Surviving cloudy days

… was the reason I painted it, after weeks without the sun. It wasn’t needed for long because soon after I finished it, it suddenly started to be sunny again. It still helped while I was working on it.

Warnemünde – multiple points of view / 다각도로 본 바르네뮌데

The area had a lively but relaxing atmosphere. I kept doodling on the same page as I visited different places, while trying to fit them together into one scene. Then I colored in digitally, trying to keep the feel of the pen strokes.

생기 있으면서도 편안한 느낌을 주는 곳이었다. 장소를 옮겨가면서도 같은 페이지에 낙서를 추가해 나가면서 한 장면으로 만들어 보았다. 나중에 디지털 채색을 하면서 낙서의 볼펜 자국 느낌을 살리려고 해보았다.

YK 2020.

Memory of an early morning / 어느 날 이른 아침

I sketched this one on site with pencil, but inked it only yesterday. I savored the memory of the rugged interior of the cave illuminated by the waves as I filled it in with hashes.

Night Ride

… or jump?

Sketched on site at Espresso Library which has bikes hanging from the ceiling.

Modified, inked, and colored afterwards.

YK 2020.

Best of 2019

Last year, I drew with dip pens and sketched more on site. I also tried weaving in stories, be it on science or others.

Next year, I’d like to try one-cut cartoons, starting from re-drawing classics, and hopefully at some point weaving in more from my day job, neuroscience and cognitive science. I know this part of my resolution is the same as last year’s. I found it difficult to start from vacuum, and that’s why I want to start from reinterpreting existing works.

What’s your new year’s resolution?

Links to the original:

1. Reflection
2. Aerialist
3. Build
4. Jack O’Lantern Sleeping Rough
5. Hanging On
6. Horgous
7. An Unexpected View
8. Full Speed (Criss-Cross)
9. Boxer at Rest

An Unexpected View (+ Ink)

I added ink to the original pencil drawing. I wasn’t sure how to deal with the complex lines of the trees – if I were to draw them all with pen, they would have overshadowed the church. So I tried wash and exaggerated the contrast. The moleskin paper was too thin to take the heavy wash but I was happy with the depth from the wash. The drawing started unexpected anyway.

Sketched on site. Pen and wash afterwards. YK 2019.

Horizon

YK 2019.

Jack O’Lantern Sleeping Rough

A ‘ghost’ – an invisible neighbor.

YK 2019.