Toys at a corner of my room

Drawing a corner of my room, but most accurately a corner of my bed that is filled up with soft toys, on the last page of my sketchbook!

Urban Sketchers Symposium

Tia is presenting at the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2010 held at Portland Oregon. Here’s an interview of her.

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/04/interview-with-presenter-tia-boon-sim.html

Excerpt:  When I first encountered Tia Boon Sim’s drawings during my daily scroll down the Urban Sketchers blog, I stopped and looked for a long time. Her work is so lively, so interesting and so full of texture and life! The word that best describes her drawings is HUMAN.

Tia’s posts are often full of the joys of her daily life. We see her pottery studio, her many students out sketching, her family playing cards at New Years. Her work gives the sense of someone who lives as an artist through everything she does. As one reads her posts it also becomes clear that Tia passes that passion on to her students.

An architect and educator, Tia is also involved in many other forms of artistic expression, including her gorgeous location drawings. I recently had the chance to ask her a few questions via email and hope you enjoy reading her thoughts below. I look forward to meeting Tia in Portland this summer!

A Fan of Ben 10!

Making vector art

My fan art!

Anaglyph Cyclop

Only if you have a pair of 3D glasses…

A Response to 3D Movies and TVs

Was it fair?

Cyclop 3D (Photoshop)

What’s with all these craze about 3D movies and sorts? To watch a 3D movie, I have to put on my contacts, the soft and disposable types, costing about a dollar per pair, so I could don on the 3D glasses which cost another 2 bucks to purchase. So all in all I am paying much more for 3D for effects that are old school, dated as far back as the heydays of Jaws. Besides you come out of the theatre dazed and not dazzled by the over rated effects of seeing dimensionality on a flat screen. Even with the new technology, you still have to wear something on your nose over your ears and sometimes weigh as heavy as 5 grams (I am just plucking numbers from the air). If this is not old school packaged in a new way?

But anyway we are still far more fortunate that Mr Cyclop over here who couldn’t even enjoy 3D even if he wants to.

Thanks for your patience.

Do Doodle doodling do!

I hope doodle qualifies to be posted here.

Doodling with colors

Happy Easter!!

Can’t get enough of lunch… time sketches (Updated)

STanding in line @ DBS Toa Payoh Hub

I accompanied a friend to DBS at Toa Payoh Hub to open his bank account. When we arrived, we saw that the queue was extremely long so we decided to come back later and have lunch first. When we were back, the line shorten a little but we waited like about 2 hours before my friend had even the chance to see someone serving us. How hard can it be in opening an account? 2 hours!!! 2 hours!!! 2 hours!!!! I felt like screaming my head off. Let you know something… it was only after an hour later someone actually walked out of her cubicle and handed my friend a form to fill!! WT*&^%$! DBS!!! What happened to Singapore’s famous “effectiveness” or “efficiency”? A bank couldn’t even cope with just opening up a new account!?!  Anyway something good still happened. I had a lot of time to sketch the people standing in line. The queue moved so slowly I could finish completely portrait figures! HAH!

Waiting @ DBS Toa Payoh Hub

Chattering Aunties

Alex Pascenko

http://alexpascenko.deviantart.com/
I cannot believe such people exist.

La la la la la la……

Nothing much going on… so posting my design process here. Killing my boredom.

Lunch time sketch…

Lunch Time Crowd

Done last week, posting now.