Sketchcrawl Penang
Sketchcrawl Penang
Oh I am tired. Nothing's scanned yet, but two vital lessons learned:
1) must bring hot chick along for next sketchcrawl, her ability to draw/hold a pencil is irrelevant.
2) must remember to eat while sketchcrawling.
Material up tomorrow! Goodnight world!
1) must bring hot chick along for next sketchcrawl, her ability to draw/hold a pencil is irrelevant.
2) must remember to eat while sketchcrawling.
Material up tomorrow! Goodnight world!
Sketchcrawl Penang
* SKETCHCRAWL PENANG *
Alright, let's get down to some drawings...
(drawn a few days prior to the sketchcrawl itself. )
So I haven't looked at that many other posting yet, usually I like to add a little blurb along the way, a picture is worth a million words, but I thought I might add a few words extra.
Had two main destinations in mind, and planned to wing it as I went along.
Had to charge it at the last minute
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k2.jpg[img]
This one really made me wish I knew how to paint... all the red flags blowing in the wind made me think of all the watercolour sketches I'd seen... *sigh*
It's also entrance to a chinese cemetary, by the way.
Getting into the sketching mindframe, you quickly look at things differently, and tried to follow wherever my eye took me...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k3.jpg[img]
quick pencils, a good rest from the detailed piece earlier.
Brunch:
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k4.jpg[img]
Wandered over to the first sketch destination...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k6.jpg[img]
...a Burmese Temple, with this amazing statue of Buddha that I just found out last week(!).
Probably the highlight of the whole sketchcrawl, with the gong being sounded periodically as the occasional breeze surprised you, it was rather zen-like. I spent a lot of time here.
After which I remember Enrico saying something along the lines of "...sketch until you crawl...", which was kind of how I felt. I *was* surprised by how quickly I got tired, and realized a little too fast that sketchcrawling alone might not have been the bestest of ideas(see lessons learnt #1 posted above).
It was too early to go to Destination #2, a wiser person would have gotten something to *eat*, but instead I drove around looking for things to draw...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k7.jpg[img]
With intentions to draw the crows, but dem birds did what birds do, and flew off, crowing in mockery...
Destination #2 was a half an hours drive away...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k8.jpg[img]
Good weather, and I found a chair under the tree to sit on. Didn't take up as much time as in the temple, but I really enjoyed this one as well... (insert feeling of hypoglycemia in here, realized that I hadn't eaten since noon)
Much later that night, in meeting my friend(who had agreed to let me draw him), I did, 'the coffee thing', which I figured a lot of people might be doing. Friend turned up, plans changed, and a quick sketch was all I could manage.
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k0.jpg[img]
The sketchcrawl ended sooner than I would have liked, as duties at home called out to me.
I am *so* bringing a hot chick along next time
Cheers!
[/img]
Alright, let's get down to some drawings...
(drawn a few days prior to the sketchcrawl itself. )
So I haven't looked at that many other posting yet, usually I like to add a little blurb along the way, a picture is worth a million words, but I thought I might add a few words extra.
Had two main destinations in mind, and planned to wing it as I went along.
Had to charge it at the last minute
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k2.jpg[img]
This one really made me wish I knew how to paint... all the red flags blowing in the wind made me think of all the watercolour sketches I'd seen... *sigh*
It's also entrance to a chinese cemetary, by the way.
Getting into the sketching mindframe, you quickly look at things differently, and tried to follow wherever my eye took me...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k3.jpg[img]
quick pencils, a good rest from the detailed piece earlier.
Brunch:
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k4.jpg[img]
Wandered over to the first sketch destination...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k6.jpg[img]
...a Burmese Temple, with this amazing statue of Buddha that I just found out last week(!).
Probably the highlight of the whole sketchcrawl, with the gong being sounded periodically as the occasional breeze surprised you, it was rather zen-like. I spent a lot of time here.
After which I remember Enrico saying something along the lines of "...sketch until you crawl...", which was kind of how I felt. I *was* surprised by how quickly I got tired, and realized a little too fast that sketchcrawling alone might not have been the bestest of ideas(see lessons learnt #1 posted above).
It was too early to go to Destination #2, a wiser person would have gotten something to *eat*, but instead I drove around looking for things to draw...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k7.jpg[img]
With intentions to draw the crows, but dem birds did what birds do, and flew off, crowing in mockery...
Destination #2 was a half an hours drive away...
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k8.jpg[img]
Good weather, and I found a chair under the tree to sit on. Didn't take up as much time as in the temple, but I really enjoyed this one as well... (insert feeling of hypoglycemia in here, realized that I hadn't eaten since noon)
Much later that night, in meeting my friend(who had agreed to let me draw him), I did, 'the coffee thing', which I figured a lot of people might be doing. Friend turned up, plans changed, and a quick sketch was all I could manage.
[/img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/ ... k0.jpg[img]
The sketchcrawl ended sooner than I would have liked, as duties at home called out to me.
I am *so* bringing a hot chick along next time
Cheers!
[/img]
Sketchcrawl Penang
* SKETCHCRAWL PENANG *
Alright, let's get down to some drawings...
(drawn a few days prior to the sketchcrawl itself. )
So I haven't looked at that many other posting yet, usually I like to add a little blurb along the way, a picture is worth a million words, but I thought I might add a few words extra.
Had two main destinations in mind, and planned to wing it as I went along.
