Confessions of a researchaholic

2020-08-24

Farm Hill

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:09 pm
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This intriguing hill-corner-top view is part of my routine walks around the neighborhood.

2020-08-21

Strawberries

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:12 pm
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I drew this plate of strawberries after dinner.

2020-08-18

Wild fire

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:37 pm
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Given our performance so far against the covid-19 pandemic, how would you rationally expect we can deal with environment damage and climate change?
With the current trajectory, humanity may not last beyond 100 or even 50 years.

2020-08-17

Liquid trail animation exercises

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:33 pm
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Exercises for lesson 3; I only felt like doing one but did the second for variation.

2020-08-16

Flower day lapse

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:31 am
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I was planning to draw this bud every day until it completely dies off but something unexpected forced me to stop on Friday August 14 2020.

2020-08-09

Exercises in secondary dynamic effects

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:29 am
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These are exercises for lesson 2.

The looping wave motion is more difficult to create than I expected.
Two of the earlier mistakes include a standing wave and a “smoke” that moves up and down.

After watching a candle fire extinguished by wind, I tried to capture the essence the memory via drawing the simplest possible animation.
Without looping, it is easier to create a jumpy fire followed by a rising and distinguishing smoke.

2020-08-08

Bud pair

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:08 pm
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This is a very quick oil painting. I plan to draw a time lapse of the flower life cycle.

2020-08-04

Morning energy

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:55 pm
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Bananas probably have one of the highest benefit-to-cost ratios among all food: nutritional, healthy, easy to consume, and low cost, despite their lack of genetic diversity and (like other fresh produce) perishable for storage and transportation.

2020-07-31

Decomposition

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:48 pm
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The disintegration of a dead body is its reintegration back to the nature, and inspires me to decompose my sketching.

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