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.
2020-01-23
2020-01-17
Drawing a bowl of fruits and vegetables compost
I am on a roll of drawing food residues.
2020-01-14
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.
2020-01-13
Working in a dream
Since I have this habit of thinking about stuff all the time, even when I am dreaming, I sometimes could not tell if I have done something for real.
For example, earlier today when I looked at a comment I made in a paper draft, I found it missing a part that I thought I have added, but then I realized that I only did it in my dream a few days ago.
2020-01-12
Meditation
The best way (for me) to relax is to tackle the source of the stress/pressure head on.
2020-01-11
Touch contour exercise
Following the instruction under “the natural way to draw”, I have been practicing touch contour, in which one fixates at the contours of a subject and synchronizes the eye gaze and hand pen movement so that they move together (i.e. the pen point should correspond to the eye point all the time) without looking at the drawing (except when backtrack from inward bending contours).
So far I have found it difficult to synchronize, as my eyes tend to saccade away frequently and my hand can go out of the boundary of the canvas.
For such exercises, it is the process, not the outcome, that matters.
Nevertheless, interesting results may appear sometimes.
I was hoping to finish a normal drawing afterwards with the same subject, but it was too dark to see anything.
2020-01-08
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.
2020-01-05
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.
2020-01-04
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.