Illustrations with different techniques

After the oil painting class from last term, I decided to try more mediums. So here I was in the illustration technique class at Art Center.

Throughout this course, we learnt how to tell the story through drawings, also learnt to paint with acrylics and watercolor. I wish the instructor could have done more demo during the class though.

Here is the 1st assignment for a German child story that a boy's thumbs were cut off by a tailor as he didn't listen to his mother to stop sucking on his thumbs. He died from bleeding. Creepy story, so is my painting.

Oil Paintings

Finally I moved to paintings!

This terms was for the introductory painting class at the Art Center. We started from black/white only, then moved to the color oils, also from still life to figures. We also did different themes: pale, high contrast, strong light cast, etc.

Work from week 6,

Week 8,

Week 12,

I found it's much more difficult to take a decent picture of an oil painting than drawing. The glories really suck. Hope one day I can find a good scanner to do the digitization work.

Crazy drawing of the head

In the last class of head drawing we were asked to draw like crazy, literally. Anything goes, smudge, loose, strong strokes, etc.. purely expressive.

And here is the result,

My friend hates it, but I like it.

Some Head Drawings

This term I took the head drawing at the Art Center. I love Deni's class, so much fun! I can see my progress every week. What a nice way to spend the summer!

Here are a few works from the class.

A study of the hands. I'm getting good at it.

Afei Reading (without the book)

This term I took the Intermediate Figure drawing class at Art Center. I learnt a lot in this class, with tons of practice, 10 hours class+workshop per week.

The final project was a drawing  I did for Afei. Probably too much line work... Overall I was happy with it, but I should take some head drawing classes soon!

Simple Form

This was a study of light and shadows in the Introduction to Figure Drawing class at Art Center.

Toned paper with charcoal, light, mid-tone, core shadow, reflected light, form shadow and cast shadow.

Figure drawing on toned paper, female torso.

Pre-Journey Story

Well, now think back, everything started from I auditing a drawing class at Caltech in 2011. With little background in drawing, one day during class I asked the course instructor Jim for some tips about how to draw, and he said to me, "Just draw whatever you like, you will be fine. It's too late for you to learn to draw anyway". While I was walking back home that night, I asked myself "is it really too late to do what I love? I wanna see how far I can go from here." A few days later, I enrolled in my first drawing class at The Art Center at Night.

So, my journey began.

(Anyway, here is the painting I finished at the end of the audited drawing class at Caltech. My first painting, sort of.)