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Update (August, 2002) -- this page needs updating!
Update (January, 2005) -- Considering that I've moved to yet another
country, I really need to update!
Update (January, 2006) -- Well, I'm now too old to update.
The heart of this site is currently the weekly figure drawings. Some of
these drawings are very raw and unfinished, but the idea was to create a
format that allowed regular updates. This site is constantly a work in
progress. In fact, at last count, it's been up for 20 years, and had
around 300 URL changes. Currently though, it's run through a variety of
scripts, Perl, PHP, on a server running in my apartment. Most pages are
automatically generated so that all I have to do is drop some pictures
into a directory, and everything just updates without too much work.
Some Credit is due to:
Image Thumbs - automatically creates thumbnails of my images
DBMAN, by Gossamer Threads - powers the flat-file Figure Drawing database
Our drawing group meets on Wednesday nights, hence the title of the site.
Our session is in San Jose, CA, located behind Recycle Bookstore.
We usually start at 3 minute warm ups, then go to 6 minutes, then
finally we finish with a few 15 to 30 minute drawings.
Its also nice to have new members join our group, so if you're interested
in figure drawing, feel free to contact me for a drop in. We've got some
great models, each with a different quality.
The drawings are mostly pen and ink done on white copy paper.
This line drawing format is very easy to scan in and archive.
The size of the drawings vary between 8.5x11 and 11x17.
"While most people made Goals and Careers, I became an artist."
I am Chinese... born and raised in Okinawa, Japan... on a
U.S. Military base. I left Okinawa for Georgia Tech in 1989 and
picked up degrees in Mechanical Engineering and then Industrial Design.
Then in 1997, I went to San Jose, CA, where I worked as a Lead Designer
of an internet set-top box company. Sheesh, that was 8 years ago!
I first took a class in Figure Drawing at GT under the school of
Architecture. There was an interesting professor who was supportive of
my work. In fact, he was so supportive, he kept all of my drawing pads.
In any case, I hope that you enjoy the site. It's always nice
to receive comments.
This site was featured in Netsurfer Digest! Woohoo!!!
Also, we made Link Dana for a web page in an unspecified country.
Lightbox JS v2.0 the awesome slideshow by Lokesh Dhakar.
Perl reference by Selena Sol Perl scripts are used throughout the
site. More specifically, this reference was used to "prepare" the
slideshows.
JPEG Animator by Kevin Lyn Brown This is the actual Javascript
slideshow that I used. (I placed this into a perl script)
Remote Image by Nicholas Singh
I used this script on the opening and closing of windows. -->
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