Another sketch

I was bored.

Sketch

A sketch? Nah, I'm not good with drawing.

Andy Warhol photo effect

Andy Warhol style

Julian Opie style

Julian Opie style. It's me! Haha.

Lichtenstein inspired pop art

Took me 7 hours. Anybody wanna sponsor me a wacom tablet?

A Crabby Old Woman

What do you see, nurses?
What do you see?
What are you thinking
When you're looking at me?

A crabby old woman,
Not very wise,
Uncertain of habit,
With faraway eyes?

Who dribbles her food
And makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice,
"I do wish you'd try!"

Who seems not to notice
The things that you do,
And forever is losing
A stocking or shoe?

Who, resisting or not,
Lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding,
The long day to fill?

Is that what you're thinking?
Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse,
You're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am
As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding,
As I eat at your will.

I'm a small child of ten
With a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters,
Who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen
With wings on her feet
Dreaming that soon now
A lover she'll meet.

A bride soon at twenty,
My heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows
That I promised to keep.

At twenty-five now,
I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide
And a secure happy home.

A woman of thirty,
My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other
With ties that should last.

At forty, my young sons
Have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me
To see I don't mourn.

At fifty once more,
Babies play round my knee,
Again we know children,
My loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me,
My husband is dead,
I look at the future,
I shudder with dread.

For my young are all rearing
Young of their own,
And I think of the years
And the love that I've known.

I'm now an old woman
And nature is cruel;
'Tis jest to make old age
Look like a fool.

The body, it crumbles,
Grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone
Where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass
A young girl still dwells,
And now and again,
My battered heart swells.

I remember the joys,
I remember the pain,
And I'm loving and living
Life over again.

I think of the years
All too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact
That nothing can last.

So open your eyes, people,
Open and see,
Not a crabby old woman;
Look closer . . . see ME!!

Source: Forwarded Email

God Tower

Found God Tower thanks to Casual Gameplay. Similar game to Ankh where you have to think. Documenting my journey here. May give up anytime.

• Level 1: Use a mirror. GMT+04.30 password: kabul
  


• Level 2: Rotate it. password: solomon
  


• Level 3: Draw out the clock. password: evilcat
  


• Level 4: Only half of the word. password: pentium
  


• Level 5: Search the word at the bottom. Compare the picture. password: balrog
  


• Level 6: Pyramid. Writing. Translate. password: train
  


• Level 7: You need windows for this one. Look at your keyboard. Press it. password: stickykeys
  


• Level 8: Put the pictures together. password: hut
  


• Level 9: Check your handphone. See what's missing.password: hunter
  


• Level 10: Convert windings to number. Check country code. password: tontarn
  


• Level 11: Deathclock. Check the date of birth for the director of the movie. password: 52023
  


• Level 12: Remove the bits using the key. 1st remove 1, 2nd remove 3.. password: acup
  


• Level 13: Look at the shape. Look at your keyboard. Follow the color coding. password: sirius
  


• Level 14: Look at the 2nd page. Without what? remove those letters from 1st page. password: myinfo
  


• Level 15:
  

Sushi buffet

Tako yaki!!

Octopus? Or squid.

Fish with lemon slice on top

which has a lot of eggs. All pictures courtesy of Michelle.

Exams over

Finals for semester 1 are finally over. Went out to eat Japanese Sushi buffet directly after exam with my two leng lui coursemate. Hehe. It's amazing how much girls can eat you know. Although no fight with guys la. Confirm.

After that went for a movie. Casino Royale. That would make it two movie in one week. (Ade, when's the next one? ) I think they change a lot from the book. I was just starting reading the book yesterday. A bit boring. Continue another day. DeathNote on the other hand, I know the story from head to tail. That's why it's a little draggy for me. But I like the shinigami. Ryuk look so darn cute. Hahahaha. Don't you agree?

Mic, would write up the tutorial tonight when I get back. Still quite lazy to write. Hehehe. Happy holidays people.

Fine Writers' Club

I found out what's in that registered post. It's a package from Fine Writers' Club containing my membership card and a key chain. I bought a few parker pen for my friends a few months ago for their convocation and I joined this club. It's suppose to give me discount or something like that. Totally forgotten about it. Haha. So it's not traffic summons after all.

Water Mill

Black & white

Colored. Which one looks nicer?

Saman PDRM

To check if you have traffic summons from PDRM using sms,

Type "POLIS SAMAN (car plate no. or IC no.) and send to 32728

Source: PDRM website

This is a community service brought to you by Wicky.

Nah, I just suspected that I got traffic summon. So I checked online, no record found. I used the service above, no record found. Hmm, now I'm wondering. Who sent me that registered letter? Will update tomorrow when my dad help me to take.

Color Sketch

Converted from photo

Duotone Composite

This is a tutorial posted for my convenience only (so that I would remember how to produce the same effect next time). For the actual tutorial, please visit myJanee.

1. Open your file.


2. Duplicate your image. (Image -> Duplicate)


3. At the new image, change to grayscale. (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale)


4. After that, change to duotone. (Image -> Mode -> Duotone) Pick your color as you wish.


5. From the new file, drag the picture to your original photo. While dragging, hold SHIFT.


6. With the duotone layer active, click on the Create new mask button at the bottom. Second button from the right.


7. Paint the part you don't want in duotone with black color.

That's all to create a duotone composite.

Photo to watercolor

Converted from a photo

Ankh

Found Ankh thanks to Casual Gameplay. A very interesting game. More of a thinking game. You would like this if you like to think. Stop reading now if you want to play the game. I will be writing what I manage to solve as I move along (for me to remember what I did). I would try not to look at walkthrough (only looking at tips). Very tempting.

• Level 1: Enter the door. Click on the door. Click on the door. The glowing yellow box thing. On the left of the boy.


