Pencil Sketches - Boxes

Boxes!!

Decided to play with the patterns I could make with squares & boxes, and the outcome is as such.

When I posted this on Instagram, my very wild friend commented:

"#somethingisbotheringyou #ilearnpsychology"

Hahahaha! Ya, it could be my work? I'm not sure, but I was really focusing in making the pattern, without thinking about my work in the process of finishing it.

Oh, nevermind la.

Pencil Sketches - Melaka Red House

Well, I still love sketching buildings.

Probably because I can sketch better buildings than portraits. Ultimately, I want to be good in all. So I guess as I continue my momentum in drawing, the objective will still achieve.

I did my sketch on Melaka Red House: 

Tata!

It's based on the photo in google below:

Enjoy!

Acrylic Painting - Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Acrylic Painting - Sultan Abdul Samad Building

I have completed basic drawing techniques in MIA & basic colouring skills. 

Now, Miss Sia gave us a list of themes that we will be completing throughout our lesson. It includes: Building, Portrait, Abstract, Garden and many more.

Without knowing the difficulties, I've chosen the one I always wanted to master - Building. 

The building I picked was - Sultan Abdul Samad Building

(This is not the original picture, was taken from here)

I must say, the picture I chose to paint looks easy but in fact, was a lot more challenging!

Let me tell you why.

First, the picture was taken from bottom,

Secondly, it was taken from the side of building.

Thirdly, it has so many different lines and designs on the building, which is the one that makes it unique.

When it comes to drawing, it has 3 angle to focus at.

To draw this, I had to join all the slanting lines into 3 points at the original picture. Then at my drawing pad, I put 3 dots and draw lines. 

It took me 2 hours to complete the drawing. I was damn exhausted after the class. 

Well, thanks to Miss Sia, I've managed to complete the art in 3 weeks:

There are leftover paints and I thought it was quite wasted to dump it. So I decided to paint at the other half of page freely: 

The amazing effect I created without expectations and intentions:

Enjoy!

Pencil Sketches - Osaka Castle

Long awaited 3 days holidays finally arrived. 

Oh yes~

Saw this Osaka castle in the star and it stirred my interest to sketch on it. 

Osaka Castle:

My Sketch:

Enjoy~

1st Acrylic Painting

Started my first lesson of acrylic painting.

We were required to draw and paint the jug & a transparent glass. Both were chosen as mapping is required to draw out the reflection on their surfaces and subsequently paint it. 

First week I've done this:

Second week I moved to adding items on same page.

And, tata! There goes my first painting:

Pencil Sketches - Courts brochure

Randomly draw from courts' brochure: 

Pencil Sketches - Kylemore Church

Another week has passed and i'm counting down to my Redang trip in October and my long leaves in November =)

It's been my 3 months being a student of MIA. Even though I don't see much improvement on my art work, I can feel my drawing is getting better. 

But, it's still yet-to-improve art work lahhhhh.

I saw this beautiful church picture on newspaper and has decided to give it a sketch.

It's Kylemore Church in Ireland.  

I personally think this is one of the better sketch work I've produced so far. 

Though it has many flaws in it. Haha.

It's Sunday, another working week ahead. 

Enjoy the night =)

Pencil Sketches - Random

The aftermath of 4 days holidays ->

This is actually mountain view, but I guess I failed in sketching the rocks. haha

While this, was done free hand. I wasn't satisfied with the first draw and thus decided to just draw whatever that came across my mind.

Yes, I love tree =)

But I'm still figuring the right technique to sketch it.

Anyway, cheers!

Pencil Sketches - Scenery in Taiwan2

Thankful as a Malaysian that we get to celebrate festive seasons together. 

Well, in other words it means extra holidays :D 

Selamat Hari Raya to my friends !!!

4 days of Raya holidays have finally come to an end. Its an relaxing holidays as my family and I din go beyond than Klang Valley district. I was kinda slack today, having no mood to work and read. 

Thus, I decided to sketch.

I used charcoal pencil in my previous sketches. This time, I tried mixture of 2B pencil and charcoal on the first sketch and purely 2B pencil on the second.

Enjoy your day guys !

Pencil Sketches - Scenery in Taiwan

Sketching is the skill that I always wish to have in me. I'm not born with talent, therefore I have to slowly build up the foundation of sketching by attending to my weekly art class at MIA :) 

Though I'm currently specializing on Acrylic Paint (over water colour and Oil Paint) in MIA, I believe that building colour sense would greatly contribute to improving my sketching too. 

Of course, 

I love art as a whole. It's just that out of so many branches of art, I'm in love more with sketching. 

I guess the main reason lies with its lite and easy tools where I just need a pencil and a sketch pad (or simply a paper) to produce a beautiful artwork at anywhere as long as I spot good scenery to sketch. I love being simple, that's why sketch suits me. 

Hence, I bought a set of sketch pad + charcoal pencils + charcoal sticks + eraser + stump in KLCC Book Fest that cost me only RM20 last Monday. 

Here are my yet-to-improve artwork: 

I posted this on Instagram and my ex-colleague commented, "Title: Butterfly going to die". Hahahaha.

Another friend of mine commented, "I can see a pig face in the draw". (=__= Hello ... pig is not meant to appear there larrrr.)

Well, there r more improvement needed certainly.

I believe with the help of art class + regular practice of sketching, I'm able to produce better artwork in future :)

Cheers!