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re-discovering my love for drawing.

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Enjoying the breeze. I’m reminding myself to be grateful for the little things in life, like being able to rest, being able to enjoy a cool breeze in the hot day, and that my Wacom tablet isn’t going crazy as much anymore!

💛 Practising some animation work and trying to venture beyond my comfort zone. Practising animation using the wind is more forgiving because I don’t have to think too much about the physics of how things move. Seeing the end result is really satisfying.

💛 Let me know what you think of this! I added some music in this clip here: https://youtube.com/shorts/YiEAqg6JgKI?si=4wovwzotGC-az_pC

🖌️ digital

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Getting back into the habit of sketching for fun. I find myself going back to drawing women from ancient China. There's something about the clothing, jewellery and hair that I just adore. Yes, perhaps it's also due to my healthy diet of Chinese period dramas and movies.

This lady here is inspired by the ladies from the Han Dynasty. Loosely tied hair and long flowing robes were a signature then. I'd like to think she has some tonic soup in her celadon glazed bowl, and she's going to enjoy it in her room.

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Throwback to Palm Sunday and we are into Holy Week.

What is holy about it?

I believe it is holy because our God meets us in all our dysfunction, chaos and suffering, and desires to lift us out of it.

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted.

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I just wrapped up a little sketch-a-day challenge in my Muji monthly planner!

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a reminder for me to start with little things like this and to make my inks and notebooks proud.

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“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.” - St Francis de Sales

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Finally upskilled myself recently and learned motion graphics! Here's my assignment - an imaginary ad for a new bubble tea drink inspired by the animated opening credits of Korean and Chinese drama series!

I wanted to add more bells and whistles, but with the limit on time and my skills, I decided to not go overboard haha. I also wanted to focus on the skills I learnt in class and not use plug-ins and templates for now.

Why bubble tea, you ask? Well, the building where my school is at has a ton of bubble tea stores peppered around. It was so hard to not buy a drink every class! So you can say I was inspired by bubble tea.

Let me know what you think! Did this make you want to go and get a strawberry cream with pearls?

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This feels apt for me now that I'm trying to blog again. I guess the things that stop me are things like whether I can keep up, whether I will end up trying too hard to look put together.

Also dedicating this blog to reblogging art that speaks to me! There is so much good work here.

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Back to blogging?!

The last time I blogged was when I was still using Blogger, playing around with HTML themes and using it as a diary.

Trying out Tumblr for the first time and seeing how this goes! Perhaps this will be an extension of my personal IG page.

We'll see.