Imaginism Workshop Day 1

Today. Bobby gave an awesome 3 hr talk covering the history, present status, and future of the art industry, as well as strategies for going viral.

Afterwards, we started learning photoshop. None of us here are photoshop experts, so this was a very valueable lesson. The instruction was very intuitive and easy to follow.

Personally, I~ve always been intimidated by the program because of the steep learning curve. I~ve always used Sketchbook Pro in the past. I~m really excited about how quickly I~m picking up the tool.

The first lesson was to take this image of an elephant that was provided for us, then use color grabbing and the hard round brush to add wrinkles.

The Given Image

I~ve made him wrinkly

Next, Bobby Demo~d panting a face and his approach to making an under painting. We all painted an old man.

Reference

This is my very first painting in photoshop

This is Bobby~s  Painting.

At the end of the day, Bobby Chiu, Kei Acedera, and Thierry LaFontaine took as all out to see The New X-Men Movie in Montreal. Talk about a great day!

A return to Schoolism

The Time is finally here! I leave to go to the Imaginism Studios In-House Workshop on Saturday.

This means that this blog will finally go back on topic, and review online art schooling resources. I'll be keeping a photo journal of our month in Montreal.

However, I want to keep you guys in the loop with sketches, personal work, and bar room philosophy. I've separated that into a second blog. Come on over and check it out.

A slight shift in our programming schedule

My job has shifted yet again, I'll be busy working on that new fangled aluminum truck that has everyone up in arms. In the next few weeks, I'll be required to start working 12 to 14 hour days, and even com in on the weekends.  Because of the constriction on my time, I've elected to halt my schoolism exercises until I can be certain that I can devote the enough time to make them worth the price.

The next class on my list is going to be intro to digital painting with Andrew Hou. However I stumbled across and equally useful course from a different organization, anatomy for artists with Scott Eaton. I encourage you to look him up. The prices are about the same as schoolisms'.

However, I'm not going dormant for the next few months. Far from it. I've been selected to go to the one month workshop With Thierry "T-Bear" Lafontaine at Imaginism studios' Montreal location in May! From here on out, I'll be documenting my preparation for this once in a life time opportunity. 

My own studio, ThoughtWell, will be launching our new website and digital store come May 16th. I'll be sharing my progress of creating content and my thoughts on the whole thing.

Recently, I've been experimenting inking with different brushes. Here are some samples of my pencils and inks based on Dragonball (still one of my favorite comics).