Wizard World Philly and Subway Sketching Postponed

Hi Everyone,

Friday May 30th to Sunday June 1st Bobby, T and I will be in Philadelphia for Wizard World Philly. Because of this, Subway Sketching is postponed until June 8th.

If you're in the area, come on by. We'd love to say hi!
We'll be at:
TABLE 1401-1403

Here are some recent subway sketches...rotating my pens and pencils for practice. Hope you like them :)


and..
Here's some killer links that we've wanted to add for quite some time but never got the chance to!
Sylvain Marc

Geneviève Godbout

Nathan Fowkes’ Landscapes

Nathan Fowkes

Erwin Madrid

Oren Haskins

Claudio Acciari

Aurélien Predal

Chhuy-Ing IA

there's more links to come...

-Kei

Online Art Class info and Observational Sketches!

Schoolism Classes Open for Registration:
Digital Painting Techniques with Bobby Chiu. Start date March 25, 2008.
Character Design by Silver. Start date June 3, 2008.
The Art of Caricature with Jason Seiler. Start date April 29, 2008.

Storyboarding with Kris Pearn will open for registration this coming Thursday March 20, 2008. Class starts in August.

Registration for Drawing Fundamentals With Marcelo Vignali - Coming soon.

For more information or to register, click HERE

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And here's some observational sketches I did recently. Most are from the Toronto Subway Sketch Group.

Kei

Subway Sketching and Pen Drawings

Here's a bunch of sketches. The yellow ones are from subway sketching and the rest were done on my recent trip to France. It's subtle but I think my sketches changed a bit during my time there.

Some people ask me why the yellow paper...
No reason. I found a stack of old yellow paper in a drawer and didn't want it to go to waste.

Subway Sketching is still on but Kei and I will not be there.

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the short notice but Subway Sketching is still on today but Kei and I will not be there. Our buddy Fez will be organizing things for us this weekend. Thanks Fez!
We'll be at Gerald Zeldin's Art Show. Usually we wouldn't miss out on subway sketching for any reason but it's important to show your respect for the people that have greatly influenced our (Kei and I) lives. Gerry is one of them.

Bobby

Here's some subway sketches!

Kei's Subway Sketches dump

Hey guys,

Its been a while! I hope to post more in the future, in the mean time--here are some of my subway sketches from the past week..







-Kei

Subway Sketching is on for this Sunday!

Sunday is Canadian Thanksgiving. It doesn't matter... We're still going subway sketching :)

Hope to see you there!

Here's a little sketch from our last session

Subway Sketches

Hi all,

Just a quick thank you for the warm welcome at Seneca College yesterday. I'm very excited about starting my digital painting techniques class there next Tuesday.

Great turnout last Sunday at subway sketchgroup! Here's some sketches that I did that day. Next meeting is this Sunday!

Subway Sketches from Sunday!

It was great to get back to some good ol' subway sketching on Sunday. Here's some I did yesterday. We'll be meeting back up next Sunday! Hope to see y'all there.

Kei

Subway Sketching this Sunday!

Here's a little sketch I did a few weeks ago at a sketch jam in San Diego.


Subway Sketching tomorrow (Sunday)! It's been a while due to conventions and traveling but now that convention season is over, we can get back to one of my favorite pass times... Subway Sketching! For more info click HERE

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He-man Fan Art contest was a blast! Thanks to all for their wonderful submissions. Kei and I will each pick a favorite and announce it on Friday September 7th. The 2 people that we pick will get our fan art sketches sent to them in the mail. This was a wonderful excuse to do something fun, free and not work related! Thanks everyone for participating!

Subway Sketches Art Exhibition this Saturday June 30, 7-10pm at the Labyrinth Store

Hi Everyone,

Kei and I are having our very first art show this Saturday June 30th, 7pm-10pm at the Labyrinth Store on Bloor St W just west of Spadina Avenue.

We'll be exhibiting a collection of sketches done in the subways of our beloved city of Toronto. These are original subway sketches taken straight out of our sketchbooks. You will also have the opportunity to purchase original sketches, prints and books as well as meet us in person and ask us questions.

It's going to be very exciting and fun for us so I hope you can come make it. We're also going to be premiering Imaginism Studios' 7th book - Subway Sketches. I hear the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) is going to be there as well.

Our Subway Sketches book is full of observational drawings, tips and tutorials as well as some killer guest artists!

Guest Artists
Louie del Carmen
Thierry Lafontaine <-- Thierry will also be there to sign books on Saturday
Jason Seiler
Stephen Silver
Dean Yeagle

The Subway Sketches book is a special limited edition out of the Imaginism collection. It's 72 full color pages, signed and numbered (limited to 500 copies).

All of the Subway Sketches books bought at the show or ordered online from now until the end of August will also come with an sketch from both Kei Acedera and I (Bobby Chiu). You can here.

I look forward to meeting and talking with everyone this Saturday!

Please click on the image below for directions to the Labyrinth store.

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

Subway Sketching is back on! ..and Motorcity con Review

And we're back from our little adventure in the Motorcity con! Though the attendance was not amazing, it was nice to meet new faces and for once, we really got to walk around and visit all the artists that came. Among the great artists that we had the pleasure to see again and meet for the first time were Sergio Aragones, Stan Sakai and Guy Davis..just amazing people. If you haven't heard of them, you should. All in all, it was a cute and modest con--and its only gonna get bigger!

So Subway sketching will resume this week as normal..hope to see you there!

Here's something I did from the line..

-Kei

Detroit Motor City Comicon May 18-20! Subway sketching is cancelled this Sunday.

Hi all

This Sunday subway sketching will be cancelled because we'll be at the Motor City Comicon! If you're in the area, feel free to come on by. I'm told its going to be a great show!

Here's a subway sketch from last Sunday. After, I sketched on it in Photoshop

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

Subway Sketching News

Hey Guys!

Subway Sketching will be cancelled this coming weekend, Feb. 18, because Bobby and I are gonna be at the NYC-Con!! But don't worry, it will be back on the following Sunday.

Can't wait to be in NY and see old friends and new..
In the meantime, here are some of my sketches from the line..

-Kei

Winter sketches - Bundle up cuz it's COOOOLD outside!!

Hi everyone,

Winter is definitely here. We're expecting high amounts of snow fall for the Toronto area today. I hope this will stop soon because we'll be travelling to NYC next week for the NYComicon.

Kei and I can't wait to go to California in March and get away from the freezing cold for a while.

Here's some new links added!
Ronnie Del Carmen

Seo Kim

John Nevarez

Kris Pearns

James Robertson

SIM-R

Rob Thompson


Just a reminder to all those in my Digital Painting class tomorrow to keep your ears on your radios if it keeps snowing like it has last night. My Tuesday class was cancelled by Sheridan College due to weather and the same might happen on Thursday. As for anyone in my Tuesday class, there will be an additional class on March 13 (week 10) to make up for yesterday's class.

Here's a couple of bundled up Canadians from the subway last Sunday. And yes subway sketching is still on for this Sunday unless otherwise noted. I think it'd be a great day to sketch people. They'll all look extra funny with all the additional layers they'll be wearing.

Bobby

CBC Radio will be at Subway Sketching this Sunday!

Hi all,

CBC Radio will be doing an interview with me and the Subway Sketchgroup this Sunday so come out if you can! Should be a load of fun!

Bobby