Getting more drawing into my life
Posted on November 10th, 2010 by Sacha Chua
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On This Day...
- 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 11): Looking back at the year — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
- 2009: Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee! — © 2007 Fir0002/Flagstaffotos, GNU Free Documentation License In Rules for Revolutionaries, Guy Kawasaki advises you to eat like a bird and [...]
- 2007: My worrying is useless — I came across this beautiful quote from Anne Patchett’s memoir “Truth and Beauty” on the Happiness Project blog: “I knew then it [...]
- 2006: Company titles — Filling out another event registration form… Hmm. Maybe I should be the CTO of Adphoto. ;) Let me ask my mom… That [...]
- 2006: Coming to terms with diagrams — I added more diagrams to my research plan. I’m starting to get the hang of drawing diagrams. What do you know [...]
- 2006: Woke up early today — These strange things called “mornings” are actually pretty interesting. ;) In an effort to reset my sleep cycle, I slept at [...]
- 2004: Gmane has a blog interface — It boggles the mind. http://blog.gmane.org Don’t you just love how information formats are blurring together? Gmane gates mailing lists to Usenet newsgroups [...]
- 2003: Discovery Learning in Introductory Operating System Courses — http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/299649.299797 Although we probably won’t have computers during class sessions – this is, after all the IBM Room, and we’ll probably have [...]
- 2003: Remembering things — Cross-reference: PlannerMode#1
- 2003: Puzzles and games: addressing different learning styles in teaching operating systems concepts — http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/611892.611964 Lots of ideas for teaching operating systems. I remember the crosswords from CS161 and I intend to have crossword and find-and-match exercises. [...]
- 2003: planner-remember-to-plan-page-from-buffer — Cross-reference: PlannerMode#2
- 2003: Really funky BBDB aliases — Cross-reference: EmacsTips#1
- 2003: Testing remember — Let’s try it out!
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Recent Sketches
I actually do this myself, It’s fun. Im always sketching things and ideas that strike me everywhere I go. Believe me, you get better at it everyday. :)
Hey
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of months now. I liked your idea of taking notes/documenting everything. I’m trying to do it myself as well! Thanks for that :-)
Also your “how did I get into IT” story was very inspiring. Loved it.
Regarding the drawing thing, I was in the same position than yours, wanting to draw more but not actually doing it. Casually I found this thing called NaNoDrawMo (inspired by NaNoWriMo), where you have to make at least 50 drawings on a month, any type of drawings, then post them to their flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1219303@N25/
I joined the group and began drawing, not too sure I could keep up with it, but I’m actually enjoying it quite a lot and making great improvements in technique and speed. Also I’m getting some unexpected (nice) results, so it’s a great experience. Highly recommended!
Although I guess you’re already doing that by means of your sketches on the train, but I wanted to encourage you anyway! :-D
It also happens to me that I try to be polite when drawing people on public spaces. It’s funny most of people don’t bother about photos any more, but they become very intrigued when they see anyone scribbling on a paper :)