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— Caltrain (@Caltrain) June 27, 2017
February 10, 2020
Caltrain conductor: please don’t put your feet on seats
February 9, 2020
Rodin’s hand
I went to the Cantor arts center an hour earlier than usual, and thus had more time sketching.
February 4, 2020
Unfinished work
A friendly of mine recently posted on FB that he liked an unfinished drawing perhaps more than had he tried to finish it.
When I started drawing about a year and half ago, I strived to finish works with polished quality.
Later, I found the intermediate progress no less interesting, and showed with the final drawings all intermediate strokes without hiding or even erasing them.
Related: one of my most favorite research papers has never officially been published anywhere.
January 23, 2020
Quick sketch of a wall lamp
After waking up at 5:30 am today, I tried to catch an earlier train but missed it by a few minutes. The next train took around 40 minutes to arrive; meanwhile I sketched this wall lamp near the platform.
January 17, 2020
Drawing a bowl of fruits and vegetables compost
I am on a roll of drawing food residues.
January 14, 2020
Drawing a plate of edamame shells
This is a frequent sight of my family dinner, which I managed to draw when we sat together on the same table after a long while.
January 8, 2020
Drawing a portly hand
I felt the need to draw something before going to sleep, and recalled this visual image from a morning news post to spend some twenty minutes.
January 5, 2020
Fountain figure 4
I saw this sculpture in Anderson collection at Stanford and captivated by its structure.
I started with the contour exercise and still found it hard to coordinate my sight and touch and finished too quickly in about 10 minutes.
I then switched to ordinary sketching for about 30 to 40 minutes.
Because it sat high on a pedestal, it was difficult to photography.
January 4, 2020
Compensational drawing
I was frustrated by the hand-eye contour coordination exercise from the natural way to draw, and compensated myself with a normal sketching of the same subject.
January 1, 2020
Sidetracked from physical to digital
I was sharpening a drawing pencil pondering what I should draw, and found the setup intriguing and ended up drawing it on an iPad.