I was trying to draw a temple building but lacked enough time before the evening closure, so I switched to another nearby scene.
2020-07-18
2020-07-16
草草了事 undeleted from a restless afternoon
I was trying to sketch Dona Arguello‘s statue from a sliver of shaded area in a hot afternoon but could not gather enough interest within the allocated half hour, so I deleted the file, but restored it to continue from memory at home.
2020-07-15
2020-07-13
Pencil and pen sketch of an unlit corner after sunset
I went out after 8 pm to this interesting and yet unlit corner of my neighborhood, to force myself to either draw quickly before it was too dark and/or finish the rest from visual memory back home.
2020-07-10
Hand exercise pine cone
When I picked up this pine cone it was still oozing sap, and has remained on my desk as an aroma source and hand exercise instrument.
2020-07-06
Sitting across from the black cat opposite a glass panel
The neighborhood black cat often came to visit.
The sketch is a composition based on two photographs.
2020-07-04
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.
2020-07-03
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.
2020-07-01
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