Napkin Art : Breakfast @ OldTown, 16 Oct 2009

@ OldTown White Coffee, 3Two Square, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Filed under: Food, Illustration, Sketch, Urban Sketches , 3Two Square, Beverage, Breakfast, Food, Fountain Pen, Lamy Safari Charcoal, Lineart, Malaysia, Milk Tea, Napkin Art, Noodler’s Ink, OldTown White Coffee, Petaling Jaya, Polar Black, Selangor, Sketch, Western Platter

Napkin Art : Subway Club Sandwich

My ‘Subway Club’ 6 inch Sandwich was made up of Parmesan Oregano bread, turkey breast, turkey ham, roast beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olive, green pepper, onion, mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and Parmesan cheese. To go with Coke. Very full.

I had my Moleskine with me at that time but the Subway napkin looked too colourful for me to resist sketching on it.

Filed under: Food, Illustration, Sketch, Urban Sketches , Jaya33, Lamy Fountain Pen, Napkin Art, Noodler’s Ink, Petaling Jaya, Polar Black, Selangor, Subway Sandwich

Journal, 20 September 2009 – Joel Osteen’s book & J.Co Donuts

A day of book shopping and donut eating.

Live sketch at J.Co Donuts place @ Pavilion KL.

Pen : Lamy Safari Charcoal Fountain Pen Extra Fine Nib
Ink : Noodler’s Ink Polar Black
Medium : Staedtler Karat Aquarell Watercolour Pencils
Brush : Rarhael Martre No. 6
Material : Moleskine Pocket Size Daily Planner 2009 (Soft Cover)

Filed under: Illustration, Journal, Personal, Sketch, Urban Sketches , Become A Better You, Book, Drawing, Illustration, J.Co Donuts, Joel Osteen, Journal, Kuala Lumpur, Lamy, Lamy Fountain Pen, Moleskine, Moleskine Pocket Diary, Pavilion KL, Sketch, Urban, Urban Sketches, Watercolour Pencils

Napkin sketches at DainTi Hill Resturant

Napkin sketch of Royal Hot Milk Tea.

Photo taken with Olympus XA, on an expired Agfa Vista 200.

Napkin sketch of Pavilion Pedestrian Bridge

Dinner at DainTi Hill Restaurant, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur.

Filed under: Personal, Sketch, Urban Sketches , DainTi Hill Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, Live Sketches, Milk Tea, Napkin Art, Pavilion KL, Pedestrian Bridge, Urban Sketches

Journal, 27 August 2009

Taking sometime off in the morning to draw a tree at the park. Life’s great!

Filed under: Illustration, Journal, Sketch, Urban Sketches , Death Bed, Diary, Drawing, Illustration, Journal, Lamy Fountain Pen, Message, Moleskine, Noodler's Ink, Park, Petaling Jaya, Photography, Polar Black, Relationship, Selangor, Sketch, Taman Jaya, Tree, Urban Sketches, Watercolour

Live sketching in Pudu

I can’t remember how long since I last went for an outing with friends for a photowalk until last weekend a photography friend from Seremban suggested we have one on last Sunday in KL so we went to Pudu with another friend. Me, Ong and Kian Kheong, armed ourselves with only film cameras we roamed around the busy old Pudu market. I have been to this beautiful market a few times and it was the first time for the two guys. They could agree with me that this is a place they would like to come back again the next time. There seems to be so much to see – the charm and beauty of this old part of the Kuala Lumpur city.

As for myself, I got a little bit lazy to lug my SLR around, a little bit lazy to point at strangers and take their pictures like I usually do. I did some random shots for a bit with my little Olympus XA and got kind of bored after walking a few rounds. I wanted to do something I have not done before in this place and so I had got myself two of my Moleskine watercolour notebooks and two Lamy fountain pens ready before leaving my house on that day just in case I saw something inspiring that was worth penned down on the paper and I did. I only managed to make use of the pocket size notebook and left the other big one untouched.

Here you go – two scenes I managed to sketch out live on the spot.

First one : Chinese grocery store
This is a 50 year-old grocery store run by two Chinese men who claimed that the business was passed down to them by their former employer. Located at a corner lot of a row of shophouses in this old market. The interior space is small and congested but I find it rather interesting. Limited by time and space on my small watercolour notebook I decided to focus and pen down just a small corner of the store – where goods are hung up on the shutter doors. The owners were extremely friendly, supportive and happy to have my presence around drawing their store.

Have a closer look at the live sketch I did on site.

And rendered with watercolour when I got home.

Second one : Knife sharpening service man
It was a quick and rough sketch done as my friends and I were almost leaving this rustic yet charming place of the city when we decided to hang around this man’s humble street stall for a little while. His kind of service is one of those that have been continued down from the olden days. As of today only a few old folks who are still doing such business as of this kind. Generation comes generation goes. I doubt any of the younger ones would do this as a career anymore. It is just a matter of time this trade will be gone, forever…

Have I got enough of Pudu market yet? No. I will certainly be back for more sketches.

By the way, stay tuned for my Pudu photos when the negatives are done.

Filed under: Illustration, Photography, Sketch, Travel, Urban Sketches , Drawing, Kuala Lumpur, Lamy Fountain Pen, Malaysia, Market, Moleskine Watercolour Notebook, Noodler’s Ink, Photography, Polar Black, Pudu, Sketch, Urban Sketches, Watercolour

No Moleskine no problem, you’ve got Napkin

Do we really need a pricey Moleskine notebook to draw a piece of artwork. Not necessarily. A cheap thin piece napkin does the job equally well too.

Simple live sketch, at PappaRich.

Filed under: Illustration, Sketch, Urban Sketches , 3Two Square, Cafe, Coffeeshop, Drawing, Illustration, Kopitiam, Live Sketch, Malaysia, Milo, PappaRich, Petaling Jaya, Restaurant, Selangor, Urban Sketches

Campbell Street Market, Penang

Finally I have finished inking it!

This is the unfinished version.

Done on Moleskine Watercolour Notebook (large size) with Lamy Safari Charcoal extra fine fountain pen with Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black.

Filed under: Illustration, Sketch, Travel, Urban Sketches , Moleskine, Drawing, Lamy Fountain Pen, Noodler's Ink, Polar Black, Market, Penang, Campbell Street Market, Hawker, Black Ink, Watercolour Notebook, Urban Sketches

Drawings of Georgetown, Penang

Beautiful architecture of the old buildings had led me to compile them in this 2-page piece of drawings when I walked around the heritage site of the city of Georgetown, Penang during the period of 4 days. They were sketched out with pencil on site. Composed one by one as and when I spotted the right kind of building structure and sight each time during my walkabout. They were later redrawn in waterproof black ink with a fountain pen.

@ Georgetown, Penang, 9–13 June 2009

Drawing tools :
Moleskine Watercolour Notebook (Large), TomBow 2B recycled pencil, Lamy Safari Charcoal fountain pen (extra fine nip), Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black

Posted also on ’skine.art website.

Filed under: Illustration, Sketch, Travel, Urban Sketches , Drawing, Georgetown, Heritage Building, Illustration, Malaysia, Moleskine, Old Building, Penang, Pulau Pinang, Travel, Urban Sketches