the tijah

H E L L O ! ! !

This blog is getting quieter and quieter isn't it? Well, I really think writing is hard work. It's not hard like mechanical engineering (an unfinished chapter in my current life), which is a sleep-depriving, mind-numbing, or hair-pulling kind of hard. Writing is more a sweet torture, soreness-post-crazy-workout kind of hard kot. (it's not that I'm a big fan of gym, but surely I know the post-workout feeling. heh). You know the routine; the words get stuck. the ideas get jammed. The mind gets cluttered, and you get discouraged. It doesn't have to be this way. So i've decided to just stick with what I love the most:

SKETCHING!! yay!! 

For the past few months, I've challenged myself to innocently sketch anything, anytime, that goes under one vital rule; NO eraser is allowed. Well, one might ask, "Tapi orang tak nampak kau lukis tak pakai eraser?" to which I'll reply, "Tapi Tuhan nampak. hahahah!". *insert awkward silence*.

Thus, here I am - introducing each and everyone of you, my most favourite sketchbook, the famous Tijah!!  Let's have a peek into her then~ 

so this is Tijah. she lives in my black Navarro back pack most of the time.

(bought Tijah last year at a book store near Melbourne Central. hmmph can't remember the name)

here's one of many sketches I've made on Tijah. this is a girl, without eyes but with her colourful knitted sweater on. duh~ it's possible that this was an attempt by me to draw a hipster. bahahaha.

materials: Faber Castle colour pencils on Tijah

a someone's bicycle parked on the sidewalk near Flinder Street Station

material: mechanical pencil on Tijah

during Easter break last year, I spent my holiday in Sydney with the Larkin girls. we went to this one dodgy cafe and I snapped a photo of a wooden rack full of weird stuffs. felt rather bored one day, I decided to turn it into a sketch. tadaaa~

materials: mechanical pencil on Tijah.

the cutest Superhero I've ever met~

materials: 4B pencil on not-Tijah

haha this is random. too random. being a stalker I am, here's a snapshot-turned-sketch of the legs of my course mate which, was taken while waiting for the 86 tram to pick me up from uni. she wore too many layers of socks innit? panas kot time tu!

materials: same old materials. heh. 

a young lady with her cat I've found on a magazine~

a mak cik Vietnam cooking something looked like lempeng pisang at Little Bourke Street, Melbourne

ibu. sorry, I kinda made you look older than your age. no eraser was allowed, remember? eheh~

hmm~ random faces I've never met. hahaha

So, that's about it. Bos dah panggil ajak pergi site. See ya!

ps: photos were taken using Instagram.