coriander in pho

In case it wasn’t super clear, I actually referring to the loop in, uh, knitting.

When I was little, I had this picture book by Kazuo Iwamura, titled “14 Tikus” (Fourteen Mice) — it’s a series of a family of mice, fourteen of them: from grandparents to grandchildren, and their daily activities and adventures in the forest.

The books are BEAUTIFUL. The pictures are— Chef’s kiss. A raspberry harvest scene can cover a lot; from the diligent ones to the ones who’s goofing around, and on the next page, you can see the youngest mouse cried because they got too tired of walking. When they arrived home, the father prepared the breakfast — mushroom soup and bread IT’S JUST SO CUTE AAAAAAAHHHH.

I really want to convey the memory of the book on my drawings, and I really hope I’m doing a good job on it. Who knows, maybe one day I can be like Kazuo Iwamura-sensei, and created my own story books?

I’m SO happy with this drawing. This is one of the drawings that I go, “yep. THIS is exactly what I want.”

The prompt (“Moon”) made me super excited because it’s one of my favorite subjects: Sailor Moon? Batara Kala versus Batara Chandra? Apollo 17 astronauts singing “I was strolling on the Moon one day”? Dreamworks logo? Pixar Shorts “La Luna”? Chang’er?

I decided to draw Chang’er and I’m so happy with how it turned out. I love how I able to visualize Chang’er as the Moon with transitions to cloud covering the Moon. I also put space whale because IT’S SPACE WHALE OKAY.

When you finally at home with high-speed Internet connection.

I got a bit or art block on this, and I got slightly nervous for tomorrow’s to-do list (I have to do something about this anxiety of mine.) All in all, I’m quite happy with this and I’m learning depth on this drawing.

I always use flash/torchlight/flashlight whenever I take my drawings for clearer image but it seems like the black marker reflecting the light. Oh well.

I’m currently in a vacation (staycation) and we are literally in the middle of Malacca Strait and, well, the data connection is not super great.

Anyway! No Little Cat but still with little critters (part of the story, I guess?)

I really enjoy drawing the little mouse on the tub.