More from the Drawing Room

The finals have come and gone, and unfortunately this blog had taken a low priority as of late. Working till midnight while keeping an eight hour sleeping schedule is a tricky thing to balance. But here are a few more nude drawings from school as my way of repentance.

The size of these pieces are of a2 dimensions with the exception with the first drawing which was more cropped from the sides. The charcoal drawing on the bottom was photo referenced. I’m unhappy with a number of proportional issues, but generally pleased with how I’ve been learning with the media, and how I’ve been getting better at sighting and measuring.

Right now I’m enjoying my ten day spring break in sunny Manila. My skin feels lovely and revels on the warmth and humidity. It’s been an emotional week so today’s day of rest would do me some good. I have also bought a new watercolor pad to start on my color diary. Hopefully this would breed more painted works in the future.

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Visiting Ten Thousand Buddhas

Survey of Asian Art with SCAD is such an enjoyable class. I am thrilled that I took it over again. Our field trip for the quarter consists of a trip to Hong Kong’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery. Below are images from the adventure, which I hope you would enjoy as I much as I did taking them.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (Man Fat Tsz), located Po Fook Hill at Pai Tau Village, Shatin in the New Territories is one of Hong Kong’s most famous Buddhist temples and popular tourist attractions. The temple was founded in 1949 by the Reverend Yuet Kai and completed in 1957.  (source)

The body encased in class in the center of the altar is the embalmed body of the Monastery’s founder, Yue Kai

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Valentine Mums

A quick thank you for all of your lovely support. I know that the updates have been crawling along but thanks for sticking with me nonetheless. Happy Valentines everyone! You have my unending love and gratitude.

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Work from the Drawing Room

Life drawing is my favorite class. Sure, most of what I come up with isn’t presentable. Class time is divided into several quick gestures and the longer poses only take 10-15 minutes. But the thrill of capturing things from life is really getting to me. My style is growing somehow! My visual vocabulary for the human body is getting better. Much love to my favorite model Jenny and there’s one down there of Rob as well.

Here are a few drawings from half of the quarter. All of them are referenced from life and are drawn in an A2 size paper (420 x 594 mm). I’ve also taken the liberty of taken on a Mannerist style for some of these but I do hope you all would enjoy them :)

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Skull Study

This week’s studies for life drawing include an assortment of skulls drawn in different angles. I just purchased these wonderful Faber Castell Polychromos pencils (White, Walnut Brown, Indian Red, and Ivory) and took them for a test run.The rendering was done in craft paper which I precut from a large roll I own back in Manila. Backgrounds were finished with a black Muji pencil, and compressed charcoal.

I am very happy with the end result! Somehow my frontal skull seems to pop out well from the paper. For those who are looking to purchase the materials at Hong Kong, you can buy the pencils individually at Cheung Nam Stationary store at 503 Nathan Road, Yao Ma Tei.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been so kind as to support me for the Florence + The Machine contest at talenthouse. :) The response has been so overwhelming and I can’t thank you all enough. I’m just awaiting the results at this point and am hoping for the best.

There’s more art to follow in the coming weeks. In the off chance that I hit a dry spell, I have a photo set coming up with my trip to the Ten Thousand Buddhas monastery. Getting through that trip is admittedly one of my more challenging feats to date!

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