Her chainsawed wooden sculptures facilitated simple and powerful line drawings.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/213679363/OnSiteSketchesAfterLeilahBabirye
November 29, 2024
November 28, 2024
Found persimmon
Found this persimmon with a branch on the ground and decided to draw it before eating it.
November 21, 2024
Senior lady with key and whistle on the train
Saw this senior lady on the train who wore a key and whistle on her chest and was talking with herself and patting an invisible companion, and did a quick sketch of her after finishing my dinner.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1212341945
November 19, 2024
Patent banquet
As a potential sign that patents are even more important for the company than I thought, the best corporate party I have ever attended so far turns out to be a patent banquet, with excellent food, place, service, and participation by the top executives.
November 18, 2024
Bluesky
The UI of bsk.app, by none other than Jack Dorsey, looks exactly like Twitter.
November 17, 2024
Fallen leaves
Animated some leaves over a photo I took of a package of fallen leaves collected by a worker whose process I observed while having lunch on a high floor balcony the other day.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/212799231/FallenLeaves
November 11, 2024
Acorns
Process: paint one acorn in Adobe Fresco from which create custom brush in Adobe Capture and paint back many acorns in Adobe Fresco.
Inspiration: witnessed the prodigious quantity of acorns on the ground and wondered about its potential as a food source (edible by humans after leaching out the tannins).
November 10, 2024
Chewie visit weekend 1 of 2
The dog slept a lot and thus remained stationary for a good drawing subject. I would like to capture his waking moments as well but still drawing live instead of from photos.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/212212201/Chewie10Nov2024
November 4, 2024
Sapiens: a brief history of humankind
Just (belatedly) finished this book, which I found to be very easy and enjoyable to read, and full of interesting insights and perspectives.
The humans are essentially programmable and thus can advance faster than biological evolution which constrains other kinds of life forms on earth.
Our language and writing systems facilitate the preservation and transmission of knowledge across space and time beyond our individual brain capacity, and our ability to cooperate in large numbers allows us to build complex societies and technologies as well as to wield great damages to our environments.