Award news and Elephant Boy!

Yippee! CGSociety.org gave me 2nd place in their CGPortfolio poll for most popular online gallery on their site :) Thank you CGTalkers!!


Other news, "On the Hunt" received a CGChoice award.


Here's a little commission I did in France for our hosts. One of our fan favorite prints is Whaleboy. Whaleboy was a painting I did for my buddy Patrick Morgan. It's a character he created with Ed Acosta and Taesoo Kim. Many times people would ask for sketches of Whaleboy as different versions... Tigerboy, Plantboy, Fishboy..etc. Here's one of those sketches. Look out Whaleboy! It's Elephant Boy! lol... sorry Patrick. Gotta give the fans what they want :)


Here's some insane links!
Jean Barbaud
Bill Cone

Lifedrawing at Seneca College

Today we went to Seneca College @ York U for lifedrawing. It was so much fun! I've been to lifedrawing pretty frequently recently but mostly just to teach so it was a great change to do some of my own studies. I brought my tablet pc to do some digital painting.
We had a wonderful model named Gay.
Here are some quick studies...
15-20min


5min
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*CAUTION - NUDITY


5min
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*CAUTION - NUDITY


5min
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO SEE WHOLE IMAGE
*CAUTION - NUDITY


5min
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO SEE WHOLE IMAGE
*CAUTION - NUDITY


Here's some amazing links!


William Wray Aka. Bill Wray
Bill Wray Aka. William Wray
Torsten Schrank
Daniela Strijleva
Justin Wright
Carlos Ruano
Joshua James
Annette Marnat
Florian Satzinger
Luc Desmarchelier

Dragon Painting WIP

Next Digital Painting class on Schoolism starts Nov.2
Register on SCHOOLISM.com

Here's update on the Dragon Painting work in progress...

This painting is NOT in the Dragon Sketches book but if you like to see more art on the topic of dragons, you can pre-order your copy of Dragon Sketches HERE.

Or click on the little book


So here's the WIP shots of the painting I'm working on right now.
Bobby











Some superb links!
Sam Nielson
Dennis Jones
Ismael Roldan
Tom Richmond
Paul Lasaine

3 more days till classes start at Seneca!

Digital Painting Techniques with Bobby Chiu starts at Seneca on Tuesday September 18th, 2007.

Course Description: Prepare to look at digital art in a whole new light by learning from award-winning digital artist Bobby Chiu! Over nine lessons, Bobby will teach you his philosophies and techniques for producing digital paintings and conceptual art by applying traditional art skills in the virtual environment of Adobe Photoshop. Be prepared to immerse yourself in practical assignments that will build your digital painting skills from the ground up. (Previous familiarity with Adobe Photoshop would be helpful but not necessary.)

9 week course
30 Student maximum
Cost $595

Starting date: September 18th, 2007 (Tuesdays 7pm-10pm)
Bring your own Wacom Tablet! Only a small amount of tablets will be available to borrow.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

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On another note... some days I wake up with a sketch in my head and it won't get out of my head until I draw it down. This morning was one of those days.
It's some sort of Asian assassin.


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Some very sweet links!
Sam Nielson

Dennis Jones

Ismael Roldan

Tom Richmond

He-Man contest ending Aug 31st 11:59pm

Hi all,

The He-Man contest has been a lot of fun to watch! It's almost a shame the fun has to end. This is a fun and free contest to promote some good wholesome drawing. There's still time to do your sketching! Contest closes Friday August 31 11:59pm Eastern time. Click HERE for more info.

Here are the entries so far!.. in no particular order

Charles Santoso


Crylic


Dave


Mr.Scribbles


Frodon


Tababongchi


Jer


Jonny Dark


Kate



Matthew Blair


Rawls


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Toronto Fan Expo 2007

Amazing as always. Thanks so much to EVERYONE that came by the booth to show us some love. We had an amazing time. Next year will be bigger and better. I can feel it.

Here's some pics:

Best costume goes to this little man with the white hair


A picture of our booth


A super cool fan with one of my paintings as a tattoo


Here's a funny doodle given to me by a very talented student (Thalia) from Seneca College.



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Here's some MUST SEE links!!
James Jean
Paul Pope
Francis Manapul
Humberto Ramos <--new address
Francisco Herrera <-- new address
Rawls

Chicago Wizard World was amazing...

Chicago Wizard World was amazing... Thank you to everyone for a fantastic time!

Kei, T and I had our first piece of real authentic Chicago pie and boy was it AMAZING! No I don't mean some little fruit filled pie like grandma used to make. I'm talking about some thick juicy pizza pie... best I've ever tasted. Big thanks goes out to our buddy Jason Seiler for showing us what real pizza is supposed to taste like.


Besides the amazing food, we had an incredible show. Our Creature Sketches book is officially SOLD OUT! I'm sure going to miss that book.

Also another big thanks goes out to Michael Wright and Quanza (my apologies in advance if I didn't spell that right) for inviting our crew out with them. They showed us a wonderful time!

We had the pleasure of sitting beside Jason Seiler and Stephen Silver during the Chicago Wizard World Comicon. It was caricature heaven. Here's a clip of Seiler drawing a caricature of one of his fans. New podcast coming soon, I promise. As soon as I get a free moment


Here's another link to an amazing mind blowing caricaturist
Joe Bluhm Joe is the author of a fabulous new book called REJECTS. Besides the art, my favorite part about this book is all the writing. It's so interesting to read a glimpse of how it is to be a pro-event caricature artist. He's going to be at TCAF with us this weekend so come on down and show him some love, buy his book and get a caricature!

