progress. just a little bit.

environment for summer project

meh.

I have been falling behind. Here is a new shoe sketch and a 3d texture/pattern study fer ya.

ink stuff

This is from my trip, while in Spain.
i was using what ever i could find- markers, coffee,wine,egg.


These other two drawings were from right before i started fashion
week, so like 6 weeks ago.
i was buying something like home made paper, that's why it looks so rough.
thanks for the invite and look forward to hearing your thoughts

OVER NIGHT

BIRTH

freelance whales

i've been a bit preoccupied with helping out the fam., part time, and a small side gig that i should really put more time in. still managed to find time to squeeze in some doodles...

A little skate doodle based on this picture for a friends tattoo.

winsor & newton

i finally decided to upgrade my current poor man's gouache set by Reeves. $7 for 12 colors. what a deal right? no, not really. i was never able to get some solid opaque colors on the page, no matter how many applications of the same colors. so a few months ago i visited Pearl Paint and asked the gouache master there why i was failing at making my whites white, and my purps purp. he suggested that i get some paints of quality; namely, the ones by winsor & newton. but how could i afford to drop $7 for just 1 tube of paint, with no income?

winsor & newton designers gouache cost me $46 for only...6 tubes of basic colors. painfully small tubes compared to what i'm used to. but i am really happy with the amount of pigment in the paint.

anyway, here's something to look at

muji markers

this is what i do when i have days off: i go back to the workplace and sketch in the office. sad.

Justification not Inspiration

I was talking to someone about design the other day and how design employers always wants to know "where do your ideas come from?" to truly explain to someone that the idea came from the wrinkle in a piece of paper or an abstract model and have them believe in your idea is difficult. What most people mean when they ask "where do your ideas come from?" is "why do your ideas matter?" or "what justifies your idea?" This is why you have to show them something from the real world that they can relate to, to give the design meaning for them.

Anyway, I drew these sketches of outerwear and then found images, a floor tile pattern, an ikea napkin and a quiksilver ad that give my silly sketches some validity.

hello mr. doodletron

i don't know.
maybe i can use this as a print for my blank tote bags.

Pre Valentine's Day

This one is for all y'all that forgot to get a gift for that special someone.  Just print out this card and let me know what kind of response you get.

OK Hui here it is, updated with the miracle of photoshop, you are right I did think about the foreground/background thing, but I wanted the heart to be kind of subtle, cause I find hearts to be so kitschy to begin with.

what's eating gilbert grape

doodled this bunch while half-watching "what's eating gilbert grape".

2. some recent sketches from the moley

these probably mean nothing to people. and i don't have much say about them. they result from my somewhat random doodles as i'm trying to find a style or a theme that sings to me. actually, most of the time, i don't really think about what i'm putting down on the page.

sorry about the crappy snapshots. my scanner is pretty much dead.

hue

Inagural sketchbook throw down post.

 

This blog is for anyone who draws compulsively (on the train, in bed, in dept. stores, whenever the mood strikes).  Whatever I happen to be drawing at the time I will share on this blog and I expect Hui Jin and others to give good crit, so be nice or be mean, but say wha chu tink.  Above are some shoe sketches I did because sometimes people have a hard time seeing how my weird 3d color patterns can be applied to products.