idea of the dress being a rose and decided to draw it, changing and adding a few things along the way. As a prof has pointed out that I need to draw more, I realised that I have been outlining more than constructing. It's a discipline I lack while in pursuit of a freedom in my drawings (or possibly, that's a sign of the slacky 'can't be bothered' personality trait). Get caught up a lot in just drawing down what I see and leaving 'errors' as they are. Well... Time to find the midpoint!

01 Introduction!

Finally done with it... the first theme of the 100 themes challenge floating around DA! Although it's not really the exact way I wanted it to be. (Thought more of painting on the skin for that.) Not so sure of the colors either, so just slapped in a random pink. Tried the brush tool in Illustrator this time. Took a while to understand how it can work to my advantage.

As for idea... traced my hand there (right handed!!), tools that I work with more frequently, and random icons of where I'm coming from (I think). Received art education at 2 1/2 years old due to my mum finding me annoying and clingy and hence, decided to throw me into the neighborhood art school where my sister was at. (I wondered if she ever regretted that decision...?) Maybe because of that, it became more of a mode of expression than something I'll use to maintain my 'rice bowl'. Heh, still drifting about where I wish to head to after graduation... it's still quite vague what I really want out of this artistic path I've been walking. I know what I can strive for, but somehow, I'm not really satisfied by it all. It is a pretty short termed sense of achievement, one that makes me question "what good really comes out of what I just did"? Aye, maybe the art created really says it all.

Sketches

Haven't been drawing or painting a full picture lately, but trying to get back into the habit of sketching in the book again. Funny, but when I look back at what I've been doing in my sketchbooks so far, it seems to be drift from one phase to another phase, sometimes full of conceptual drawing, and at times full of life sketches. It just goes on-off. The only thing that never change is the amount of words in a page... It is most often a scrawny scribble of a few sentences, sometimes unrelated to the picture.



Random sketch of an old courtroom inspired scene, with some drama going on... and on the other side is just a random play of pose.



And this was when I brought Ann and Yang for a McDonald's breakfast one day after their art class. Done with a marker. Aye, it happened last year.



The lecturer of the Human Resource Management module...



And a random "I'm shorter than a flower" piece. The 'Aang' looking guy was a quick sketch of a shaolin monk featured in a kungfu video that I was referencing for my animation project. Just nice paused the video there and thought that the pose was quite interesting.





Two pieces drawn during Chean and Glory's trip to Singapore. I could still remember the scene clearly. Chean was kind of in a "I don't want to go anywhere but stay in my bed" mode while Glory was arranging the stuff in her luggage. It's weird, but it seems like my memory of an event is intensified after drawing them down. Maybe it's one way to burn things into my head as I'll need to look at the scene longer and in more detail.



An 'Avatar' (Zuko) inspired sketch. Really loved the way they melt 'magic' and kungfu into that animation. It's just beautiful for a weekly cartoon series.



No big idea behind this, just a random doodle that was done just for stress relieving...



Monsters...



Life sketching, composition practice...



Some re-collection practice... Trying to remember what I've seen on my long walk home from Lot 1. Seems like the clearest thing is still words.



And a quiet day at home... :) Think this shall be my last sketchy entry. Somehow,I have been wanting to keep this blog away from my personal life babbles and musings and make it a base for my completed works and thoughts about them. In a way, helps me keep track of the serious work I've did as compared to the 'ritual-ish' drawings/ paintings I do to keep myself sane.