Hello everyone! Two days ago, I went out early in the morning to Batang Kali which is becoming my favourite town now. I thought of practising some drawings as it was a time consuming travel.
Usually during my long journeys, I take along a few essentials like my hoodie, a book and water bottle. This time I took a notepad as well to write down some notes as I just finished editing a video for my YouTube channel and I wanted to write down some mistakes that I will definitely find as I watch the video for the first time. I rendered the video late night yesterday so I couldn't check it so I made it my mission to get it done in the morning. As expected, I did find some errors that I'll have to fix later before rendering it again.
After doing that, I wanted to listen to some music on my headphones. I even took my music handphone that I use specifically to listen to songs. However, I realized that I forgot to grab my precious headphones. I did put it on my bed last night to pack it but I forgot to put it in my little travel bag.
I noticed that the notepad I took along had alternating blank pages on every sheet of paper. Hence I decided to draw the headphones that I missed so much. I don't use ear phones or ear buds although I do have them because I find them uncomfortable and I don't like anything that goes into my ears as I'm paranoid about hearing loss. I use only headphones during long trips and on rare days at home to let off some steam.
The following is the process of my drawings. I drew many of them in different angles.
I did bring a pencil to write down my notes on my notepad. Drawing was not in my plan at all. It was a random idea and I'm glad I did it. I started off with smaller sketches of headphones with some guidelines.
Then, I drew a bigger headphone just floating there. I did add some shading for this to make it more 3 dimensional.
This is how I was drawing. Of course I didn't have a table or even a hard covered book. I just drew on my lap. As I kept shading with the graphite pencil, the tip was getting blunt and I didn't have a sharpener to fix it. A technique that works in such situations is to keep turning the pencil. That's what I kept doing to get the maximum payout of the lead.
I drew another headphone so now I got 4 of them. They seem a little messy because I didn't have an eraser to fix any overlining or mistakes. I had to make do with the limited supplies I had. At this point my mother was complaining how I was starting to become noisy with the shading. I told her that it was called ASMR. Hehe 馃槀馃き
This is the last headphone I drew and I had to stop here as I was reaching the destination and it was almost time to eat lunch.
Here's my little study of drawing headphones, done in a moving car. I even wrote my heartfelt feelings about how I miss my little escape tool of music.
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