Gabby Douglas

Love her. Especially in this shot as well.

Slight Breakthrough

Reference picture of phenomenal prima ballerina, Alessandra Ferri

This time round, I not only used arbitrary colours, I also used watercolour! Okay fine, not that much breakthrough there but getting there anyway

 Hiding beneath Colours, Jubilee tai, Colour Pencil and Watercolour on Watercolour Paper 2012

Gabriel Orozco

Another Portrait

So just like the previous portrait I did using straight lines, the style I did it in was not my usual and this time I changed it up by using arbitrary colours instead. And my reference image is as shown below - of Abbey Lee Kershaw (amazing cheekbones there):

The usual random macro shots around and while doing the work :)

Process:

Final piece!

Quite happy with it :)

Perspective

What the Heck is This?, Jubilee Tai, Photography 2012

If you could guess what this was.

Go figure.

Behind the Scenes: Coursework Part 3

Final Piece Part 3: A Messy Workplace but a Neat Piece

As you can see, cleaner stitches!

 and a pricked finger

 almost there! strange looking i know

 just needing to sew in the collar

 successfully finished first outfit!!!

Behind the Scenes: Coursework Part 2

Final Piece Part 2: Sewing and Troubles

Okay should have blogged the remaining parts of Coursework a long long long time ago but now that I have time I can finally do it more leisurely :) But yes brand new day and it was time to be up and early for the long day of sewing ahead. And also even as I put this process of doing the final piece into parts, trust me, it's not as simple as it looks. It's intensive and tiring work not just for the eyes, and patience is definitely key for a quality piece of work.

So here goes.

Basically there was more cutting,ironing and sewing and it repeats, and not to mention, intensive pinning too.

The usually most annoying part which is threading the eye of the needle , especially when it kept falling out due to my carelessness.

And when I failed to get a good stitch, I decided to just be patient to create the quality I wanted. Later I discovered I kept getting bad stitches because the needle was spoilt.

 After removing the stitches...

More sewing...

And finally, the first outfit was coming together!

Back to Basics

So after a failed experiment with pointillism using pen and watercolour, I just decided to abandon the technique for the moment and decided to just go back to the basics of colour pencils, using lines to create the portrait, but sadly had to use a reference.

Then again, it's Shu Pei, a pretty good Chinese model anyways.

 Portrait of a Woman, Jubilee Tai, Colour Pencils 2012

Face Shots

Face shots are a lot harder to capture than you think. Out of the like 1939384852734 number of pictures I captured, only 1 I felt was truly worthy of displaying here :/ It's not even the skill of zipai, but rather it is one of those cases where you really feel the importance of a photographer or an eye to see what is happening on the screen to capture the right picture at the perfect angle.

Rich Begany Still Life Photography

All images are taken off from Rich Begany's (http://richbeganyphoto.com/) Website, I do not own them.

He has a way of recreating the way people see the products, making the unobserved observed. The images he captures are creative and dynamic, and are truly a piece of artwork, beyond just selling the product. 

Rich Begany's third portfolio (http://richbeganyphoto.com/Portfolio3.html) has food shots which I find are really interesting and worth a look as well.

These two were my favourite shots from there: