ZhangLu and Jason Manley Digital Painting (Thread now contains teaser and art too!)

**Mackezenny** · December 13th, 2009, 01:07 AM

After reading EVERYONE state that this helped them out a lot, that this is the best thing since the wheel, that without this they wouldnt be able to draw circles, and that life would cease to exist if Zhanglu hadnt worked his voodoo in this video I felt VERY inclined to give a proper explanation and well thought out response to this video. Unfortunately I dont have time as I am still picking up my jaw from the talent that Zhanglu shows.

All kidding aside, if your looking for something that can be a guide, a motivator and a general knowledge builder then this is probably worth the $20 dollars to you, probably even $40. But what I like just as much as the video is the files that come with it, there are 6 .psd files, 10 .jpg files, and the 1hr 7min video that takes you step by step on not one but 4 portraits (one is much larger and easily viewed to show all the tiny details as they are added).

This site is supposed to be going down sometime later today (its 1am EST here) but I just wanted to let everyone that views this before it does.....this is amazing, and it helps an amazing cause. Well worth the $20.

-Mackezenny

**Ian Barker** · December 13th, 2009, 03:37 AM

^Agreed. Zhang Lu is a brilliant digital painter, and to see him work while listening to Manley's insight is a special treat.

Buy this vid, support CA!

**jakobweiq** · December 15th, 2009, 07:34 PM

is it possible for a future release for Female Asians???

**bloopatone** · December 17th, 2009, 01:42 PM

My first attempts after watching the female portrait video:

First attempt was a disaster, so then I tried following along with the video:

No reference ( clearly i need to study hair styles!!):

With reference:

**bloopatone** · December 18th, 2009, 12:09 PM

One of my friends demanded that I paint Faith since I did Buffy. Here's my try. I think it needs a little more work but I may move on becuase I'm eager to try and create some original characters. The hair is getting a little better though.

**sohfia** · December 18th, 2009, 09:46 PM

That awesome! Thanks!

**NickGuy** · January 2nd, 2010, 10:23 PM

i wouldve liked more of the "art history" talk from jason, i was kinda bummed that it ended after just a half hour in....aside from that this was an excellent video, worth more than the puny 20 bucks ca is charging.

**HappyFatThing** · January 8th, 2010, 01:10 AM

bought it and im looking forward to it. Thanks

**Faxtar** · January 9th, 2010, 10:08 PM

My try

**Rustybucket** · May 6th, 2010, 07:50 PM

Just bought the video and have only scanned through the content. Does nobody else find the music distracting? Is there a version without it? When I saw the Youtube demo I assumed that the music would just be used over the intro in the full video.

Not only is the music quite dominant at some stages, it contains vocals. This is meant to be an instruction video and I feel like I'm trying to hear the knowledge imparted over music in a shared house.

Am I just being a grumpy, uncool git?

**David.Mansaray** · May 17th, 2010, 01:33 AM

Just purchased woohoo! im new here and i love it here

**Jason Manley** · June 4th, 2010, 12:04 AM

Thank you all. It is inspiring to see everyones progress. Beautiful works!!!

We have another vid in the works and look forward to continuing to make great art and sharing our knowledge.

Thanks for the support!!!

Jason

**valdo19alves** · June 5th, 2010, 09:46 AM

Maneiro!!

**marcotronic** · June 5th, 2010, 01:12 PM

Hi,
I´ve just bought and watched the video. I really liked the drawing style and the information given by the speaker but I was really about to stop watching the video after a couple of minutes due to the background music! This is totally disturbing! (Especially on headphones) Please folks: Please please please don´t use any background music when somebody is talking - I have bought over a hundred of video tutorials (usually 3D stuff) and ALL of them were without music. I don´t see any advantage when using background music - it´s totally annoying and totally distracts from the main voice. Additionally, music is really a matter of taste and that kind of music was really getting on my nerves extremely.

If there´s no option for future videos to get them without music then this was the first and last video I bought from Conceptart/Massive Black...

Marco

**Philo_a** · June 30th, 2010, 03:00 PM

yester day was a history today is a mystery and Jason and Hanglu are super awesome.

**Kfeeras** · December 11th, 2010, 05:46 PM

I bought the thing 2 days ago and I really like it. This is my first real attempt at a portrait from mind. I used reference but only to quickly look up mouth-shapes. Started with a soft brush and really light tones and built it up. Really great techniques!
I posted it in the crit forum, made it smaller here to not be so spammy ;-)

thanks jason and zhang for this!

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bytheway: the female anatomy streaming class is great, too. lots of useful info!

**Crucible** · June 15th, 2011, 11:09 PM

I found a site that has the entire female painting video on it. If the mods want to know just PM me. I thought it was kinda crappy to host the whole video that you can watch from your browser.

**Antipiracy Director** · June 22nd, 2011, 08:54 AM

Please send any links you find to [email protected]

Kelly Manley
Director
Anti Piracy
Conceptart.org
Theartdepartment.org

**jakobweiq** · June 25th, 2011, 02:07 PM

will there b lessons on asian females?

**bbbbethhhh** · July 30th, 2011, 09:51 PM

This video has been really beneficial for me, I think Zhang Lu has a really unique style and it was interesting to see it develop throughout the video. The narration was very inspiring also