“Do you trust me Rose”
“I TRUST YOU JACK”

lololol /inside joke

I stayed up late yesterday doing an assignment I thought was due today but isn’t actually due. In rage I drew this today instead of doing work. Still working on the concept of a speedpaint being speedy… I think I get stuck on details too much? ~2.5 hours on this

Titanic re-release in April SO EXCITE!!! Young Leo once again on the big screen? Yes please.

Painted on iPhone 4 with Colors! (app) and my index finger lol
Click here to see how it was painted.

When I was younger, despite being offered the chance of private art lessons, I rejected it mainly for the reason that I don’t want to be pressured to draw. I didn’t want something I liked doing to become a chore so that I end up hating it. Many many years later, I now only draw if there is a reason to or if I very rarely get inspired and I have not other things I’d rather do. Moral is: interest is important but so is discipline lol.

That said, this Steve Jobs portrait is now probably the most recognizable picture of him. There are probably tons of drawings of it out there, but I drew this because I happened to have the book in front of me. I was browsing the Colors! gallery and marveling at some really gorgeous artworks when my coworker looked over and wouldn’t believe that you can draw on a DS/iPhone. Hence I picked the nearest object (the book) and drew it to show him. (I was bored out of my mind at work, too.) I want a stylus for my phone D: drawing the details took forever. -___-

A little bit more on Steve Jobs… I’m only 60+ pages into Isaacson’s book but I’ve read other Steve biographies and all sorts of articles on him, some before he died. As an Electrical Engineering student with a vast interest in Art (and user of some Apple products), I relate to bits and pieces of Steve and his accomplishments and spirit have been an inspiration. I remember back in the days, the very first computer I ever used was a Macintosh, when it was still huge and looked like CRT monitors with multiple colours. I didn’t know that was a Mac or that the computer I later used in the library was a Windows. I just remember being profoundly confused when I got on a Windows that I didn’t know how to work it. What’s a Start button? lol. I went on to use Windows for many years after that, until 2009 when I went back to Mac OS X on this Macbook Pro I’m typing on. I was really sad about Steve’s passing that I took a few days to get over, surprisingly or not to those around me. (I dreamed about Steve a week or so after he passed away and jokingly said that now he was done causing RIM trouble he was coming after people who still haven’t upgraded to iOS5 or Lion lol cough. I still haven’t upgraded.)

Anyway…

Next piece is going to be in colour I PROMISE. Look I even brought proof:

my looooooooove has co– oh wait.

The impossible has happened — I emerge from the cyber dusts of my blog AND this drawing is finished?! Yep yep, signed sprayed and framed. (My mom insisted framing.)

At this point I really don’t know if there is anything more to be said about this drawing. I’m just glad it’s done and I can move on to something else. This is the second drawing I’ve done in charcoal, and the insanely long time it took me to finish allowed to me explore different techniques. When I started this in January 2009 it was one of those “oh okay I’m bored let’s practice charcoal”, I didn’t mean for it to take this long. Drawing on and off these years, the actual time it took is probably a few days, 3-4?

And probably no one cares but since it’s been so long, I compiled a progress picture, starting from the practice sketch in my old sketchbook.

Referenced from “Something Beautiful” by Zhang Jingna.

=D

Happy 2011!! I’m probably one of the few who spent new years sober even though I was up all night too. I spent my new year’s eve packing into the crack of the first dawn of 2011. *epic music* Then I spent the rest of the day on the road with a massive headache, and finally unpacking all that crap I just packed less than 12 hours ago~

… Yeahhhh another work term. Looking back on old entries, just 2 entries ago I was talking about leaving Ottawa and not knowing when I’ll be back again. lol yeah well… here I am. -_- Doing something new this time though! To be honest I appreciate the familiarity of the city a second time around.

As for new year resolutions, hm! I guess draw more, among others. Yes yes, this is the 101st time I’m posting this drawing. Buuuut the last time I posted it looked like this, which stayed that way for 2 years until this Christmas break at home. =D I finally invested in a Moleskine sketchbook as well, and even lugged my easel and some drawing stuff to Ottawa with me. Hopefully this time I actually will draw more! The goal is to fill this Moleskine by the end of the year. JUST ONE. 104 pages.

…And in doing so, I will probably finally blog more often as well. “Orz 2 birds with 1 stone! whoo!

Besides the fact that this looks NOTHING LIKE HER…. this is Jingna. But a few years back. 3-4 years? I had the insight back then to save some images from her website during her developing phase, before she completely transformed into the awesome sauce that she is today. (Otherwise known as I’m A Creepy Fangirl yes.) Yeeeeeee I’ve been following her stuff for a while. So happy her postcard collection is out!! Going to buy it the next time I remember to carry my credit card upstairs. (.. Yes I’m too lazy to go back downstairs once I’ve settled in my bed, stfu.) It would make a happy friend to my copy of “Something Beautiful” LE from last Winter. =D /fangirl

But otherwise, this is a “speedpaint” gone wrong. But paraphrasing Sharon, I guess 2.5hrs is speedy compared to the usual 6hrs+ for me. =| I have rly short attention span excuse me.

Happy December!!