Gmruleme, thank you.

I'm still undergoing training, not officially working yet. But I have been lucky to get some freelance design jobs like business name card designs, book cover, product packaging illustration (local), and comic artwork commissions from overseas.

There is still so much more for me to learn. ^^

Chinese romance novel cover illustration painting technique class exercise.

Utilizing masking technique and applying watercolour texture.

COOL...using photoshop? and u start digital coloring now? or ive been missing out

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Added on December 18, 2011, 10:42 pmbtw ,how ti apply in digital art? ive never use masking so far when im practicing,perhaps u can shed some light

This post has been edited by H4XF4XTOR: Dec 18 2011, 10:42 PM

Yes, Photoshop. I'm taking classes by professionals now. Previously, I was kind of like groping in the dark by myself. ^^

In statue painting and I suppose also in traditional airbrushing, masking literally putting strips of tape on your artwork to cover it, so that you only paint the parts you want.

But here, masking in Photoshop means that you create a layer, and click on create mask, and putting your foreground and background colours to black and white respectively. Click on the mask icon in the layer, and paint over the parts you don't want. For example, if I have a photo of ZhangZhiYi, I will mask and paint out her background. If I make a mistake, I switch foreground to white, and paint again, and the background will come back. Masking is a safe-method, because anytime you make mistakes, you can recover instead of using eraser tool.

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Dec 18 2011, 10:51 PM

owh i see... quite saving than just erasing is it? thanks . i get the idea ...will try it out .
is this some sort of private class or under courses.. sounds interesting

yeah masking is definitely a nice way to paint sumtimes..can just use black and white to hide and show things anytime..

btw, it looks like clazroom style..are u with them now?

I'm learning at ClazRoom, Damansara Perdana. They offer various courses to suit your needs and timetable. From short holiday courses, to short monthly courses and full time courses. Apart from teaching digital illustration and painting, you can also learn other things like character and concept design, 3D design and animation, and even traditional art like oil painting.

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Added on December 18, 2011, 11:02 pmYes, I'm learning at ClazRoom and I'm so glad I found them. ^^
We are learning famous Taiwanese artist Der Jen's techniques at painting fair Asian maidens. My next class will be painting a classic Chinese maiden in olden traditional costume, a qipao, the kind worn by people of the royal court or even an empress.

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Dec 18 2011, 11:07 PM

wow,im jelly with you.....
perhaps later you can share some knowledge about it

aww..so nice..i wish i could learn too

Clazroom is like normal college or just a special class?

its more to like a studio that offer variety of courses..and the founder is actually grad from TOA and ex-lecturer from TOA. =)

http://www.clazroom.com/

Supergirl drawing.
ARtblock then edited with Photoshop.
Draft.
Intend to put her new rebooted costume on her. Will shorten hair as that is how she looks now in the comics.

found this vid..its really useful! (in chinese)

by clazroom..

see how they paint a super realisitic portrait.

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Added on December 23, 2011, 10:47 ampaint her!

This post has been edited by inachi: Dec 23 2011, 10:47 AM

Yeah, I'm going to paint her and I'm very eager to paint pretty girls. Hee hee. But first, I have to finish my class exercise of Classic Chinese Maiden.

For my exercise, I used the popular Beijing actress Yang Mi's face who shot to fame in 2011 with the HK/China drama called "Gong" /Palace set in the Qing dynasty. She's only 25 and already so famous. I think her face was also used on one of those China made online fantasy games set in medieval times promotional poster. In Gong, she plays a modern day girl who fickle somehow travelled back in time by accident to ancient China and lived in the royal court. Through all the hardship and evil political schemes she endured, she learned to cherish what is valuable in life. She also overcame many obstacles and dangerous situations during her time in the "past" by using her scientific knowledge of the future/modern world.



This is one of her photos.

The one I used is another and superimposed on a different yellow empress/princess qipao.

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Dec 23 2011, 11:50 AM

holly molly, i love your akuma. If add old paper behind damn nice

see the sample.


i put watermark just in case someone stole.


Chun li not so nice la. maybe her eye not so charming. hahaha

Haha, thanks Shinkawa. I checked out your website to pick up some new otaku knowledge. I'm more of a Western comics guy. But I grew up reading Hong Kong Jademan comics/DragonBallZ and Japanese manga as well.

Yeah, Akuma is one of my favourite works. To do the illustration, I listened to all the Akuma theme music I could get from his classic SFZ2 theme to SF4. But the one I listened the most to get into Akuma's spirit was his roof-top intro from Capcom VS SNK2 and Shin Akuma's theme from CVS2.

I plan to try again with Chun Li with different technique and different eyes. ^^

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Dec 23 2011, 12:07 PM

I edited the face a bit more.
Previously, the eyes seemed a little bit further apart. Standard is "one eye" apart from each other.
Modified hair.
The previous one seemed like she had a bump on the head...that was because I was following the look of the Kotobukiya Supergirl statue.
Fixed eyes...pupils are bigger now.
Added more shadows and greyscale tones plus highlights to the lips.




Kara close up.


I better get back to my painting homework and leave Supergirl alone.

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Dec 23 2011, 05:01 PM

nice=)))) but mayb u can still refine her right thigh a bit..it looks "meatless" haha..

Ya, I'm gonna fix that(her thigh) and there are other things I want to continue fixing. ^^

Superman commission inked.

This post has been edited by demonhunter360: Jan 8 2012, 08:39 PM