The art of duplication from kung fu assassin, Kapow Express Online Comics

The art of duplication or multiplication from kung fu assassin, Kapow Express Online Comics.
Now, it's time for the goofy face show off his move...read on action pack non-sense Manga online: Kapow Express

Kapow Express: page #011



Previously:
-Online Manga Kapow Express page #010
Or For page 1-9 goto Online Manga kapowexpress.com

See Some Kapow Art: Character Design study Mei pin up in process, Kapow Express

Creator's NOTE:
Now, what should happen next? Feel free to give me some idea or feedback. I did implement some of our readers' idea, Dahaca, mix them up with some twist for the next plot line. It sounds crazy good, like super retardo good. :) Just kiddin...it will make sense, but twist...

Anyway, I really do hope them Zombies and Vampires are coming up soon because Chris is awaiting patiently. The yummy story line is coming along quit well. But I still think it would be fun to have you guys pitching the idea.

Accumulation of ideas pool I can pick the one that best fits, including mine. :)
Wouldn't that be UBER?

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

New tutorials:
-Manga tutorial drawing giant mecha robot
-Values exercise with three cubes
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Drawing and painting female nurse cartoon.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.
-How to draw chibi robot Gigantor step by step
-Drawing mutant humanoid creature head
-Digital painting tutorial technique Mecha commando

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

If you need any help or support you can
-post questions or comment on the post (seems to be the fastest way to get response)
Peace,

Casshern Sins - Full OP version

The OP single for the awesome new show Casshern Sins is out. The song is Aoi Hana by Color Bottle. I already wrote a post about it (here), and I gave it a 4.5/10 rating at the time. But after listening to the full version and getting used to the song I'll finally give it a 5.5/10. It hasn't convinced me that much yet. I know so many people love that song, but I'm not a fan of the tune.
For all the fans out there here's the full OP single to download!






Here's the PV of the song:

Character design study, female, Mei from Kapow Express.

Character design study, female, Mei from Online Manga Kapow Express comics.

Here is some sketch of one of the main characters, Mei. I just decide to take a hyper-realistic take on her and see what she would look like if she were to made in 3D or realist approach. Of course, I cannot put this kind of style into the current Kapow Express Manga. Because it would take forever.

This one took me about two hours or so. The process is very confusing because I forgot to merge some of the steps so... sorry guys. It's unfinished as usual.

Mei, Kapow Express Manga Comics:



Somebody says "Angry"? :) Dahaca!!!


Check out: Kapow Express Manga Online


Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

New tutorials:
-Manga tutorial drawing giant mecha robot
-Values exercise with three cubes
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Drawing and painting female nurse cartoon.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.
-How to draw chibi robot Gigantor step by step
-Drawing mutant humanoid creature head
-Digital painting tutorial technique Mecha commando
-How to paint water and mountain landscape technique

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

If you need any help or support you can
-post questions or comment on the post (seems to be the fastest way to get response)
Peace,

My favorites OPs - Xam'd: Lost Memories

It's time to start a new category for this blog. I will now have blogposts about my favorite anime music tracks. So let's begin with anime opening songs.

This first OP, is actually the most recent OP that I love. It's from the great anime Xam'd: Lost Memories, an ongoing supernatural show that I really advise people to watch.

10/10 The Xam'd OP is called Shut up and explode by BOOM BOOM SATELLITES. BOOM BOOM SATELLITES are a Japanese electronic music duo, and this song is part of their sixth album. It's an energy-filled song that uses a lot of electric guitars, with an uptempo beat and has a nice rock feel to it. I highly recommend listening to it! Download the full song here and watch the OP:

CHAOS; HEAD OP - Full Song

5.5/10 The single for the OP of awesome new show CHAOS; HEAD just came out. The song is called F.D.D by singer Itou Kanako. (Download the full OP single here)

While I really like the show, I'm just not a fan of the OP. Even after listening to the full version of the song, it does nothing for me. Sorry for all the fans that love this song... Anyway watch the PV here:

New Series OP and ED - To Aru Majutsu no Index

It's time to review a new set of OP and ED. This time it's for the show To Aru Majutsu no Index, that is based on a light novel. As you've probably guessed, it's a show about magic!

