I like to walk in a cemetery; it feels serene, solemn, and prompts me to ponder life from a different perspective.
December 30, 2021
December 29, 2021
Miner 6748
One lesson I learned from practicing portrait sketching: start from people we are not personally familiar with and gradually try close friends and family members, so that we can focus more on general practices at the start and consider specific features later on with more skills and experiences.
I spotted this photo in the photography section of SFMOMA and decided to sketch this anonymous person.
With only one device with me I couldn’t really draw from a reference photo, so I drew over instead.
December 28, 2021
Yoshikage Kira sheer heart attack
This is one of my all time most favorite manga characters.
Back profile of a painter
This is a digital pencil sketch based on a reference photo which I took on December 26 2019.
December 27, 2021
December 26, 2021
Minna and New Montgomery
After visiting the photography section of SFMOMA while on the way for dinner pick up at North India, I noticed a street sleeper near the intersection of Minna and New Montgomery. I then spotted two more similarly-shaped entities nearby, which, upon closer examination, were a blanket and a group of trash bags at the back door of Henry’s Hunan.
I took their photos and composited into one afterwards.
December 25, 2021
Pillar of Shame, Christmas variation
Pillar of Shame, which I frequently walked by during my HKU days, has recently been demolished (CNN, BBC, Reuters).
The vulnerability of the physical sculpture as well as the coincidence of its removal with the Christmas day inspired me to draw a motion graphics that is digital (and thus harder to demolish) and hybrid (heads and bodies as Christmas tree ornaments).
December 21, 2021
Video texture
I captured this raw video of spatial-temporal light patterns and stabilized it via Ae.