The neighborhood black cat often came to visit.
The sketch is a composition based on two photographs.
July 6, 2020
Sitting across from the black cat opposite a glass panel
July 4, 2020
Drawing a composition of evening sun and moon
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.
July 3, 2020
Sketching after a photo of a sketching scene
My father shared some photographs of this drawing scenes, which I could draw from and connect to his works and travels.
July 1, 2020
A spider on a flower
A spider, resting on a lamp shade, scurried away after being gently poked by me to see if it was still alive.
This exercise aimed to reproduce my impression of its movement, but over a flower as captured by an earlier photograph of another spider instead of the lamp shade.
I drew the flower and the spider in multiple layers via Fresco, exported the pdf file to Illustrator to animate the spider via puppet warp, and assembled the final video from the individual spider layers/frames along with the flower.
Even with puppet warp, the authoring process still involved tedious manual repetitions, which can be alleviated by autocomplete.
ffmpeg -framerate 32 -start_number 0 -i frame_%02d.jpg -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf scale=1024×1024 SpiderOnFlower32fps.mp4
June 26, 2020
Sketch a towel-wrapped head in multiple views
I have been wanting to draw this for a while and finally managed to do it.
Picking a familiar subject could force me to spend more efforts in resemblance which might not be the key point or intention of the drawing.
June 23, 2020
Anniversary dinner
The appetizers (corn mezzaluna, Spanish mackerel) and entrees (striped bass, duck breast) were pretty light until the chocolate souffle, which was much more fulfilling than the size would suggest and continued to roll in my stomach until deep into the night.
Drawing helped me to not only remember the experience (than, say, photography) but (counter-intuitively) also better engage in conversation.
This is my last celebratory meal before I manage to regenerate a losing body part considered to be irreversible by all doctors I have consulted so far.
June 20, 2020
Charcoal sketch of a neighborhood cat
The black neighborhood cat visited again, which I watched through the front door glass for a bit while and drew the impression with the new charcoal brush in Fresco.
June 18, 2020
Hong Kong weather skyline
I drew this 3×1 watercolor inspired by Yilan Chen’s Instagram photos.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaF5IWpNQn/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaGCEHJ7Sq/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaGv77Je4L/
June 14, 2020
Drawing my favorite view of the bay
This is my first drawing of the view from this spot which I often come to relax my mind and body.