02-15-2014, 06:27 PM
Hi Will,
to answer your question I didn't go alone. My girlfriend and I had the plan to go to South East Asia for a long time but she had a job and I had an internship so we couldn't go. But then she decided to quit her job and go to university again. So when my internship got to an end and my company still hadn't told me if they wanted to keep me, we booked tickets and hostels and made plans with our "lonely planet". We booked pretty long before the actual trip so the flight was not very expensive (relatively speaking). We had clothes for 2 weeks, some medicine, but since we didn't want to sleep in a tent, we had no tent or sleeping bags with us. so the luggage wasn't terrible heavy.
when we arrived we soon realized just how easy it is to travel around there. Most of the places are used to tourists and people speak english. so when you arrive somewhere you can without a problem make plans how to get to next place and book train or bustickets etc.
we travelled mostly at night, so we didnt loose a day. In thailand and vietnam there are quite comfortable sleeping trains. I wouldn't recommend the busses though, they are not really comfortable plus in vietnam the times we took the bus the driver was driving like a crazy person. Honking all the time and cuzzing at the other cars. But other than that it is really no problem to get around.
And like I said I drew in a sketchbook and made water color studies so I learned new stuff.
I hope this shed some light on the whole matter.
on an different note I really like the study of the laying man, especially the part where is stomach and his mons pubis meet, I think the rendering there is really good. and your monster portrait is cool, but for me the teeth look a bit to similar and parallel, I think it would gain from having those a bit more different.
Other than that I love it :)
Cheers,
Flo
to answer your question I didn't go alone. My girlfriend and I had the plan to go to South East Asia for a long time but she had a job and I had an internship so we couldn't go. But then she decided to quit her job and go to university again. So when my internship got to an end and my company still hadn't told me if they wanted to keep me, we booked tickets and hostels and made plans with our "lonely planet". We booked pretty long before the actual trip so the flight was not very expensive (relatively speaking). We had clothes for 2 weeks, some medicine, but since we didn't want to sleep in a tent, we had no tent or sleeping bags with us. so the luggage wasn't terrible heavy.
when we arrived we soon realized just how easy it is to travel around there. Most of the places are used to tourists and people speak english. so when you arrive somewhere you can without a problem make plans how to get to next place and book train or bustickets etc.
we travelled mostly at night, so we didnt loose a day. In thailand and vietnam there are quite comfortable sleeping trains. I wouldn't recommend the busses though, they are not really comfortable plus in vietnam the times we took the bus the driver was driving like a crazy person. Honking all the time and cuzzing at the other cars. But other than that it is really no problem to get around.
And like I said I drew in a sketchbook and made water color studies so I learned new stuff.
I hope this shed some light on the whole matter.
on an different note I really like the study of the laying man, especially the part where is stomach and his mons pubis meet, I think the rendering there is really good. and your monster portrait is cool, but for me the teeth look a bit to similar and parallel, I think it would gain from having those a bit more different.
Other than that I love it :)
Cheers,
Flo