Being affected by gatchaman the movie...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Artist Highlight: Xiao Bai Master Illustrator of Oriental Beauty
Beauty as her art. Introducing Xiao Bai, the master illustrator of Oriental beauty and body art from China. She has an uncanny ability for fusing body art (tattoo) and feminime beauty into her most of illustration art. This is some part of the interview with POPCORN magazine, which she shared some of her side view on how to be a good artist, hopefully it is inspiring as it was inspiring me.
Beautiful maidens, tatoo and all things Orient seems to be reoccuring in your work, Why is that?
I just prefer to combine elements that I like and interest me into my works. My father is a calligrapher and it is because of his influence that I've nurtured an appreciation for Chinese culture. I've studied fine brush painting for a couple of years and it so happens that there aren't many Illustrator within China that use this particular style.
What do you enjoy drawing?And on that note, what do you dislike drawing? And why?
I love drawing beautiful girls, flowers and plants. I consider them a feast for the eyes! On the other hand, I'm not too keen on drawing for commercial purposes in order to suit the masses. I find that doing that puts a constraint on my ideas and the illustrations go through too many changes that it becomes unrecognisable.
Can you tell us a little about your collaboration on the online game JX3?
The collaboration was pretty straightforward. It just happened that the Art director of JX3 was a senior whom I respected very much in school.
You mentioned that you don't enjoy producing Illustrations for commercial purposes. How did you manage to reach an agreement with the company for this project?
When the JX3 Art Director tasked me with the duty of character designing, his only request is that the characters factions should be easily distinguishable. But, other than that, he didn't limit my ideas and allowed me free rein in the creation of the character based on my own interpretations. With so much creative freedom, it was very easy for me to accept this job.
Will you draw muscular men with tattoos?
Yes, but only rarely. Muscular men are beyond my realm of expertise.
Which part of the drawing process do you found most challenging?
To find that breakthrough for inspiration. While I hope to retain my artistic style in my work, I would also like to introduce and try out new elements in every piece. Whether they are sough sketches, coloring or even new artistic interpretations, as long as it is something that can make me feel that I've made a satisfactory improvement.
In this highly competitive market, what does one need to do to ensure their work stands out?
I supposed it is important for an artist to posses an individual artistic style. For me, I did not put myself in the competitive market and just stuck to drawing the things that I'm interested in to satisfy myself. When I first started, I never treated my illustrations as commodities and was honored that my work was being appreciated by others... which is something beyond my expectations.
More on her blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/wanmeishala1219
How would you describe your artistic style? Chinese feminime beauty. Hee!
Beautiful maidens, tatoo and all things Orient seems to be reoccuring in your work, Why is that?
I just prefer to combine elements that I like and interest me into my works. My father is a calligrapher and it is because of his influence that I've nurtured an appreciation for Chinese culture. I've studied fine brush painting for a couple of years and it so happens that there aren't many Illustrator within China that use this particular style.
I love drawing beautiful girls, flowers and plants. I consider them a feast for the eyes! On the other hand, I'm not too keen on drawing for commercial purposes in order to suit the masses. I find that doing that puts a constraint on my ideas and the illustrations go through too many changes that it becomes unrecognisable.
The collaboration was pretty straightforward. It just happened that the Art director of JX3 was a senior whom I respected very much in school.
You mentioned that you don't enjoy producing Illustrations for commercial purposes. How did you manage to reach an agreement with the company for this project?
When the JX3 Art Director tasked me with the duty of character designing, his only request is that the characters factions should be easily distinguishable. But, other than that, he didn't limit my ideas and allowed me free rein in the creation of the character based on my own interpretations. With so much creative freedom, it was very easy for me to accept this job.
Will you draw muscular men with tattoos?
Yes, but only rarely. Muscular men are beyond my realm of expertise.
Which part of the drawing process do you found most challenging?
To find that breakthrough for inspiration. While I hope to retain my artistic style in my work, I would also like to introduce and try out new elements in every piece. Whether they are sough sketches, coloring or even new artistic interpretations, as long as it is something that can make me feel that I've made a satisfactory improvement.
In this highly competitive market, what does one need to do to ensure their work stands out?
I supposed it is important for an artist to posses an individual artistic style. For me, I did not put myself in the competitive market and just stuck to drawing the things that I'm interested in to satisfy myself. When I first started, I never treated my illustrations as commodities and was honored that my work was being appreciated by others... which is something beyond my expectations.
In your opinion, what do illustrators have to do to build up their artistic style?
I believe that locking yourself up is the biggest inspiration killer. Pay more attention to the things and culture that you enjoy as it will assist you in forming your own appreciation of beauty and help the development of your own artistic style.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Tutorial 1.0: The Making of Barong Dragon
No.1: Sketching
No.2: Decide the dominant color of your art, or called it as your
base color. I choose red because I want to create the hellish kind of feel.
And then put the base color of your character or whatsoever,
The details can do later part.
No.3: Opps... I forgot to tell you my brush setting. Nothing fancy actually,
I only use the normal brush with the opacity around 60 to 70% to make it
blend with other color, flow is used to create some feather around the brushes, you can adjust whatever you like.
No.4: This is the fun part, creating the detail.
After you have done with the base color, just using the Smudge Tool, used it like when your art teacher ask you to draw something with pencil. You want to make a smooth gradient effect, but you are to lazy to used pencil so you used your hand to make it gradient.
For the brush you can use the same setting, the smudge tool is used to blend one color with another color, so it would create a gradient effect by combining two or three colors.
I used a Calligraphic brushes for the fur in the monster shoulder as it shown in the picture above to make the corner fur looks sharp.
Adding some detail here and there and whoallaa... my first digital art is done. Quiet some experience. Need to learn more, sorry if there's maybe some theory of digital painting that I didn't follow, I just learn it myself :P
Artbook Review 4.2: The Art of Tekkonkinkreet (White)
This is the white version. The book is thicker that the black version and it contain all the breathtaking background in full color, I think they really make the whole town of Neo Tokyo in the movie and they compile it in this artbook. This is the bible for all background artist. Okay maybe I'm to exaggerated. But I'm fully recommend this book to everyone.
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