Tutoring Outline

Hey, first years and second years.

I have officially become a tutor for 1st year's Intro to Dimensional Drawing and 2nd year's Visual Development: Layout and Painting.

For the 10 hours of tutoring time, I will be discussing primarily on fundamental knowledge on how to approach a painting and theory that transcends media choice and "secret techniques", as every artist will express themselves in different ways. What is discussed will include concept, composition, colour and lighting theory, perspective, and potentially a lot more depending on what you want to know.

Digital painting will be emphasized as the easiest means to show what I will discuss but unfortunately due to circumstances I do not have a portable graphics tablet with me. If anybody wants to use digital media, feel free to bring a tablet with you. I will be showing my process work and never-before-seen paintings and studies I have done. I will also be open to critique any work you may have that you want to show me. My goal is for everyone to come out with newfound knowledge for painting and I assure nobody is going to be left empty-handed.

Thank you! Feel free to add me on Facebook and check me out at Deviantart as well to see more works!

EDIT: Confusing at some bits. I meant digital painting will be emphasized but if a tablet is not available, I can still teach the fundamentals with traditional media.

Kowloon Walled City

Daily sketch (matte painting) of Kowloon Walled City, a city in Hong Kong that was literally a chaotic labyrinth built and "designed" by citizens before the government demolished it.

Like Wizard, Like Pet

Special thanks to Pete Emslie for critiquing my previous version and making it 292389328989 times better. Unfortunately I tried hard to not to copy him but ended up cutting it close anyways...

"The Ravener" Sam Hung Ip

For my drama assignment about a man who lost everything in a Mahjong game and is out for revenge. Original, I know.

I tried to imitate Ashley Wood's style in the Metal Gear Solid comics but I don't think I have the same looseness as him. Maybe that's why he's Ashley Wood and I'm not...

Placeholder Painting

Until I get my other one working, I'm going to use this for my painting assignment 1. It relieves me from the pressure of the deadline at least. Gotta love speed painting...

Expression Change

Time to send this to Disney and get hired immediately!

Hills like White Elephants

A rather risky interpretation, for English class, of Ernest Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants done in 2-3 hours on Photoshop. I wanted to avoid illustrating the story literally as I realized how incredibly boring the illustration might be if all the physical details were depicted accurately.

Merlin's Forest

Top: BG without characters
Mid: BG with the characters

Both painted with Gouache on 9.5x19" cold-pressed watercolour paper. Characters were painted on acetate.

Bottom: Digital sketch

2 Sacks, 1 Cup

Flour Sack from Alexander Chow on Vimeo.

Lots of size fluctuations but I needed to show at least SOME animation this semester.

Diagonal Pan: Escaping the Cloister

Haven't been studying lighting for awhile so I've used this assignment for that purpose. Worked hard on this one to make up for my horrendous novel interior painting assignment (Gouache speed paintings are not a good idea!)

I treated this as if this painting and this layout are from the same story. Does her hair change colour through magic, or are they two different people? Why is she walking on the ledge, risking her life, and not the floor? What other wacky shit will happen in this cathedral?!

Hopefully I did this assignment correctly. It was kind of confusing to understand from the Power Point presentation alone.

Ashitaka's Journey to the West + Process

AKA Why I'm not in Studio Ghibli.

8x14" Gouache on Cold-pressed Watercolour paper

Master Copy from Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke:


Colours based on a screenshot in the movie (I missed that mark by a mile):

Drawing and value scale based on the unmodified version (concept art?) of the above image:
...since the screenshot was too blurry.

Process:


EDIT 03/20/10: The foreground values of the grass annoyed me to no end. Fixed.

EDIT 03/24/10: Clouds were a little blocky. Fixed, though the rendering still doesn't come close to the original.

Still Life Paintings + Process

Top: 6x8"
Bottom: 10x15"
Gouache on Cold-Press Watercolour paper

Wanted to avoid high saturation in these paintings as contrast with my other paintings, so I tried to make a setup mostly with "muddy" colours (resulted in really bad brush work just because I kept tweaking subtle colours). I got the structure and proportion of the beer bottle completely wrong so I hope Maureen isn't a beer drinker.


Setup:



Process:

Ficto Planet + Process

Wanted to avoid the classic yellow->red + blue combination but the 50/50 warm/cool stipulation put me in a bad spot trying to think of more interesting combos. I have to watch out for oversaturated colours when painting on Gouache in the future.

8x14" Gouache on Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper

Process:

Scale and Proportions Assignment: Buddhist Temple

Maybe I can finally start my Pink Panther panned BG...

Pink Panther Walk

Textures

Ball and Tail

Dual Image Paintings

I forgot it was one of the criteria to change the colour palette between the paintings. Though I did that, it is very very slight, enough for Maureen and others to call me out on that. I went with an idea that's more subtle but it is perhaps too subtle for this assignment...

Maureen stated that my palettes are always looking towards the warm side and I agreed completely. Expect paintings during the holidays where I go the opposite direction.

Each is 9x12" Gouache on Cold-press Watercolour paper

Mood Landscape: Hong Kong 2146 A.D.

I think the wonky perspective is way too bothersome but it could be something else that makes me dislike this piece. I don't really know... Some people liked the wackiness of the concept. I wasn't one of them.

Somebody also called me out on the horrendously ugly signatures I put down. I've removed them for my next assignment.

10x15" Gouache on Cold-press Watercolour paper

Detective Fleabottom

Gosh, I suck at creating interesting characters... Bugged Enzo far too much for this one.