The Prodigal Bedroom

This was from an ad for a mag.. for Ethan Allen? Four years ago? I’m not sure.  I was practicing shading with pencils: H, HB, and a very little B.  I personally dont like brittle pencils because it messes the whole sheet up.  Me and my self diagnosed OCD. :p I used to flatten a hankie/tissue paper between the paper and my hand when I draw so I don’t smudge the lead.  I know, I know.  I don’t do that anymore.

Oh! About this drawing. I thought it got lost after I submitted it because I didn’t see it until SEVERAL MONTHS later.  It had a faint shoe/foot print mark/dirt across the page hahah!  Apparently, it’s been hiding under someone foot.  My friend told me he found it somewhere on the lobby floor of the architecture/engineering building.  Imagine, after months of being lost.  I just erased the mark and shaded in the parts that got a little faded.  And voila, the prodigal bedroom drawing.  I think its  very cool that it found its way back to me.

Midnight Sea

Look what I found! I made this drawing one night in summer camp in high school.  We were up on a hill and I can’t remember why I was thinking of how the sea looks like at midnight.  Cold and silver and still.  And I just had to draw it.  I used to carry drawing pens and pencils with me everytime I travel, just in case I got bored.  That was BEFORE the iPod lol.  I’m not sure if you can tell from the pic but this drawing is actually really small; its only about an inch tall, and two inches wide. More or less the size of a standard business card.  I did this on a little piece of blue paper and basically just blotted dots and short strokes of blue marker/colored pen and chalk.  And guess what, its around eight years old now. :)

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Teapot Cracks

 

 

This was the drawing that accidentally taught me how to do the watercolor dry technique.  Unlike wet, dry means each stroke makes a HUGE difference on your drawing.  In other words every stroke is final.  The thing about watercolor is, you can’t erase or paint over your mistakes.  The more you fix it, the worse it gets.

That day, I had the wrong type of paper.  I started with the wet technique.  So halfway through it, the whole thing was soaked with water and my I was tearing the paper everywhere with my brush.  (If you look closely, you’d still see them along the edges of the pot.) I panicked, dried the sheet, crossed my fingers, and finished it dry. :)

I’m adding a few close up shots in case you want to look at them.

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Glass Monochrome

This is one of my favorite drawings just because I love how simple it was to use one color. I used basic watercolor blue, and then varied the amount of water for different mixtures to get different shades. The pic is a little distorted because I was trying to keep my shadow off the paper.

So there, that’s my first drawing post… do you approve?

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Thanks

I came home a little late from a dinner party tonight, and I was tempted to go straight to bed with the dress on.  But I thought i just might leave a note and upload a few old pics on the Photography page.  This will be my last update for a while, and I might not be on the blog for a few days.

To everyone, thank you so much for all the wonderful comments, the PMs of encouragements, the new friends, heck thanks for all the clicks.  Honestly, it isn’t easy putting out one’s work out there (whether or not someone actually sees it), especially for the most introverted among us.  So it was a pleasant, pleasant surprise that you guys took the trouble to come to the site.  It makes me smile; I get a couple of notches braver about sharing drawings and thoughts.  Now beware. ;)

PS: Here’s something new.  I made a Freedom Wall on the blog!  No rules, free drinks, it’s for anyone’s anything and everybody’s everything.  Go post something now.

Drawing Update! Midnight Sea

Just finished uploading a new one on the Drawings page. :)

Today I found an old drawing from my high school years.  I labeled it Midnight Sea for the blog.  It reminded me of how much I used to like to draw for fun.  I saw my younger self staying up til three on my study table drawing whatever I would feel like drawing.  Fast forward to this version of me.  5 days a week, 8-5 or later, I sit on my desk rushing, designing, 3, 4, or more sketches a day, lining them up as orders, production requests, etc.  Each drawing I do now has a project code, a specific date, and sometimes even time, of when it’s due, when it was requested, and when it was pushed off my plate.  They seem like stunning faceless drawings, far more intricate and confident yes, but very well less loved than the amateurish sketches of my childhood.

We found everything we ever really needed when we were kids.  Remind me again, where are we rushing off to?

Drawing Update: Teapot Cracks

Hello everyone, here’s another drawing I dug up from my old files. I found a bunch of my watercolors and I wanted to upload a whole batch of them today but I had to, ugh, wrestle a computer virus first when I came home from work. You can probably tell I’m tired, and how I’m just dragging my fingers across the keyboard.

This drawing is called Teapot Cracks by the way. It’s one of my favorites too so take a quick look. I love how it almost leaves the paper, just jumps right out, WAIT. Why don’t you just click? :)

Drawing Update! Glass Monochrome

Hi guys, I’ve just uploaded a new drawing on the Drawings Page, it’s called “Glass Monochrome”. You won’t miss it because it’s the only one there, haha. I hope you guys like it. Write something on the comment box below the drawing, and tell me if I need to stop this nonsense LOL.

Hi!

Yey my first post!

Hello everyone, welcome to the site.  I’ve just had my esteemed panel of important people approve the header.  So I’m hopefully going to leave that alone for a while. Lol.   I’m going to have the first batch of drawings posted, after I dig them out of ancient files, assuming I find the files hahah, scanning/taking pics of them, clipping notes for each one, ugh HARD WORK.

For now I’d like to thank all of you for coming to the site, even if I had nothing on here yet.  I’m super happy about each visit so keep dropping by.  And oh, I’d like to hear what you have to say about the header image up there, good or bad, since its the first work you’ve seen from me.   Please leave a comment, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks for the love and keep the hits coming! :)