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Have the work of my fav artist, Yuumei, right in front of me. #happyworkday #Yuumei (at Genentech Hall)

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Can't express how much I love Nicolas' style and work.. (!!!!)

~Seasons~ a little comic for “One Page” a comic show at Roq La Rue later this month more info here http://www.roqlarue.com/uncategorized/coming-march-27th-30th-one-page-comic-show/ The original will be on display at Emerald City Comicon so if you’re going, check it out!

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Hello! You're welcome to check out my portfolio site on Behance before all my work pops up here on tumblr :) 

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Attempt on covering the endangered birds found in national parks and reserves of Vietnam. Subjected to change as I'm learning more about them <3

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D.I.Y. Dissection

11x15"

Gouache

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This show the sketch and its final outcome ^^.

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My composition was created and put in unity by the gathering of *too* many (LOL) round shapes which happened to be scattered but also in order of lines and circles. The focal point *so obviously*, made of the same matter of the outside but with more intense size and shape, stand out because of the change in size/scale, form, and color. ^,^

The cutting time was not as much as I’ve thought, but the sticking one was another matter. It definitely took me hours to finish. Everyone asked if I had been okay when I chose this sketch *laugh*. There was even one wanted just to touch it when she saw me crawling on the ground sticking the dots. It’s not that I like being called crazy, but I know that I did really enjoy the process *crazily - sticking, sticking, sticking LOL*.

I had the outline on tracing paper and the details I just put them according to the outline but not exactly like the sketch *I couldn’t imagine if I had done that*.

It feels good by touching the surface though LOL.

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This is my choice for the final sketch. I'm still working on it though, alternating it a little bit on its copies made out from the copy machine ^^. *Well, thinking about sketch everything over again for many times used for attempts, I have my head smoked; so the copies help a lot LOL*.

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The first attempt of Maze: Maze #1 ^^ The center of focal point look like brain or jelly beans. The layer outside is more like, or truly like the sketch's name, maze. I started off from the big circle for every version of this Maze, for this one, I thought they were pieces of bones *well, LOL*. I altered those next circular layers to linking lines that have openings and endings. For the outside straight lines, I didn't want them to be just straight like its original so I added opening and ending dots to them while roughing off the spot they cut each other.

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This is Maze #2 I love it. My friend and my sister chose it out from a bunch of my attempts. This took me nearly an hour to finish. I asked myself why I was so patient LOL. I was thinking about trees and the resin, also cells and tissues, and water or liquid ---quite funny--- ^^. I started with the black boundary outside then to the focal point, particularly the group of black watery round shapes in the center. I thought it may look good so I just tried it out. I know sketching by hand could not be "undo" like on computer. However, there is no problem to redo it if I mess up because my light table helps me to easily re-scan my original and make a new one. It feels really comfortable to have a back-up way so I'm free to do what I want. I usually think about how I could do something; but when those ideas come into real things, they are sometimes and somehow so different from what I have expected. This feeling is weird LOL. And this sketch is an example. However, people told me that it looks good because of its details. I wonder why I often end up with quite an amount of little, tiny things in such a complicated composition. I like simple, too, ... A simple idea if it could stand by itself, it would be quite strong. I wonder...

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This is the last version of Maze: Maze #3 ^^ I ran out of idea. The head was blocked. Didn't know what to do, I drew tiny worm-like lines on my draft just because I was so stuck. Oh yeah, and that's it. It could form a straight line, and they look fun to merge into each other at the intersections. I sketched the lines in 5', then stuck again on what should be inside the circle. When my mind went around, I remembered DNA in biology class: when they duplicate themselves, they straighten their wormy bodies to straight strings ~> I got it, straight mine out, too ^^. The focal point needs fix up though. It could be something better.

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example 5. They are circles and lines, but in both black and white. 

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/loader.php?aDrawingID=827fa27b82804f70e2ccbe935dc544b1&from_email=beakingdom%40gmail.com&from_name=thao

This is my favorite. I remember somewhere I've spotted the overlapping of different color shapes. I really like this trait and want to keep it for myself. Since the instructor did not mention about the overlapping, I thought this would be fine, if not saying perfect. Just black and white, I can do anything. Awesome. I have a lot of fun doing this. I put the circles on first, then lines. It should be more interesting if the lines cutting the circles, so that they could share the space together in peace. It is boring to look at pitch black figures. I added white stuffs, trying to make it look like the reverse of its former fellow outside. I did not really mind what overlaps which, so I just kept going. If it looks good, I keep the change and move on, if not, simply undo and try another one. It is a advantage of doing this on a computer. As long as it look and 'make sense' to me, I put some extra little dots, not to fill the space, but to create a direction of flowing circles and dots. I stopped when I thought it was enough. I wasn't trying to make it a complex composition. Just that.