SketchWalk ChaoPhraya

Posted on March 8, 2013 by why

The highlight of Feburary is my first ever oversea sketch trip with the UrbanSketchers Singapore members at Bangkok, Thailand. It was a 2-day event organized by the Bangkok sketchers as part of the community festival that celebrate a heredity area next to the Chao Phraya River. I am impressed by the hospitality and the organization of the BKK sketchers. I enjoyed the experience very much and would sure be back to BKK!

from SG to BKK

Sketching at IBIS Riverside

Wat Prayura Pagoda

24 Feb 2013 afternoon session at Bang Luang Mosque

Dinner at SIAM paragon foodcourt

from BKK to SG

Little Blue Bird and the Magic Feather

Posted on December 17, 2012 by why

Little Blue Bird and The Magic Feather is a story about a little young bird who loves to sing, but is very shy and anxious to sing in front of others. The story is written for pre- school children of age 3 to 5. I wrote this last month as part of my course assignment..

Open publication – Free publishing – More animal

Pop-Up Art Store

Posted on December 15, 2012 by why

Joined the Urban Sketchers Singapore for a 2-day art event…The following original sketches were submitted for exhibition and is on sale at the Viridian Art House (opposite Liang Court, at the foothills of Fort Canning Park) from 15 – 16 Dec.

Sketches for Sale at the Pop-Up Art

I created 4 new Christmas-theme sketches especially for this event…

Christmas at Orchard

HK Trip

Posted on June 16, 2012 by why

Haven’t updated for a while as I went back to HK for a short break. Did not bring the camera this time, just a small sketchbook and a pen. It was great to see family and friends again, but the trip was too short.

We took an early flight to HK.

Tiger Airway SG to HK

The first thing we did after settling down is to go for a haircut. I had a very bad haircut a few months ago in SG and I need a fix so badly… felt much happier after the haircut. Then we went back to the hotel and take a short break before going to family dinner.

Hair cut and dinner

The next morning, we had dim sum brunch with a friend.

Dim Sum Brunch

We went to Sha Tin to see the Picasso Exhibition in the afternoon, and had dinner at New Town Plaza with a friend.

Sha Tin

The next day, we went to Sai Kung. We even took a small boat to one of the off islands. The boat ride was really fun. We had desserts at the famous HoneyMoon dessert place before going home for dinner.

Sai Kung

On the bus ride from town to HKIA.

Bus ride to HKIA

On the flight back from HK to SG.

Tiger Airway, HK to SG

Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 13, 2012 by why

A little drawing for my dear Mom, wish you happy and healthy everyday.

I drew the bear with a hand-made twig pen on rice paper, and then add the background and words in photoshop.

Happy Mother's Day

South Bridge Road

Posted on May 13, 2012 by why

Last weekend, I joined Master Chan Chang How and the USKSG group to sketch along South Bridge Road around Chinatown. Master Chan is one of the most excellent watercolor painters in Singapore, and it was a very valuable experience to sketch with him. He is a very warm and generous person, volunteer to organize a sketching session like this to share his knowledge in sketching and painting. It was really helpful to see him demonstrate how our sketches could be improved. A very inspiring session indeed.

South Bridge Road

Paper by FiftyThree

Posted on May 7, 2012 by why

The iPad app Paper by FiftyThree is my favorite sketching app. It is beautifully design, and is so fun to play with. I think Paper is the best app for quick sketches and doodles. I’ve been using it to draw, to sketch, to write down ideas and to-do list.

I really like the notebook metaphor of the interface. You can add new books, customize the title and choose your own cover image. Also, it doesn’t seem to have any limit on the number of notebooks and the pages of each notebook that you can create, I’ve already created 7 different books and one of them has 90 pages!

Paper 53

When you tap on a book, you can then ‘flip’ through the pages. You can also share the image out to twitter, facebook, tumblr, likedin or the camera roll all at the same time.

Paper 53

The app comes with one free drawing tool – the pen tool. It creates beautiful energetic lines and you can control the thickness by varying the speed. The line gets thinner when you move faster.

Hands

fashion girl

The pen tool also made my handwriting looks so much nicer.

leafbear studio

I also bought the watercolor tool and loved it. Look at these juicy colors!

Color Mixing

The watercolor tool allow me to add color to a large area easily and I really like the effect it creates.

still life

Sketches look much nicer with color too.

Starbucks

The watercolor gets darker when you keep painting over it, which is awesome as you can get some really interesting mix of colors.

bear pack

This mini landscape is painted by overlaying the watercolor.

landscape

Even though the tool and the color is limited, the potential of what you can do with it is unlimited. If you still haven’t downloaded the app, go do it now and join in the fun! I am still exploring and experimenting. Please visit my tumblr blog for more drawings and doodles I made with paper http://whydoodle.tumblr.com/

seashells

Posted on February 21, 2012 by why

I was at Bintan, the Indonesia island that is just around an hour’s ferry ride from Singapore, with my family for a very relaxing holiday trip last month. While we were there, we picked a lot of seashells from the beach. I miss that place, so I did a drawing of some of the seashells we picked.

seashells

Here is the black and white version, where you can download and print it, and do the coloring by yourself.

seashells

Another version that I did with my watercolor brush in photoshop.

seashells

watercolor texture

Posted on February 12, 2012 by why

I’ve been playing with watercolor texture recently. First, I painted some random watercolor my sketchbook, a Daler Rowney 4*6″ 100 g/m cream color one. Then I scanned the images in and adjusted them in Photoshop to create my own watercolor brushes.

These would come in really handy when I need to create some texture for my digital illustrations. It’s also really fun and de-stressing to just splash watercolors onto a paper and see how they run into each other.

The following illustration used one of my original scan as the background image.

watercolor hair girl

mushroom

Posted on February 1, 2012 by why

I’ve been very busy with all the visitors in town since Xmas, and haven’t got much time to update this blog. Can’t believe it’s Feb already! Now it’s time to clear all the mushrooms that have been growing here :)