Meanwhile, don’t believe me when I say I’m going to write more.  It might just be what I need.  Loves for everyone. Ciao!

Needless to say my guy friends from the architecture/engineering department urged me to join them in their so-called artistic endeavor, since they had to brush up on their drawing skills for our drafting classes, ya know.

So this class had a naked girl sitting on the floor in the middle of the room.  I decided to draw this side of her because it was my first time, and because it was crowded on the front view hahah. We were told that the model is usually a female because it is the easiest for starting nude painters/sketchers, owing to the smoother surfaces and simpler flowing outline of the female body.

The first session was definitely not the last. So here’s another sketch that happened soon after, some 8 or 7 years ago. Pardon the dirty, crumpled paper, and while you’re at it, pardon the hard lines and the hurried shading too. ;)

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Colored pencil, ink, art history.  These are things that require patience and presence of mind.  Look at how i colored the whole thing PURPLE.  Up to this day, several years after I drew this, I still can’t explain why I colored it a bright. bluish. purple.  This isn’t one of my favorite drawings but sigh, what can I do.  I am its creator; I brought it to this cruel cruel world and I must love it.  So here’s one of my Frankensteins, and i present it with love. ;)

This was from an ad for a mag, probably 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.  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. :)

I thought I lost this drawing after I submitted it because I didn’t see it until SEVERAL MONTHS later.  A friend told me he found it somewhere on the lobby floor of the architecture/engineering building.  It had a faint shoe/foot print mark across the page!  Apparently, it’s been hiding under someone foot.  I erased the dirt 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.

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.

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 every time I travel, just in case I got bored.  That was BEFORE the iPod.  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, it’s around nine years old now. :)

This drawing reminded me of how much I used to like to draw for fun.  I saw my younger self staying up till three on my study table drawing whatever I would feel like drawing.  Fast forward to this version of me.  5 days a week, 8-5pm 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 much 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?

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This was the drawing that accidentally taught me how to do the dry technique with watercolor. It means each stroke makes a HUGE difference on your drawing, so every stroke is final because the brush will have more color pigments.  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 sheet was soaked with water and 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 using the dry technique.

This is one of my favorites because I love how it almost leaves the paper; it just jumps right out.  Here I’m adding a few close up shots in case you want to look at them.

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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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! :)