Rebecca Color test sketch

Figuring out how I will make Rebecca glow like a ghost  using pencil crayons.

Rebecce Film Process Work

Exploration sketches for a piece I will be painting based on the film Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock. I loved the scene where the new Mrs De Winter (Joan Fontain) enters Rebecca De Winters old room. Super spooky. I wanted to show the dead and lavish Rebecca Looming ,judging. Its not in the film that way of course, too literal. But for the sake of a single image, I feel it sets the tone. Its really fun imagining what Rebecca would look like as a ghost. I'm dressing her in an haute couture gown mixed with the costume she was painted in for her menacing portrait in the film.

Really exited to be participating in "The Movie Show" at Galerie Daniel Maghen in Paris!
Amazing talent this year, exited to start my piece for the show. Keep checking the blog for artist updates. Ill post my process for my piece here on this blog =) 

I have been featured on cartoon brew as artist of the day!

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PASTELS AGAIN

Random sketchbook dump, and pastels. The top is a study of my backyard, the bottom is drawn in high park. The bottom one was drawn with a pastel set i discovered in my room from a couple years ago. It was missing any reddish greens, so it was hard to get believable greens.
I had to wait at Union Square San Francisco by myself one day because i was waiting to do an orientation with a company called CDS that runs a program for foreign students coming to the states, so i drew the square.

The sketch of the fish was done in an aquarium in san fran. I was mesmorized. All anchovies do is swim in circles. There were over 500 of them in a huge tank just swimming counter clockwise the entire time i was in there they did not deviate off course. Also they have a hyper extended jaw, everytime they open their mouth it looks like they are disconnecting all the bones in their face.

LEARNING TO PAINT

During my 3 month internship at Pixar i had the opportunity to study painting with pastels under Bill Cone. I have been wanting to learn to paint and understand colour for a long time and was very greatful to have that opportunity.
Learning about colour was an eye opening experiance.
These are the pastels from Bills class.
I wanted to post a couple of my recent pastels aswell, but i do not have the scanner connected yet. I will post them as soon as i can. I want to keep exploring the medium, i find that it is helping me alot with composition and my personal illustrations.

EMERYVILLE ROOM-MATE

Katy Wu vs soggy cereal.

GUITAR MUSIC TREE

A sketch coloured in photoshop.