Schoolism: Digital Painting Class Blog

Mommotti

2010-11-30T06:39:00.000-08:00

"Mommotti" is the Boogeyman of my country.

Its name is usually used to scare to death children in order to make them sleep.

Later we can discuss how fear can actually make somebody sleep, but that's another problem.

Done with vectors in Photoshop.

Long time no see

2010-08-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

Ok, a lot of dust and cobwebs around here, not to mention all the spam my last post is attracting.

Better clean up and put new stuff here!

Some time ago I did this painting for a friend: I used some custom brushes made during Schoolism classes, worked with textures, multiply, overlay and color...You know, good ol' teacher Bobby's way!

Hope you enjoy it! And with "you" I mean you evil spammers, of course.

...And the last one is...Damn, Bid won the race!!

2010-01-31T13:11:00.000-08:00

Bid won the race, and went really creative on it! Congrats, your piece is great!

Mine is so ordinary...Yeah, I'm talking to you, big hairy Smurf, and don't look at me like that!

Well, it is over...Pizza anyone?

...and the last one is here...

2010-01-31T12:19:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Our class is over but at least I convinced a Snowman to register for the next one. I learned a lot and I think I'm ready to try Bobby's techniques on my own paintings.
And I want to thank you Rik for being so supportive and fun. This course wouldn't be the same without you. I hope you'll keep posting here.

Cheers,
BiDzej

Lesson 8...One to go!

2010-01-09T11:06:00.000-08:00

Hi there!

Here we are with lesson 8, one more lesson to go and then it's over. Sad.

By the way, hope you like my bigfoot walking lonely in the...Oh my God, what the hell is that goddam cactus doin' there?!? C'mon man, pull yourself together!!

P.S.: whops, now that I look the uploaded image, it's different from my psd file, way oversaturated!

Lesson 7 takes a night out

2010-01-02T09:14:00.000-08:00

Jeez, a real shame.

My assignment went out during New Year's Eve. It was thin and good looking before...Now it's fat, drunk and God knows what it did.

Most certainly I don't wanna investigate.

Xmas Cactus

2009-12-25T13:10:00.001-08:00

Hi,

It's not a Xmas tree but since the temperatures were higher today I think the cactus is
more suitable :)

Cheers,
BiDzej

Merry Xmas Everybody!

2009-12-23T00:15:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody!

In case we don't catch any time soon, merry Xmas to all the Schoolism student, teacher, janitors (now that I think about it...Does Schoolism have janitors?!?).

Well, who cares!

Have fun, be good, no fingers in the nose and stuff like that, you know!

Bye!

assignment 6!

2009-12-17T21:01:00.000-08:00

hey guys! here's my assignment six:

not quite as creative as yours, rik! hehe!

but it was a really fun assignment!

...formerly known as a bald women

2009-12-16T14:18:00.000-08:00

Hi,
Here's the assignment number six. I think I'll post more soon 'cause it's a real fun painting different hairstyles.

Cheers,
BiDzej

Hair!

2009-12-16T10:20:00.001-08:00

Hi there!

This is my assignment for lesson...Mmh, I don't remember the number.

Whatever, for hairy lesson.

And this...Well, let's say I couldn't help it...

Sleepwalking

2009-12-11T07:42:00.000-08:00

Here's what I've learned so far... Used one of my drawings and painted it using the techniques from the first three lessons. Hope you like it.

Cheers,
BiDzej

Has anyone seen Frodo?

2009-12-09T09:17:00.001-08:00

Nope!

hello!

2009-12-02T21:31:00.000-08:00

hello! this is my first post, so here are my assignments so far...

and this is the current assignment. i gave her angry eyes for fun:

i'm still not totally happy with it... i'm having such a hard time with the rocks! it seems like they need to be defined but when i try to define them i paint over the texture and they look flat and blurry. anyone have any rock painting tips?

Assignment 4

2009-12-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

That's my Kangamole Bunny.

