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Cherngzhi's Art blog: July 2015

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Notes for Enhancing your Sketches with Watercolor . (Beginner's ink washes). Here's a simple tutorial for someone venturing into watercolor for the first time. Its important to first establish your fundamental skills in shape recognition, value allocation and color temperature. Eliminate the complexity of colors by first focusing on values. Lets assume that I want to work on a sketch of the skyline of Singapore. Ink They have to be waterproof though. Its important to allow each gl...

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Sketching | Lines and Colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts

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Lines and Colors : a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts. Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. Cherngzhi Lian is an artist based in Singaapore who works primarily in acrylic and watercolor, as well as drawing media.

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: Notes on Liu Yi's Watercolor application

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Thursday, June 25, 2015. Notes on Liu Yi's Watercolor application. Notes on Liu Yi. Http:/ www.liuyi.com.cn. This amazing watercolorists is well known for his ballerina series. There’s a distinct softness to his watercolor paintings and here’s what I learn from watching this DVD. Priming the back of the paper with water to trap moist and retard the drying process. Liu Yi memtions that in China, most Artists just use these 3 brushes to kick ass. Liu Yi paints mostly in high key. He uses Fabriano Artistco,...

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: Chiaroscuro & Notan (Concept of extreme light and dark)

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Sunday, May 31, 2015. Chiaroscuro and Notan (Concept of extreme light and dark). I wanted to get into color theory. However, before jumping right into that, I thought it was important to iterate on the concept of Chiaroscuro. (Extreme light versus dark). With the ubiquity of Photoshop, many have abandoned their seeing skills. (think "control L"/ crunch Levels) If you have seen stenciled Street-Art? You most likely would have seen a digital version of chiaroscuro. (Through Photoshop). Well the list goes on.

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: Color's Chroma and its values

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Sunday, June 7, 2015. Color's Chroma and its values. Lesson 1 of color theory. I think the most important thing in painting isn't color. Rather it is Values. A painting, without good value structure will struggle to establish "recognizable" forms. Essentially, this is how our eyes works and may also explain why those who suffer from color blind can still see a picture. How does this affect painting? Way to alter the value and chroma of a color. Values as indicated on the right. You can add grey to it and...

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: How I sharpen my pencils.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. How I sharpen my pencils. I never like to use a pencil sharpener. Well, I can get a sharper pencil and waste less graphite when I do this. More importantly, by shaving my pencil, I can carve a wider graphite surface. This allow me to draw without exhausting my point, maintaining and reserving the the sharpness only for the sharpest edge. Typically, I sharpen with a pen knife until it is quite sharp. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: Tea , Milk & Honey for beginners

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Monday, May 11, 2015. Tea , Milk and Honey for beginners. Perhaps the most useful technique used by watercolor plein-air artists. This technique allow you to complete a painting on-site without getting bugged down by details or with too many glazes. Theoretically, you complete in 3 layers. However, apart from time constraint, there aren't any rules to why you should limit yourself to just 3 layers. Here's how you work the magic. By the way, I am demonstrating with just two colors. Why? Maximum coverage i...

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: March 2015

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Saturday, March 28, 2015. Notes on Joseph Zubukvic DVDs ( watercolor Impressions). Joseph Zbukvic, together with Alvaro and Herman Pekel are considered as some of the best watercolorist out there. Here are some notes that I have taken from Zbukvic's DVD Tutorials. Notes from Joseph Zubkvic DVD. Among the 3, Zbukvc paints in a more systematic way. He wait for the wash to dry before loading on new and thicker layer. ( Think tea, milk honey). Place emphasis on composition than subject matter. Subject may mo...

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Cherngzhi's Art blog: Notes for Enhancing your Sketches with Watercolor . (Beginner's ink + washes)

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Notes for Enhancing your Sketches with Watercolor . (Beginner's ink washes). Here's a simple tutorial for someone venturing into watercolor for the first time. Its important to first establish your fundamental skills in shape recognition, value allocation and color temperature. Eliminate the complexity of colors by first focusing on values. Lets assume that I want to work on a sketch of the skyline of Singapore. Ink They have to be waterproof though. Its important to allow each gl...