My Drawings: Street People

During 4.24-4.26, I went to DC with a group of friends from my church and helped homeless people. We not only sent bags of lunch to them, but also fixed some community facilities. I took my sketch pad with me and drew a great amount of pictures uing markers. The best thing about marker drawing is it shows the strong comparison between black and white. Lines and pieces of shades are the only two elements existed in a marker drawing. I have to be really careful when I draw a line and paint a piece of shade since there is no way fixing my mistakes.
In order to find the subjects that I need to draw, I observed people in the street carefully and read street newspapers and leaflets. I drew people passed me by and photos from those newspapers and leaflets.


Children In The Street

A Homeless Child

An Old Man
He is the only person I drew whose eyes shining with hope and happiness.

A Homeless Man

A Homeless Kid Looking For Food

A Wonderer
This guy passed me by and got my attention. I don't know whether he is homeless or not, but from his way of walking, I can guess he is a wonderer in the street, a stranger who does not have a purpose walking forward.
I took out my sketch pad when I noticed him and did a two minutes sketch for him. After that, I used markers to shade the figure and drew the background.

Soup Kitchen In 2009

My Sculpture: Self-Portrait (Finished)

My Sculpture: Twisting Body

This is one of my favorite sculptures so far. Since the last sculpture I made, the one which depicted a nude woman sleeping peacefully on a piece of stone, cracked and failed eventually. I made this one by using a much better kind of clay, which is mixed with sand. During the process of making this sculpture, I pay much more attention to the woman's uperbody anatomy and the movement of muscles when an arm is stretched forward and the other stretched upward. I love the movement in this sculpture for the twist of waist, contraction of the right side and the stretch of left side.

My Drawing: Edward Cullen (Blackened)

My Sculpture: Smile

My Sculpture: Dream

My Drawing: Death of a Salesman

This is a poster I did for the play: Death of a Salesman.
When I started to think about the drawing. I tried my best to find a way to express the plot and theme of the play.
In the play, Willy, who is the salesman, is the main character. That's why I chose him as the main figure in my drawing. The play also shows the complicated relationship between Willy and his family memebers.
Willy suffers from depression and anxiety as a result of his dissipating career, his estranged relationship with his oldest son, Biff.
In this drawing, Willy's family member's figures were simplified as a hand by myself. Biff's hand is the one on the right side. Unlike other hands, his hand is far away from Willy. Because in the play, Biff resents his father bitterly after discovering his father' affair. The black background not only makes the main figure pop up, but also make a contradiction with Biff's hand which is purly white, showing his cold relationship with his father. The huge black space between his dad and him also somewhat shows the gap.
The hand on Willy's shoulder belongs to Happy, Willy's second son. Compared with Biff who could not hold a steady life over 15 years, Happy works as an assistant and always exaggerates his position in order to impress his dad. That's why I let Happy wear a watch showing that he has salary and his willing to impress his father.
The hand which tenderly touch Willy's right arm is Linda's hand. Linda is the only one in the family who protect Willy and take care of him a lot. The place where her hand touch is more like the place where a wife touches her husband.
In the right corner, their is a vague street scene. In the play, Willy suicides himself by crashing his car on purpose. I put a car in the street and make the road looks wet in order to express a sense of misery and sadness. You can see the reflection of the car and the passengers.
Considering the principles of design. Alll the hands potentially form a circle and the directions of the hands suggest a sort of movement and the opposite direction of Biff's hand adds disturbulence to the drawing and inharmony of the family.