My age is between 28 to 32.
Oh, when I was 18.....nah.....wouldn't want to be 18 again. Haha.

Chinese romance novel cover illustration painting technique class exercise.

Utilizing masking technique and applying watercolour texture.

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.

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 pm

Yes, 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.