Sketching the vibrant details : Thean Hou Temple live sketching [Timelapse]

Last weekends was quite a laidback holiday as i was just home doing some errands and suddenly got a call from @choiko82, inviting me to come to sketch at a chinese temple in KL where he was at. He said that he was curious and he wants to see how i would interpret the scene into my sketching...so i thought yeah, why not? How hard would it be anyway right?

and so i went there at the Thean Hou Temple...

...and little that i know..

...the place is super populated with AMAZING DETAILS...

it was sooooo detailed i dont event know how to start. O_O

So i thought theres a nice place to sit and sketch and it offers a nice-but so-hard-to-sketch ambiance with the lots of hanging lanterns with their shadows casted on the floor i thought would be a nice challenge.

When i recce around the place i found an unused table near a storage area. I thought to really embrace this challenge, i need the right comfortable setting to work with so we pulled the table shamelessly to the sitting area with a promise to put it back later. lol.

And so this is where we decided to sketch with this view;

and so i did took my time for about 1 hour sketching the scene on a Fabriano 300gsm Rough Surface Cold Pressed Watercolour paper with watercolour and a fountain pen with waterproof carbon ink.

Although i felt like giving up halfway because it seems like not turning out fine at first, but i kept on going and im glad i did. :)

@choiko82 took a more 'coward' move to just make it black and white...hahaha :P