Jonathan Chu's Art and Thoughts

[Jonathan C]

Thanks Everyone!
Here's a bunch of stuff I've done since winter breaks started. Marry Christmas and Happy New Year all!

[Mikko Voipio]

Love this one in all it's simplicity. Great sketchbook throughout! 5 *'s from me.

[Cojac]

Great work. I love the colors and the drawings, but I think you should improve more the watercolors.

[Setherial]

o my god man, I'm speechless. As of page 1 I loved your use of colors and then the further it goes you have this rich veriaty of stuff and these amazing traditional media sketches. wicked stuff, just beautiful, makes my day!

[vlad74]

Really beautiful work here.

[Elias Leonard]

awesome paintings !

[Elias Leonard]

#241 the candle has a flat feeling, try to shade more along with the curve of the candle... if that makes any sense :p ?
awesome work though!

[Tea of Doom]

Wow wow superb stuff all around. I'm especially fond of your graphite sketches and life drawings.

Question: for that tree piece, when you transitionned from b/w to colors did you start painting with colors form scratch or did you modify your initial sketch using overlays and start from there?

Nothing but compliments from me. I would be really grateful if you could crit my work in my Skb.

[Tea of Doom]

Duplicate post, please ignore

[Woolichooks]

I like the way you do your figure studies with the loose lines. I also really like the colors in post #180.

[Mr.Pryminista]

Nice work here buddy.

Is that a block of feta cheese floating off the ground? Haha

[Mr.Pryminista]

Nice work here buddy.

Is that a block of feta cheese floating off the ground? Haha

[AJM]

Great paintings. Long live the floating feta cheese.

[JakehC]

nice work.

[Jonathan C]

JakehC: Thanks!
AJM: haha!
Mr.Pryminista: I was thinking a block of tofu, but that works too!
Woolichooks: Thanks!
Tea of Doom: Thank you, For that tree painting, I did use overlay and color layers to lay down the initial colors, but that was about 20% of the coloring, the majority was painted on top of all the layers with a normal layer with straight color
Elias Leonard: That makes total sense, I probably would do that if I weren't timing my painting. I try to limit myself to 1 hour for quick studies like that.
Vlad74: TY!
Setherial: Wow thanks, that really makes me feel good
Cojac: I agree, I have a love hate relationship with watercolors :p I think for now though, i want to concentrate on digital, gouache, and acrylic.
Mikko Voipo: Thank you! and thanks for the stars!
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I noticed my weakness has been painting overcast environments so here are two from yesterday and today. I think today's (bottom) is much more successful.

[Jonathan C]

First two paintings of 2013!

[Erikly]

Great stuff man! your figures, values, colors, and especially lighting! are awesome. You seem very confident when you're making all your strokes. Keep up the good work man, and you just got yourself a new blog follower! :]

[Jonathan C]

TYVM Erikly!

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Small update of my daily paintings.

[vlad74]

nice studies...

[raminafshari]

your referenced drawings are coming along nicely , recommend more value studies and ... .

[Veneq]

Studies are looking really good... all of your working is improving nicely. Nothing to crit. Keep it up!

[Jonathan C]

Pierce, Thanks!
raminafshari, Thank you!I'll try to get around to some soon
vlad74, ty

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Bunch of Leyendecker studies

[Mila]

I like those pencil drawings above.

[Talfox]

Really like your pencil work dude! That and the Spirtied away sketch is great

[Letty]

Very nice sketchbook, i like your environments and studies

[fersteger2]

Nice works! You've got a very bold color application and very strong color choices too. Really nice to see. Keep it up my friend!

[Jonathan C]

fersteger2: Thanks!
Letty: Thank you
Talfox: thanks! it's one of my favorite miyazaki films!
Mila: Thank you!
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my first attempt at robot/mech stuff after watching this video It was surprisingly fun!

[Jonathan C]

Couple more daily paintings

[vlad74]

Really nice lighting...

[Jonathan C]

Thanks vlad74!

And today's daily. I tried to go for that cool dusk feel. Not sure if i captured it