Don's Illustration Blog

Everything was worth the time and energy. The turn out for the exhibition was overwhelming. Food was great (though I did not manage to get a bite) and the music has enlivened a sleepy Tiong Bahru. I am both glad and pleased that we have decided to do this – a gallery show of our [...]

Well we were back at Jago Close again… for breakfast! As usual we ordered fried carrot cake, both black and white versions, then washed down with coffee and topped it all up with Roti Prata! We sat quite near the road so our view was the building on the opposite side where a really tall [...]

There is a Japan Gourmet Town in Raffles City Basement. One of the outlet is like Mache, you pick a card at the entrance and buy stuff with it, then pay later when you exit. Food is a pricey and reasonable in taste. Not so spectacular that I will develop a craving but nice enough [...]

Drawn with photo reference.

It seems that my blog is back online. Thanks to all the hours put in yesterday to resolve the issue of being listed as an attack site. It is a good thing it is not lasting for too long because there will be people reviewing my portfolio and I do not want to disappoint them. [...]

A pen and brush BW drawing of Hunchback, then digital painting with PS, overlayed with a texture paper.

Our neighbors told us it was not usual to be so cold in Glendale. In fact it was the wettest and the coldest season since he moved here. Wow… everywhere we landed, we experienced extreme weather. We remembered our other landlord telling us during summer when we arrived in LA, it wasn’t so hot either. [...]

Not so much of eating but plenty of chatting and spending good quality time in a cafe we found right across Barnes and Nobles after we couldn’t find a place to sit and sketch. Anyway we were at Burbank. The first sketch made in a cold morning. I enjoyed the cold. This is outside our [...]

I began to take on a different interest on things around me. Like my tool and materials on my drawing desk, the clothes on the door, and even the dinner Kat cooked for me. I call it TV dinner because we are always watching TV while having our dinner. Kat cooked a very unfamiliar meal [...]

Night scene – darkness falls so quickly these days as winter nears. This was about 5.20pm. The sky was a very nice glowy kind of blue when I stepped out of the office through the back door. The moon was like a white hole in the sky. Besides, 2 items arrived at my door to [...]