Creative Monday
Tried doing brush and ink portraiture of real people instead of animals. It seemed more difficult as minor misplacement of the facial features can easily render the portrait untruthful of the person being drawn. And it took much longer to draw people, more than twice the time I need to draw animal portraits, as I […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, creative-mondays, fellowship, patience, portraiture, self-control, thankful
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Creative Monday
Spent the evening on this Creative Monday relearning how to do portraiture, but instead of using conté, I tried using brush pens and without initial pencil drafts. Skimmed through the old life-drawing textbook and tried drawing the many facial features on it. I was able to sketch them out much quicker, more precise, and the result looked even more life like! […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, life-drawing, patience, portraiture, prayer, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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Goodbye First .5 of 2017
Another quarter’s gone and the first half of 2017 passed. What have I done with the time that God had entrusted me with? For the last couple of months, I had finally met up with all the friends I promised to meet and catch-up with during CNY. I planned to meet them earlier, but my […]
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Weekly Update (0612-0617)
0612 – Dim sum lunch with parents. Typhoon Merbok hit town, made the special day extra memorable. 0613 – Joint a class to learn how to create open source Chinese fonts, following God’s guildance (I think). 0614 – Only night I had dinner at home this week (excluding Sunday). 0615 – Saw a Chinese calligraphy […]
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New Daily Routine
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve started a new daily (almost) habit of practicing calligraphy and portraiture drawing using a brush pen. As much as I love doing art, I’m still very skeptical about the idea of becoming a full-time (starving) artist. Since my uncle got really sick earlier this year and later passed […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, career, dreams, habit, life, patience, portraiture, purpose, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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Running
Missed my weekly running practice on Wed. morning due to rain (black rain signal), and woke up late yesterday (poor sleep due to irritating mosquito), had to postpone the run to this morning. Cloudy day, and temperature wasn’t too hot, good day for a healthy dose of exercise. Running, and probably other aerobic exercises too, […]
tagged: patience, running, self-control, sports, thankful
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Readings and Recent Updates
Finished reading a couple of good books (Where’s God When It Hurts, Man’s Search for Meaning). I’ve always avoided reading books on war, death, and suffering, and I would probably never have picked up and read those books if not for my uncle’s recent passing away. My uncle’s passing away seems to be transforming me still, […]
tagged: books, death, faithfulness, family, life, meaning, patience, prayer, relationships, self-control, spiritual-gifts, suffering, time
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Easter Monday
Through a flyer I came across after strolling around a christian bookstore, I discovered and signed up for an art jamming session on this Creative Monday. I’ve been wanting to try out art jamming and learn to paint with acrylics for many years, but passed many opportunities due to timing and cost. Today’s art jamming session […]
tagged: acrylic-painting, architecture, art, christian, creative-mondays, event, hk, joy, life, patience, peace, prayer, questions, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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