I'm not happy at all with this assignment. The rock wall on the left is poor, the image isn't complete, doesn't feel like a composite piece.

That being said, Bobby really needs to stop doing weird genetic experiment with different animals.

Kangamolebunny

2009-12-01T03:57:00.001-08:00

Hi guys,
Here's my kangamolebunny...

Caterfroggysluggypillar or whatever

2009-11-24T23:52:00.000-08:00

Lesson three was definitely a lot of fun. Loved the technique!

Assignments no. 2 & 3

2009-11-24T00:48:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,
Here's what I've been doing lately.
I've been painting the bodybuilder again but it's not finished yet.
I had no problems with the second assignment. I don't know If the final result is good but I'm happy with it. The third assignment was a lot of fun but it took me hours to finish it.

Cheers,
BiDzej

Assigment 2, aka Pain in the @$%$

2009-11-16T14:04:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody!

After hours and hours, here's my assignment for lesson two.

Don't know you guys, but it took me a lifetime to get into the color/overlay thing, in terms of saturation and stuff.

In the end I was messing with final hue/levels adjustments, so I decided it was time to upload.

Bye!

Oh, yeah. I put some yellow glows on those zombies, as if they had some fire. I thought "Ok, what's better than zombie natives? Fiery zombie natives".

First Lesson

2009-11-09T05:56:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

Here's my first homework. I had the same problems with the Flow and Opacity as everyone else but I think I'm getting better at it. Feel free to comment.
Cheers,
BiDzej

Flex them muscles

2009-11-07T08:14:00.001-08:00

Hay hay, here's my submission for the assignment :D

Learned a lot, and I must say, I have a better understanding on how to paint!! Now I hope I can apply it to my own drawings properly haha.

Took me around 2-3hrs? I can't remember, but it was a lot faster than how I would paint before!!

I think I should darken some of the lines that separates each muscle. At first it was too dark...now it's too light :( Gonna have to mess around with it some more...and add veins!

Yeah!

2009-11-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

Whoa, I'm so excited!

Hello ladies and guys! I'm Riccardo from Italy, one of the new students of Bobby's course!

Yesterday I took my first class, and painted until half past midnight, local time! I ended up exausted, but during the week I don't have much time for extra-work painting, so I took my chance on Sunday, and the muscled dude up here is what I managed to do for my assignment!

Lot to improve, so please don't be shy, critiques and comments are welcome!

P. s.: well, if you really want to be shy, then be it.

P. p. s.: this evening I'm having a lot of troubles with uploading images on Blogger... Maybe I won't be able to post my work!

Earthquake Dragon

2009-09-27T17:05:00.001-07:00

My latest. Hope you like it!

a snail

2009-07-27T06:51:00.001-07:00

Hi there! This is a little snail i painted for a flyerdesign of a beneficial house party to save an old house, that needs to be rebuild. The spaces on the top and bottom were filled with text.
have fun!

(... and 'yes', the door opens inwards!)

Monster Mahem ^_^

2009-07-22T00:32:00.000-07:00

Since doing the course I entered a competition to design animals based on a description in the brief
the prize was 10 000 and a chance to design all 70 monsters for the "monster manual" I didn't win
but I think I was in with a chance thanks to Bobby ^_^

I'd love to know what you guys think of my final designs

...so far

2009-06-23T04:27:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

this is what I've done so far...

C&C are welcome!

bye

Mauro

Schoolism Assignment #4

2009-06-18T12:45:00.000-07:00

Hi there!
This is my first Blog ever and i hope i'm allowed to post this pic.
This is my result from schoolism's Lesson No. 4! I think this turned out pretty good. Got no critique for it just yet.
But i'm really happy. Thanks to Bobby Chiu for the wonderful template.

Zombie Demon Dinosaur

2009-04-22T12:46:00.000-07:00

This is a piece I did for the ArtOrder Blog Challenge (blog is found here). The topic was a zombie demon dinosaur. Nerdom at its best.

Hope you like it!

