Monthly Archives: October 2016
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Live Portraiture
Asked a friend to tag me along to do some life drawing tonight. It must have been like 10 years since I enrolled in a life drawing course for my cartooning certificate, I still remember how awe inspired I was seeing the instructor do gestural figure drawings with ink and brush and no drafts. Tonight’s […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, creative-mondays, life-drawing, nostalgia, patience, portraiture, self-control, thankful
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Creative Monday
A rainy day, not good to do any outdoor sketching, instead spent the afternoon finish reading the 5 illustrative books by Jimmy S.P.A. I borrowed from the library awhile ago. The 5 books were of a series named Paradise Lost (失樂園), all published in 2005. The series is consisted of many individual chapters, each illustrating an […]
tagged: artist, books, cartooning, creative-mondays, dreams, thankful
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100th Poke-a-mon(itor) Caught!
Since discovering the magic of the brush pen, I got hooked and took every possible opportunity to sketch and doodle while traveling on the MTR. My models are fellow subway riders who were immersed in their phones and had no idea they were being sketched. There were no shortage of volunteering models. This fun and free […]
tagged: art, dreams, joy, life-drawing, patience, portraiture, quote, self-control, sketches, thankful
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JF Hike
The annoying hot summer weather in HK seems to be finally fading, and the typhoon and associated rain did not hit as forecasted, perfect weather for our fellowship to kickoff the first hike of the year! It’s really refreshing to be immersed in nature and away from the urban concrete jungle once in a while. HK […]
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Movies and Dreams
After the exhausting craft fair on the Sept. 10th weekend, I thought about going on a short vacation to re-energize myself before getting busy again for the new Fall “co-op term”, but abandoned the idea as I don’t know how to justify the cost of going alone and without a purpose. Did a brief stay-cation […]
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