my artistic side

i've always liked drawing stuff.

in fact, i like it almost as much as most people think i suck at it.

Let d be the difference between my (lack of) artistic talent and my love for it

the saying "a picture paints a thousand words", i am a firm believer in that.

and the thing is this, there is this perception that for a drawing to be perfect, it has to resemble the real thing as much as possible.

like this drawing of 2 weird hands drawing each other.

but to me, drawings are about expression and communication of certain ideas or thoughts to people who are looking at the drawings.


recently, this app called "Draw Something" started getting very popular.

it is basically "win, lose or draw", where someone would draw something, and the other person would try to guess what he was trying to draw.

and i'm usually excellent at such games, cos despite my critics' endless mockings abt the ridiculous-ness of my final products, most of the time people can always figure out what i was trying to draw.

some examples,

who can't tell that this is a ghost?

how many tries do you need before you figure out this is a chicken?


the below re-enactment is my favourite, and the person managed to guess it, let's see if you can too. =)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7 letter word)

to be fair to everyone, in the app, the person guessing can actually see the sequence in which the drawings were drawn, so the blue highlights were only done AFTER i completed the whole art piece.

and i actually managed to do that drawing you see above on an iphone screen. =D
now, who dares to say i am not artistic?!