Walnocerus

2009-04-19T19:07:00.001-07:00

This is my Walnocerus! I don't know if it's appropriate or not to post work now that I'm finished with the class, but this is one of the first things I've done since Bobby Chiu's class wrapped up, and I just wanted to share it here. I'm pretty happy with the final product.

Hello!

2009-04-10T19:15:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I'm Ian Ruff and I started Bobby's class last Monday (4/6). I hope to see some of my classmates here and get some dialog going.

How's everyone doing with flex so far? I'm struggling a little but hope to pull it together soon.

Good Luck!
Ian

Assignment 8/9

2009-03-03T06:40:00.001-08:00

Click to enlarge. This final assignment exceeded my expectations, both for what I learned and the quality of my final image. I have to say, I'm sad to see the class end!

Assignment 7 - Vectors

2009-02-02T21:18:00.000-08:00

This one was a lot of fun. :)

Assignment 6

2009-01-24T14:23:00.000-08:00

I learned SO much on this lesson. GREAT stuff.

Assignment 5

2009-01-19T23:00:00.000-08:00

Thanks for keeping the blog alive, Matt... Other classmates, where are ya?

Here's my take on the Old Man... didn't venture too far from the lesson, just tried to make him a little more scraggly and changed some minor age lines.

Assignment 5

2009-01-19T22:22:00.000-08:00

The before and after, from Bobby's line art to my final painting using the smudge technique and a little bit of the brush tool.

Intro / Assignments 1-4

2009-01-05T00:41:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone,
Matt did us the favor of breaking the ice, so let's back him up with some intros!

My name's Ian, and I'm a 3D Character Modeler in Oakland, CA. Learning to paint to build on drawing and storytelling, as well as to develop a better eye for light. Bobby's very cool piece got my attention in the Totoro Forest Project (heyyyy... after Textures 1 we sort of know how he did that!), so it's great to be a part of his class.

Would love to see this site turn into a critique area for In-Progress work leading up to each deadline; we could all learn a lot adding that experience.

Bobby reviewed my take on Flex and offered a very helpful critique: I got caught up with brushes and transitions and lost track of the bigger forms. Also pushed the contrast a bit too far, but hey, lesson learned.

...and this is what I've done since the Sun last saw me:

Assignment 4 - Before and After

2009-01-04T21:43:00.001-08:00

Click to enlarge. Bobby Chiu's original base-coat for his piece "Kangamolebunny" is on the right, the left my work for the assignment. I'm completely exhausted now, thank you and good night. Oh, but wait, tomorrow is lesson 5. I'm loving this, don't take this as complaining. But good lord, its intense.

PS: Where's some other folks' work!? :)

Assignment 3

2009-01-04T16:23:00.001-08:00

I really look forward to seeing some more of these! This was really really hard and really fun.

Assignment 2, coloring

2008-12-30T07:08:00.000-08:00

This is my attempt at Lesson 2, colorizing from black and white.

Assignment 1

2008-12-29T07:38:00.000-08:00

Hey folks, my name is Matt, I'm 25, a video editor and aspiring artist from Montgomery, Alabama, and this is my first post here.

This is my first assignment for Bobby Chiu's Digital Painting class, just thought I'd share. I hope to see what more of you folks are up to.

Assignment 7 + Love Handles

2008-12-14T05:32:00.000-08:00

Heya all,
I haven't posted here in a while. My submission for Lesson 8 looks pretty ordinary, so I won't be posting that here. Here's my Assignment 7 and an extra piece!

Assignment 7 - Vectors and Layer Styles

Love Handles.
(I've got to get rid of my love handles.)

Love Handles (definition from Wikipedia):
Love handles, in colloquial or slang speech, are a layer of fat that is deposited around a person's midsection. They are called "love handles" because they can serve as places to hold on while copulating. Love handles are also colloquially called a spare tire.

So many people want to be thinner and thinner and thinner these days; it's insane.

As always, a gif to show you my painting process.

Hope you dig.

