Steak steps

Bunny climbs up a set of sirloin stairs.

More Lake

Hello everybody~

I discovered something incredible!!

Recently I'm feeling the more I paint, the more I want to paint... This is a direct violation to my lazy nature! This cannot go on. Therefore I did this from a photo I took last week. Because I'm lazy to go outside today.

I had trouble with the color of tree trunk. It looks like some like of twisty snack I had when I was little. Not only it is frustrating that I cannot get it to look right, also I'm massively hungry now.

Lake Chabot outing

Ohlalalala everybody~

Apparently I wasn't the only one that got sick this time of year, there were plenty of other people sniffing and coughing and generally being miserable. I feel better now.

Today is the first time I went to Lake Chabot and I fell in love immediately. I've lived in Castro Valley for like a year and this is only the first time I visited this gorgeous lake just ten minutes away from me?! *table flip* Mark my words, I'll be back.

I sat on a pretty little dock on the lake and painted with paddles boats and some noisy ducks around me. I kept shooting those ducks murderous glances every time they startled me with their loud and unpleasant vocal cacophony. And two of them have the audacity to approach me with a suspiciously cute look that dogs have when they are expecting food. I told them I didn't have any.

All in all it was a very pleasant afternoon, I hope I get to come back more often if the weather permits. I might need to bring some food. What do ducks eat?

Happy New Year to me

恭喜發財Everybody!!

How was your Chinese New Year? Mine was bad. If your New Year was not exactly going the way you wanted, no worries, mine was worse.

One disadvantage of not being in the Asian continent while the New Year is undergoing, is that you have no idea when it happened. I think I might have slept through it, with my fever from a bad cold I caught couple days ago. My fever was so bad that my eyeballs hurt.

I thought of calling my family, but I was reluctant to speak, because hearing my own nasal-heavy voice alone makes my eyes water. Plus, what if I called at a time when everybody was already off to the joyful New Year family dinner, that would be extremely sad, for me.

I felt slightly better today, i.e. I didn't wake up with a raging headache, so I decided to go to my neighborhood lake to paint during sunset. It was very cold, I forgot to bring my portable seat, my paint brush felt on to the dirt, and the walk from the lake parking spot to the actual painting spot was very long. But at least my nose didn't leak. Small blessing.

So the conclusion is, tonight I'm gonna make myself my favorite soup and watch Drop Dead Diva all night!

Bunyy's random lunch partner

Bunny's lunch date today is randomly assigned.

Ode to Rice Cooker

沒錯, 今天的主題就是.... 大同電鍋 (默).

O Rice cooker,
The noises you make
Make me feel like
Mom is in the kitchen with me.

My Park

Bonjour everybody~

My Art Policy had noticed that I didn't do watercolor last week. So here it is, though I'm not very keen on how it turned out.

A bit messy. But then, so is life (puffing smoke).

Cousin Bill's fondest memory of Grandma

When Cousin Bill was in grade school, one Saturday he woke up late.

He was very upset and was crying, and Grandma asked him what the matter was.

Cousin Bill said while sobbing, that he was supposed to be at a badminton team practice this morning at a gym outside of school, but now he's missing it.

Grandma asked him if he knew where the gym was and then took him on to a taxi.

Cousin Bill arrived at the team practice late, but was able to join in without issue.

Cousin Bill thanked Grandma while waving goodbye, and remembered Grandma's smiles when she got on to the taxi.

In my memories, Grandma was always around when there's emergencies. There were many times when I forgot to pay my school's tuition fees and Grandma would get it done just in the nick of time. Thank you Grandma!

Bunny realized that parents are getting on in years because..

..Bunny is now taller than both of them.

..and because Bunnymom's face used to be the shape of oval, now it's the shape of a box.

..and because Bunnydad's once fitted trouser, got longer.

..and because they sleep the soundest when watching exciting flicks!

More Trees

Olalala Everybody! Did everyone got fatter over the holidays?? I sure did. But it is our birth rights to indulge during the holidays isn't that right? There's nothing to lose except maybe a little dignity. Dignity Schmignity!

Anyway, I was busy eating and busy resting after eating for the last two weeks so I didn't draw anything. But I have to get back on the horse if I want to avoid an inspection by the Art Police! And conveniently the trees outside my window today is sunny and the leaves are swaying and my conscience is nagging me so I did it. It actually didn't start out so well, I was a bit afraid that my rusty fat fingers is finally giving me revenge on my laziness, but I managed eventually to finish at least. As to whether it is a piece of acceptable 'a-r-t' I'll have to call the Art Police later this week and see what they say.

