Sketching the host actually helped my attention to the meeting.
2022-06-10
2022-06-07
2022-06-04
Buzzing fly in G
Smashing a fly is
too blunt better to starve it
by cleaning kitchen
2022-05-30
awb SF
Walking by this sports bar whose logo inspired this motion graphics design in my mind.
2022-05-29
WPA
Did some quick sketches following some interesting photography in WPA exhibition in SFMOMA.
2022-05-27
Sketching SF financial district
I sketched on my moto-x4 phone a few scenes while walking around the financial district, and another one back home based on my visual impression of a cross-dresser.
2022-05-25
A chair that flows
I noticed a bus stop bench while driving by and this visual image popped up in my mind.
https://youtu.be/VwPCFwmTlQA
2022-05-22
Wool cap
This sketch was inspired by a face of similar style I saw today.
https://youtu.be/urt3khp6Wsg
2022-05-20
Creative block
In Concept Art: Break Artist’s Block with Emergent Design – L410, conceptual artist Sam Nielson talked about the common causes and remedies for creative blocks, which I found to be equally applicable to scientific research (or any other creative fields):
Causes:
- Not enough or the right kind of input
- , such as visual inspirations for art or the current problems and progresses in research.
- Not having anything to say
- , which is related to the above about not having the right kind of input as well as not thinking enough about what one wants to do.
- Fear of poor performance
- which can cause actual poor performance.
Antidotes:
- Study everything and anything
- , including books, papers, and artworks.
- Live life a little (outside work)
- , which is not just about work-live balance but also about enriching one’s creative horizon.
- Give yourself permission to suck
- to increase the chance not to suck.
I followed the suggested process (about using chunky oil brushes for iterative ideation) to create the visual impression I saw earlier about two white chairs inside woods.
https://youtu.be/bXAl42AY4zA