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I attended TechExpo in Auckland over the weekend. I have a new keyboard. It’s mechanical. Brown cherry mx switches. It’s quite large (not good for travelling), but it feels so much better than my previous keyboard. It should help encourage me to write more.

Anyway, here’s the artwork from the techexpo. Some of it is from the event - there was a spot for me to setup at the Wacom booth. I let others have a go with my painting setup. The other drawings (figures) are from Reddit references.

This was drawn preconference. Rick and Morty mentioned at the top. I have no idea why because I don’t see any reference to them in this drawing.

This was drawn by those attending the Wacom booth. I like the cat and the squiggle - it looks like it turns into a signature.

The artist that was at the booth drew this - a portrait and dragon. Impressive - he did it with no reference. My no reference drawings are so much more basic. Oh well.

Circles attached to a range of shapes. Several basic portraits and characters.

Another cute animal drawing. This one looks like a pig. Some drawing of words. Hi Ben, and TK.

Drawing of an old flatmate in a bikini. The foreshorten was excellent - I had to draw it.

Two figures from Reddit. The poses were lying down. Their Reddit Usernames are underneath their figures.

Three figures. Focusing on the shape of the figure. The heads were cutoff so it forced me to focus on other areas.

Spikes.

Two figures. Stepsrcool gets a bonus drawings as I drew the figure reflection from the mirror. Mirrors offer extra practice! It also makes it easier to line things up.

Notes and drawings during the Wacom talk. It was great to meet staff from Wacom. They liked my setup and got a few photos of my setup. They were also good about letting me sit at their booth and draw - I would of left Techexpo much earlier if I couldn’t do this.

explained to friends accounting 101 - ad ade ler. This was drawn to explain it.

wiggle arms

the centre item stands out due to the different color.

claws.

feel stars. life drawing. it’s been awhile since I’ve drawn something like this.

feet are often ignored. it’s excellent practice.

it’s called pig teeth because the portrait looks like a pig.

landscape. water in foreground. hills in background. spike circle monster in the skys.

quick sketches of full multiply figures. working quickly and not worrying about mistakes.

drawing a character. flowers and spikes. The head is getting especially spiky.

a few portraits, including studies from the front and side.

sharp spiky teeth. water everywhere.

robot in black, landscape in red

doodles. i have my tft screen working again.

portrait in centre.

portrait of jasmine. face is a bit crocked.

second portrait. wasn’t happy with the shape of the first.

portrait from a video blockchain nz. In the background, cogs from the banner.

Character in the center with no hands. Landscape surrounding it

One of the final sketches from the evening.

Uber price affected by drivers logging off.

Created after govhack. There are talks of New Zealand splitting off from GovHack. I know there are issues, and the name is one of them. GovDev might be a better name. The fact they explain themselves because of the ‘hack’ in the name is not good.

AdamRichardson. Economics: Modelling Team. I like the strips on his tie.

There were certainly more diversity in the Economics team than management. This is Amy Rice. Economics: modelling team. Face is flat - the lighting was not string enough to show dark/light on the skin.

Another Amy. This time: Amy Wood. Economics: Forecast Team. Decided to do blog text. This would make it easier to paint over if I choose to do grayscale/color layers. The 4 suns in the sky have spikes coming out of them.

Anella Monro. Economics: Research Team. More could of been done in the background. The suns look a bit neglected.

Benjamin Wong. Economics: Research Team. Glasses were fun. The 5 suns have small spikes.

Jame Culling. Economics: Policy Analysis Team.

Random sketch of a robot. Similar background to recent works though.

Part two of my Reserve Bank portraits for GovHack. This is the management that I did not finish on the 2nd day of the events. I would like to continue these and draw researchers from RBNZ. This is all the management finished though.

Only two woman are on management. Glasses on this one. The last few portraits wore glasses which was fun to draw. Had issues with the neck but whatever. Beads are a big thing.

More hair than the previous. Caused a cut off of the forehead. Lindsay Jenkin. Head of Human Resources.

