NY Early 1900's
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1/28/09
New York city were suddenly abandoned. Empty cars flooded the streets, nature blended with the city, buildings stand in disrepair, and pets wandering about looking for their next meal.
Programs Used: Photoshop
Hours: 20
Lakeway
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12/12/08
I love lonely and deserted worlds. I always have this vision of an ever traveling hero on a vast deserted planet with huge ancient remains of both high and low technology. The hero travels through the vast area of desert and arrives to this isolated lake located in the heart of a mirage. This place is a great relieve for him; he finally gains access to water, protection from the searing sun, and a calm wind to comfort the stress. The walls are built by the ancient civilization to surround this lake and preserve the natural resource.
Rembrandt’s sketching style (left) is my main inspiration. From his sketch, I feel I could see a lot of emotions and reflections of history. I cannot find a more appropriate visual style to express this scene.
In the composite sketch stage, I wish to extend the canvas and to enhance its epic element. I cut from my previous sketch to supply the newly extended area. At this stage, it is much like editing. After the things are in place, I apply lighting to make the whole piece more harmonious.
Programs Used: Pen&Ink, Adobe Photoshop
Hours: 15
Hell Encounter
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Humans seek to find alternative habitable environment light years away from earth. Upon landing on this earth like planet, formless extra dimension creatures appear from the ground and eliminate those who set foot on this land.
I was fortunate to have Scott Robertson to art direct this piece during my last year in Art Center. Scott's constant reminder to require us to always keep the edges clean really help sharpen my paintings.
Programs Used: Photoshop
Hours: 30+
Matte Painting
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Humans set foot on this deserted alien planet and discover earthly remains that existed for tens of thousands of years. Due to the planet's large size, cities are isolated far away from each other, and those towering cities are connected by a network of mega super highways.
I had the idea for this image for awhile, I have finally finished it as a matte painting. I have always imagined and loved mega structure that stretch its limit to the sky. This is an attempt to bring that emotional thought into a concrete presentation.
Program Used: Photoshop.
Hours: 30+
Program Used: Photoshop.
Hours: 15
Ruined Station
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This image was inspired by a series of architectural elements: Crystal Palace in Britain during the Industrial Revolution, New York's Grand Central Terminal, and Modernist architectures. I was anxcious to see a fusion of these elements in a post-apocalyptic world setting.
Initial idea sketch is done by pen and ink. I then scanned those sketches in the computer and started laying out tonal designs. This painting is mostly done on top of photo montages I found randomly through Google. Textures and effects were added afterward on Photoshop.
Programs Used: Photoshop
Hours: 30+
Garden Temple
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I have been imagining a fantasy adventure story about a hero traveling through this silent, lonely, and vast world. At one point, he will discover this ancient remains in this poetic location where there are subtle sun lights shining through the leafs and calm breeze would sweep over the field.
The image was researched first (left). I borrowed the researched image and have it as foundation for perspective and color choices. I then laid a quick color photoshop sketch over it. Afterward, I built a quick Maya sketch model of this garden temple I had in mind and placed it in the scene.
Textures and effects were added by Photoshop at the end with the style of photo montages.
Textures and effects were added by Photoshop at the end with the style of photo montages.
This process saves tons of time and promises a much more accurate image to my vision because the most basic sketch (also my inspiration) is already done prior. I would then proceed by including other elements or inspirations I pulled from other sources (references I previously noted related to my vision), you would notice that there is no need to reinvent the wheels. Very fast! And accurate! (May seem unethical to some.)
Programs Used: Photoshop, Maya
Hours: 5 (gets significantly faster with practice)
World Vision
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I had this idea of a hero traveling on this vast lonely deserted world. My attempt was to try to realize the world through its environments, characters, costumes, and architectures. Further developments are the early images in my portfolio.
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These quick B&W sketchs' purpose was to practice my sense in creating interesting composition based on values instead of relying on the content or color within the image. They are mostly cut and paste from existing illustration and photo references. Such technique greatly enhance the process speed. These pieces contain minimal stories. As I was doing these quick studies, I am constantly checking on James Paick's Blog and Jung Park's Blog and study their WIP thumbnails and their painting theories. They are amazing artists.
Hours: 1-4
sketch studies
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11/6/08
Sketching is a primitive form of reflection of one's vision. Beside individual's experiences that drive the inspirations for unique visual stories, different sketching techniques will trigger different visions as well during the process of its creation. In drawing, immature skills will limit the presentation of his/her imagination while with great skills, the momentum will lead away the vision while pride will sustain that process. Only knowing one technique in drawing will result an image that has been seen over and over again in both presentation and unintentionally, the content itself. Learning and expanding different sketching techniques becomes an essential path that I am taking. Instead of sticking to one style, I practice different techniques. The strengths I pulled from each technique will allow me to switch back and forth as I tend to illustrate different visions.
