Magazine Vector Illustraion

This was a winner for an online magazine contest last year.

 

The illustration was all done by vector/illustrator.

The theme was about stressed mom versus happy mom!

The illustration process was fun~



Portrait Figure Painting Practice

Practicing portrait painting during spare time...
I haven't done realism figure painting or drawing for a while.
It's good to practice a bit... lol
The 2 models are unknown... I found the pictures from a wedding gown website...
I guess I can just practice on anyone... =)
They are in small ACEO size, for practicing purpose~
Hope you enjoy them!
Cheers~ And happy painting!



Watercolour painting of "Little Cafe In Japan" by Patricia Chu

This watercolour painting was originally a photo taken by my dear friend Reing Chi when she went to Japan~ And I love this photo so much and decided to create a watercolour painting based on it.
This is the original image from my friend, a little cafe inside a mini lane in Japan. I don't want the people showing in the painting, so I just remove them out of the picture later... lol

First I taped down my watercolour paper on a piece of thick cardboard... Actually the cardboard is the baseboard of my watercolour paper pack that I finished... I just ripped the back of the thicker board and make it into my painting base board... And then I quickly sketch down what I want to show in the image with 4B pencil - mostly everything except the tourist people on the right side of the picture...

The green tape are just regular masking tape... (no name brand from dollar store). Paper used here is Strathmore 140lb cold press watercolour paper.

And then add a thin layer of lighter tone on top. I painted a light blue sky, also add some different light tone colours in varies areas as base colours.

Layer with more darker tone colours. I am a right-handed. So I normally starts colouring on the left and then gradually paint to the right side...

Add more colours toward to the right side and darken the shadow area.

At the end I added some white gouache to create some highlight and contrast. Most on the tree and leaves, plus the writing on the black board. And that's it~~ Hope you enjoy it \^o^/

"Businessmon" cartoon illustrations

I've been making illustrations with Adobe Illustrator program recently, and found it's very fun to create cartoon style illustrations~ This is what I was doing lately, combining AI vector game background and elements with some funny characters I made --> the "Businessmon" series... LOL

The series will be mainly business concept mini cartoon illustration... Maybe one day I'll make it into a game app? Just a thought, only if my daughter she has time to program it for me... hahaha, I am a 2D artist with no programming skill. Surprisingly my daughter she has been learning game and app programming at school and was pretty good about it. Back in my old school age, I don't even have internet till I was in late teen-age... 

Soon we will be walking on Mars... 

Cheers~

Vector Background Art Illustration

Practicing on vector background game art illustration...
Using illustrator, making a background is like scarp-booking...
First I have to draw all the elements, put them on the side. Then stick the base background at bottom and then glue all the little elements on top of it one by one... But instead of gluing, you just copy and paste... =)
It was fun making them~
For the theme choice, I don't know why this scene just popped into my mind... I'd made two different colour versions. Maybe later I will draw rippers, skeletons and zombies... LOL
Cheers!

Using Illustrator Making a Profile Image

Actually, other than photoshop and real pen/paper, another tool I use a lot is Illustrator program. I like how it can make the lines and shapes very clean and sharp; also it's in vector so you can enlarge or shrink your illustration to different sizes and still keep it's clearness.
Here is how I illustrate a profile image using illustrator program.
First I did up a sketch on photoshop and then copy it to illustrator program. After that I drew the colour lines/shapes and put them all together. The image below shows the sketch, first coloured drawing, and then the final profile drawing with some outlines added and a bit gradient effect in some areas...

This is how the image was created, the background and the foreground character.

And the character herself is assembled by a group of components.
Just make sure each component is in the right order.
Normally I'll drew out each part, and group the part together before I make them to the front/forward or to the back/backward.
In this character, top order is the cape/robe, hat, hair, facial parts such as eyes nose mouth, then face with neck, and the hand/book will be at the bottom.

My New Easter Books Arrived!!!

I thought the actual books will come after Easter... As per Amazon, they said they will got mailed out on April 23.. But I got them today!!! So happy~ My first book baby ^o^ It actually has ISBN barcode at the back...

But it still not too late to get the eBook version... LOL
This is the ebook link on Amazon ~~~
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JG5JYPC

Once upon a time... when we played monopoly... New FB cover photo

Taking so long to finish this painting...
I've made it into my fb cover photo.
See here:
http://www.facebook.com/patriciachuillustration
This is the original painting... But I seem like the one on the FB cover photo after erasing the background a little bit... I was planning to paint another dragon at the back scene, but got no time... XDD

New facebook site for Patricia Chu Illustration

This is my new facebook site for Patricia Chu Illustration.
I will be updating the illustration project painting stuff here.
http://www.facebook.com/patriciachuillustration

And my facebook under Patricia Chu will be just for friend and family or sharing other misc stuff~ Cool ^O^

Colouring WIP

Colouring in progress...

\^o^/

Different colouring techniques WIP

Trying out different colouring techniques, work in progress~
Always want to try to colour monotone and then tint it with colour...
Let's see how it will go =)