Karambit

Taking a break from drawing faces :)

Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook (5.5 x 3.5")

The karambit or kerambit is a small hand-held, curved blade from Indonesia. Called karambit in the Philippines, it is known as a kerambit in both Indonesia and Malaysia. It is found recently that the karambit to be useful for self-defense. Most of those produced in the West for use as weapons are based on the small Filipino variety, which features a short blade and index finger ring.

Thank you all for your comments and appreciate your time ^^

In memory of Guan Hin Tan

I grew up knowing that I had a grand uncle who was a famous artist. He was a teacher, and he specialized in Chinese paintings, especially tigers and bamboo trees. No, I didn't have the opportunity to meet him in person, but I only knew him through his paintings when he had passed which he left his paintings to my other grand uncle.
I started drawing even before I knew about him, and I am not sure why I like drawing, but I am glad that at least I share this same passion with my grand uncle. Every once in a while when I draw, I do feel like I am just a child playing in his shadow. This page is dedicated to him, this sketch is for him.

(Pencil on Moleskine Sketchbook 5.5 x 3.5")

I know it's unusual for me to post 2 drawings in 2 days. I guess I am in the mood to do so (and I am staying away from my PlayStation ^^). Thank you all again for dropping by and leaving comments.

For those who are interested to know a little more about my grand uncle, here are a couple of websites about him and his work.
Tan Guan Hin (Penang)
Virtual Memory of Guan Hin Tan

Kay

Doodling is fun :) I think my last post said a lot even though I didn't realize it. But I do like to draw faces, especially cute ones. So I browsed around Facebook, looking at my friends' profile pictures. (And we all know people love taking pictures of their kids and use them as their profile pictures, the kids of course haven't the slightest clue what's really going on)

This is Kay. She's one of my friends' baby girl. I haven't met her before but I am sure she's super adorable. I've also decided to show the process(plus the time I took for each process) and hopefully it'll be useful or interesting for those who are wondering how I did this. Total time : 2 hours.

(Pencil on Moleskine Sketchbook 5.5 x 3.5")

Final product. Background and details on clothing. (30 mins)

Initial drafting with light strokes, working on the right proportion. (15 mins)

Worked on her eyes. Shading from left to right (because I am right-handed). This to me is probably the most delicate step as it determined how the light falls on her. (50 mins)

Worked on her hair. (25 mins)

I hope you guys enjoyed the process. It's definitely fun for me to draw her, and perhaps I'll be lucky enough to meet this adorable girl in person when I return home to visit my family later this year. I'd like to thanks her parents for allowing me to draw her, and everyone else for dropping by and leaving comments.

Doodles

As promised, I'm posting some of the doodles on my log book at work...just a way to kill time and boredom during meetings and discussions. :)

 Boss' leather bag

 Handwritten vs Dual monitors

 Something for everyone

 What a lot of people would like to do.

 A wooden duck sculpture in Boss' office.

 Pokeball (Ball in Chinese)

 Soccerball + GP(Eye)

Padlock and Woody(Wudi = Undefeatable in Chinese)

Thanks again for visiting and leaving comments. ^^

Tiffany SNSD

I have not been drawing any celebrities for a while now. Since it's holiday today, I thought I should have enough time to do another one on my long neglected Moleskine sketchbook :)

(Pencil on Moleskine Sketchbook 5.5x3.5")

This is Tiffany. She's one of the 9 girls in SNSD or Girls Generation, a very popular Kpop group in South Korea. It's a compilation of shots taken of her(probably by some paparazzi) while she's in the airport travelling. She's known for her usual sweet smile, but I thought sometimes a person's most natural expressions can tell a lot of stories. I might do another one with her signature smile, someday :) But for now, if you want to know how she looks like when she smiles for the camera, just Google Tiffany SNSD images, you'll have an entire array of pictures with her smiling ^^

Thanks for visiting and your comments means a lot to me.

Yuna

It's the 7th day of Chinese New Year(Lunar New Year) and I haven't drawn anything that has anything to do with snake....yet(it's the year of the Snake).
Anyway, I had asked my friend's permission to draw her little daughter a while ago, and she said okay. So I did! :)

(Pencil on Moleskine Sketchbook 5.5x3.5")

Her name is Yuna, and she's half Japanese half Chinese. She looks super adorable in pictures(her eyes are so big and pretty!), and I like drawing adorables ^^ I hope her mom approves of this one.

Sorry again for not been able to post things online. It's not that I haven't been drawing, I actually have been doing a lot of drawing on DrawSomething, and doodling on my work log :). Work's been crazy, and too much video gaming. A lot of be planned for this year including moving wife and Meela to Houston, travelling to Malaysia, and house-hunting in Houston.

Thanks you all for reading and for your comments.

Black Ops 2

I thought I wanted to do something with color this weekend, and then I realized that it's already Sunday, and I just don't feel like colors anymore. But why didn't I do it on Saturday? I can answer that easily, but I have decided to draw the culprit instead :)

(Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook 5.5 x 3.5")

This is the front cover of the very popular video game from the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 2. It has stolen most of my time away from my sketchbooks, even since Black Ops 1 more than 2 years ago(apart from my day job of course). Yeah yeah I know, I am such a child. ^__^

Thank you all for taking your time to visit, and for your comments on my last post. I miss my family no doubt, and hopefully me and my wife will be able to visit them this year before Fall. It'd be so much fun!!