Sketches

Selected sketches from life drawing.
The story is - I just acquired a printer-cum-scanner and wanted to test it.

Pencil
(c) sean 2014-2015

Summer sketch dump

Of procrastinative doodles produced whilst writing my dissertation, containing representations of self, friends, miscellaneous people, imagined people, characters, and a random castle in a lake. I still don't understand why the picture gets automatically dimmed. 

Tools: A mighty pencil; Corel painter.

Pose sketch dump

I don't understand how/why when I upload pictures they are somehow automatically dimmed. This is slightly irritating. 

Tool: Pencil
References used, from various places on the internet i.e. Google.

The flute player

I am terribly sorry for the lack of updates lately. Life has been too wonderfully busy. However, I have dug up some old work that for some reason I have never published. I shall slowly upload them. Here is one. Originally painted in 2012 for a friend who eventually didn't use it as originally intended. 

Tool: Acrylics on canvas
Size: A4

On harmberga

Her Hos sitiþ on harmberga
agl[.] drigiþ swa hiræ Ertae gisgraf
sarden sorga and sefa torna

Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound;
She suffers distress as Ertae had imposed it upon her,
a wretched den (?wood) of sorrows and of torments of mind

(Source: Wikipedia)



Based on the Franks Casket, early eighth century, right panel

Tool: watercolour
Time: 5-6 hours

Staffordshire Beast

Drawing based on the beautiful interlaced decoration on a metal hilt fitting from the Staffordshire Hoard. Anglo-Saxons for the win. 

To find out more, do visit the Staffordshire Hoard official website.

Tool: Mechanical pencil, 0.3mm

Time: 2 hours?

Ruby

A painting request from friend Becca of her dog Ruby

Tool: watercolour (and white acrylic touch-ups) over pencil sketch
Time: 3 hours

The Butterfly Lion

Background art, prop (book covers for Black Beauty and The Secret Garden) and mural, done for The Butterfly Lion play at my university, 29th November - 1st December 2012.

Crouched burial!

Tool: Black fineliner

Ellie & Luke

Cuteness forever!

I haven't quite forgotten my 'Antioch' story (yet).

Reference: [link]

Tool: pencil

Time: 1 hour (which should be spent on more reading instead....)

Italy sketch dump

(from top left, clockwise) outside of the Vatican City, Piazza Navona (Rome), Piazza San Marco (Venice), a canal in Venice, a canal in Venice again, a Colosseum arch, and the one at the centre is looking out from the north coast of Venice.

From top left, first row: the Colosseum, Rory the Roman, Doctor looking out from the TARDIS, wall outside the Vatican City (which was boring) and a quene, a Dalek, Doctor, TARDIS, Amy and Rory, a Venice boat, TARDIS, Doctor, Doctor and sonic screwdriver, Inken reading a book, Doctor sitting on a Dalek, Doctor wearing a fez, Doctor 'sonic

-ing' you, Doctor and Idris, Doctor eating fish finger and custard, an Ood, a weeping angel, an angel eating the TARDIS, Doctor style with cool bowtie, fez and stetson, an imaginary woman wearing Venetian mask, Doctor being hot when he's clever, River insisting that it is her normal face, miniature figures of Doctor, Dalek, Angel, Cyberman, Ood, Sontaran, TARDIS, Silence and Headless Monk, TARDIS as tough-old-dependable-sexy.

Tool: pencil
Time: Varied - longest approx. 45-60 mins, shortest approx. 1 min

Dandimonster!!

某一晚發夢夢見的怪物，
毛茸茸頭上有兩朵dandelion架！

:)

Pencil and colour pencils

活到美麗

Please click to enlarge!

Inspired by 鄧麗欣《活到美麗》
「曾留下幸福在世　不算無謂
誰燃亮萬千後世　不會被毀」

Happy Christmas!

平安！

加送聖誕漫畫：

按上圖看！
English version click here!

2010 Michaelmas sketch dump

sketches of my friends, fish and random thoughts
using a pencil, a sketchbook and a heart touched by all beautiful things around.

people involved: Niall, Rob, Rory, Matt, Gareth, Zach, Ben, Anna, Julie

對不起大學太忙，又沒有scanner，
唯一放假回到家一次過把(幾乎)所以sketch scan入電腦。
希望可以有多些時間畫畫...

第十四個春天

Experiment

Inspired by Carmen's poem
...
(extract)
我頓時記起了多年前
在浴缸裡植樹的願望
...

Tools: Liquid acrylic, Muji marker, acrylic white paint

此為二零一零年暑假的最後一幅畫。
Durham見 :)

Of an Improbable Dream

唔係真係發左既夢...
而係呢類畫既練習！
呢類畫 = 一堆唔啦更既野連埋一齊成一個overall既畫面
江記畫呢類畫好叻
好想畫到好似佢咁勁！

=EDITED=

忽然想胡思亂想寫一下，
就以這Improbable Dream為靈感，
隨筆寫了

原來我很久沒執筆了。

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飛鳥

吐出輕煙
想飛去一片新天空
厭惡灰色的鳥
想氣球載我走

有魚兒飛翔
濺起水花
雲散開
只留下氣泡懸浮在半空

魚兒要離去
卻不吭聲
我伸手接住水花
卻發現
只是一堆無意思的字

字會氧化
我亦一如鳥
飛住氣球所嚮往的
天空

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Alice and the Garden of Live Flowers

Please click to enlarge!!

有5種花，
認唔認得晒佢地？
當中包括我最喜歡的花 :D

我其中一個artistic ambition就係出晒一set既Alice illustration! 雖然我不打算用水彩畫...

Tool: Watercolour
Time: 6-7 hours

試顏料

實驗一號：炭枝
一個天使，送給一個需要愛的人。
Lighten up your life.

Tools: Charcoal and Photoshop CS3
Time: 20 min drawing, 20 min colouring



實驗二號：中國墨
畫的是Hypnos和poppy
好好玩 :D

Tool: Chinese ink
Time: 2 hours

爸爸買左個wacom俾我啊好開心！！
我就當係考到入durham既禮物啦 :D

Chershire Cat and Alice + doodle

隨手畫的Chershire cat同Alice :D
一直好想出成set既Alice illustration...
我有時間一定會出架！
呢個係我既artistic goal！

Tools: watercolour and acrylic white paint
Time: 1 hour

早幾日，屋企人買了一塊wacom！
沒錯！是wacom！是bamboo pen and touch A4！
不過塊wacom是屬於哥哥的...
我只不過是借來玩一玩... :(
不過我同你講，有朝一日我會擁有自己的一塊wacom！

手執wacom筆亂畫的第一張：


Corel Painter試用(連塊wacom送的軟件)：


Character Sketch (an upcoming project)：


CONCLUSION：
sean已經好耐冇畫羊駝.... :(