• Level 2: Address change. Just change the address. Change the address to level3.htm


• Level 3: Don't be so negative. So what should you do? Change negative to positive.


• Level 4: Find the source code. Check the source code.


• Level 5: Have to look into the future. So what's in the future? Change journey.htm to level6.jpg (what I did was change to level6.htm. there's a link to level6.jpg there). The picture is the clue. So change to desert.htm


• Level 6: 6. Look at the source code. What is in the center of head and center of body. It's human. Exact center. Center of head is nose, center of body is bellybutton.


• Level 7: What time is it? Check the source code. Draw it out. (analogue clock). Get the letter ncid.


• Level 8: Polymap. Check out the source code. Draw out the map using MapEdit.Get the word stork.


• Level 9: Stretch. What you get when you look at the code? Get the word nobin.


• Level 10: Go get a cookie on the market? Computer cookie. Check the cookie in your computer. Get the address secretmsg.htm
  


• Level 11: Useless. What is useless in the source code? Ignore the kebab tag. Use the initial. I type abch.htm . Got to bach.htm
  


• Level 12: 12. It's suppose to be 12. Look at source code. Found it's 12a.jpg. So type in 12b.jpg. Written give me something else other than jay pack. So type in 12b.gif. Got the message . Add together the hex color code of the 1. Get BEDEAD.
  


• Level 13: 13. Check the source code. Picture pronounce as ascii. Check the dimension for the clear boxes. In pixel. The number convert to ascii. Spells out ./egyptx/
  


• Level 14: 14. Check the picture. There's a barcode. Translate it. If it doesn't make sense, invert it. Spells THEENDISNEAR.
  


• Level 15: 15. Check the source code. The picture is really.htm.gif. Try really.htm. Wrong folder. Try the base address /end/. Log in with username: strange, password: keyword. Get to a page saying correct folder, wrong file. So change file to really.htm. The End.
  


• The End.
  

Duotone composite

Tang Lung during Chinese New Year

Chrysanthemum

Red rose

Photo to painting

This is a tutorial posted for my convenience only (so that I would remember how to produce the same effect next time). For the actual tutorial, please visit myJanee.

Part 1: Adjust lighting

1. Create an adjustment layer. (Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels)


2. Mask the adjustment layer. Click on the white square beside the histogram.


3. Click on the Gradient Tool. Choose which type you want and mask it.


4. Create another adjustment layer. This time choose Hue/Saturation.


5. Increase the saturation for red, yellow and cyan. Depending on picture.


6. Flatten image and proceed to the next part.

Part 2: Adding filter

1. Duplicate the background layer.


2. Choose Cutout filter. (Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout)


3. Use the following setting:
   
   1. No. of levels : 5
      
   2. Edge simplicity : 3
      
   3. Edge fidelity : 2


4. Change blending mode to Luminosity


5. Duplicate another layer from the original background.


6. Choose Dry Brush filter. (Filter -> Artistic -> Dry Brush)


7. Use the following setting:
   
   1. Brush size : 2
      
   2. Brush details : 8
      
   3. Texture : 3


8. Change blending mode to Screen


9. Duplicate another layer from the original background.


10. Choose Paint Daubs filter. (Filter -> Artistic -> Paint Daubs)


11. Use the following setting:
    
    1. Brush size : 3
       
    2. Sharpness : 4
       
    3. Brush type : Simple


12. Change blending mode to Lighten


13. Create an adjustment layer. (Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels)


14. Edit the layer for final adjustment.


15. Flatten the image.

That's all to create a painting from a photo.

Painting

A house

Another crop of the picture

Vertical view with mountain

Taiping, Perak (May 2004)

Huge old trees

Taiping Lake

Another view of the lake

Nice tree

Night view outside the hotel's window

Fake models again

Taiping town

Kota Bahru. The view outside hotel window

Same window, different direction

Fake Model

This is a tutorial posted for my convenience only (so that I would remember how to produce the same effect next time). For the actual tutorial, please visit Receding Hairline.

1. Open the photo. Adjust, crop, rotate the photo first.


2. Use keyboard shortcut 'q' to enter Quick Mask mode.


3. Use keyboard shortcut 'd' to set the color to default.


4. Click on the 'switch' button to switch the background and foreground color.


5. Click on the Gradient Tool (beside the eraser tool).


6. Click on the 4th button on the tool bar (look like a diagonal tube).


7. Choose the focal point (where you want the picture to be clear).


8. From the focal point, click and drag upwards.


9. Exit from the Quick Mask mode by using keyboard shortcut 'q'.


10. Choose Lens Blur filter (Filter -> Blur -> Lens Blur).


11. Use the following setting:
    
    1. Invert : checked (I had to invert mine. Not sure why)
       
    2. Iris : Hexagon (6)
       
    3. Radius : 57
       
    4. Brightness : 35
       
    5. Threshold : 254


12. Adjust the curve (Image -> Adjustments -> Curves)


13. Use the following setting:
    
    1. Input : 135
       
    2. Output : 210

That's all to create a Fake Model Photo.

Good bye, Piano

Last chance to play my piano

One of the last song I practice (Grade 8 exam pieces)

Beethoven anyone?

Sonata in F minor

Insides of my piano

You have serve my family well since 1988. You have been neglected since after I finished Grade 8. Now there would be little fingers playing on you again. Have a good life over at my cousin's house. Good bye piano.

Fake Model Photography

Models or real?

From another angle.

Angkor Wat??

Model houses?

Actually I manipulated the photos to make it look like models. It's called "Fake Model Photography". Thanks to Eugene for introducing me to this effect.

Stone Forest, Kunming (May 2004)

Stones

Karst Lake

More stones.

Small river and more stones.

A part in "Journey to the West" was shot here.