2 more weeks and inexorably counting down. So far, I've skipped 2 parties, missed most of the social gatherings organised by my fellow A*STAR scholars, and I still haven't set foot in a club or a discotheque. I sent an email to my US roommate as soon as I got her name and she hasn't replied. Nightmares about my upcoming university life have been plaguing me insufferably. So - I'm feeling dismally asocial again.
In my case, such feelings usually come coupled with the desire to revisit neglected hobbies, dust off old fandoms, or watch DVDs till the brain overloads. Preferably all 3 at once. And so it happened that yesterday, while I was working on a watercolour painting as a teacher's day gift for my civics tutor (part of a class effort - I had wonderful people for classmates in JC), I had the inspiration to dig out the pieces that had accumulated at glacial pace over the years I've dabbled, on and off, in dilettante art. Various botanical sketches, pen drawings, a (failed) oil pastel experiment, some embarrassingly incompetent watercolours, a perspective study of a HDB common corridor done in Chinese black ink. The latest was a pencil sketch I did one humid afternoon in Sichuan (trapped at a Leshan teahouse with a devout tour guide who, oblivious to the glazed expressions around her, kept up a steady and long-winded lecture about Buddhism):
When I'm bored and away from the pleasures of my computer, I doodle, scribble rants about nothing in particular, or make lists in an attempt to organise my life better. But with a mere 2 weeks left, I really ought to be doing something less... aimless, I think.
words were spilled on Friday, August 12, 2005
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no, not really. there's nothing i can do that a camera can't. art is a lot more than accurate drawing.
Why don't you post the fat mother hen and her squishable chicks here? ehehehe.
# posted by 
: 9:30 PM
: 9:30 PM
no, no, i can already hear what my professor will say: that he likes the particular nervousness of line on the roof tiles, some very nice observations there, fluidity of line etc.
i had to draw a skeleton today. the painstakingly accurate sketch (i was counting vertebrae. estimation is all very well, but people have a fixed number of ribs and that) got ignored because it was stiff. the sketch of the bones in one hand with a disproportionate palm which i ran off in ten minutes earned praise. i'm not sure whether he realised that i'd drawn an arrow to it and labelled it 'fat. and ugly.'
i don't get it, but.
i had to draw a skeleton today. the painstakingly accurate sketch (i was counting vertebrae. estimation is all very well, but people have a fixed number of ribs and that) got ignored because it was stiff. the sketch of the bones in one hand with a disproportionate palm which i ran off in ten minutes earned praise. i'm not sure whether he realised that i'd drawn an arrow to it and labelled it 'fat. and ugly.'
i don't get it, but.
# posted by : 12:15 PM
: 12:15 PM
accuracy with spontaneity and fluidity... should come with practice. i tend heavily towards over-worked and stiff sketches myself. natural line work is something that has to be consciously developed. and i still can't draw with referring to a subject or photograph.
drawing class is all foundation, anyway. it's not all there is to art, that's what i was saying.
drawing class is all foundation, anyway. it's not all there is to art, that's what i was saying.
what about a laptop that allows you to connect to the internet without a telephone line? is there such a thing? cos if i want to have a computer in my room which allows me to connect to the net i need a phone line which apparently my room does not have and as for my identity, let's just say we met before and spoke before but that was donkey years earlier so good luck for your uni days =)
# posted by : 5:20 AM
: 5:20 AM
you mean wireless internet connectivity? yes, it exists, and is actually a pretty standard laptop feature (i.e. Wi-Fi card) but wireless internet in singapore is, i think, only available where there's coverage - i.e at various hotspots designated by the isp. but for universities, wireless LAN coverage should be campus-wide, or at least i know NUS has it. check with your school. for the details, like the required hardware/software, how to establish a connection etc. :)
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