Sketchbook Thread of zhuzhu

#201

zhuzhu,

    [John Derry](http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?userid=109721) is a regular frequenter of CGTalk's Painter Forum. I would recommend contacting him about OASIS if he wrote the foreward. :)
   
   It sounds as though Oasis was an early image program, perhaps introduced around 1990:
   
   [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:9zV49KXRFoUJ:www.dam.org/gartel/1990.htm+%22Time+Arts+Oasis%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1](http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:9zV49KXRFoUJ:www.dam.org/gartel/1990.htm+%22Time+Arts+Oasis%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
   
   'Time Arts Oasis' means that Time Arts was the company that created Oasis, a Macintosh application.

1990
Also introduced at that time were programs such as Time Arts “Oasis” software and Electronic Arts “Studio 8” and “Studio 32” software. These were the programs of choice before Letraset’s ColorStudio and Adobe’s Photoshop really took hold of the market. These early programs however allowed me to explore unique possibilities that were currently non existent prior. For example, one could create all sorts of color ramping in order to make unique fills. Colors could also be smudged and manipulated. In the case of the Studio package, images could be made in multiple perspectives thus allowing a single image to be replicated in space. Either way the tools were giving way to myriads of creative choice.

It sounds like Oasis was an early image editor like Photoshop, but not nearly as advanced.

 If the translation is to be sold, you will need to get the permission of the original authors / publishers to publish a translated version. :)
 
   Cheers,
    
    ~Rebeccak
#202

Rebecca: thanks~! it’s very nice of you~:love: i will contact John Derry soon.

#203

Aawww love that! Man - that is art beyond reality. Love how you’ve incorporated so many colours into one piece and made it look more than real with it. Really love what you’ve done, more so how you’ve done it and of course what it means. This is piece is speaking.

well done - loving it. update soon!

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#204

No problem, zhuzhu! Good luck with the translation, it sounds like a lot of work! :eek:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#205

There is no need to say you are amazing , just keep up :thumbsup:

#206

Zhuzhu - I’m in love with your paintings :love: This thread just makes me happy.

PS what was your reference for the last image?

#207

Such a nice painting! Keep it up! I love occasionally looking atyour stuff!

#208

Damn I’m going to cry, that is so amazing!! So many colors and they look trully great in that peace. Such a brushwork!! AAAaahhh!!!

#209

zhuzhu, you’re amazing!! I absolutely love your work. :thumbsup:

#210

I just checked back into this thread for the first time in weeks and it was a bit of a strain really to browse through all these wonderful studies.

I was continually like “Ah, Oh, Uh, wonderful, wow…”

I will have to check in more often so I can take the beauty of it all in smaller chunks…:smiley:

#211

thanks you guys~! it is hard to save time to paint something, keeping busy all the time laterly~!:twisted:

in Painter IX:

#212

Yo zhuzhu

wow dude - last one is fantastic - especially love her eye: there’s a personality and a moment in her eye, and you’ve handled conveying these very well - once again the picture is speaking. Loving it.

Eagerly await your next update dude,

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#213

zhuzhu,

that last one is stunning in its simplicity! so economic with your strokes. One stroke creates complete emotion.

Some questions, if you don’t mind:

I see you using Painter IX and we all know you’re the expert on watercolors, both traditional and digital:

  • Do you use the PainterIX watercolor engine (not the digital watercolor, I mean the brushes that go on a watercolor layer)?

  • How do you set the brushes up?

  • Do you still prefer Photoshop for your digital WC (using your brushes) or PainterIX or do you use both of them?

I am asking, because I can’t handle Painter’s watercolor brushes yet. If anyone can, you should be the man, so I am asking you…:smiley:

#214

demented:thanks~! glad you like it.

Mu:thank you. about the Watercolor brushes in Painter, i think they are not easy uesd for basic painting.i mean it is hard to cortrol the brushwork cause most of them are “buildup” method.i’d like to use them for effect in the final steps. the “Lift Canvas To Water Color Layer” can make every painting convert as Watercolor layer.so you can use the Watercolor brushes to edit the Watercolor layer.

Photoshop and Painter both work for me~~~:) whatever solely or mix used.but i like Photoshop better.

#215

the “Lift Canvas To Water Color Layer” can make every painting convert as Watercolor layer.so you can use the Watercolor brushes to edit the Watercolor layer.

Oh wow! That feature completely slipped through my attention! Sounds great, I will try it.

:thumbsup:

#216

wow!! you’re strikeing me hard man!! :slight_smile:
no words!

#217

You are making me step up my work in my anatomy thread. WOW!

Keep on posting:thumbsup:

#218

use photo reference from I5 Minute Sketchathon

[ Dancer ]



#219

:eek:
are you sure it’s not illegal to be that good that quick?

I tried that pose, too and totally failed compared to you.
That is so inspiring! Erm, not my failure, but your treatment of the pose…:smiley:

The way you captured the essence and beauty of the two dancers!

So few strokes. So little time.

Argh!

:cry:

:bowdown:

#220

This last one rocks my boat! Love what it is doing. You have put the life back into the figures you have drawn, and they are no longer just two figures on a canvas. If I ever get to you where you are, I will be a happy chappy.

EDIT: I have a question - do you always start with a midtone? Now that I think about it, it seems alot more useful…

keep inspiring,

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