Eat & Draw Local to Win a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 for #ProjectRESGIcons

12 Mar, 2015 Update: Congratulations to Adelyn Khoo Wei Ting! You are the winner for this giveaway and we will be contacting you via email on the prize collection details. 

Submitted on 2015/02/23 at 1:32 am Hi Alvinology, Interesting post! I would like to rediscover the iconic Mustafa Centre. Every time I hear of my overseas friends talking about Singapore, they would never fail to mention late-night shopping at Mustafa Centre. But I don’t like to go there much due to the large crowds, so this is a good opportunity for me to rediscover the good points of Mustafa Centre. 🙂 Then, I can recommend more of my overseas friends to go there too! 🙂 Liked and shared on Facebook (adelynkhoowt). #AlvinologyLenovo #ProjectRESGIcons Cheers Adelyn

Last week, I was tagged by my friend, Ai Sakura, to accept the #ProjectRESGIcons challenge. I accept the challenge and here is my attempt at documenting Singapore’s culinary heritage in a fun and educational way together with my son, Asher.

As part of the#ProjectRESGIcons challenge, the task is to look at some of the familiar icons in Singapore and see if I can create something new from it – REdiscover, REimagine and REcreate something with Singapore’s icons that has helped to make it what it is today.

For my challenge, I used the Lenovo Yoga Tablet to snap photos of culinary delights around the island and then transform them into digital sketches together with my son Asher.

Long time readers of this blog will know that I used to harbour ambitions to become a full-time artist. Check out some of my old artworks on deviantart or this other blog.

I still draw casually now and then. When the Draw Something game was trending globally, it was one of the few online games which I played fervently to show off my speed drawing skills on a digital screen.

Digital sketches are really fun. All I need is my Lenovo Yoga Tablet and my fingers. That’s it! No messy paint tubes or dirty brushes.

Here’s how to go about it, step-by-step.

1. Download a drawing app (I would recommend SketchBook by Autodesk – it’s free and pretty awesome)

2. Snap a photo of an awesome local dish

3. Import the photo into the app as the bottom layer

4. Create a new layer and draw on top of the photo

5. When drawing, start with the bottom colours first and work upwards for best effects – eg. colour the plate first before colouring the food on top of it.

6. That’s it! Even a little boy like Asher can learn to do this and have fun learning about our culinary heritage along the way!

At first, the sketches may look like this:

It will take a while to get the the hang of it, but once you start, you can’t stop because it is really fun and easy-to-do. So easy you can do it together with your little ones.

Here are four dishes found in Singapore which I did quick sketches (no more than 5 minute per sketch) on:

Can you guess what they are?

Here are the original photos:

The Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 is perfect for digital drawing on-the-go. The shape is built to allow us to use it in four different ways – Stand, Tilt, Hold and Hang. Find the angle most comfortable to you for drawing. I like to Tilt it this way:

The battery life is really awesome, lasting up to 18 hours without charging. You can sit by the sea for the whole day to draw the scenery and not be worried about the battery going flat!

The camera feature is pretty nifty as you can see from the shots above. There is also a rear camera, which boasts an f2.2 wide-aperture lens, advanced glare-reducing glass, and a BSI 2 sensor.

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Just like my friend Ai Sakura, I had so much fun using the tablet for my #ProjectRESGIcons challenge that just for my readers and friends, I’ve ONE Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 10″ {Android} worth S$599 to giveaway! For full product information, visit the Lenovo Singapore website.

1. Be a Lenovo Singapore Facbook page fan

2. Be a Alvinology Facebook page fan

3. Like & Share this post with the hashtags, #AlvinologyLenovo and#ProjectRESGIcons on Facebook and tag a friend. Make sure your post is public so I can find it!

4. Leave me a blog comment telling me which Singapore icon you want to rediscover & why + FB name you used to like the pages.

Details:
* Open to Singapore residents only.
* Ends Sunday, 22 Feb 2015 2359hrs {Singapore time} 
* Incomplete or inappropriate entries will be deemed invalid and will not be included.
* Winner will be notified via email with further instructions on how to collect prize. Winner have 2 days to reply, or the prize will be redrawn.
* Alvinology is not responsible for any prizes lost, damaged or misplaced in delivery.