EXPOSÉ 5 - Excellence Award for Big Bad Bunny Eater

Yay for the Big Bad Bunny Eater! It one an 'EXCELLENCE' award in EXPOSÉ 5 for the 'Humorous' category. Thanks very much Ballistic Publishing!





And here's some links you won't want to miss!
Adam Rex
Enrico Casarosa
Victor Navone
John Beatty
Francisco Herrera

Digital Painting Classes, Comicon, Subway Sketches Book and Links

Hi Everyone,

Lots going on so here's a bunch of updates.


Registration OPEN on Schoolism.com for Digital Painting Classes with Bobby Chiu
Classes Start August 07, 2007.
There are 12 seats avalible. Sign up HERE


Today is the first day of the Paradise Toronto Comicon. The convention will be at the Direct Energy Centre @ Exhibition Place, Hall C
Open this
Friday 3-8pm
Saturday 10am-6:30pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

OUR BOOTH #CA34 (We should be just by Artist Alley)
If you're in the area, come on by and say hi! Kei Acedera and I will both be there.

Sheridan College Digital Painting Classes - CANCELED.
Unfortunately I've had to cancel my digi painting classes at Sheridan College. I will not be starting anymore classes at Sheridan. It's too far of a drive and I just don't have enough time in my schedule to drive out there every week. Thanks for the great time Sheridan! I'll miss all you Oakvillians.

Last bit of news: Subway Sketches Book coming June 30th. We'll be having an art show for the release of our book at Spadina & Bloor. More info coming soon.

Now for some killer links:
Sebastian Kruger
Scott Morse
Ted Mathot
Nick Sung
Aurelie Blard-Quintard
Alex Woo

Subway Sketching cancelled. We'll be at the Paradise Toronto Comicon

Hi everyone!

Subway sketching is canceled this Sunday 10th because we'll be at the Paradise Toronto Comicon June 8-10, 2007 Direct Energy Centre @ Exhibition Place, Hall C Toronto, Canada FRIDAY - 03:00-8:00 SATURDAY - 10:00-06:30 SUNDAY - 11:00-05:00

Here's a couple of great links and a page of subway sketches. Sometimes I'll redraw the same design over and over. The pic below is an example of this.
Alex Cote
Marko Djurdjevic

Lifedrawing at TSA

One of the things I love to do and teach is lifedrawing.

Here's a 15min drawing I did last night at TSA in Toronto.

It was done with a Col-erase pencil. Paper is 9x12inches. Then I dropped it into PS to spice it up a bit but the drawing was unaltered.

Bobby

Here's some more must see blogs that I should have linked long ago.

It's great to see more talented studios in Toronto.
Check out House of Cool

Life drawing junkie and one of the best blogs
to find news and other random stuff about
the animation industry Alan Cook

A friend of mine I haven't talked to
for much too long. Robin Joseph

Amazing animal designer! Andrew Shek

Super talent - Bill Presing

Creature Art!

Here's some random stuff out of one of my sketchbooks. Creature art and dog boy.
These were done during our flight back from California.





I had reference for the dog.


Here are some truly killer links!
Humberto Ramos
Scottie Young
Jose Luis Munuera
Mike Kunkel
Sylvain Guinebaud
Cloudy Pool
Pierre Alary
Kahnehteh

Bobby

Video Podcast about Schoolism.com

Hi everyone,

I've been receiving many questions wanting to know more info about my online classes at Schoolism.com so I figured I'd talk about it in my podcast. If there's any other questions please don't hesitate to ask.

This latest sketch was inspired by an old man that I saw on the subway last week.


Bobby

Here's some more great links!
Marcelo Vignali
Trevor Jimenez
Nick Thornborrow
Brandon Scott
Jake Parker
Ben Mauro
Shelly Wan
Bobby’s Subway Sketch Group Blog





Also I'm happy to say that "Big Bad Bunny Eater" was awarded a cg choice award 2007 and is also going to be in EXPOSE 5.

Links and Life Drawing

Here's a little lifedrawing I did yesterday in class on my tablet PC. The great thing about digital lifedrawings are that you can strip away the layers and see all the steps!

Bobby



And here's some more links!
Gabriele Pennacchioli
Joel Trussell
Kristen McCabe
Gary Ham
Martin Wittig
Chris Chua
Mr.Scribbles
Lelis
Kevin Dalton
SMOOK

Drawings, Doodles, Sketches

Here's a page of doodles I did a little while ago. Splashed some tones on there this morning and figured I'd post it. Usually if I have a hard time getting down to work, I'd start sketching mindlessly just to get the juices flowing. Sometimes these doodles go a little overboard and I spend more time then I should on them but hey as long as I had fun right?

And here's some links!
Nate Wragg
Uwe Heidschoetter
Spline Doctors
Ashley Wood

Bobby

Toronto Subway Sketches

Just a reminder that Toronto Subway Sketch Group is back on so come out if you can! Thanks to all those that came out this Sunday. It was great to see everyone again and the new people as well.

Here's some links!
Linton Joseph
"Cheeks"
Steve Lambe
Lou Romano

Creature art

Here's another creature sketch I did today.


And here's some more great blogs!!
David Coleman
Patrick Morgan
Alina Chau
Ragnar

Creature concepts

Another late night. Here's a couple creature concepts I did just now.


Here's a few more fantastic blogs!
Jason Seiler
Jose Lopez
Sparth
Erik Tiemens

Whoops! Lost our links!

Whoooops! In an attempt to update the blog, somehow our links got wiped out! Sorry about that to all those we were linked to. I'll start some new links soon!
Checkout some of these amazing blogs if you haven't already...

Alberto Ruiz
Ben Balistreri
Character Design
Drawn!
Justin Ridge
Kevin Dart
Robin Mitchell
Shaz Lym
Stephen Silver
Tod Harris
Ryan Wood