Title: Lifeskills Camp Logo
Medium: Pen on paper
Location: -
June 25, 2008
June 22, 2008
2D works #5 Colour pencil drawing for Eden fashion shoot
Title: Eden fashion shoot
Medium: Colour pencil on paper
Location: School, home
June 20, 2008
Writing #4 Artist: Zhang Jingna
Some of you probably haven’t heard of her. I want to share about her, not just because she is amazing, but because I can relate to her, and I think all of you can too.
Twenty year old Jingna came to Singapore from Beijing, China. Her interest in art, especially fashion and photography, developed since many years ago. Although busy with school and air riffle shooting (she represented Singapore in the SEA games and is a medal-winner! wow!), she squeezed time out to answer to her passion for art by consistently producing works (digital art, photography etc.) Her popularity grew over the years, especially on websites like Deviantart and Myspace. She has gathered a strong fan-base from all over the world. Here are a few of her works I took from her deviantart page.
What is so special about Jingna? Like all of us elite-schoolers (ahem!), she was actually a student from Raffles Girls’ School. She had a place in RJC ( she was in the IP) and of course an almost guaranteed “bright” future (think famous universities). She is doubtlessly talented in everyway. However, her passion for art encouraged her to make a decision: leave the Raffles family and go to La Salle to study art. Everyone was so shocked, and her parents were pretty upset in the begining. Jingna stood firm to her decision because she knew what she wanted. Her parents later lent her their full support and she wento La Salle.
‘I know many people would think that I’m foolish to stop studying before I get my certificates. Some would also think me ungrateful for leaving RGS, but I’m not. My definition of success is just different.’ She said.
Three years ago, Jingna made a promise to herself : make it as a fashion designer with her own labels in 10 years time. Now she is producing works that are more and more creative and interesting. She is producing works for commercial purposes too. A single work of hers can fetch up to thousands. She recently launched her photo collection book called “Something beautiful”.
I was moved by her passion, encourage and determination. I always had the thought of dropping out from our standard schools and go to an art college, but was never daring enough to make up my mind. I admit that I find it difficult to give up on the academic things that I built my life around. I admit that I am afraid of going forward without having a perfect backup plan. I wrote to Jingna once and she wrote back saying that she hopes I pursue my passion too. May be i will, one day, when i learn to put down certain things in life to pursue the rest. This not only applies for art, but for everything else.
June 19, 2008
Photography #4 Korea photos
Title: Foreign eye
Medium: Photography
Location: Seoul, Korea
Title: Million dollar baby
Medium: Photography
Location: Seoul, Korea
Title: Playground
Medium: Photography
Location: Seoul, Korea
June 11, 2008
Designs #7 Fendi Baguette and coursework (!!!)
So there is this “Design your own Fendi Baguette” thing which i thought i should try since i quite like Fendi myself. The tools were pretty user-UNfriendly (e.g drawing tool). So my design is pretty simple.
And i went to China to look at coursework materials! there were alot of things really, some too pretty. I bought the gold sequined cloth for my final product. I bought 1.5m of it, i hope it’s enough!!! and i gathered some pictures and samples, so i can ask my friends in China to buy the cloth or sequins for me if i need them.
Need to be more productive! busy busy holiday! Mine’s just started and it’s ending soon!
