• Bangkok
  • As I draw symbolic characters, one aids me in illustrating the new coaching blog, while others assist in writing the duoton postcard and maintaining this site. Recognizing the need for a different style for my notes and presentations, I’m learning about ‘Rapid Vis’ and how to improve my visual communication skills by better understanding perspective, proportions, edges, and spaces.
  • I also pick up a study of Japanese drawings and manga because of their dynamic depictions of human movement and interaction within living and urban scenes. The exaggerated poses, flowing lines, and speed effects used by artists to convey the relationship between the body and its surrounding space. By studying these techniques, I hope to gain deeper insights into how the human form is rendered in motion, ultimately informing better design practices for living spaces and urban environments.
• September 2024
• October 2024
• Bali
  • I’m stepping away from the Apple ecosystem — not just because the latest OS updates have bogged down my older devices, making them sluggish, but because my so-called anticipation for Apple Intelligence feels more like resignation. I still create my duotons on the iPad mini with Procreate, but when I check the specs of the latest model, I’m reminded that Apple is in the business of selling narratives — AI and Pencil Pro being the latest. These two features seem to be the only improvement for the 7th Mini, with no extended display support and no Stage Manager in sight.
  • As an artist, I don’t need Pencil Pro — not because I have no use for hover or barrel rotation, but because Wacom made those features a standard many years ago. By year’s end, I’ll switch to Linux for most of what I do. Text is simple; the same tools I use on Mac are available on GNU. Drawing, however, will be a challenge. I’ll need to see if Krita can match the fluidity of Procreate, but more importantly, I’ll face the dreaded palm-eye separation — where I had to draw on a tablet while watching the output on a screen. (This disconnect between hand movement and visual feedback demands new muscle memory and initially feels unnatural. Yet, over time, it sharpens precision and improves posture.) It’s a project I’ve postponed for far too long, and my upper back deserves no less.
    
• November 2024