Calligraphy Final Project + Sketch Studies.

We spent our last day of calligraphy class doing our final projects -- freestyle.



This is our adorable and sarcastic class president, Chen Wen, doing hers.





Our class VP, Cui Zhaokai's.





Zhou Lixi's.



Lu Chen's. I never thought she and Liu Man could write this well!



Liu Man's.



I was the last one to finish. My writing came our waaay too stiff... But, I guess this isn't so bad -- for a foreign student, anyway. =v=;;;



Meanwhile, I now have a love / hate relationship with still life objects, particularly apples. Reference photos borrowed from devART.





My first still life set-up. It took me about two days to get the sketch to look the way it does, after which I gave up. It's still way too gray. OTL





Onto the next set-up... I thought putting that jug in there was masochistic, but, I didn't really know until I started blocking out the reflections on its surface... OTL



So, I think my contrast got a teeny bit better... Just a teeny bit. Will have to try again some other time.

Xiangshan Campus + Calligraphy Class.

Students sketching the campus environment, under the shade...



... and by the second, smaller lake, ...



... by the Administration Building,



... and at Building 9.



Taken around the school dorms and campus while biking to our evening class.



Statues by the lake.





See that thing in the sky? Whatever it is, I thought it was a shooting star -- blurted it out loud, too. LOL.





A few days ago, one of the school orgs organized a get-to-know-foreign-students project, and this girl named Xiao Yanhui aka. Xiao Yue was assigned to me. I took these while we talked by the lake.





We later transferred to the soccer field. It's too bad our photos turned out crazy cos it was getting dark. ^A^;





Meanwhile, in calligraphy class, we were asked to replace the writing we initially posted up with newer, better ones.



These are Zhou Lixi's...



... and mine.

Sketch Studies + Calligraphy Class.

On the left is the tutorial book; on the right is a page from my sketchbook. The girl at the center was copied using charcoal; the rest are graphite. My portraiture needs a lot of work.





Eye studies.



Reference photos were taken from Google and devART. Not enough contrast.





The largest apple is a shading demo by Inhye. I'm quite proud of the last, smallest apple. 8D



Our first Chinese calligraphy writing class. We were asked to copy from ancient manuscripts. In the back with the beige cap is our very awesome teacher, Zhang laoshi, doing some demos.



Written by Zhou Lixi, a classmate. He used to watch his dad write calligraphy. 甲于天下 means "the best in all the land."



My seatmates and I got to copy manuscripts written in 隶书, a very wide and easy-to-balance script. IMO, it's much easier to write than the standard Chinese script.



Here is Zhang laoshi doing a demo for my seatmate, Fan Chuchu. ^o^





We got Zhang laoshi to write everyone's names in calligaphy to label our works with. I think we owe him several lunches now, for when we go down to the province next spring for our sketching field trip.





He finally got to my table. Such poise.



我叫邓莲梨，是菲律宾留学生。



As it gets closer to grading day, everyone is allotted a space on the wall on which to display their works for the teacher to evaluate.







Mine, Lu Chen's, and Liu Man's.



Obligatory close-ups of my own writing. Zhang laoshi said that my writing is neat, but... a little too neat. This apparently results from writing too carefully. Must vary the width of my strokes more. But, he was very appreciative, haha.







These are works from the class next door.







Graphite portraiture and still life painting from last year's entrams. @ii@