Bunny's fondest memories of Grandma

Bunny's fondest memories of Grandma starts with Sunday mornings, when bunny slowly woke up and found Grandma sitting quietly on the side of bed, reading newspapers.

When bunny got home from school in the afternoon, bunny's parent wouldn't be home yet and there's still hours until dinner, bunny would ask Grandma to make warm sugar water and bunny would savor it by the spoonful.

When Grandma visited bunny in Vancouver during Summer vacations, we raked our lawn for weeds and watered our garden, and afterward we sat on the stairs of our back porch in sunset and played word games.

Now Grandma is in a jar, sitting far away on a foggy hill. Bunny is doing its best remembering the fondest bits of our time together.

Bunny's talking device

Bunny made a brilliant pair of talking devices for communicating. Except it might not work so well due to User Errors.

Trees outside my window

Hello oh lalala everybody (tossing rose petals)~

So my mom didn't buy the excuse that I need to pack and relax, mom said I can relax when I go back home . So I painted again, but only from what I saw outside my window (I'm very insisting on the easy and relaxing bit, I'll be damned if I have to drive all the way out to some place to paint and endure the bitter coldness and burdened bladder for hours).

Something happened to me last night while I was sleeping that I must take note. I came to realize that sometimes while I'm sleeping, I unconsciously scratch myself on the face or shoulders. Last night I half woke up finding my left index finger wondering aimlessly around my nose, it seemed to me that it was hoping to pick my nose but lacking the muscle strength and precision to achieve a satisfactory result. Therefore I decided to help it along but unfortunately the finger failed miserably and ended up jabbing the side of my nose in a rude manner. That woke me up completely. I didn't know who to blame and was peeved for the next few minutes until I fell asleep again. That's all I wanted to share.

Globe and Music Box Render

Oh Lalala Hello Everybody~ (as if the whole world is reading this blog. When in fact my most faithful reader is my mom .)

Speaking of my mom, my mom is a retired high school art teacher, and my dad has been a professor of interior design for over a decade now. Here they are again:


BUT! Do not be fooled by their gentle and non-threatening appearance, because in fact, they are a pair Art Police.

People might be wondering why I post once a week. (actually nobody noticed) But the reason why I post once a week is because I call my mom once a week, and if she didn't see a new post on this blog every week I would be "reminded" that I should doing something about it. And then the phone would be passed on to my dad who never fails to deliver his standard 5 minute monologue about 'sketch everyday of everything', 'I've been at this for several decades I know what I'm talking about', and finally 'If I wasn't so tired with full-time teaching everyday I would totally sketch all the time'.

But I digress.

This week I finished two renders that I've been working on for the last three weeks. If you want to see them animated then go here.

(I was seriously considering saving the second render for next week's post, cause I have a feeling I probably would be too lazy to make any more stuff.) I'd be too busy packing for my trip going home to see my family. That sounds like a totally legitimate excuse!

Small Cabinet

Bunny was asked to sit in this really small file cabinet, but it just doesn't fit as bunny tried to shove in its behind fruitlessly. The labored afford had caused a racket and Turtle granted it a disapproving look.

A weekend in Sonoma

Ola everybody.

Some people, like me, gets lazy sometimes

you know
and I haven't been painting for awhile

I guess you can tell

Oh yeah my new website is done

The link is here.
Updating my website made me realize how much I sucked I mean how much I've improved over the years.... Better take those crappy drawings down quickly before anyone else sees them. Hmm, that means five years later I'm gonna look back at this and feel equally embarrassed. But hopefully I'll be fabulously famous by then and anyone who says otherwise will get a "off with their heads!" Muahahaha ... .ha.

Old Record Player Render

I spend two weeks on this gramophone, the model was bought online but it was way too high poly and I ended up rebuilding half of it. It is fun to make Asian style art, I'll see if I can do more of it.

Face Render

I found this face model on Modo's inventory so I used it. It wasn't very good looking and I had to adjust it a lot, especially the ears. I tried my best to make the skin look decent using Modo's shader system, in theory there should be more layers and the shader should be more complicated. But considering I'm doing this at home with nobody to help me figuring stuff out and I had instant noodles for lunch today cause I had no time to make better lunch this is good enough.

One night I was scrutinizing over the render and trying to see what should be fixed next, I was suddenly afraid that the eyes would open up and look back at me. But that wouldn't happen because 1. it's silly and 2. I didn't make any eyeballs for it, so there's nothing behind those eyelids! (Somehow that sounds even more scary.)

Miniature French Chair Render

I bought the model on-line and tweaked it quite a bit, and redid all the UVs cause it was unusable. Texturing this one is pretty fun. I still need to learn more about Modo's rendering tricks, but it's not too difficult to handle.