GUESS?!! (2)

All THREE pictures for hint!!

(1) Three Rhythms with Three Different Pens

(2) 

oh la la, it's made with tape!

(3) A Splash of Red
Pick One out of the Six

The Three© Wall

SHOUT OUT TO MS. SLAUGHTER FOR BEING SO GENEROUS AND ENLIGHTENING & LENDING ME OUT THE WALL!! :)

I started putting my work on the wall today. Check out the pictures below!

The Wall in the afternoon. :) First look!

The Wall at night! With much more excitement!

A closer look at night :)

The Wall will be a great place for me to display my work and also play with different combinations and gain inspirations. I am truly grateful for such a wonderful space and am so excited!

Billiard II --> Three© #3 fresh off the studio!

Do you guys still remember our friend Billiard, one of my earliest production?

Here is it, back with its third illustration, and gladly becomes Three© #3!

Check out the third illustration below-

Complete with a HB pencil only. Concise, modern, and classy. :) Hope you like it!

Pencil leads the way! 

Simply concise, modern, and classy.

See, a stick and a ball in front, so many possibilities, so many uncertainties, yet so quite, so simply.

Billiard Three© Complete!

THREE© Friends

THREE© Friends

#1 A Chocolate Cake & A Cup of Tea

- Perfect Companions: On simply sweet, one a bit bitter. Both find home in each other. :)

Illustration I's colored pencil ensemble. :)

Everything is drawn with colored pencils except the red cherry on the top of the chocolate cake is by paint. :)

#2 Blue and Green

- Blue and green are two very similar yet distinct colors, and they go along side by side with each other. Aren't dear friends like this?

Paints- green(blue+yellow), blue, white

Mixing paint struggle for Illustration II. Getting the PERFECT green!

#3 Da

- Friends is laughing out loud.
  While "大笑" means laughing out loud, "大" charecter along means "big". Big hearty laughter with your homey friends is always a must have. :)
  The character also shapes like a person who is giving a big hug. The warmth of the color orange gives off even more friendship happiness.:)

Finally decided on using pastels (far right) for the illustration.

LOVED THE TEXTURE!!!

Tea Cup II --> three© #2

Crazily upside down. Perfectly tea cup. :)

I gladly announce that the tea cup triplet is completed today as well!!!

Check out the miscellaneous third illustration, and what are you thinking of?!

Start with multiple colored pencils- mainly warm colors.

Struggles on mixing the paint to get color purple.

The mysterious third one!

Tea Cup Three© Proudly Present

Tennis II -> serie complete

After my tennis game yesterday, I found my third angel for tennis--texture. The texture of the moment your racquet hits the ball.

It is different. Everytime. 

Sometimes you feel a hollow in the center of your tennis racquet and the ball flies back decently bouncy. 

Sometimes you try hard but the ball lands back quite shallow. 

Sometime you hit hard and you can feel the great strength band the ball is carrying attacking back.

So here are the three main textures.

Middle thickness Oil pastel for the decent regular hits.

Thick Paint for the powerful strong hits.

Thin Colored Pencil for the shallow weak returns.

:) Enjoy.

Green (the color of tennis courts and used tennis balls) Oil Pastel for the one middle thickness layer.

Green oil pastel II.

Mixing green out of blue and yellow paints.

Green Paint for the thick layer.

Yellow (the color of new tennis balls) Colored Pencil for the thin layer.

Yellow Colored Pencil II.

The Three Layer Family.

Tennis Three© complete!

Week Review

6:43 pm today, I talked into the art studio saying to myself, "okay, let's figure out my life."

It had indeed been a pretty rough week for me. Like many great businesses having to go through a life-defining hardship in the beginning, I had to face my own confusion and great desperation.

After the first week's fresh tryouts, I thought I had used up oil pastel, paint, colored pencil, and black marker's creativity quota by just experimenting with each of them once--I aimed to be BOLDLY NEW, didn't I? So on last Friday afternoon, I sat in the art studio with my headphones and surfed online to look for some creative inspirations.

I found some. I found too many. I lost focus.

What is my project? How am I going to achieve it?

Going back to the most basic proposal questions, I couldn't answer them this time.

I couldn't answer them in the next few days.

I couldn't because my head was exploded with big expectations. I wanted to define the world like the Noun Project did. I wanted to bring out a whole new holistic, perfect system on way of thinking life. I wanted to start off on a pre-paved road to success.

But my plan is not perfect by birth. My project is not world defining or objectively holistic. My road is not pre-paved and honestly doesn't have to be yet.


I didn't realized all of these until 6:50 pm today, when I sat down at the studio table and started experimenting with black ink.

I drew off my first pre-made idea- a dear desperation bottleneck. Then I stopped. I was stuck. Totally stuck. I was aiming to be rather productive tonight, but I couldn't think off my head a single idea on what to draw down with the black ink next. My brain was blindingly blank in this evening black.

Then I suddenly understood.
Out of helplessness. Out of desperation. Out of cumulative confusion.

I can only produce heartfelt symbols with heartfelt objects, those that have truly touched my life. I am not a mass producer, creating hundreds of pictures everyday. I can't. I take my time; I am responsible for my feelings, expressions, and the precision of production; I feel the life. And I can't define the world. I am not objective. I am not omniscient. I only know the sides the world turns itself on me, and I only feel the beats my heart chooses to dance along.

And it's okay.
It's okay to take my time. It's okay to not be holistically representative. It's okay to just be me.

Because after all, this is what started off my project in the first place, this is what I'm good at, this is what I can do, and this is my own unique style and inspiration spring.


I'm much less confused and much relieved and clear-sighted now. I'm no longer suffocated by my grand ideas. I know what I can and will do for my project now-- simply take the time to feel the life, and depict these enlightening moment with appropriate art techniques. Keep drawing small tokens with a big heart and ever curious perseverance. Moreover, experimenting with something once actually does not spoil its newness-- every new understanding and every deeper interaction with the technique gained along the way of practice are the ones that truly polish one's art skill and creativity shrewdness.
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So flowers bloomed from the embellished desperation bottleneck.