XRL sketchbook

[Mydrim]

great painting skills, great portraits

[xinranliu]

Thanks y'all!

Port City

[Somelar]

really like your portraits! awesome stuff
about the last picture... what an huge ships! but the ledder and steering wheel gives the scale away. it is too large if u compare human size ledder and wheel, those ships and buldings.
it looks like humas should be at least twice as tall as smaller houses.

[Flaskpost]

Fuuucking sweet!

[xinranliu]

Somelar: you're right! I should definitely pay closer attention to that.
Flaskpost: haha glad you like it

WIP

[xinranliu]

Colour Studies





1.5 hour screencap study, I've got a thing for low key images I think...


and a WIP! I'm trying to incorporate custom shapes for the first time... I find that their graphic simplicity works better (sometimes) for my images than the over-abundance of details from direct photo textures.

[wilkerson]

Custom shapes are really useful for several resons. First you can size during creation, you can add a clipping mask, and distort them into other shapes. Sparth uses the smudge tool at 100% to create very interesting variations.
The port city looks excellent but the ship looks way too big to make sense.

[Flaskpost]

daym man, you´re owning those colors!

[Setherial]

excellent stuff, really enjoyed your portrait paintings

[NeonPoweredFirefly]

Really great SB! Consider yourself stalked from now on, good sir.

[xinranliu]

wilkerson: yup! very versatile
Flaskpost: thanks
Setherial: thank you!
NeonPoweredFirefly: thanks

Trying to do some mechanical stuff...





Some quick abstractions for fun

[Npc Rebellion]

Dude your stuff is sick Wish I could help but your a long way ahead of me. Those colour studies are great, wish I could do something like that so fast, or at all :L

Keep up the good work!

[xinranliu]

Npc Rebellion: thanks!

Some thumbnails for a set of plant-based creatures.

[P]

wow, man you got really good. I used to follow your thread but now kinda got absented myself from these forums, I have missed a lot. Your drawings are strong!

[xinranliu]

P: thanks man, been a while!

some oil portraits from life I did lately









more stuff soon

[Andrew Sonea]

You're getting really good man! Love all your environments, experiments and studies, such great variety!

Maybe try throwing some more master copies into your schedule instead of just imagination/photos. I find they're the best way to improve on things like colour, design, and edges.

[Rostas]

Amazing skechbook . The enviro with the ship is siiiick. Love it all! Unto more epicness .

[LeaderOfZombies]

Geez, you're so good with colors! That's something I need to work on. Keep it up, man!

[xinranliu]

Andrew Sonea: good point! time for some sargent, alma tadema, waterhouse!
Rostas: thanks
LeaderOfZombies: thanks!

more catching up, from March







self-portrait from photo

[hücumkedi]

ah lovely brush works,colors...oils are great too man,promising stuff here i think

[Jordan_]

Awesome sketchbook, really love those environmental colour studies. Great oil studies as well, can't wait to see more.

[xinranliu]

hücumkedi: thanks!
Jordan_: more to come







And a master study, after Waterhouse! (as suggested by Mr. Sonea)

[kevin_]

you are very well rounded, your traditional work is just as amazing as the digital stuff! keep it up!

[Papu]

Amazing stuff man! Great character designs, great environments and great illustrations everything is great. As a critique, I'd say some of your figures look a bit stiff, so maybe work on that. Anyway, awesome sketchbook : P

[xinranliu]

kevin_: thanks!
Papu: yeah, you're right, I'll try pushing the gesture/pose in the future

an old-ish watercolour portrait I just scanned today

[z01ks]

oh yeah! i just subscribed

[Somelar]

cool, man! cool stuff! Those green/yellow monsters in #109 OMG Fucking sweet! Really dig into that.
Keep it up!

[chevy28360]

Lovely work! Keep posting!

[xinranliu]

z01ks:
Somelar: glad you like them!
chevy28360: thanks, will do

a photostudy, trying to be loose and suggest things with brush strokes (I guess)

[niwre_zurc]

Your brush strokes are great. Lol i just wanna eat them up.