When you live in a guest house, you meet all sorts of people from different backgrounds.  The best is when you discover people with interesting skills… like my housemate. My housemate is an amateur, almost professional photographer. He made us discover light painting , something I didn’t know it existed until last week. Pretty much is this:

You paint or draw with lights and it is not that difficult. Everybody can do light painting , All you need is…

1. A camera that can hold long exposures and perhaps a tripod. Yes, my housemate has a super camera, but you can do it with non-professional cameras as well.

2 A dark room. Well yea, we don’t  have a dark room, we just closed all curtains in our living room  and it was late evening:)

3. Flashlights! Color flashlights. The more colors you find, the more creative you will get

4. A model, at least 2 people. One that paints and one that takes the picture.

Once you get all these things, you can start creating. So how did we do it…Well, it depends what you want to do. If you want to do something like the picture here, you have to ask the model to not move at all. Then a second person has to move around the model with a flashlight, drawing around the person. Now this second person has to move fast enought to not appear in the picture, but not so fast to actually make a figure with lights.

See the picture below:

There actually two guys in this picture: one with a red flashlight and one with a white one. They moved fast enough to make different faces, but stopped a few seconds in an specific spot to make scary faces 🙂 Notice we forgot to close the curtains, but we managed to have the picture anyway.

In this picture there are two drawing around a model who doesn’t move at all. I actually appear in the picture (left). I have the red flashlight and I didn’t move fast enough, so I do appear in the picture a little bit.

Now, you don’t necessarily need models for you pictures, you just need yourself to move fast while drawing and you can get this:

Well, the picture above was made by my housemate who is a professional illustrator, so if you don’t get this the first time, keep practicing 🙂

In this picture ” I love Tokyo”, we were two to draw : I was with the red flashlight and my housemate was with the white flashlight. We managed to not appear in the picture 😛

I hope this gives you ideas of how to spend a rainy sunday evening indoors ! Enjoy drawing!