This is my first graphic design, to celebrate the graduation of my last HKU PhD student who derived her nickname from the black mamba.
(I managed to help her publishing top papers but not converting her from LAL to GSW.)
Inspiration:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCvFXuEpjPD
Source graphics:
wine bottle
graduation hat
the black mamba
I was trying to draw a temple building but lacked enough time before the evening closure, so I switched to another nearby scene.
The first rule, which you will also hear from others, is to choose a place that can attract top graduate students whom you can work with, because that is the main attraction for being a professor in a research university.
After that, consider other factors, like funding and geography (and thus why I went to HKU as a professor).
I was trying to sketch Dona Arguello‘s statue from a sliver of shaded area in a hot afternoon but could not gather enough interest within the allocated half hour, so I deleted the file, but restored it to continue from memory at home.
I went out after 8 pm to this interesting and yet unlit corner of my neighborhood, to force myself to either draw quickly before it was too dark and/or finish the rest from visual memory back home.
When I picked up this pine cone it was still oozing sap, and has remained on my desk as an aroma source and hand exercise instrument.
The neighborhood black cat often came to visit.
The sketch is a composition based on two photographs.
This composition is astronomically implausible (unless there are multiple suns above the horizon) but I felt like doing it after seeing the evening sun and moon at opposite ends of the sky.
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