[one drawing #25] Millennium Park

July 27, 2018July 27, 20181 Comment

Millennium Park is the most visited spot in Chicago. I visited the park recently and luckily for me, there was a free orchestra concert in the evening. The symbolic architecture inside the park where the concert was held, Pritzker Pavillion, was very modern (maybe post-modern?) and… complicated structure.

I chose the simplest looking frame I could find and started to draw, only to realize it was not clean-cut at all. After 1.5 hour of the performance, I left the park with unfinished drawing and puzzling mind. I finished it on a train to New Orleans. My apologies for the wonderful players that I could not included them in the picture because… it would have taken forever for me!

Pritzker Pavillion at Chicago Millennium Park

The REAL Pritzker Pavillion at Chicago Millennium Park

[one drawing #22] J. S. Bach

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018Leave a comment

When my Emo (‘aunt’ in Korean) living in Maine found out that I was practicing drawing, she wanted me to draw her the portrait of J. S. Bach. I never learned how to draw portraits but decided to give Bach a try anyway. (Emo never saw the oh-it-does-not-look-like-her-at-all portrait of herself that I drew, so maybe that’s why…) I majored in music in college and J. S. Bach used to be my favorite classical composer, so why not?

Started to draw from the most famous portrait of Bach. Found out substantial portion of the portrait is black, so decided to use a charcoal along with a pencil.

I am planning to visit Emo this weekend before going back to Korea. Hope she doesn’t laugh too hard at it!

J. S. Bach

Making J. S. Bach

The most famous portrait of J. S. Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann

[one drawing #21] Buzz

July 15, 2018July 15, 2018Leave a comment

I drew my beloved Woody from Toy Story last week and I couldn’t help but to draw Buzz today. I still remember watching <Toy Story 2> and seeing Buzz Lightyear shouting, “To infinity and beyond!” The line is one of my favorite movie quotes since then. (Oh, I must watch it again!)

So while watching Wimbledon Men’s Championship (Djokovic vs Anderson!) I quickly drew Buzz Lightyear with colored pencils. Feel like grabbing a beer with him! 🍻🍺

Buzz Lightyear

Making Buzz Lightyear

“To infinity and beyond!”

[one drawing #20] woody

July 11, 2018July 11, 20181 Comment

I drew Woody today from Disney character drawing book. <Toy Story> is definitely one of my favorite movies. I cry every time I watch the last scene of <Toy Story 3>.

Perhaps I loved Woody too much that I wanted to make him look very lively: colored his cheeks orange, orange, and orange. Now he looks like he drank 100 ounces of beer or something. Sorry, Woody! Next time I will be nicer. 😬

‘Woody’ with orange cheeks

woody

[one drawing #19] whales

July 9, 2018July 10, 2018Leave a comment

I went to whale watch for the first time in my life with New England Aquarium Whale Watch tour in Boston. Actually, I kind of tried whale watching about two years ago in Norway but the season was not quite right so only thing I saw were dolphins (no offense, dolphins!)

This time was different! We met about five huge whales and two of them even had so much interest in our boat that they circled around and teased us for about 20~30 mins. Whales were right in front of us, breathing out joyfully and diving back down to show their awesome (and huge) tails! People were screaming in joy and now it feels like a dream. I even could feel the water splash from the whales’ breadth in my face (didn’t smell nice, haha. 🐳 )

So on a way back home, I drew two whales with a pencil. I drew them out of a pamphlet they distributed on a boat. What an interesting world that such fantastic creatures are sharing Earth with us!