Week 8: Big Foot sketchie (Althea)

2008-12-01T02:18:00.001-08:00

Hey guys!

I finally did something I wasn't too ashamed of posting up. DX lol.

I've linked to a bigger version, Ciaee!

2008-11-27T23:41:00.000-08:00

Heya!

I've always had trouble painting colour... value I have no problemo with but colour?? oh man. Spent the week practising and though I post the progress:

Man I am enjoying this class!

2008-11-27T18:19:00.000-08:00

It is getting pretty close to the end of classes so i figured it about time to post some of my assignments.
I am very jealous of some of your talents, you are all amazing.

Man I am enjoying this class!

2008-11-23T07:23:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone again,
Here are my assignments for lesson 6.I turned in so late this week because I was working so hard on a project:( I guess this is my first time ever delay an assignment.It feels so bad.
and finally, I got them finished!! welcome any comments:)

Assignment 6

2008-11-20T20:06:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone,

Here was my assignment, I cant really draw hair at all, i need alot of practise in learning to define clumps of hair - i find it really difficult as a beginner. I also gave her some little elf ears, i wanted to make her a bit cute and young looking, also i tried to pick a hairstyle that an young elf princess might wear and tried to tie in the hairstyle with the lovely expression that Bobby gave us as a starting point.

Arghhhhhh so difficult for me, im learning alot here!

project used the technique of lesson 1&2

2008-11-20T06:32:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,
this is the project I've working on right now, I'm trying to use the technique I learn from this class, but for the coloring part, I really have trouble for picking the color.
for the coloring layer, I only use the "color"mode because I'm so confuse how to choose the exact color before click the action button. so I'm basicly color directly on the "color mode"layer.so I can see exactly how the color turn out right away.
here are my question...
1. I'm not quite sure why Bobby use both "color" and "overlay" mode when coloring.
I find it really hard to get the color I want.
2.this painting took me forever to finish the b/w, and the color. does any other faster way to do it when the sketch is too complex?
3.when I choose the color, I'm basicly "guessing" the color before I pick it, I can't get the exactly color I wish for, is that correct?

I put the larger size of these two image in the below link,
http://www.cuteariel.com/tmp/forest.jpg
http://www.cuteariel.com/tmp/forestcolor.jpg

please please give me some advise. eventhough I'm finish this painting, I still feel so confuse.><.
thank you guys!!

2008-11-19T09:49:00.000-08:00

tribute to Bobby's style:) practice assignment

2008-11-19T05:48:00.000-08:00

Hello again peepz! I've tried out a painting of a creature, using Bobby Chiu's style, and allready excisting features of some of his creatures, so im not taking any credit:) (hope it is ok:) ).

I have become better at freehand paintings, but im still struggling a bit with the realistic parts. on this creature for instance, im having a hard time with the shadows is the face.

Can anyone of you fellow students help, or give me a hint? =) Thanks

2008-11-18T22:43:00.001-08:00

hi everyone

here's my assignment6

My assignment 6.

2008-11-18T03:06:00.000-08:00

Hello fellow classmates:) This is my first post here, a little late, but better late then never, right?! :)

The hair tutorial was great fun for me and it is a method which I will for sure use in the future.

Assignment 6 - The Surprised Bride

2008-11-16T20:20:00.000-08:00

Hi again, everyone!
Here's my Assignment 6.

Althea!! I wanted to post my Assignment 6 earlier for you to see but when I was about done, I went to work on another image on Photoshop and after that I CLOSED PHOTOSHOP WITHOUT SAVING MY ASSIGNMENT! It wasn't a program error or anything; I closed it on my own! T_______T Argh. I was sleepy and I didn't even realize that I didn't save my work until when I went back to add some finishing touches the next day.

I was like, "OMG. OK. Ciaee. Breathe. Think of this as a chance to make the 2nd try better looking than the 1st." I hope I succeeded. =\ There goes my plans for handing in an extra piece though.

