Samurai: Ink Drawing

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.

Balance

Daily sketch for today.

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...

Fanart

Guess where these characters appeared (without looking on my Deviantart cough cough).

Been stuck in my secret laboratory attempting to fuse the way I draw people in life (cafes, subways), animation projects, and the way I painted. I felt there was too wide of a gap, especially when I force ideal proportions for my painted figures.

"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...

Creepy Santa 2010

I'm making creepy Santa a tradition for me...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The Adventures of Xiao Long

I've been dying to recreate a comic I made in grade 6.

Then I saw what is on the cover and the content inside and decided to tone the concept down...

Maybe I'll revisit this at a later time and be truer to what was actually in it.

Reference:

And just for kicks...

Super Random Character Designs 2 Alpha EX Turbo HD Remix

Dududududu...

Random Character Designs 2

Trying out Richard Anderson's method of character idealization. It feels like I'm carving things out of random shapes which is pretty darn fun.

Random Character Designs

Too much League of Legends lately...

Self-portrait

Old Lady: One Hour Sketchoholic Piece

Just finished with the Sketchoholic session which challenges artists to do a fresh topic in an hour. Haven't done speed paintings in a long time but this kind of got me started again. Hopefully it wouldn't happen at 2 am again...

It didn't win but it really forced me to think economically and forces artists to avoid long winded thinking processes. Excellent practice. Try it out!

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.

Scale and Proportions Assignment: Buddhist Temple

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

Cowboy Life Drawings (last class before holidays)

Structure and I aren't the best of friends...

"Layouts" and Ninja Girl Coloured

I did not know what to do with layout assignment 2 quite honestly, so I did what I thought Komza meant. Hopefully it's close enough...

Samurninja

For those who follow the UFC, I couldn't stop thinking of Shogun's fight last night. The judges must have had Solid Snake stealth because they wouldn't have gotten out the stadium alive otherwise.

The thought kind of led me to doing this for some odd reason. I decided to place many materials of different properties which makes for excellent practice. Initial silhouette is provided as well. I was thinking of placing a dead dragon behind her but this piece is cheesy enough as it is.

EDIT: Woke up and realized how stupidly revealing it was on the leg area. Fixed.

EDIT2: Leather looked like cloth. Cloth looked like leather. Fixed.

The Goliath

This is a character for my upcoming bigger painting. I wanted to experiment with specularity and how much of it is needed in order to show form for metals. The classical test to find the balance between lighting theory and what looks good in art came to play yet again...

Inspired by gorillas and Monster Hunter.