I once heard of a friend told me “I want to paint like you”. While I was utterly flattered and honored, I felt obligated to tell my friend that there’s no short cut to this. Every week when I type up a new blog post, I try to come up with easy to follow tips to improve your painting. However, there’s something I simply can’t teach you in a short blog post or lesson – Fundamental.
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Most of things in this painting are done in very few washs
Focus on doing it right, not how to fix it later
Students quite often came to me and asked, “How do I fix this?” I usually only have one answer to this dreadful question, “leave it, start a new one” I don’t want to be rude or unwilling to help, but my fear is that they caught up by all the different ways to fix their finished painting instead of doing it right in the beginning.
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Our work and our life should be equally inspiring. If people compliment on my artwork but unimpressed by the type of person I am, then I will not consider myself a successful artist. To be an artist is an incredible privilege, let us take up the responsibility on showing the world what does it mean to be an artist!
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Oceanside, San Diego
Visual Language
in Technique
What is visual language. Let’s break the term apart first. Visual is what you see. Language is a form of communication, either speak or written. Simply put, visual language is to communicate with the viewer by what you show them. In this case, it is your painting. Since my day job is working on sci-fi video game. Visual language becomes very important, because even though we are creating futuristic looking environment, objects and characters. The players need to get what are they seeing in the game, and they need to get it in an instant!
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