Painting process. (might take a while to load)

I love drawing/painting hair but getting the custom hair brushes to produce natural-looking locks was a PAIN. I created 8 hair brushes and used 5 for this painting alone. O_O Is that even practical?

My Little Monster

2008-11-12T17:46:00.000-08:00

This is some of my latest work, which fortuitously coincides with Bobby working on his Weird Little Creatures book. Hope you guys like it. By the way, it been well over a year since I took Bobby's Digital Painting Class; hence why I'm not posting assignments.

2008-11-11T09:20:00.000-08:00

hi everyone !

here are my assignments so far, this class is really cool, especially because this is the first time I'm doing some digital paintings,hope u're enjoying the class too!

mansoureh

Althea's week 5 and week 3

2008-11-11T04:08:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,

I thought I'd stop being slack and post something up here... ^^; Ok, so I do have an ulterior motive - I'd really love some critiques, particularly for the week 5 assignment since I don't feel it's complete yet and I do actually want to go back in and fix it up. (although I'm a bit flakey about this so I might not end up doing so anyway...)

This one's my week 3 assignment. I'm really posting it here just to make this post look a little bit better. XD I do have to say this was my third attempt... back when I had so much more time. >__<;

I'm a bit of a bum though, I haven't done any painting of my own. I was going to wait until I did one before I posted here but alas, I've concluded that I'm already neck deep in work. DX So I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. I've gotta concentrate on learning to draw better for a new job starting in December.

Anyways, take care fellow comrades!

Mariann, why did you delete your posts? D8

2008-11-11T01:17:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone,

Heres my old man painting from Assignment 5.

This was extremely frustrating for me - but I pushed through and again Ciaee was there to pick me up when I was at my very very worse time of FRUSTRATION. So huge huge huge thanks yous for Ciaee your the best!

Even though the submission was a tad late - Sorry Bobby! Can you guys give me critiques please so I can improove as much as possible ?

I found the hair to be really really difficult for me, and ive only just come to terms with wrinkles and values, I need to practise so much more.

I used Vivi's entry and Ciaee's entry for inspiration of my entry - i also thought he would look cool with some bling bling, so i gave him some Dolce & Gabanna's sitting there on the end of his nose.

Respect old man,..... Respect.

Assignment 5 + Extra

2008-11-10T23:55:00.000-08:00

Here's my assignment for Lesson 5. I used the techniques taught in the video tutorial but did not strictly follow the order of the steps as demonstrated by Bobby. Painting this was a little frustrating but I found the smudge tool to be really really nice to use for smoothing out hair. Ummm, ignore the halo around him! >< The textures of his clothing were added with the technique taught in Lesson 4.

This is something I did extra. (A photo-reference was used.) Here, I didn't use the smudge tool to paint. The painting was mostly done using a basic hard edged brush in Photoshop. I then imported it into Painter and used the "Dry Palette Knife" to smudge the "paint" around, just to create that painterly effect. The brush works almost the same way as Photoshop's smudge tool, but resembles traditional paint a little more.

Where are all my classmates?! D: (Mariann! You removed all your posts! D:)

Emotion No.26: CURIOSITY

2008-11-03T06:23:00.000-08:00

How are my fellow classmates doing?
I did another painting using the techniques taught in our class so far, as an extra assignment for Lesson 4 and also as an entry for the Liquid City Giveaway Draw-A-Robot Contest.

Emotion No.26: CURIOSITY
Very experimental. This is the first painting I did without starting off with lines. I blocked in a dark value pretty roughly, and then started to visualize and build on top of that. Slapped on some random textures + filters on some areas when I ran out of motifs and worked from there. Liquify is my new favourite Photoshop tool.

Random fact: Painting a bowl is harder than painting a cat.
Random tip: When in doubt, slap on some textures. (Doesn't work all the time.)

Fish-cyborg painting progress.
(A grossly simplified portrayal of my grueling 20+ hours on the fish)
I hope the animation isn't too fast. There were some steps missing because everything was kinda random at the beginning and I only started saving more often when something that looked pretty solid was emerging. The fish itself took maybe 20 hours or more to paint.

