09 Dec 2019

Shouting Into The Void

Clouds

Nobody reads this blog1. RSS readers are dead, Kottu's stats page makes me weep, and I don't dare post these things on social media. So that leaves me at my most comfortable—a good old conversation with myself.

There is beauty in solitude. You only truly begin to appreciate …

30 Nov 2019

Going Digital
Time to put my Gaomon face on!

I've been eyeing a graphics tablet for a while now, and on 11.11 there was this gorgeous Gaomon S620 for just $22 (!!!) on AliExpress, an offer I simply couldn't refuse. Well, the tab arrived in the mail today, and I want to share some of my experiments on my …

27 Nov 2019

I've been sketching...

I've been sketching at work...

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I've been sketching at home...

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I've sketched someone who looks like Jinora...

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And someone who looks like me...

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Most are terrible...

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But some, I'm quite proud of...

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Especially this one 👇

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I got myself a set of cheap graphite sketching pencils from our lord and saviour …

23 Jul 2019

A meditation on ‘Kimi no Na wa’
What do I do with all these feels?

Twilight

Twilight

I have been on a Makoto Shinkai binge this week. Even though I am usually very selective and sparse with my media consumption, I had the fortune of seeing Kotonoha no Niwa (Garden of Words) at Malinthe’s the weekend before last, and I was hooked. 5 Centimetres per …

04 Jul 2019

Cliff Notes
It’s everything you ever dreamt of, until it’s not

Mountains

It doesn’t go away. None of it does. No matter how kind or forgiving you are, the stains of the ‘bad times’ stay on like fountain pen ink on white fabric, refusing to budge. All they need is some mild reoccurrence to go full-on #ThrowbackThursday

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Am I a bad …


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