Warm up: Hog Tied

Want to see my warm up stuff? Here's a quickie from today. Professionals will tell you that warm ups are very important before starting your drawing day.

Bobby

Memories of Japan.

Kei and I were fortunate to travel to Japan back in May 2010. We visited Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hakone. We loved it there. People were so unbelievably polite and there was a wonderful sense of morals as well as a beautiful unique culture. The beauty of the land was incomparable as it's architecture and design.

We have been so sad to hear and see the devastation the earthquake and tsunami has brought to these wonderful people.

I did this drawing below for the people of Japan. This and a copy of our "Ancient Japan Sketches" (currently sold out) will be auctioned off. The book is signed and drawn in by Kei Acedera.

We will be holding the auction on Thursday.

The proceeds will go to ARTISTS HELP JAPAN organized by the amazing Dice Tsutsumi.

New Bobby Chiu Original Art Available!

Hey Everyone,

We have just made available a number of Original artwork by Bobby Chiu in the 'Original' section of our Imaginism Store.

With every purchase you will receive a Certificate of Authenticity that is signed and dated by the artist.

To purchase an item, please email us and tell us the title of the item you'd like. We will then send you a request for payment. Items are available at a first come, first serve basis.

Whenever we have original art available, we send out preview newsletters for our collectors who have subscribed. To join the mailing list and be notified for future previews of originals, please click here.


Title: Rockin' Cowboy
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 6.5'' x 10''
Material: Ballpoint Pen on paper
Price: $80


Title: Help Me!
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 8'' x 10''
Material: Ballpoint Pen on paper
Price: $200


Title: The Chase
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 8'' x 10''
Material: Ballpoint Pen on paper
Price: $150


Title: Mother and Child
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 6.5'' x 10''
Material: Pencil on paper
Price: $80


Title: Parenthood
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 6.5'' x 10''
Material: Pencil on paper
Price: $80


Title: Ink Sketch
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 5'' x 7''
Material: India Ink on paper
Price: $60


Title: Big Belly
Artist: Bobby Chiu
Size: 5'' x 5''
Material: Pencil on paper
Price: $80

Sketchoholic Marathons

Each of these speed paintings are approx. 30-45min

They were all done during Sketchoholic.com Marathons.

Each person had just under an hour to come up with and upload an illustration based off the topic from the previous winner.

After everyone uploaded their entries, we all vote on our favorite.

The art marathons we have on Sketchoholic.com are just for fun and is an amazing art workout for the brain. Hope some of you will join us in the future. It's a great free activity that is open for anyone worldwide.

Marathons are usually weekdays at 2pm ET/11am PT on SKETCHOHOLIC.com

Bobby

Sketchoholic Marathons

Topic: Animal Chef


Topic: Kids Playing


Topic: Undead Space Ranger


Topic: Electrified Elf


Topic: Cowgirl Granny


Each of these speed paintings are approx. 45min

They were all done during Sketchoholic.com Marathons.

Each person had just under an hour to come up with and upload an illustration based off the topic from the previous winner.

After everyone uploaded their entries, we all vote on our favorite.

The art marathons we have on Sketchoholic.com are just for fun and is an amazing art workout for the brain. Hope some of you will join us in the future. It's a great free activity that is open for anyone worldwide.

Next marathon is Monday 2pm ET/11am PT on SKETCHOHOLIC.com

Bobby

Wall-Street Cyclops

I've really enjoyed listening to the Sketchoholic interviews these past week from Pixarians Derek Thompson, Aaron Hartline, Everett Downing and Nate Wragg. They're all VERY inspiring and really provide an honest glimpse of what it takes to be a successful working artist.

Here's a sketch that I did while watching Nate's interview, my take on his "Wall-Street Cyclops"!




-Kei

My Little Buddy

Here's a little drawing of a pet I want for Christmas. He would be my little buddy. Too bad they don't exist. Ah well... I'm going to be giving away this drawing on CHIUSTREAM tonight so tune in at 11:59pm EST/NY time, 23:59 -5GMT, 8:59pm PST/CA time. Tune in at http://chiustream.blogspot.com

Excuse me, what are you doing on my nose?

Just recently, I caught the flu..


..but feeling much better now..take care everyone! and wash your hands!

