OK! To further cut down on precious time scanning and uploading my oictures, this time, I just scan them all in, open them in Photoshop 7 (I know it’s a dino), re-size and save them as JPEG, done. No Brightness / Contract / Magic Wand or anything now. That results in the images appearing greyish, but time is more important. I know to get a new scanner this week if possible.
I went to the Chinese Garden near my home to try doing some perspective drawings of the pagodas, but this is the 1st time I drew in public and the stuff is so big and huge! The pagodas were detailed as fuck and those skyscrapers and corporate buildings look so simple compared to it. I was nervous, of course, and couldn’t get past the 3rd line. In the end, I trashed the whole shit and went home like an effing oser.
Chinese Garden is a sort of big park we have here in Singapore, with nothing but nature aplenty and pagodas / houses / bridges / chinese statues all built in ancient China architectural style. Sort of a humble tourist attraction and it’s free too. I even saw a hot blond chick all by herself that day.
This place is one of those few places in Singapore where you can hear the music of tranquility and revel in Nature.
The government of Singapore should stop building those trashy corporate buildings and build more of such scenic parks.
The sad thing, though, is that the government is gonna build some tourist resorts / hotels next to this place a couple years from now, and that’s going to really ruin the stillness and calm of this place. It’s really sad those clowns can’t even leave a place like this alone. 
I’m going there a couple weeks from now and try to draw those stuff again. Next time if I go there and leave empty-handed, castrate me. I MEAN IT.
Drawings for this week as follows (click on images to see actual undistorted version):
A wooden model of boat with a wooden man fishing:
The ellipses on a can is harder to draw than I thought, even with the axle method. The watch’s ellipse is easier cos’ there’s non-ellipse edges around the ellipse to guide you. 
The little curve looks like a parabola when seen in non-foreshortened view, but in this foreshortened view, it no longer looks like one. And I gotta say I didn’t draw this part very well.
A sketch of my colleague’s desk again, this time more detailed and larger, but done equally fast and sketchy:
Had some fun drawing dormers from Phil Metzger’s book. Phil is a superb painter of landscapes and his book is so fucking idiot-proof. I’m so fascinated by all these drawings of buildings and perspective that after I’m done with this book, I’m gonna read Norling’s book and then Loomis’s Successful Drawing, then get a book and learn how to draw cool buildings and castles.
A drawing of my wooden, 2-feet tall Eiffel Tower. The overall thing looks ok, but the parabola at the bottom-left corner is so screwed and wrong. The drawing exceeded the paper slightly.
97….98….99….100th hand!….Book of a Hundred Hands! I admit, some of these hands here have fingers that look off. My drawings suck most in the morning and I’m at my peak in the afternoon to evening (4 – 7 PM):
You probably can’t tell the stuff below are sliced pears in a plastic container if I didn’t tell you :
Some warm-up exercises from Drawing Tutorials Online.com:
Using the axle method to draw ellipses will really help you get the orientation of the ellipse right in any view. The rest depends on your hands :
That’s all for now! 1 more week before class starts. I hope there will be lots of hot cute sweet chicks in my class. Best of all, let the ratio of girls to guys in the class be 20 : 1, with me being the only guy.
My boss is giving me a new project (I work in a sort of employment agency) but if it takes up too much of my time and leave me with barely any time to draw, I may consider quitting it next year. Art is my first priority now.
Meanwhile, I’m at the last part of Phil’s book and will do some of the more challenging perspective stuff before going on to more perspective. 
Good day!
Xeon
Tags: Andrew Loomis, Art of Perspective, Boat, boatman, Book of a Hundred Hands, Chinese Garden, dormer, Eiffel Tower, hands, Loomis, manikin, mannequin, Norling, Phil Metzger, Singapore, Successful Drawing