Inspired by some squash arrangements I saw in a company cafeteria, I realized that I could draw a few individual squashes and rearrange them later for different compositions.
2023-10-08
2023-09-26
Road accident
This is an imaginative drawing inspired by a real event.
I tried to finish it within the time constraint at the end of a long day so I did not spend much time on the less important details, such as the dent at the front of the car that would add more dramatic effect.
2023-09-25
Highly-processed donut
We all sometimes doodle, but this is probably my first doodling (instead of more intentional drawing) in 3D.
https://youtu.be/fYVbaXffha4
2023-09-18
Wingless fly
Ever since I was a kid I liked to catch a fly live, carefully remove its wings, and observe it crawling around.
For this one, I use Adobe Firefly to generate the background compost image consisting of banana peels, mandarin peels, and egg shells, and then draw and animate the fly on top of it.
2023-09-15
Met invitation envelope
I don’t know why a museum in NY would want to invite someone living in CA to be a member – maybe there are CA folks who spend weekends in NY?
But the photo on the envelope did give me some visual idea about how things might move there.
2023-09-09
Vivarium
Spoiler alert!
Among all these recent movies that are mostly derivative it is a pleasure to finally find one that is original and thought provoking.
Vivarium is about a young couple who were trapped in a suburban neighborhood and forced to raise a child that seems like a human but is actually a creature from a specie with advanced technology but parasitic morale.
The plot by itself is an interesting sci-fi psychological horror story, but also reflects on the current state of our society, such as housing, parenting, inequality, and resource extraction.
2023-08-28
Sunset
I saw some beautiful sunsets recently but could not manage to paint them to my satisfaction so I took a photo instead and drew over it.
I enlarged the moon for emphasis, but had some difficulty drawing the craters and eventually I switched to an old face reflecting a second meaning of sunset.
2023-08-20
Ladybugs
Saw https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/printing-protest and immediately visualized the ladybugs moving in my mind.
I extracted the foreground (ladies and bamboo sticks) and several individual ladybugs via https://segment-anything.com/ to, and animated them via Adobe Fresco Motion.
2023-08-12
Mapping a fly’s mind
Swatting a fly can be a fun and vigorous exercise, but here is an alternative way that is more relaxing: wait until it is dark outside, turn off all the lights inside, and then turn on a single light source which the fly would tend to follow.
You can carry a single flashlight or turn on the room lights one by one towards the outside.