Line-drawing of Swiss-Re-Tower
三个在滑动扶梯上玩耍的男孩 – Three Boys with a Sliding Escalator – 2023/04
这个练习主要涉及了对于画面的构成的思考以及应用。这张画的参照物是一张照片。照片的好处在于能够在足不出户的条件下提供不同的场景、人物形象和人物某一瞬间的动态。这些好处尤其有利于构图练习。面对一张照片，我们不需要担心场景发生变动，从而有充裕的时间来分析画面，思考自己如何通过画面构成来达成某些艺术的表达。 One main aim of this drawing is the practice of the composition of a picture. I referred to a photo from a book. A good thing about using a photo to refer to for a drawing is that you do not need to go out to travel around the world and can get access …
素描练习：《两个女孩和她们的小狗》- Sketch practice – “Two Girls and Their Puppy” – 2023-03-29
这张练习主要的目的在于将一张彩色的照片在素描的过程中转化为黑白灰的关系。在我根据原画中带有颜色的色块把画面转化为单色素描时，可以看出颜色本身的饱和度也在影响着我对于色块明度的判断。我们的大脑在处理信息时，会将多方面带来的刺激合并在一起处理。这是一个有趣的练习，也能够有助于将来的色彩练习。
The main purpose of this practice is to shift a colour photo into a monochrome sketch. When I converted the picture into a monochrome sketch, I could see that the saturation of the colours also affected my judgement. These reflect that in the process, the brain does not mechanically extract a single factor (such as brightness) from these colours and block out the influence from other factors (such as saturation). The brain receives, and processes, the stimuli and feelings it has got all together. This realisation can be helpful in drawings with colours.
《卖卫生纸的小贩》，纸本墨水。 “A Toilet-paper Vendor”. Ink on paper. (2023/03/23)
《卖卫生纸的小贩》这件作品是由两张画拼放在一起之后拍照而成的。两张画都来自一张摄影作品。原照片非常吸引我的是它具有的一种戏剧性的张力。这来自两点：一个是那些长长的投影；另外是摄影采取的俯拍的角度。阴影在画面中占据了很大的面积，并且每个人都好像嵌在两个（或三个）阴影之间似的。俯拍的角度将人物压缩成非常不符合我们在平视的视角下（也就是日常的视角）所看到的人的形状，但是每个人物的阴影却比较符合这种日常视角看到的人的形状。这种阴影似乎和它们的主人地位错位了的感觉，产生了一种戏剧性的张力。
The work of “A Toilet-paper Vendor” is composed of two drawings being put together and then photographed. Both drawings are from a photo. What attracted me so much about the original image was the dramatic tension produced from two aspects: one is the long shadows; the other is the overhead angle of the photography. The shadows occupy quite a large area in the frame, and everyone seems to be embedded between two (or three) shadows. The angle of the overhead shot compresses the characters into a shape that is very inconsistent with our daily life experience, while the shadow of each character is more in line with the shape of the people we see.
《穿着民族服饰的两个人》纸本墨水 “Two Men Wearing Their Culture Proudly” Ink on paper. 2023/03/21
签字笔在产生笔触的方面具有很大的局限性。因为它只能要么是画出粗细一致的线条，要么是一些点。而这幅原图在纹理和花纹上都比较丰富，其中，有软硬不一的布料、佩戴的金属腰刀、皮质的皮带等，还有虚实不一的阴影。图片上的这种丰富性和工具本身的局限性构成了矛盾，而这种矛盾就使得在绘画的过程中，如何以这个工具来体现这些质感成为了主要的问题之一。
Ballpoint pens are very limited in terms of producing rich strokes. Because it can only draw lines of consistent thickness or dots. The original picture is rich in texture and pattern, among which there are fabrics either soft or hard, copper handles of the knives, leather belts, etc., as well as shadows with hard or soft edges. The richness of the picture in textures contrasts interestingly with the chosen tool – the ballpoint pen – regarding its limitation being mentioned above. This makes that how to represent these textures with the ballpoint pen becomes one of the main questions in the process of this drawing.
纸本墨水《接待处的工作人员》Ink on paper – Reception Staff (2023/03/17)
这张画中，我的重点在于黑白灰分布中带来的节奏感以及人物衣服上装饰花纹在画面中的趣味性。
My focuses in this drawing are on the arrangement of the arrangement of the white, grey, and black colour, as well as the decorative patterns on these women’s clothes.
铅笔纸本素描：《一个一半在背光中的老人》。 Pencil on paper – A Senior Man half in the Backlight – 2023/03/08-03/13
这张图片最初有两个地方打动了我。一个是它微妙的光感。这个光感的特殊之处在于它使得人物的结构并非以一种对比强烈的方式被凸显出来，而大多是一种微妙的变化。这就让那几处高光和比较深的阴影以一种点状的方式散布在人物的脸上和手上，因此具有一种装饰性的效果以及蓬松感。第二也是人物脸上表情的那种不确定性。那似乎是一抹微笑，又似乎是因为强烈的光线眯起了眼睛，同时擦嘴时抿起嘴巴，所以只是看起来像微笑。
Two things move me in this image. One is the subtle visual effect due to half of the figure being in the backlight. The arrangement of the light makes the structure of the characters presented in subtle changes of tones in different areas, instead of solid contrast. This allows the few highlights and darker shadows to scatter over the image, which produced a decorative effect. The second is the uncertainty of the expression on the character’s face. On the one hand, it seemed to be a smile. On the other hand, the eyes seemed squinted because of the strong light, and the mouth was pursed because the man was wiping it, so it just looked like a smile.
A Group of Boys – An exploration of the decorative elements
What attracted me the most about the original photos I saw in the book was its layout of the black, white and grey tones, and the different patterns and textures of the clothes on these boys. When I was painting, I emphasized the layout of the three tones, and made some adjustments according to my needs of the final result. Then I emphasized these patterns on these boys’ clothes to highlight their decorative aspect.
Fast Sketch – The Research of the Puffy Light
I was moved by the original photo of this sketch for two reasons. Its light and the fleeting expression being caught by the camera. This fast sketch is research in terms of the two aspects, to prepare for another sketch which will cost longer time and with more details.
Fast Sketching – The play ‘King David’
The strokes and the form make the two figures like a mountain together.