8 months late but...
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Throwback to my first booth ever!
Who knew this would kickstart a dormant dream?
Super grateful for the opportunity to booth at Illustrator's Market by@whitecanvassg . Had a lot of fun making new friends and bonding over art! :)
To my fellow BOOTHERS:
- Special thanks to @sher.senya@zeefish.art for being my first boother friends and lending me their spare grids for my setup! Met them at the print shop and bus stop on the way to the market on Day 0.
- BOOTHING buddy 😊 @gu.a.i
- Super cool risograph artists 😌 @claralaralalala@lejooz
- Biggest collection of stickers ever 😲 @sirleste
- Artist with cute cat art 🥹 @kikko_baby
- Additional mentions to @the.wrecklessmess (BOLD PINK ART) and @lait.hepines (lovely watercolour art on special papers) who are not featured in this post but were so encouraging to me as well :)
So thankful to everyone for being so welcoming! Y'all made my first experience truly memorable and not as intimidating as I expected it to be. Thank you for being a part of the start of my art journey!
Hello friend! I'm @idrawsomethinggg and uh I draw some things for fun (DUH) 😄 I'll be selling a mini zine compilation of the sketches I do on the train (cos the train ride to sch is so long LOL) and will also be taking mini portrait commissions.
Come by if this matches your freak (or just to yap, I'll tell you stories about my art)!
🗓 Date: 23rd October
🕒 Time: 11am-3pm
📍 Location: Utown (Outside Fine Foods)
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Being a kid again | Real time: 2 hours
Sometimes I don't feel like drawing because I don't know what to draw. While that might sound reasonable to us as adults, I wonder what 4 year old me would've said. Perhaps as we age, as we become accustomed to knowing things, we forget what it's like to not have certainty and answers. To not know and be surprised by new ideas.
The first 20 minutes of this drawing felt ...horrible. I wanted to give up. What was I doing trying to draw something so different from my usual style? I didn't have an end picture in mind. It was scary. It was hard to begin, hard to make choices.
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I watched an online drawing demo recently by one of my favourite artists (Pascal Campion) and he talked about indecision often is a product of ascribing too much significance to a decision. Fixation on doing something "the right way." Forgetting what it's like to just play. To improvise as we go along.
Pascal mentioned that he prefers to work quickly -- before one gets fatigued and leaves the drawing to rot in its unfinished til an unspecified date. I think there's some value in that. Perhaps we don't always have the luxury of time to sit and refine things...in which case it would be better to get the idea out rather than let it slip away.
So I started working on it. Really quickly. With a digital brush I rarely ever use.
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Another thought: does it really matter? So what if you realise you don't like the colour you chose at first? Adapt. Make the other colors work with it. Or if you have the liberty to, change it. So what if you only have basic tools? Learn how it works and embrace its uniqueness. It's really not that dramatically awful -- it's not the end of the world.
And somehow along the way I found myself enjoying the explorative process. :)
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Lastly, perfection. At some point, we've got to stop. The drawing could've been considered completed at the sketch phase -- simply because the idea was readable. Although there's satisfaction in perfecting things, it must be done in moderation. Once we've achieved our goal to a reasonable level, there's no need to keep obsessing over every small detail.
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#drawing #beakidagain
Sketching on the train :) | original time: 8 min | been drawing on my notebook with a pen recently instead of digitally and it's been a fun switch up!
What do you think?
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Practice Sketch
Haven't sketched in a while! Tried doing contour drawings for about 20 minutes but didn't manage to do a nice one. When I finally got down to sketching it, I realised that the lines flowed better!
📸: reference from @chommang 's drawing routine channel.
👀 pre-sketch practice (2) and time lapsed process video (3)
⏰ (final sketch): 9 minutes 7 seconds
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The Boy Part 1
There once was a boy
Who bought a new toy
Headphones they called it
Oh how snugly it did fit!
It tuned out the noise
Every single voice
That belonged to those
Elbowing his ribs,
Stepping on his toes,
Staring eye to eye,
The closest of the close.
Remarkably Bright Creatures was a book that hit me in some way I haven't found the words to describe just yet. The characters sneak into the crevices of your heart and settle in the living room with a bowl of popcorn and a warm cup of tea.
When the book ended, I briefly entered a moment of denial which tumbled out of the dryer in the form of 8 Google searches on Giant Pacific Octopuses and a drawing of said octopus.
