Digital Painting

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Two sketches I did today. I am still working on my portfolio and I need to do more warm ups.

A quick painting of my co-worker. We have founded this Drawing Club at work and it’s a great motivation for me to do sketches and paintings.
Plus I just got a new Cintiq24HD few days ago ~ the painting experience is different and it’s really funnn!!
This is more a warm up piece since I haven’t painted any personal projects for a while XD. I will do more.

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This is another test painting I did a while ago for Disney Publishing for their Monster Inc. children’s book project. 🙂

Here are my recent test paintings I did for Disney Publishing.
I have gained their permissions to include these in my portfolio 🙂

Although it’s in cute animation style but I still need to pay attention on all the reflections…. just remind me of our ex-department chair Scott Robertson’s vis com class @.@ man those details were very time consuming!!!!! (I am so glad that it doesn’t need to be photo real…)

I did have fun doing them though ~ XD

Two background paintings I did for the Spirited Away redesign project 🙂
Trying to be flat and 2D 😛

Here are the process before the final paintings…

Background 01
Value study

Color study (Acrylic)

Final digital painting (Photoshop)

Background 02

Value Study

Final digital painting (Photoshop)

Here is an extra props redesign – herbal bath chips
Inspired by the Japanese family logos.

Another project that I am working on is the story of Mazu, Chinese goddess of the sea.
The story is about Mazu’s childhood as a girl with superpower and how she met her guardians “Thousand Miles Eye (千里眼)” and “With-the-Wind Ear (順風耳)”

This will be developed into short flash animation ….when I have enough time. 😛
Before the animation development this will be in flat and graphic style illustration done with Flash.

Poster/Cover of the story (will revise it after I get my teacher’s feedback)

3 Characters design of the Mazu story

Mazu – childhood

Thousand miles eye

With-the-wind ear

Props and background are still under development.

This is yesterday’s in class painting
my mac was out of space so my photoshop keeps crashing~ that’s why I didn’t get my painting done >

and other parts are just quick block ins =___=

Our instructor used red and green lights as the setting so we had to figure out how to use the colors and how to paint the dark/light sides since the light sides were on both side.

This painting is done with limited palette.
I am only using the colors between orange and blue to paint this.

These three were done with mouse….. very tiring… @@

These are in class live paintings.
We had to bring our laptop, wacom tablet, and folding chair to go to different places to paint every week. It was a fun class (except when we went to a park where has no food and water and even no shading :P)

Brand Library

Descanso Park

Downtown (painted from Chinatown)

Millard Canyon

This assignment is color study for color theory class.
We took photo references of a building in different time and painted both warm and cool versions.