024: Bird’s Nest

Done in black pen. It is a desperate, last minute attempt to fatten up my sketchbook before grading, done a around 11 to 12 pm at night when I was about to die of fatigue. You know they always say that you shouldn’t “临时抱佛脚” because they will not work out? I disagree, because in my humble opinion this looks better than some sketches that I’ve done way before deadline. I guess sometimes when you are in the mood to draw, no matter how tired your body is, your mind is in a state of excitement and you just can’t seem to stop until you hve completed it.

023: Comments

#1 On Theresa’s Graces Camp Logo design

#2 On Xin Yan’s Portraits

#3 On Lingxue’s Cover Art

#4 On Trixie’s Math Portfolio Cover

#5 On HuiKin’s BIG MESS

022: Batik Painting

Close ups:

021: A garden gnome pretending to be a teenager.

Image courtesy of Samantha! 

This is the gnome that we made last year, for A Green Dot exhibition.

020: DESIGN #5 – 寻·异梦 Programme Booklet

Yes, the programme booklet for 南洋剧坊 productions 《寻·异梦》。It was due on one of those “SIA weeks”, where everybody is doing last minute rushing of SIA reports. So sorry to my groupmates who did most of the Geog SIA powerpoint presentation on their own, because I was doing this. The requirement for the cover page of the programme booklet is: (i) Flowers (ii) Balloons (iii) Super exaggerated hair (iv) Dream-like (v) Mysterious. I cracked my brain trying to piece everything together.

The booklet did not turn out as well as I would have liked, but really, considering that 90% of the whole things was done in 6 hours, I think it was okay. Much of those 6 hours were spent not on the actual photoshopping, but rather on waiting for the computer to load (each of the 16 pages of the programme booklet was bwtween 40 – 149 MB) or waiting for people to send me the photos, synopsis or reflections for their shows.

My only regret is that the printing wasn’t that great. The colour was a bit weird, chunks of the pages were cropped off, the pages were not arranged in the correct order (I did label everything nicely for them >.<).

Still, this is the sec 4’s last ever production in 南洋剧坊. Although there were lots of technical errors were made on the first night, although it wasn’t a full house, we’ll still treasure this memory. This might be the last ever drama production in my life.

Below are some pages from the programme booklet.

019: Lines but no dots

05.04.08 at National Museum of Singapore.

My new shoes were eating at my feet. I was tired after one whole day of walk. I sat down at one corner, and saw this…

Can you guess what it is? ^.^

018: Sumo

Old work from sec 2 with minor editing a few weeks ago.

The guy featured in the picture is a Hawaiian-born Sumo wrestler, one of the few foreigners to reach the yokozuna rank (highest rank). I watched a documentary about foreign Sumo wrestlers in Japan, and really, to achieve success in professional Sumo in a country that is still generally contemptuous of foreigners takes a lot of courage and determination (I know that sounds cliche). They must stay in Japan for what, five years before they are recognised as Sumo wrestlers, must denounce their birth name and adopt a Japanese name and those are just among the many sacrifices that they have to make. I can’t really remember.

017: The Sky’s Memory II

Taken yesterday evening when I got home, using my old Sony point-and-shoot camera. I doubt taking using DSLR will make any major difference, because with a view like this, nothing can go wrong.

The sunset is really one of the best things about living in the west.

I feel uncomfortable, filing this under “General Trash”, but I don’t think this photo is enough to be categorized under “2-D Works”. All I did was point and shoot, and really, it is a pretty photo with no meaning a everyone except myself.

This photo not altered in any way.

016: Texture #2

Rice paper collage with water colour on water colour paper.

Experimentations with textures again. I like this one a lot. Not really related to the coursework (because this is merely a texture) except that the shape resembles a cross, and the rust-coloured splashes of paint resembles dried blood.

Should I give a hint of a baby somewhere? Right now things don’t link together.

015: Texture #1

A texture that I made from masking tape, silver poster paint, black ink and lots of clear spray paint. It’s suppose to resemble human skin (and it does, if you ignore the black ink splashed on top). I deliberately made the masking tape wrinkly, because one thing that I’ve noticed while drawing babies after babies is that their skin is really wrinkly. I think I failed to show the wrinkliness of babies skin and made it look like an old lady’s skin instead. Still, I’m pretty proud of this one.