Having fun with conte!

Here are more from life drawing class this past week..As I was drawing these, my main objective was to just simply have fun drawing with the conte by using different edges from really soft to hard.
I've just been so uptight with my self lately with work and other projects.I needed to get loose and draw more intuitively--I find that there's more ease and pleasure when you draw without worries :) and still keeping in mind of the fundamental structure of what you're drawing.
But really I think if its practiced more often, those fundamentals will just flow out of you more naturally, because its already embedded in your technique and methods..hope that makes sense.
These are from 1 min to 10 mins...

I've also started getting back into painting with gouaches and will post those soon :)


<3 Kei

from lifedrawing...

Hi!

Bobby's been bugging me to post some life drawings so here are some..(Thanks Bobby!)
These are actually from last year but I'll post some newer ones soon when I get the chance to scan them all :) Its just been so crazy these past weeks!

<3 Kei

Life drawings Part II, Schoolism and Sketchcrawl in Toronto!

Schoolism update:
Caricature with Jason Seiler - Oct 31, 2008
Storyboarding with Kris Pearn - Nov 25, 2008
Character Design by Stephen Silver - Jan 5, 2009
Digital painting with me - Full
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Kei and I are going to attend the Toronto chapter of the Sketch Crawl on Saturday Oct 25th! We're going to be meeting at the Metro Toronto Zoo for the day! Come on out if you're in the area! There's going to be a whole bunch of us going. We're meeting at 12:15pm Oct 25th.
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Here's a few more life drawings of a couple of my favorite models - Shell & Ina.
Some are good, some are not so good but I liked a part of the drawing. Today was an 'open session' which means no instruction today but if a student needed some guidance then I'm there. Otherwise, I'm just doing my own drawing and people could come and watch if they wish.













Some more links!
Alex Chechik
David Hwang
Kevin Yan
Matt Lau

Life drawings

Here's some recent life drawings I did. My lessons for the class was it's important to be comfortable thinking and expressing what you see in different ways. Practice to think on all sorts of different levels (tones, structure, texture..etc) and you will paint/draw faster and with more ease. So these are some examples of different approaches, concentrating on different things.

Life drawings and interviews.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the good people at Lines and Colors featured me on their blog.

Also, 'It's art magazine' posted up an interview I did with them. The interview was from a while back but hasn't been posted until now. Check it out HERE

Here's some quick and loose digital paintings from life drawing class this week. 2 more weeks of school at Sheridan college... I'm sure going to miss this class :(

Life Drawings and Wondercon Feb 22-24!

Hi everyone,

Every week, I've been tagging along with Bobby to his life drawing classes here at Sheridan College, and currently they are focusing on costumes. Here are some from this week that were really fun to draw. Hope you enjoy!

These range from 2 - 10 mins.
18 x 24 in, pastel and conte on manila paper and newsprint








Also an announcement for those in the San Francisco area...
Bobby Chiu, Thierry Lafontaine, Stephen Silver and I will be in San Francisco February 22-24 for the Wondercon. Bobby, Thierry and I will be sitting at tables AA93-95. I'm sharing my table with Bill Presing. Love his work!
Hope to see you there!

Kei

lifedrawings from Bobby's class..

Every so often, I would try to tag along with Bobby to his life drawing classes at Sheridan College for some good ol practice. I love the energy of his classes, from both him and his students-- its a really calming place for me. So here are some from the other day that I'd like to share, of this very petit Hawaiian lady.

These were done in manila paper, 18 x 24 inches, with some conte.

Lifedrawing at Seneca College

Today we went to Seneca College @ York U for lifedrawing. It was so much fun! I've been to lifedrawing pretty frequently recently but mostly just to teach so it was a great change to do some of my own studies. I brought my tablet pc to do some digital painting.
We had a wonderful model named Gay.
Here are some quick studies...
15-20min


5min
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5min
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Here's some amazing links!


William Wray Aka. Bill Wray
Bill Wray Aka. William Wray
Torsten Schrank
Daniela Strijleva
Justin Wright
Carlos Ruano
Joshua James
Annette Marnat
Florian Satzinger
Luc Desmarchelier

Schoolism - Digital Painting Classes start on Jan 3, 2008

Hi all,

My Schoolism January class is now open for registration.

Course: Digital Painting Techniques with Bobby Chiu
Start Date: January 3, 2008
Spots available: 15
Duration: 9 weeks, one lesson every week
Personal feedback videos on every assignment
Cost: 798US

Or register for self-taught classes and start anytime.
With Self Taught classes you have access to all the videos (including everyone's feedback videos) but without your own personal feedback.
Cost: 558US

Find out more information HERE

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Now for a much deserved update on the 3rd year animation students in my life drawing class!

I'm a strong believer in the idea that everyone has the ability to become great. With hard work and dedication, just about EVERY student has improved noticeably in the past 8 weeks!

My method is to teach them a new way of fundamental thinking and analyzing every week. They practice it until they can do it too. That's it... it's as easy as that to improve. Continue to learn new things in new ways... new ways of thinking. This gives yourself options on how to approach the things you observe. That's just what I think anyways... either way, it working!

Here's just some of the students that have really been stepping it up!

Letti Lo - Beautiful gesture! Great design as well


Lisa Tao - 5 minute pose. Great job Lisa!


Vivian Lai - excellent job!


I don't remember who did this. No name on it either. It's a great drawing though! Inspired by a pose the model did.


This week we started learning about caricatures. Here's a great one from Alex Haddock!


Please visit the STUDENT BLOG for more of the 3rd year Sheridan Animation students.

Philadelphia Wizard Con June 15-17

Hi everyone!

Paradise Comicon in Toronto is over now. Thanks to all those that came by our booth.
The few people that were there were very friendly so it made up for the lousy attendance.


This weekend we'll be in Philadelphia for the Wizard Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center June 15-17. So if you're in the area, come on by and say hello!

This also means that Subway Sketching will be cancelled this Sunday and will resume the following Sunday.

Art show: Our Imaginism art show will be on June 30th at the Labyrinth in Toronto. We'll be signing books and answering questions as well as displaying tons of original art. Come on down because it's going to be a great event.

Here are some more beautiful links...
Jason Groh
Labyrinth Store - our favorite bookstore in Toronto
Jeff Astolfo

I thought I'd end off this post with some lifedrawing scraps. I'm always interested in seeing people's initial sketches so I thought I'd post some of my own. Here's a page of unfinished lifedrawings I did last week.

See you in Philly!
Bobby

Lifedrawing at TSA

One of the things I love to do and teach is lifedrawing.

Here's a 15min drawing I did last night at TSA in Toronto.

It was done with a Col-erase pencil. Paper is 9x12inches. Then I dropped it into PS to spice it up a bit but the drawing was unaltered.

Bobby

Here's some more must see blogs that I should have linked long ago.

It's great to see more talented studios in Toronto.
Check out House of Cool

Life drawing junkie and one of the best blogs
to find news and other random stuff about
the animation industry Alan Cook

A friend of mine I haven't talked to
for much too long. Robin Joseph

Amazing animal designer! Andrew Shek

Super talent - Bill Presing

Links and Life Drawing

Here's a little lifedrawing I did yesterday in class on my tablet PC. The great thing about digital lifedrawings are that you can strip away the layers and see all the steps!

Bobby



And here's some more links!
Gabriele Pennacchioli
Joel Trussell
Kristen McCabe
Gary Ham
Martin Wittig
Chris Chua
Mr.Scribbles
Lelis
Kevin Dalton
SMOOK