Peek into the Past.

lol sorry...just cant get the pictures into the right order i wanted them to...-.-The signboard in the picture shows how the signboard of provision shops in the past looks like...which they are mostly or i think all of them are handpainted therefore having this chinese calligraphy kind of font...font done using black marker xD the pail shows an example of the pails where the shopowners of provision shops in the past commonly keep the money for business. the tiny stone attached acts like a weight to pull and keep the bucket up in place (hanging in the air) when not in use and the shopowner can pull the bucket down when they need it (so smart of them :D). we can't really see this nowadays but i saw it before at some fruit stall in a wet market o.O btw sorry for bad scanning skills...

Tikam!! hm wanted to draw this a first but realised that it isn't one of the main points so maybe i should just include it as a reference...btw it is sort of a lucky draw thing played by people in the past...cheaper option than gambling...

The above picture shows how a typical old provision shop looks like...messy, dark, disorganised, sell all sorts of stuffs.

A rice sack (right) and how they sell small packets of spices...by stapling small packets of spices on a piece of large cardboard so whoever wants to buy one packet just pluck it off the board...and they sell rice by the amount the customer wants...the rice sack was the first reseach picture i drew...and the tiny grains of rice was drawn using mechanical pencil coz it is sharper and easier to draw especially when i have to draw grain by grain o.O some lines are left unblended on the surface of the sack to show the rough surface.

Abacus!! how the towkays used to manage their accounts when there is still no computer system or calculator to help them...(and i counted...91 beads to shade haha took me quite a while...

A kerosene lamp. just did it today...the coloured parts are done with pastels and the rest are pencils...realised i can draw faster in pencil now after so many pictures to practise with over the past few weeks :D quite satisfied with this though...my first time fiddling with pastels.

Those kind of mechanical weighing scale normally seen around...think the circle containing the calibrated part is seriously not round enough...looks like a distorted circle but rawrrrrr cant get the circle round even though i tried to...=(

haha ok thats all for the past time :D