{"id":7421,"date":"2014-12-30T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:00:22","slug":"urban-sketching-non-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/urban-sketching-non-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing scenes from the city \u2013 the old fashioned way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reporters: Angel Liu, Stella Tsang, Yan Li<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor: Tracy Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114738335\" height=\"331\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has never been easier to capture scenes from the city with an array of digital devices. But even in the age of smartphones and numerous apps to shoot, edit and share still and moving images, there are some people who prefer to use non-digital means to record Hong Kong\u2019s history and daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Ric Tse works in property management and is a freelance photographer in his spare time. Apart from taking conventional photographs of scenes and events, he prefers to recreate them, with Lego bricks, before taking pictures of them. Tse\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/rictse.blogspot.hk\/p\/legography.html\">Legography<\/a> series includes such iconic scenes as the annual Hong Kong marathon and June 4<sup>th<\/sup> candlelit vigil. The works, combining 3D tableaux and 2D photographs have been a hit. So far, he has created around 30 pieces, through which he hopes people can look at the city from the perspective of children. Tse held his first art exhibition at Picture This Gallery in November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from recreating three dimensional scenes, there are also artists observing and documenting the city through drawing and painting.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Sim\u00f5es, a Portuguese Illustrator, started his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsketchingtour.com\/\">World Sketching Project<\/a> in March 2012. He planned to visit five continents in five years, sketching \u00a0the places he visits and the people he encounters. He has already travelled to 29 countries and made more than 1,000 sketches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea started after I realised I don\u2019t want to be too materialistic.\u201d Says Simoes\u201cI wanted to explore some countries, to explore my art and try to be more like an artist.\u201d So he quit his job as a motion designer and lifted up his backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Simoes has spent ten \u00a0months in Hong Kong, and likes the contrast between urban life and nature in the city. Scenes from the Umbrella Movement have given him plenty of subject matter to sketch.<\/p>\n<p>For local artist Gary Yeung, urban sketching is more reproducing \u00a0reality in pretty watercolours. As a Hongkonger born and bred , Yeung has always been attached to the territory\u2019s idyllic charms, a side of Hong Kong he finds gradually receding due to rapid development. By using his brush, Yeung becomes a historian, documenting the city\u2019s long-standing buildings and communities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Gary Yeung co-founded Urban Sketchers Hong Kong with a few other illustrators, and they started to meet regularly to recordcityscapes in different parts of Hong Kong. When the \u00a0Occupy Movement got underway, Yeung felt the group was playing another role as well\u201cSince Occupy Central started, as urban sketchers, my friends and I became aware of another role we\u2019ve been playing in recent months. We have in fact been reporting. We\u2019re not just sketching, but sketch reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeung says, urban sketching is always about human life. \u201cThere are many shops in a street, but without humans, there\u2019s no life\u2026 People are in action. And we are sketching actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114738336\" height=\"331\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of the ubiquitous smartphone and digital camera, Varsity meets the artists who prefer to capture urban scenes using non-digital means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,1789],"tags":[57,67,65],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hong-kong-life","category-multimedia","category-multimedia-december-2014","tag-art","tag-community","tag-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}