I found Santa!

I assume he was making a list and checking it twice
And I have to say, this beard + hair combo is real!
no exaggerations at all

Conversations

If anyone has been paying attention they will know of my love affair with the biro.
My favourite sketching medium. However recently I've been having colour pangs, especially after looking at the sketchbooks and prints of joseph Lambert. But now I can have my cake and eat it too, I have discovered and purchased coloured biro's!

In the super friendly colours of green, pink and purple they are wonderfully cheap and still act like biro's should.
I unfortunately bought a crappy purple pen so purple won't be showing up anytime soon.
But pink has been acting on its best behaviour!
And has been everywhere from my uni notes to my sketchbook.

Im pretty happy with this image, I've always had a thing for speech bubbles.
I find it great when utterly non-tangible things, like speech, gets solidified in comics.
And I love comics.
Ahhh comics and biro's ... never leave me!

Coffee Bean, Holland Village, Singapore

 

Starbucks at Wheelock, Singapore

Almost everyone I drew moved to a different seat or left.  Forcing me to sit strangers next to each other and composing new people by combining different limbs, heads, clothing and hair.  But I suppose this is what you get when you set up at a coffee shop.  No one can sit still any longer than a few seconds when on caffeine.  

My friend Nicky also sketched at the same spot,

check out her version here.

Starbucks: Location Singapore, Orchard Rd, near wheelock

It feels wonderful to get back to sketching, and good to get back to a familiar spot you know won't close till the early AM. One of the things I dearly miss about singapore when I go to sydney is operating hours. However I can get a damn good coffee in sydney, which is very very rare in singapore. Instead we have kopi, which is the asian version, as well as ice kopi, which is the original ice-blended coffee! Take that Starbucks!

But I always come crawling back to these big coffee franchises, its the plush chairs and the fact that I don't get kicked out after ordering the cheapest thing on the menu and staying for 1-3 hours chilling out and drawing.

Singapore Tyler Print Institute

STPI is a famous printing studio/gallery/awesome place. This image wasn't in the main exhibition but I found it off to the side and was quite taken with it. For the techies out there it had shaped intaglio/etching plates, possibly printed twice, once with a colour roll and others with just etching or others with etching and aquatint. So there was a particular emboss on some image while others were on this massive bleedprint plate that were inked in different colours.

Amazing.

If you are ever in Singapore and printing inclined you should take a looksee, but be warned they sometimes close for days when taking down and putting up shows.