SKETCHBOOK

These are some sketches I did recently inside my sketchbook. I use brown ink to do most of my sketches now, because I am trying to get better with lines and force myself to be confident when drawing. Ink is the best medium to force yourself to get better because it unforgiving. I combine all the sketches, so my post doesn’t run down to the pages.

The second and last page is obvious that I put different sketches next to each other. The first one is actually a composite of three sketches. The tree, street light, and the building (The buildings is actually two different buildings that was drawn in the same page inside my sketchbook. I accidentally merge the two building because I drew them too close to each other.)

The documentary class I have is very fun. I get to go different places and drawing on site really give a different feeling to my drawings, compare to the model studies I get in class. The models studies in class are often stiff and “Posey“, however on site, the people are constantly moving, so you drawing also reflect the life in them.

IF: Toy- Ballerina Doll

I had just finished this painting. It was perfect for this week’s IF topic. This is a self-generated project. The painting is about a ballerina doll that possessed human emotions. She is upset because she couldn’t dance unless someone wind her up. She is sitting in front of this hand-size mirror. Beside the reflection on the mirror, I want to show through the body language that she is unhappy. To show the size different, i add probs like buttons, marbles, and a huge teddy bear. The teddy bear also have emotion, he also had a sad expression.

Size: 12"x16"

Digital: CS5 Photoshop

Life Drawings

The same model that has the awesome costumes and hair. This class really give me the opportunity to just draw and relax.

Medium: heavyweight rough vellum paper and graphite pencil

Life Drawings

Continue on the life drawings post. I use heavyweight rough vellum paper and graphite pencil to do these drawing. I usually use mechanical pencil to quickly and roughly measure out the proportion and the movement of the figure. Then I go over the line with the graphite pencil. I am still working on the values and the feature of the faces.

Life Drawings

These two are some of my life drawings from one of my class. They are 20 mins long. The model had on an amazing costume. She wore a cape, Lolita dress, holding an umbrella, and had amazing curly golden locks. You probably would not see all that in these drawing but I hope I can get better at contrast, value and the anatomy figure.

…more coming!

ABC 123 Children Book

This ABC 123 children book is collaboration with my twin sister for a school assignment. The theme of the ABC is to use different animals for each alphabets and incorporating the numbers as well. We were required to do four finishes each. I choose to do the first four letters of the alphabets and numbers.

To see the other four artworks, please visit my twin sister’s blog @
http://www.wflead.blogspot.com/

To see the complete layout, please visit my "illustration/painting " page.

sketches

... St. Patrick's Cathedral

More sketches on St. Patrick Cathedral. I went back to the church again with my class and this time we focus more on doing small thumbnails and playing with scale and composition to bring in more drama. I also added more details to some of my previous sketches I did from my first visit to the church.

Model Painting Session

A painting I did for one of my class. I decide to crop the bottom half of the body (due to unwanted comment and troubles). I really like the exercise; I really got to understand how to apply paint and also knowing more about oil painting from this exercise. It was a fun experience and scary at first. I was thinking to myself how I am going to finish an oil painting in 4 sessions? Plus we can't sketch the figure out first; we had to lay everything out with brush. Hahaha!

St. Patrick's Cathedral

A drawing I did on set at the St. Patrick's Cathedral between 50-51Street and 5th Avenue. I really enjoyed the trip, and the architectural design was breathtaking. It took a lot of patient to draw part of the church and I can't imagine the people that design and built it. I learn a lot about scale and relation between the structure of the church and the people. I had a lot of fun with this assignment. The sketch is drawn with a micron pen. I hope I can go back and get another chance to work on my composition, perspective, and scale

THE HIGH LINE

This is some thumbnail sketches I did at The High Line for my documentary class. The assignment is pretending our client is The High Line and does a billboard promoting the High Line. I basically drew the building and the cityscape.

Sketches

Pencil on rough vellum paper. I did the sketches for my Friday workshop class. I think these are the greatest models I ever have. That's why I like that class so much. Still need to work on the values and face…. Hahaha!

SKETCHES!

Some of the figure drawings I did in my workshop class. It was great just drawing for three hour and not worrying about anything.

PAN-PAN

PAN-PAN is a character my twin sister and I came up with together.

Name: PAN-PAN
Height: ?
Hobbie: Destroy things.
Food: Candy, chips, soda, chocolate
Personality: Like to get in trouble
Music: rather sing to himself
Statue: In a relationship (Pandie)

To visit my twin sister's blog, please click on the link below

http://www.wflead.blogspot.com/

IF - THE TIME I SPENT AT THE CENTRAL PARK ZOO

This is my first time going to the Central Park Zoo; I had a lot of fun and saw a lot of cool animals. I saw snow leopard, monkeys, dolphins, polar bears, seal lions…. The trip was part of my documentary class and I was able to do a few sketches of what I saw.

Sketch from Workshop Class

Some sketch i did at my workshop class. A great class to study the human figure, anatomy, shapes and value. I had a lot of fun drawing in that class, no pressure, just draw....

Sketches

Some of the sketches I did in my workshop class.

IF - Prehistoric

Sketches at the Museum of Natural History

These are some of the sketches I did during my trip at the Museum of Natural History. The assignment is transforming the dinosaur into something else like machine, car, robot, etc. I had a lot of fun with this assignment.

I thought i use it for this week's IF topic.

Die Antwoord

Recently I finish this assignment for one of my class. This is a portrait of a hip-hop group from South Africa called Die Antwoord. The sketch is in black and white pencil. After painting it in watercolor, I did some touch up in PS and added the flying type in AI. It was a lot of experimenting and I am happy with the result.

Mixed Media: Pen/ink, watercolor, and digital
Material: Watercolor paper
Finish: 10.5”x8.8”

South Street Seaport - THE PERKING

I drew this during my trip to South Street Seaport for my ILLUSTR AS DOCUMENT ARTIST class. I found this view and perspective to be very interesting. I was trying to capture that moment and spontaneity. The objective was to show scale, so that why I chose to have the comparison between the ship, lamp and the people. I am still practice with marker and hoping to get better at putting precise lines.