Drawing is one of the few activities that can soothe me into a zone/flow, like hours before a SIGGRAPH deadline (before year 2011, the start of my diminishing marginal return).
2021-02-08
2021-02-06
Hand-rest profile
I drew this from referencing a magazine photo.
I did not know what I exactly wanted to do in the beginning and simply let the iterative process guide me.
2021-02-05
2021-02-03
Bright cloud
After experimenting with various brush types (oil, watercolor, charcoal, etc.), I realized that the best way to depict the fluffy cloud texture is smudge over the (black and white) strokes placed by whatever brush types.
2021-01-31
2021-01-27
Muscular pears
I was intrigued by the muscular appearance of these two pears (half already eaten), and decided to depict this impression with broad oil brushes, which felt satisfying but also reminded me to try physical oil painting.
2021-01-21
Dream on 4:30 am January 21 2021
Sometimes, a dream is a continuation, expansion, or exaggeration of events in real life.
2021-01-20
Ugly lemon
I found this one on the ground, which seemed to be saying:
I might look different from my cousins in food markets, but I am still a lemon.
2021-01-16
January 14 2021 3:15 am dream
I tend to have very vivid dreams (David Lynch plots combined with George Lucas visuals), at least for these that I woke up to remember, which I tried to depict to the extent possible within my visual memory and artistic skill without much sleep disruption.