Chocolate Almond Croissant & Chai Tea Latte I

9/17/2014 Creation with a Pencil, Colored Pencils, a Brown Colored Pen, and a Ruler

It's a late-night greeting from Troy, NY. It is 11 celsius.

It is a recall of a warm morning.

It is a salut to brevity.

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Chocolate Almond Croissant #1 Crispy

Using a 2B pencil and a brown colored pen, I tried to revive the crispy moment one bits into a chocolate almond croissant. The crispy croissant edge. The memorable combination of sugar and butter. The crispy satisfaction in a winter morning.

My last chocolate almond croissant was got last Saturday at farmers' market, where joy was blooming everywhere and there was nothing compared to a freshly baked good. The moment I held the croissant in my hand, I felt winter sun was melting right in my palm. 

I took a bit.

The crispiness. The crispiness.

The crispiness of almond sugar coating and pastry layers at that moment perfectly and holistically defined a chocolate almond croissant in my heart.

Colored Pencils

Using A Ruler for a Chocolate Croissant's Perfect Rectangular Sideview

Three Colored Pencils for a Imaginary Crescent-Shaped Croissant

Chocolate Almond Croissant #1 & #2 Views

How many of you have been like me, looking at a chocolate croissant and wondering why this cubic object is called croissant when it is not even crescent-shaped?
Oh well, then this picture is pretty self-explained.
I see a "real" croissant inside a chocolate croissant, and wonder what the rest mysterious parts are.

The interesting part of this creation was that in order to find the perfect color for the inside croissant, I had to corporate three different colors. Also, colored pencils have such delicate textures, that I could subtly adjust my power on my finger to help the three colors blend in the perfect way I wanted, leaving the cutting edges deep brown and puffy skins light orangish yellow.

Small. Centered. Iconic.

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Chai Tea Latte #1 Full Orange

Filling in Color for Full Orange

There is nothing better in winter than to have a cup of hot Chai Tea Latte (with Soy Milk please) accompanying a chocolate almond croissant. At least for me for sure.
The color ORANGE fills my brain whenever I think of Chai Tea Latte, whenever I think of fall, whenever I think of liquid sunshine. There is nothing simpler in this world than a full orange cup to symbolize chai tea latte.

It is a cup. It is an orange cup always waiting loyally out there for you, to bring you warmth in a cold winter, to bring you comfort in a tough day, to bring you joy in a blank moment.
It is orange. It is warm. It is spicy.
It is as simple as a monochrome icon. It is as full and powerful as a monochrome icon.

It is Chai Tea Latte.


I found it rather interesting to work with colored pencils, because the way you fill in the color would affect the pattern and the whole image's flow very much. So for this illustration, I did some planning and used fast shuffling to create a fluent full feeling of the cup of drink, revealing its substantial warmth inside.

TO BE CONTINUED...