8/10 Today's a good day. Everyone's getting a good grade! I really like this song. It has a highly infectious beats! At the beginning, when the singing starts, it reminded me of the first OP for the show Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, a favorite of mine. Anyway it's a nice dance song! You can download the full OP single here!

Here's the OP PSI-missing by Mami Kawada:

7.5/10 The ED is not as good but still really enjoyable. It's called Rimless ~Fuchinashi no Sekai by IKU, who has a great voice. Watch the ED here:

New Series OP and ED - Kannagi

It's time for new post about new series! This is the plot for the new comedy and magic show, Kannagi: "An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town."(Anime News Network).

8/10 The opening song is a really nice fun pop song! The name of the song is motto☆Hade ni ne! by Haruka Tomatsu. It's quite cheesy and childish, but I really enjoy it. By the way why do so many OPs have bells? This one has bells and a trumpet, so I guess you can't get wrong with that LOL. You can download the full OP single here!

8/10 I find the ED also quite enjoyable. It's sung by the same seiyu/singer Haruka Tomatsu and the title of the song is Musuhi no Toki. Nice ballad! Check it out:

A mp3 version of my piano covers!

Some people have requested an mp3 version of my youtube piano covers. It's always nice to have a few fans, so here are the mp3 versions of my piano covers. The sound quality however is the same as in the youtube videos, so it doesn't sound professional at all. I'm really sorry for that, but I'll be recording these songs again with a real mic this time instead of just my webcam. So I'll keep you all posted!

Sato Naoki - Sprinting Spirits (Eureka Seven)- Youtube version
Yuki Kajiura - Everlasting Song (Erementar Gerad)- Youtube version
Yuki Kajiura - Hoshi Ga Kanaderu Monogatari (Mai Otome)- Youtube version
Yoko Kanno - Ao no Ether (Macross Frontier)- Youtube version

Manga tutorial: How to draw giant mecha robot Mazinger Z step by step.

Manga tutorial: How to draw giant mecha robot Mazinger Z step by step.
Learn how to draw and paint quick color sketch visual concept art giant robot and city scape in a cinematic point of view. Step-by-step tutorial drawing and painting process.

This one is a really quick color sketch mark-up just to get some idea out. It is still lacking of many refine stage element.

Mazinger Z (マジンガーＺ, Majingā Zetto?), known as Tranzor Z in North America, is a manga series by Go Nagai, serialized in Shueisha Shōnen Jump from October 1972. December of the same year, an anime adaptation premiered on Fuji Television. The TV series ended September 1, 1974, outliving its manga counterpart.

Mazinger Z is a gigantic Super Robot, constructed with a fictitious metal called Chogokin Z (literally Super-Alloy Z), which is forged from a new element mined from a reservoir found only in the sediment of Japan's Mt. Fuji. The mecha was built by Professor Juzo Kabuto as a secret weapon against the forces of evil, represented in the series by the Mechanical Beasts (mecha used for evil purposes) of Dr. Hell.

Final speedpainting of Mazinger Z cinematic color sketch concept:
Here are step by step process: Visual cinematic color sketch concept Mazinger Z

1) Random big shapes to create some form of silhouette with some idea in mind.


2) Refine establishing shapes, as you can see, two huge sky scrapers and a robot form in the middle.


3) Refine the shape of the Giant Robot, Mazinger Z.


4) Established and separate foreground, mid, and background. Create illusion of depth using values. Also define the detail of the foreground, the two big skyscrapers.


5) Assign quick color scheme. Try to think cool and warm instead of just color.


6) Rearrange colors and values, clean up and quickly refine lighting.


7) Final color sketch: Mazinger Z


I hope you guys enjoy the process. :)

Coming UP NEXT time
-GoldRake or Grendizer
-Jet Jaguar from the Gozilla
-Shogun Warriors
-Jeeg Steel Robot or Kotetsu Jeeg
-Voltes V
- Great Mazinger

If you want to add more to the list of Retro Robots go to: cool Retro Giant Robot.

