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Heh.. been pretty busy these past few weeks – yes I know that line’s getting pretty old by now. Been doing tons of stuff, but just been too tired to post.. gah, horrible I know.

Anyway these are drawings by my 11 year old brother Jason. He asked me to help him post these here, and so I have in my capacity as Best Big Brother In The World. If only he didn’t fight with me so much perhaps he could draw more and become even better.. That being said, he’s definitely drawing much better than myself at that age, and I hope to see much better stuff in the future..

Heh, a bit backlogged with my posts.. I was at the National Museum last Sunday with friends to see this exhibition before it leaves in March. I’ve always been in awe of what great sculptors could achieve with stone, but this is the first time I’ve had the chance to see any up close in real life. We spent about 3 hours there sketching – which just shows how slow I am, but I’m working on that – before rushing off to lunch and a jamming session at Paradiz Centre..

Anyway it’s definitely worth the trip, it’s normally $8+ but if you have a student card it’s $4.. drawing models that’ll hold their poses for as long as you want.. well, till March anyway.. Oh yeah, picture courtesy of Mai since my camera was sent for repairs then.
Scans after the cut..

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Quite a lot of new things to absorb this week. Started on full body rigging, unwrapping models for texturing and gesture drawing…

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Started on my 6th portrait assignment. Gahh, slow going but thankfully not as slow as the last. Laurence Fishburne has a strange head that defies the laws of physics.. in addition to that, his drawing has also mysteriously disappeared from the pile at school.. I’m sure he’ll turn up eventually. This is the first time we get to choose our own reference so after drawing 5 guys thus far (many a time with weird head/hair shapes) it’s definitely time for some eyecandy.

After I took a picture of my drawing in photoshop I thought I might as well take a look to see exactly how accurate I was thus far. Haha, turns out there are two major mistakes.. the right eye is placed too far to the right.. and since I took reference for the corner of the mouth from the edge of the right pupil… hello stretchy face.. good thing I spotted it early so I can still fix it.

All those sketchy lines on the photocopy are my reference points, an ugly crutch I’ll be rid off once I get through oh I dunno, 500 drawings? Heh.. been trying to depend more on eye judgement than measuring this time, but looks like I’m still quite far away from my goal. Anyway each drawing’s a learning experience.. I’m glad I continued drawing through my 2 years in NS in my big black sketchbook. It’s nice to look back and see all the improvement, it gives me hope that with more hard work even greater things are possible.

Hmm.. If I can finish this one by lunch tomorrow I’ll start on another one too. Well, back to work!