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iPhone addiction

25 Monday May 2015

Posted by Ray in Illustration, Iphone

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#depression, #illustration, blackandwhite, insomnia, iphone, phoneaddiction, sharpieart, sharpiepens, singaporeillustrator

iphone addiction illustration

I am on my phone all night, every night. My fingers hurt, my left eyelid is now permanently jumpy. And sometimes I feel a bit sick from all the fast scrolling.

Yet I cannot seem to stop.

Then I wake in a couple of hours and the first thing I do is reach for my phone. I pull open one eye and squint at my phone, ruffling through all sorts of things till I can open both eyes and feel fully awake.

And if someone takes my phone away from me, I have such anxiety, I can’t even tell you. Does this happen to everyone? Is this extreme? Should I seek help?

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Beard Love

19 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by Ray in beards, Illustration, Love

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#illustration, #sketches #sketchbook #illustrations #expatliving, beachselfies, beardedmen, beards, kiss, love, mirroredsunglasses, sharpiepens

BeardedManIllustration

I’ve always wondered what it must be like to kiss a man with a full face of beard. Do beards get in the way? Do they chafe? Do you discover cookie crumbs and then become entirely engrossed in trying to pick them out? I don’t know. But I was at the beach a few weeks ago when I saw this couple taking selfies. They seemed very much in love and totally fine with the beard situation.

So, I sketched them and came up with this bad pun on Weird Love; Beard Love.

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Days like these

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

Posted by Ray in #illustration, depression

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#art, #depression, #illustration, bed, blackandwhite, mentalhealth, sharpiepens, sketchbook

depression blog

There are days when my bed is an island — surrounded by murky stormy waters and dark thunderclouds. Stepping off this island doesn’t feel safe. Not even to open the curtains and let in some light. Not even to eat the leftover chicken in the fridge. Not to speak to mother or answer the door.

There’s nothing to do but sleep, waiting for the storm to blow over.

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There’s Nowhere to Grow But Up

12 Monday Jan 2015

Posted by Ray in Art, Illustration

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#calcutta, #food, #singapore, art, expatblog, friendship, growingup, humor, india, sharpieart, sharpiepens, singaporeartist, writing

2015

It still feels like 1999 was yesterday. I finished high school and everyone was really concerned that the Y2K virus was going to end the world.

When I was in Calcutta for the holidays, my friends and I visited a bar we used to go to. Then someone said, remember? smoking was allowed here.

Of course I acted like I had no recollection of that time, seeing as it made me feel ancient. My other friends fell a bit silent too, as if trying hard to remember.

Then someone finally said it, we are THAT old?? It was a question, but no one answered it. We then ate our body weight in food and left.

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Sass Mouthing Minny Jackson

01 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Ray in aceo, Art, Illustration, Sketchbook, women

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#illustration, fulllips, hot, ladieslove, lips, lipstick, sassy, sexy, sexygirls, sharpiepens, watercolor

sassymouths

Don’t you just love a sassy mouth on a woman?

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Oh my Dior

16 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by Ray in fashion, Illustration

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#illustration, blackandwhite, dior, diorsunglasses, fashion, fashionillustration, glamor, glamour., OOTD, sharpieart, sharpiepens, sunglasses, watercolor

glamourpic

Does anyone else feel that adding a pair of beautiful sunnies to any outfit makes you more glam? Sometimes, even when I am dressed like a slob, I put on my Dior tortoise shell sunglasses and feel like a movie star.

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Snacking and Talking

03 Monday Nov 2014

Posted by Ray in Art, Illustration

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#food, #illustration, #singapore, blackandwhite, chatting, funny, people, sharpieart, sharpiepens, singaporeartist, snacking, snacks

talking

Snacking and talking. Talking about snacking. Snacking while talking.

All good things, in my opinion.

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Friday Goodwill

31 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Ray in Art, Food, Illustration

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#illustration, artblog, artists, blackandwhite, coffee, fridayfun, monday, sharpieart, sharpiepens, sketchbook, watercolor, writing

fridays

May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short.

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Good Old Edward ScissorTongue

20 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Ray in Art, Illustration

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#illustration, sharpieart, sharpiepens, watercolor

Scissortongueblog

I love people who have a very low tolerance for BS, people who say it like it is, people who aren’t always worried about being politically correct.

Good old Edward Scissortongues, basically. Not to be confused with Mean Marys or Nasty Nellys, of course.

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