Recap of 2011

Selected work in 2011. Hope I can get much much better in the new year!

Color Paintings

Faces are hard as usual...

Value Studies 45min

45min studies with different brush, might go for 30min ones next time

Value Study: Horse & Jockey

Movie Screenshots: 星を追う子ども

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Very nice colors

Movie Screenshots: Assassin's Creed: Lineage

Movie Screenshots: Apocalypto

Animal Value Studies

Low contrast ones are hard to paint...
Included a WIP video for the frog/ toad study:

Question: Smart Learning...How?

I do not know why I drew all these as well...
My first post not to post some work and actually ask a question: How to learn things the smart way? This is not a post to list the different ways of learning things, but to ask you what & how do you define learning things smartly. I have been told learning smartly is to learn with the objectives in mind... but how? Any examples? Or that the smartest way to learn is to practice more? 

I would hope to get some input thru the post comments (If you have read up to this sentence, please make a point to leave a comment on this topic, thanks), be it personal opinion or that you feel this post is ridiculously retarded...

 I guess that you might see this post first on the posts listings, take up to a minute to think first, then leave your comments.

Value Studies

Probably looks better when it's smaller scale... tortoise's shell leveled too bright...

In my head

Hue Test

The Munsel Hue Test
Try out this hue test, quite hard... got a score of 35. Hope can improve the score later on!

Random Practice

Playing with custom brushes

Faces in value [100th post!]

Needa train my value...

Male Face [Updated]

Updated with some minor changes, more practice needed!

Screenshots: Tekken Blood Vengeance (2011)

Quite surprised with the rather fluid animations. Nice, recommend to watch, though I don;t play Tekken and don't understand why they can transform...
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Some character designs, luv the soldier design.
Prop & Environment designs
Forgot to add this girl in hot action~!!

Female Face

Followed a tutorial, almost vomited blood... a few hours' work, not perfect yet...

Screenshots: Skyrim

Been adventuring in Skyrim for the past few days... Got a few screenshots of some of the designs ( unclear, taken with my handphone, ran on the crappy laptop), well... who plays game w/o looking at the cool designs :)
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[1] Paarthurnax   [2-3] Typical Dragon   [4-5] Dragon 'Shrines'   [6] Sky Haven Temple   [7-8] Markarth City   
[9] Dragon Bone Bridge   

[All] Dwarven dungeon in Mzult, I like it!

[1-4] Mzult Environment   [5] Enemy dispenser   [6] Lighting   [7] Chest

Overall the game more or less still follows the 'formula' from Oblivion, but less repetitive and much more interesting. However, I like the designs in Skyrim, would love to get my hands on the art book, but it's kinda expensive... Anyone deciding to sell the art book may contact me :)

Halo Space Viking

Missed the deadline...

DK Animal is back

Just discovered an updated edition has been published in September:
Product page from DK | Amazon

1 Hour Practice

Color didn't went well, so changed to monotone

Steampunk Lingerie

Mini project at the7guys :)

Screenshots: 暗黑骑士铠传 KIBA

Some screenshots of some nice character silhouettes and designs

Screenshots from Conan: The Barbarian (2011)

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Automaton Arena

Arena fighting action! Somehow has the 'Big Daddy' feel..

Robot

Robot inspired by Ben's theme: Fighting Automatron... but from Italy~!

Practice from reading "The New Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain"

Found my old practice drawings while reading Betty Edward's "The New Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain"... Some are pretty funny while some are nice, esp. portraits of myself (ahem :D)... Wonder how I can do that 2 years back, don't think I can do that now...

Book list

It has been less than 2 years and my shelf is stuffed with reference books and art books... Before my days at FZD, I dun really have much books, max 10... but now, 1 shelf is occupied, onward!

Building Pixel Art

Thumbnail Stage
Final Version

Recent Artbooks

Read 2 art books that I bought recently:
  • The Art of Alice: Madness Returns - A bit disappointed... with most of the environmental concept being really 'conceptual'... not much stuff to see, although a few nice pieces... Surprisingly that most of the designers are chinese where I originally thought all are ang mohs...

Imperial Ship

Long time since I use textures, but the china building really giving me a hard time... then might as well use some more. These are referenced from my previous designs...the airship looks kinda.... weird???