Hedge Monster

Here's a sketch I originally posted on my FACEBOOK

It's a special sketch of a painting that's on my to do list...I hope to make the group on FACEBOOK a little more special by posting some images there first.
This one is called "Hedge Monster Sketch"

<3 Kei

Bubble Bath !

This was a gift for our good friends Bill and Ikumi..
I'm glad to have found friends who love pin-ups! (Btw, Bill is the king of pin-ups!)

Bisoux,
Kei

Baby Alien

Did a fun 24hr poll yesterday on our Deviantart page which one I should do a "Cute Version" of: Predator, Alien or Pinhead.

Honestly when I was posting the poll I was thinking I would love to do a little baby Predator with big round eyes or a Pinhead as a cute 3d anime-ish version but the crowd has spoken and "Alien" won it by a landslide.

But once I started painting little baby Alien, I really enjoyed it! So thanks everyone that participated!

Bobby

Poison Heart Bear

I had a 24 hr poll yesterday on Deviantart.com about which character to paint as an "Evil Version". The choices were:
- Pikachu from Pokemon
- Care Bears
- Slimer from the Ghostbusters
- Momo from Avatar

It was a closer one but Care Bears ended up beating Pikachu in the end.

So here's my "Poison Heart Bear". Don't know what went wrong with this bear but none of the other Care Bears want to play with him.

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I also have a new 24hr poll going on right now. Which one should I do as a "cute version"? Predator, Aliens or Pin Head from Hell Raiser? vote here --> http://imaginism.deviantart.com/

Cat bus, Imaginism news and new schoolism info

Here's a little sketch of the Cat Bus from Totoro :)

and some news...

- FREE SHIPPING on our books again! After many requests we're now selling our books on our site as well as Brand Studios.
If you don't mind waiting a bit longer so you get free shipping you can buy the books from our STORE.
If you buy from Brand Studio then you'd probably get your books quicker but might have to pay for shipping.

- 8 more originals for sale in our STORE

- The Conceptart.org workshop was amazing. If you ever have the opportunity, definitely make the trip. It's so inspiring and fun. Thanks to everyone that came! It was great to meet and speak with many influential people in the industry and feel honored to have been a part of something so pure and wonderful.

- It looks like the Pet Monsters book is going to be a bit delayed... we just want to make it perfect and it's been taking much longer than we anticipated. The good news is that at the same time we've been working on our Life Drawing book and that's been going much better since we do life drawing so regularly. So it looks like the Life Drawing book is going to come out before the Pet Monsters book.

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SCHOOLISM ONLINE CLASSES:

- Digital Painting with Bobby Chiu is now registering for class starting on June 22, 2009.

- Building a Powerful Comic Book Portfolio with Alvin Lee is now registering for class starting April 24, 2009.

- Character Design by Silver is now registering for class starting on June 8, 2009.

- The Art of Caricature with Jason Seiler is now registering for class starting April 10, 2009.

- Storyboarding with Kris Pearn is now available as SELF STUDY course.

More info at SCHOOLISM.COM

Hellboy take two..

For Jason (in San Fran)! Hope you like it!
-Kei

HELLBOY Drawing

So you might have noticed we've been posting more of our sketches (as well as our finished works) so that we'd be able to update more often.

This one was fun to do.

Done with ballpoint pen.

Oooh magic.

an oldie..

<3Kei

Fish.

Sketchy, sketchy...

Sketchcrawl at the Metro Toronto Zoo this Saturday

Looks like there's going to be a whole bunch of people coming to the Sketch Crawl this Saturday in Toronto!
We're meeting at 12:15pm Saturday Oct 25 at the front entrance of the Metro Toronto Zoo.
Here are directions if anyone needs them
http://www.torontozoo.com/AboutTheZoo/Directions.TTC.asp
We'll post pictures next week sometime.

Here's a little sketch of a monkey with a banana :)

Subway Sketching tomorrow!

Answer to the last post: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that Kei and I will be meeting up with the Toronto subway sketchgroup tomorrow!

Also for those of you interested, Udon Comics is having a Street Fighter Tribute signing at the Beguiling tomorrow starting at 6pm. Kei and I might not make it to this one but we're going to try.... depends how much work we get done today.
For more info: http://www.beguiling.com/streetfighter/