ImagineFX #27 + Portfolio

This past month has been a very busy and eventful one for me! For one, some of my digital artworks and a short interview with me is featured in the digital art magazine ImagineFX issue #27! This issue has a feature on manga art, so I am happy my artwork is able to be shown in this particular issue. One of my enjoyed art styles to create works in is of a manga/anime influence.

This issue has already been released in the UK (United Kingdom) for a month so far but should be out here in stores in Canada and USA now. So do check it out in your local Chapters or bookstore!

In other good news, I have been busy creating new artworks and designs specially for my portfolio. You may visit my online portfolio and view my demo reel here at this link:

http://animation.sheridanc.on.ca/portfolio/Internship/liangj/

For us 3rd years, we are currently applying for internships for this summer, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to create new artworks and push my design and colour work further in my portfolio.

For this portfolio, since it is very self-directed, I wanted to create works that reflect subjects I am interested in as well as show my technical skill. And of course, create artworks I would have fun making.

Fashion piques my interest. I had an enjoyable time designing and illustrating each girl in this set of 6.

Mermaids have always been a favourite pastime for me to draw. i love how gesture, elegance, and flow can be expressed in the figure of a mermaid design. Hence the creation of this set. I enjoyed working with colours in this one.

Here are some girl concept designs for my 4th year film pre-production in progress. I wanted to play with different shapes and types of personalities conveyed.

I have always been interested and drawn to the hanbok, a Korean traditional dress. I love the colours and look of it, so I took this opportunity to be able to draw it here.

And something much more different. Still working with shapes in the design, but also trying to incorporate some graphic elements in the background to compliment the character. I am inspired by artists that do this really well and are able to add more information to their character with this approach.

Creating this portfolio has been a great experience for me. From planning, researching, executing, and putting it altogether to the final pieces in the portfolio and demo reel.

Winter 2007 Life Drawings

I have been working on my portfolio for co-op internship for the past while. Here's a small preview for now of some of the new artwork/designs I have been working on. There's alot more. I will post more of them in an upcoming post soon.

And here are some of my life drawings from this past semester. I have been working on designing the figure as well as trying to caricature my drawings from life more. It's pretty challenging but really rewarding when the drawings turn out~

Secret Santa

A secret santa illustration for a secret santa gift exchange I took part in on DeviantART. The person who I got for secret santa requested an drawing of her original character Taku, an angsty dog boy (hence the dog ears). So I just had fun with this and coloured this up in Adobe Photoshop.

In other updates, I have now added thumbnails to my artwork on the right-hand side bar of the blog for quick access!

Some more new artwork will be posted soon.
Happy Holidays everyone!

Royal Winter Fair '07

Had a really cool time drawing animals at the Royal Winter Fair this year.

More Coffee Boy

And a simple poster for the group film. Only a quick treatment was provided as a result of time constraints.Only 2 weeks of school left until the break, with still alot left to do.
Gotta keep on running!

Inspiring things

I've been under a self-imposed house arrest the past couple days, busy working on a lot of things. Havn't had much time lately to do as many personal works. But I wanted to post some things that help keep me inspired, and share these with everyone so we can keep each other inspired.

Some quotes I really believe in:

Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, if i quit; however, it lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

Each step being broken down into even smaller steps, makes the impossible become possible.

- Vilppu

I'll tell you this: no-one can ever persuade me to give up! I will never give up!

- Jang-Geum Seo

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstien

I think, therefore I am.

- Rene Descartes

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don't let anyone talk us out of our truth.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

-Yanni

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Recently a friend of mine told me something very inspiring. I want to share it.

"You know, they considered Michelangelo starting his training really late in life, although he was only 13. Back in the days they'd start you as an apprentice at age 8. But, because of his perseverances he became, as you know, an amazing artist."

Not everybody so fortunate to be able to start or discover art at a very young age. None of us could ever take back time or redo our time again. But I believe we can go from where we are starting right now, and still do amazing things.

Hills like white elephants

Finished this piece ahead of time for my world literature presentation. I wanted to have some fun with it and do it more for myself. Coincidently, while painting it, the motif became very wintery. I kinda like it this way. It's like a play on the original story from Hills like white elephants to the original christmas story ;).