The Tiger & the Lotus Trap
What you see is a work in progress. I can’t imagine how it’s going to end up full colored but I will be working on it extensively since it’s for a friend’s project that is due to launch this September. Hope you’d watch out for it!
Declarations
by Katrina Teh
My first drawn spread for my Sketchbook Project entry.
View the rest of my entries as well as the commentary for these pieces.
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
-e.e. cummings
rosa
Mashup of stocks I drew as flourishes for a contest I failed to enter. All of the sudden I was asked to participate in an exhibition next Saturday so I had to drop the project. Will update once the posters are released :)
Things have been picking up lately. To take the edge off of soul searching and other stresses, I tried drawing something based on a book I’ve recently finished. The Orange Girl is a wonderful read, and I knew I just had to draw something though generic it may be.
This is a departure from how I usually draw. Very clean pencils and topped with photoshop flats and effects.
2010 My Card
A good friend gave me a kitty mask for my birthday last year. The original sketch on my moleskine was drawn on the fly on the day I got it. Post processed on Photoshop a moment ago.
2009 Foxes. Pencil gestures on Moleskine page.
Its 2010 and I still can’t get the nerve to even doodle bodies just as freely as last year. I feel quite lost after the loss I’ve experienced.
This week has started out very rocky at home. Right now I’m a mess of feelings that I can’t seem to sort out and I’m trying to manage lining up my problems so I can tackle them one at a time. All I can do is do my best and hope for the best (And even pray).
Sorry for the lack of updates. In truth I do have pages that I can share but I want to put them on the back burner and mark them as studies. The adventures with my moleskine are fruitful. First, I discovered that the sketchbook does not absorb water well (you get very scattered effects and watercolor strokes aren’t as vibrant. They remind me of markers) but it does hold acrylic to the point that I can go ‘ala prima’ on it without tearing anything at all. It does leak in the creases but if you’re careful (or if you care very little) it wouldn’t really matter.
Well… back to work.
I’ll be home again, to the place that might’ve been.
I realized last week that in order to create the change I want to make, I need an incredible amount of power, influence, or money. And it scares me that I have suddenly found that need or rather I was forced into a circumstance that compels me to need.
I no longer have the privilege of waiting. I have to start reaching.
2008
lily.
