A little something I was drawing on a cue card on bus 72 home.

One week to the lovely holidays. c:

magnets, cygnets & berets

I wonder what she's looking at.

I think there are certain feelings and subjects I always end up drawing (if you see this, WL, it's not dragons) when I don't start off with an idea in mind. If I managed to keep a sketchbook regularly, I think I would be able to prove it.

I hate getting bus-sick

Drew this on 72, on the way home from school. (Had to stop because I felt like upchucking.) Taken a liking to sitting the long bus ride home at night!

(Yes, I didn't like my right eye and ya know, eye-pieces are....always handy :P) Never practiced enough of ears, either.

If only I didn't get bus-sick so easily...I could read and draw more during travelling down-time :/ Maybe I just need to invest in some long-lasting candy to suck on and keep the nausea at bay.

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I don't know if I've actually improved since I was that nervous girl waiting for an interview, more than a year ago. I should properly look back on my older art one day when I need cheering up. Improvement is invisible yet visible at the same time.

Sketchbook 2

Wednesday figure drawing session gestures:








Heads:






Hands, I love hands (I scanned the better page):


Miscellany from smaller sketchbooks mostly (rough rough stuff...):

Sketchbook 1 (Atrium)

Allo! I'm gonna start uploading some stuff from a recent sketchbook we submitted for drawing class. (And after that, some of my vis dev work.) A lot more love could've been shown and my sketch-fu could be stronger, but this was basically what happened in a short period of time!

Most of this sketchbook is cut and pasted from elsewhere, because I'm so non-committal I quad-time my sketchbooks. These little papers are cut from A6, A5, A4 books and papers of various qualities and colours.

This post has some sketches from the time I spent at the school atrium sketchin' people. I surprised myself actually, then I realised my usual expectations are damn low. Hm.

Not that anybody is really gonna steal these, but maybe I should start putting a watermark of sorts on my images, as a good habit.

I wonder who comes here. I don't really want to promote this site so I feel safe putting up stuff, but then again that means I'm mostly doing this for myself ain't I?

And here is a dragon wrapped in a blanket (again) because we've not seen any drawings of this strange critter for a while.

The scan's a bit blur. If I bother/remember I'll rescan it and repost it again later.

hmphtastic

Here's a quick sketch of what remained in my memory of Shere Khan (the Jungle Book) after the slide flashed by. Well, it's supposed to be a tiger. :P It's not very accurate, my tired brain - his entire white muff is gone. That wabbit on the left is Roger Rabbit :)

These days I love my roughs better than proper renderings.

hey there, gorgeous

I know it's been some time since I updated, and oh look, Sem 2 starts tomorrow! D: So here's a schloppy (new Imaginary Word of the Day) sort-of peacock to brighten this place up :D

I drew it for a friend. 'Bout time I drew something for someone. It's inspired by a card I saw in the bookstore (:

shophouses across the singapore river

Hasty sketch at best, and not very accurate at all T.T I still need lotsa practice.

But there's something about the shophouses which always gets me. I always get this idea in my head that they're living creatures huddling together for warmth, they way they're joined so seamlessly one to the other. It seemed especially true while I was observing them this cold morning, slowly waking up to the possibility of the weekend (and its nightlife).

I didn't realise that some of the buildings around and behind these shophouses have rather interesting architecture.

*ahem*Didn't bother much with the water, obviously.

P.S. It is very 'soothsing and reflreshing' to sit beside the river on a cold day and draw.

cairo

This was me, trying to imitate and learn from the style of Cairo by M. K. Perker. At 1am, last year. Funny how last year, 1am was like, super late already. Now it's like nothing. D:

more dragons

For a period of time last year I was in a dragon phase. These were the results.



A postcard-sized affair I did for a good friend of mine :P



Me, vandalising the back of a GP comprehension last year. I ended up having to scan the other side to go for consultation, and the explanation was awkward, heh.



Drawn beneath some biology notes. I remember it was about nerve impulse transmission.



I drew this using Autodesk Sketchpad Express, on the itouch. I think it counts as the first digital thingy I ever did :P

scared, too

I spent the good part of an hour sitting on the floor cutting out all the words that popped out at me as I flipped through the papers, and combined it with a pen drawing I'd done earlier.

Man, I almost depressed myself, going through a few day's worth of world news.

I'm not quite sure the way I treated the newspaper collage + drawing combo feels entirely right. Here's the original drawing:



I find that because drawing takes more time than taking a photo, you tend to remember more about the subject, and the instances surrounding the creation of that image. I finished drawing the guard on the right some hours after my friend left for the USA, and I remember all the emotions of it, and what happened, even though all these things have no relation to the drawing whatsoever.

Or do they?

we shall conquer the world

This started off as a train doodle.

Drawing on the train is alright once you get used to the curious looks and the random jerks and rumbles - and it certainly makes time fly by like nothing else! :D (I can't really hear music on the train anyway, even at the maximum level I'd allow myself to.)

I once read about an artist who said the extra instability of drawing on trains gives the line 'a pleasant jitter'. We-elll.....