Ten suns. I had someone ask me at govhack why there were more than one suns. Fantasy. Mark Perry. His tie had a circle pattern so it matches the suns.

Mike Hannah did not shave this day. Beards are fun to draw though, this one isn’t long though. Head of Communication, Board Secretary.

Mike Wolyncewicz. Nothing on the background. This was the last portrait I drew at govhack so was very tired. He has a great smile. It was a challenge to draw!

Patrick Hoerler. Head of Risk Assessment and Assurance (RAA). Almost no hair so that made it each. Created water and hills but no suns.

I am doing GovHack this weekend. In previous years I worked with Ministry of Education jobs data, and the following general govt jobs. This year I decided to focus on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand website. A redesign for fun.

Bernard Hodgetts. Head of Financial Stability.

skewed head. I ran out of room for the top of his hair.

Geoff Bascand

Graeme Wheeler. Governor.

Grant Spencer. Deputy Govenor and Head of Financial Stability.

Menu ideas. Striping back the main menus. It’s going to be very basic.

Stephen Gordon.

Toby Fiennes. Head of Prudential Supervision. In the background I drew my typical landscape - water, hills, and circle shapes with spikes in the sky.

Reserve Bank New Zealand. Pre Govhack sketch. I may redesign the RBNZ site for govhack.

Manchester Attack victim portrait. Accounting sketching, and more rbnz designs

Phill from the GCHQ and RBNZ sketches

I was going to do the Machine Learning Nanodegree from Udacity but I decided to switch to the Data Analyst. It’s more me. ked at titanic survival data and have written a python script to analyse the data.

Machine Learning. Basics and concepts. Trees, linear regression etc.

Attended Life Drawing Hamilton. The model was Marie. It was my first time drawing her. I have not attending life drawing much since my larger screen broke. It’s much harder with the smaller screen. With the next life drawing I attend I will either use my dell laptop running linux mint or get a new screen for the pi.

knee pose. head twisted to the side. beginning draw background objects.

Started at the toes and worked up. The head is cut off, but that’s ok because it’s the legs that I normally chop. Chair and heater drawn on the right.

Two standing poses. Circles and squiggles surrounding.

Two portraits. The left feels clean and simple. Redrawing and excess of lines for the right.

Sitting front pose. Head is extra long. Drawing of rail and bush behind.

Warm up poses. Portraits and stretching upwards, fingers grasped.

Portrait on the left, the reference was Pepper&Carrot. Random robotic flower humanoids scatted around the page.

Competitive Markets

Explaining consumer behaviour. Two products and choosing what to have.

Coupons. For those that are time rich.

Price discounts. Two part pricing. An example is the cinema - discount price for students.

Efficiency of the market. Producer/Consumer surplus.

pricing strategy. Elastic vs inelastic.

income elasticity of demands.

Cobweb model. Production lag/delay.

externalises

Pricing with market power

supply, demand. price, quantity.

I painting a portrait of the Boston bomber when after it happened. Here’s a quick sketch of Salman Ramedan Abedi.

areas and value

when market fail.

Attended AWS summit Auckland 2017. It was the first time I had attended a AWS conference. It was very heavy vendor based conference - reminded me of HackAkl.

I arrived late and missed the keynote. I also didn’t attend the final session. It was great networking - I got to catch up with a few old faces and meet new ones.

Here is the notes I took during the conference:

The 2nd talk I attended. This was a level 100 : driving Business Outcomes with a Modern Data Architecture. I may of been better to attend the AI or Security talk that was on at the current time. It was still enjoyable.

2nd part of the data talk

The final talk I attended of the day. This was Advanced Continuous Delivery on AWS. Wordpress was used as an example.

IBM did a talk called Developing Your IoT Solutions. It was the only hardware focused talk I attended. One product mentioned was the Intel Commute stick. This is similar to a Raspberry Pi.

Pre conference drawing of Phillfromgchq .