Had to charge it at the last minute
This one really made me wish I knew how to paint... all the red flags blowing in the wind made me think of all the watercolour sketches I'd seen... *sigh*
It's also entrance to a chinese cemetary, by the way.
Getting into the sketching mindframe, you quickly look at things differently, and tried to follow wherever my eye took me...
quick pencils, a good rest from the detailed piece earlier.
Brunch:
Wandered over to the first sketch destination...
...a Burmese Temple, with this amazing statue of Buddha that I just found out last week(!).
Probably the highlight of the whole sketchcrawl, with the gong being sounded periodically as the occasional breeze surprised you, it was rather zen-like. I spent a lot of time here.
After which I remember Enrico saying something along the lines of "...sketch until you crawl...", which was kind of how I felt. I *was* surprised by how quickly I got tired, and realized a little too fast that sketchcrawling alone might not have been the bestest of ideas(see lessons learnt #1 posted above).
It was too early to go to Destination #2, a wiser person would have gotten something to *eat*, but instead I drove around looking for things to draw...
With intentions to draw the crows, but dem birds did what birds do, and flew off, crowing in mockery...
Destination #2 was a half an hours drive away...
Good weather, and I found a chair under the tree to sit on. Didn't take up as much time as in the temple, but I really enjoyed this one as well... (insert feeling of hypoglycemia in here, realized that I hadn't eaten since noon)
Much later that night, in meeting my friend(who had agreed to let me draw him), I did, 'the coffee thing', which I figured a lot of people might be doing. Friend turned up, plans changed, and a quick sketch was all I could manage.
The sketchcrawl ended sooner than I would have liked, as duties at home called out to me.
I am *so* bringing a hot chick along next time
Cheers!
Alright, let's get down to some drawings...
(drawn a few days prior to the sketchcrawl itself. )
So I haven't looked at that many other posting yet, usually I like to add a little blurb along the way, a picture is worth a million words, but I thought I might add a few words extra.
Had two main destinations in mind, and planned to wing it as I went along.
Had to charge it at the last minute
This one really made me wish I knew how to paint... all the red flags blowing in the wind made me think of all the watercolour sketches I'd seen... *sigh*
It's also entrance to a chinese cemetary, by the way.
Getting into the sketching mindframe, you quickly look at things differently, and tried to follow wherever my eye took me...
quick pencils, a good rest from the detailed piece earlier.
Brunch:
Wandered over to the first sketch destination...
...a Burmese Temple, with this amazing statue of Buddha that I just found out last week(!).
Probably the highlight of the whole sketchcrawl, with the gong being sounded periodically as the occasional breeze surprised you, it was rather zen-like. I spent a lot of time here.
After which I remember Enrico saying something along the lines of "...sketch until you crawl...", which was kind of how I felt. I *was* surprised by how quickly I got tired, and realized a little too fast that sketchcrawling alone might not have been the bestest of ideas(see lessons learnt #1 posted above).
It was too early to go to Destination #2, a wiser person would have gotten something to *eat*, but instead I drove around looking for things to draw...
With intentions to draw the crows, but dem birds did what birds do, and flew off, crowing in mockery...
Destination #2 was a half an hours drive away...
Good weather, and I found a chair under the tree to sit on. Didn't take up as much time as in the temple, but I really enjoyed this one as well... (insert feeling of hypoglycemia in here, realized that I hadn't eaten since noon)
Much later that night, in meeting my friend(who had agreed to let me draw him), I did, 'the coffee thing', which I figured a lot of people might be doing. Friend turned up, plans changed, and a quick sketch was all I could manage.
The sketchcrawl ended sooner than I would have liked, as duties at home called out to me.
I am *so* bringing a hot chick along next time
Cheers!
- arashikami
- Newbie Crawler
- Posts: 9
- Joined: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:06 pm
- Location: Portland OR USA
Baerd,
No worries. The tags here are all wonky anyway.
Love the pieces. The patio chairs sketch really hits me just right. Dunno why, it just does.
I missed meeting Pete & Rebecca Woods by a minute on Sunday. Rebecca Woods is on your LJ F-List as "artfemme." Pete works for DC. Sat and talked with a friend of theirs at the Japanese Garden in Portland. Small world.
Arashi~Kami
No worries. The tags here are all wonky anyway.
Love the pieces. The patio chairs sketch really hits me just right. Dunno why, it just does.
I missed meeting Pete & Rebecca Woods by a minute on Sunday. Rebecca Woods is on your LJ F-List as "artfemme." Pete works for DC. Sat and talked with a friend of theirs at the Japanese Garden in Portland. Small world.
Arashi~Kami
- littlefish
- Real Crawler
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:26 am
- Location: bellevue, wa
Hey thanks for reading!
It's also called the 'Pearl of The Orient", but Penang is mostly known for its food nowadays... oh and worsening traffic:)
It's an island off the west coast of Malaysia, a country north of Singapore, south of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Also close neighbours of Indonesia and the Philippines.littlefish wrote:I like the deck ones the most great sketches all!
and i wonder where is this "Penang" place? it's in Japan?
It's also called the 'Pearl of The Orient", but Penang is mostly known for its food nowadays... oh and worsening traffic:)
- overvision
- Newbie Crawler
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:42 am
Cool! Glad you liked it. It's a fishing village at the most northern east side of Penang, close to Muka Head, also called 'Taman Negara' I believe, a rather funny name. The sea is nothing write home about, but with the walkway it actually looks pretty impressive in realtime.rainboy wrote:yah I luv tat one too! Very CoOL! Where is it?