{"id":508,"date":"2008-08-23T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T02:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-02-19T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:18:09","slug":"blog-154-starting-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/08\/23\/blog-154-starting-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 154 > Starting From Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBamboo Fun | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n

Yeah! After Puppy-Chun’s blog post<\/a> triggered my long-time Amazon wish, I finally received my silver “Wacom Bamboo Fun” tablet on Thursday (21 Aug 2008), lol. Then with the artsy addition of Orange-Mimi’s blog post<\/a>, I started playing around with the tablet on Friday. Unfortunately, my digital efforts were so pathetic, they weren’t even worth saving. T_T;<\/p>\n

Hence, after years of using my trackball mouse, I finally came to the realization that *before* I could pursue experiments on the tablet, I needed to re-acquire at least *some* of my lost pencilling skills. So what did I do? I started from scratch. Doodling. Sketching. Practicing. With pen on paper. With a bit more focus than I’ve had in years. Not much, but a bit more. As u can see (at the bottom), I’ve got a long way to go…<\/p>\n

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So here are my three 10-minute doodles: (1) Annoyed Girl, (2) Bored Girl, and (3) Troubled Girl. One thing I picked up during my School of Architecture years, was the use of a pen to sketch. Because it forces u to focus (or unfocus) on every stroke u put down on paper, can’t erase, can’t cross out. So the result is raw and rough. But that’s okay, no plans to clean or color any of these doodles. Like I said, just doodling, sketching, practicing. Re-acquiring old habits, lost skills. Argh, long way back, long way to go. Click to enlarge these to 50% scale…<\/p>\n

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\nDoodle 01 | Annoyed Girl | Click to enlarge to 50% scale<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n

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\nDoodle 02 | Bored Girl | Click to enlarge to 50% scale<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n

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\nDoodle 03 | Troubled Girl | Click to enlarge to 50% scale<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n

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Bamboo Fun | Click to enlarge Yeah! After Puppy-Chun’s blog post triggered my long-time Amazon wish, I finally received my silver “Wacom Bamboo Fun” tablet on Thursday (21 Aug 2008), lol. Then with the artsy addition of Orange-Mimi’s blog post, I started playing around with the tablet on Friday. Unfortunately, my digital efforts were so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,62],"tags":[115,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-art","category-experiments","tag-bamboo","tag-bamboo-fun","tag-doodling","tag-wacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}