Related posts
-Who is your first cool Retro Giant Robot.
-Drawing Chibi robot Gigantor

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

New tutorials:
-Values exercise with three cubes
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Drawing and painting female nurse cartoon.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.
-How to draw chibi robot Gigantor step by step
-Drawing mutant humanoid creature head
-Digital painting tutorial technique Mecha commando
-How to paint water and mountain landscape technique

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

If you need any help or support you can
-post questions or comment on the post (seems to be the fastest way to get response)
Peace,

Daniel Dociu Concept Art Workshop in Seattle Jan 2009

Daniel Dociu Concept Art Workshop in Seattle Jan 2009
Between Jan 19th and March 27th (tentative dates), he'll be teaching an evening class at Digipen as part of their Continuing Education program. It'll be a one night a week for ten weeks hands-on course, three hours per session.

FYI: Daniel taught me most of what I know about concept art and anything in that nature in the past 4-5 years at least. He's also my boss and mentor. Just to be around the master, it's an extrodinary gift and extremely fortunate situation.

Good news for you guys around Seattle area. If you are interested please contact: daniel@arena.net

Here are some of his concept work:

copyright Daniel Dociu

View more of his work and goodies
His website:
www.tinfoilgames.com

Tuition, as proposed by the Digipen organizers, would be $ 998.- for a class of eight students, any additional students will result in LOWERING the fee.

Good news for you guys around Seattle area. If you are interested please contact: daniel@arena.net

Related Post:
-Daniel Dociu interview

Peace!

Paper Demon

The Paper Demon is the latest papertoy at horrorwood. The designer was unable to release a model last month but tries to make up by releasing this mini diorama. You can check it out here.

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Values study exercise: How to shade, render, tone, paint values drawing lesson, three cubes exercise part II

Values study exercise: How to shade, render, tone, paint values drawing lesson, three cubes exercise part II.

Continue from is part I: How to shade, render, tone, paint values drawing lesson

This is part one of the three cubes exercise. You have now done the one white cube. Here on this post there are one black one, and one a mid gray.

At this stage was to paint each one in isolation, now starting with the mid value, the black cube. Remember, paint the value as how you see it, not what you think you see.
Use

This tool to find the solid value if you are not sure what you are seeing:
(Click to enlarge. Save it then print out on a thick piece of paper.
Then cut them up into 10 pieces also cut off the circle hole to see thru.
Instruction is as in the pic below it.)


But challenge yourself, after a while by just squintting without relying on tool. :)

how to render and see value from the real object and apply it into your painting, illustration and concept design.

Here is Definition of Value as Munsell's Explain it.

Value, or lightness, varies vertically along the color solid, from black (value 0) at the bottom, to white (value 10) at the top. Neutral grays lie along the vertical axis between black and white.
Here is a mid value gray cube
Here is a black cube
After you complete the isolation practice: Now lay them all out together and paint the three cubes in one scene. This should be fun and you will learn that the darker object will see to have more contrast (hint, noticeable highlight so it appear lighter than it actually is.). But the lightest light on dark object is still not as light as the mid value of the white cube. See how you eyes sometimes deceive you?

Here are all three cubes:

TOOLs You'll need: *home made edition :)
And here is a printout of "white cube" (if you cannot find wooden cube)
Print this out on a thick piece of paper then fold them together you can create a box or cube for your exercise: (click on a bigger version, then right click to save...then print it!)
Gray Cube & Black Cube


Previous post or part I: How to shade, render, tone, paint values drawing lesson

Related posted:
-Color temperature warm vs cool for artist.
-Basic Color Scheme for Artist, Monochromatic.
-Achromatic color scheme
-Monochromatic color scheme
-Analogous color scheme
-Complimentary color scheme, basic.

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.


New tutorials:
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.
-How to draw chibi robot Gigantor step by step
-How to paint water and mountain landscape technique
-Art tutorial, how to paint gold armor

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

If you need any help or support you can
-post questions or comment on the post (seems to be the fastest way to get response)
Peace,