The 'before' test

I Officially Have Students!

I came just on time for the class to start today, all together there were nine artists, some youths and some working adults.

I have to thank EJ and the rest of the youth for helping me set up the place for me to start. Seriously the youths in the centre are very helpful.The centre was converted into a studio in a matter of seconds. Caya lah geng!

These are some of the artists in action, semua pun concentrate tu.

It's good to have people who would make an effort to gather like this, even though with their busy schedule. masih sempat hadir juga, saya salute kamu yang datang... thank you very much.

Some of them are still malu-malu. But thats normal bah, especially the younger ladies, everyone sat in clicks. the girls with the girls, the boys with the boys.

There was this guy who came a bit late and sat alone in a table at the end of the room, I handed him a piece of cartridge and a pencil, and his magic began.

His hands flew across the paper. He finished his sketch in 20 minutes, the rest took about an hour. Well, his accuracy wasn't sharp enough, but I admired his confidence in his strokes, very brave. Oh, he's the one in red (right pic), something tells me this artist here is gonna go far.

This picture on the left shows the 'subject' of the day.
Everyday objects, biasa nampak. But when they start drawing them, they started to really made the effort to 'see' the object's details, the curves on the table's stump, the shine on the ink bottle, one of the artist even drew out the door behind the table, very observant!

I told them earlier when we were about to start, to 'draw what they see, not what they think they see.' and for some, they really followed what I said. Bagus sekali anak-anak saya ni.

The result: I'm just gonna show you guys one lah kay. The rest of the art works will be shown on the exhibition, stay tuned for more updates gang! and keep supporting our local talents guys, these people can generate new hope for us Sabahans.

Not bad for the first day kan? This one is by Nickey Jonius.
I enjoyed myself teaching ( I didn't really said much though)
And I believed the artists enjoyed their time in the studio as well.

That's all for the first Friday, see you all on the second week...

keep me in your prayer and you I will keep in mine.
till then...