P/S: Bobby! Where are the critiques? D:

2008-11-01T04:15:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,

Heres my kangamole final submission!

I worked all weekend - probably about 20 hours in total, and i had to submit as ive run out of time! I need to goto work in the morning!!!!

I really enjoyed myself on this, there was some frustrating times, but with some help from Ciaee I was able to push through and get the kangamole to its current state and submitted.

Thanks to all for the critiques and comments! Im learning so much from you guys - Its great to be a beginner in a class full of great painters, ive got nothing to loose!!!!

The attack of the Kangamole Bunnies.

2008-10-31T00:12:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I hope everyone's having fun with Assignment 4!

Well, here's mine. Finished this one early so that I'll have time to work on it some more if we find anything wrong. To do that, I'll need critiques.. so, fire away!

2008-10-28T07:20:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, it is very exciting to meet you guys in the blogger!!
I'm an children's book illustrator from Taiwan. and live in Taiwan as well.
I've been working as a freelancer over 8 yrs, and by the time working with so many clients, I
feel myself not as passion as I used to be to the arts. I'm so glad to find schoolism and Bobby chiu, I've learn so much from this class and it really reminds me how passionate I used to be for arts while I'm in the college. I'm never been happier to be a student again! it's so nice to meet all of you! everybody are so fierce!! hah.

I'm not too satisfied about my 2nd assignment, I think I need to find another time to practice this technique more.

The 3rd assignment that I enjoy the most, so I did another small creture for a quick practice.
please don't feel hesitate to critic my work!

2008-10-27T11:39:00.000-07:00

My first time to post in the blog, nice to meet you guys, these are the works I have done for bobby's class so far, critiques are very welcome.

my first assignment big muscle guy needs a girl friend so I draw him a girl friend

I kind of combine lesson 2 and lesson 3 to develop another picture myself

First 3 Assignments + Armless Midgets

2008-10-26T23:38:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

I'm so glad that Bobby created a blog for us. Was kinda bummed at first when I saw that there wasn't really a place for the students to interact. Thanks Bobby! I found some of our classmates on deviantART through their blogger profiles and got to see some of your personal artworks; it seems that we've got a lot of people from different backgrounds and countries and quite a variety of different styles. Which is awesome. :D Talked to Jon-Troy [Hazardous] on MSN so far, and hopefully more will join in. (I'm using the e-mail on my profile for my MSN account, so if you're on MSN add me up!)

Back to what's relevant, here are my first 3 assignments. Muscly (Metalic ><) Guy, The Stand and the, um, creature.

And here's my extra assignment for Lesson 2:

Gif animation to show painting progress.
Wanted to try out different skin tones. Did this with the techniques learned in Lesson 1 and 2. If anyone wants to try colorizing skin tones for practice, here's a larger version of my painting before adding color and before cleaning up. [link] If you post it anywhere else, please credit me.

Feel free to critique or even totally stomp on my work if you see anything wrong, because I really want to improve. Thanks in advance!

P/s: I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Ciaee, 22 this year, Malaysian Chinese, just graduated from art school, currently working (sort of) as a freelance illustrator, and love drawing and painting a lot... but prefer sleeping.

2008-10-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,

Never Blogged anything before so i hope im doing the right thing here ?!

Great to see all your feedback videos, your all so much better than me, and because im so new - you guys need to help me out!!

Im working on assignment 3 at the moment, and got it to a point where i thought it would be fun to play with some colours - using assignment 2's method.

What do you guys think so far ?

-Jon-Troy

Welcome to our new blog!

2008-10-25T17:57:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Schoolism's "Digital Painting Class Blog"! If you're a alumni or a current student of mine, please feel free to email me and I'll add you to this blog.
email: bobby (at) imaginismstudios.com

Then you can post your sketches, works in progress and paintings here This blog will be a place for you to share your work and get feedback from your fellow students.

Blog away!