Changi Beach is a half or full-day outing for locals in Singapore. It’s not the most accessible, having to take a long winding bus ride through Changi in order to get there. Dubbed as the armpit of Singapore by friends, visually one can see why it’s described as such.
I try to tick off as much as I can on a to-do checklist when hanging around in Changi Beach - either for food, exercise, loafing around the shoreline or people watching. It’s a quaint, relatively quiet area where buildings are built low due to the ever bustling Changi Airport being close by.
My aim for the day was to wander around and catch some interesting outdoor sketches. Many people were there on their own agendas - fishing, jogging and having a picnic out along the coastline. Capturing moving people is usually never easy. But today’s focus is also trying to figure out how to make a horizontal, spacious beach look “interesting”!
Often, I enjoy adding multiple drawings into a single page - this helps me to create more diversity and theme within the same space and informs the viewers on what is the visual interest when sketching. Aside from these sketches, many hours were also spent watching fat pigeons moving in circles, ocean waves, ships and fluffy clouds passing across the horizon. It was a chill way to spend the day, yet feeling satisfactory about the sketches that I have worked on in that little pocket of time.
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