/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.1584501]

ruan jia / weibo artists thread

[Anonymous No.1584502]

what his sketches/thumbnail for >>1584501
looked like

[Anonymous No.1584505]

>>1584502
fuck forgot to attach img

[Anonymous No.1584508]

Link for his blog: http://weibo.com/ruanjiacg1
To register go to weibo.com and click in the red button.
Some people can, some others don't, and we don't fucking understand anything, but that's part of the thrill.

[Anonymous No.1584509]

[Anonymous No.1584514]

Work from a guy that goes as HJGART, if you guys can register, be sure to check ruan jia follows and start lurking around the hyperlinks and stuff so we can gather cool things from across the WEIB.

[Anonymous No.1584518]

Found link to sunzheng sketchbook from what it seems to be the chinesse equivalent of conceptart.org:

http://www.ccgaa.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=31692&extra=&page=1

I'ts really funny to se how he did lots of practices of westerns artist like kekkai when he was starting.

Guys, I'm just coming across links by pure chance, and I don't understand jack shit so I'd be very glad if you can help me scavenge treasures around!

[Anonymous No.1584519]

Thanks a lot for posting this stuff. Any more wips and sketches from Ruanjia? Maybe some workflow stuff like that portrait proccess pic you(?) posted in the last thread?

[Anonymous No.1584520]

from random chinesse guy whose name I don't understand

[Anonymous No.1584521]

Process from Zhongfengzhua : http://www.lofcg.com/html/lm_67.html

[Anonymous No.1584523]

Gonna post more sweet stuff If I see some people giving me a hand. I don't wanna do all the hard work alone.

[Anonymous No.1584524]

>>1584519
didn't really find anything else on his blog

>>1584523
i can keep doing this for a little while

process pic by a guy named yang qi

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>>1584527
>>1584526

Oh fuck yeah. Does Yang Qi have a sketchbook on that site or where did you find this?

[Anonymous No.1584537]

i'm so fucking excited

can already tell this is gonna be my favourite thread since a long time, and for a long time.

god bless you op.

this shit teaches you SO much, and gets you so excited and motivated to paint

[Anonymous No.1584538]

>>1584535
http://www.weibo.com/yangqi917

[Anonymous No.1584541]

Some of the goodies I found in the sunzheng sketchbook

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>>1584538
Can you post some more stuff from there please? He's easily one of my favorite chinese artists. Does he have more process images?

[Anonymous No.1584546]

holy jesus christ i'm actually tearing up at how beautiful this image is.

it's part of a constellation series by http://www.weibo.com/hgjart.. this is gemini

[Anonymous No.1584550]

>>1584546
jesus...

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>>1584546

[Anonymous No.1584555]

process by the same guy

[Anonymous No.1584556]

>>1584518
A shame that site doesn't seem to have any rating system for their sketchbook section like ca.org has. That way it'd be much easier to find the great artists.

[Anonymous No.1584558]

Holy fucking shit. Tutorial for this image: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_632bafad0101e2l1.html

We need to do raid like this more often.

[Anonymous No.1584559]

>>1584555
full image

[Anonymous No.1584563]

left is when he was admitted to school (art school i'm guessing) and right is when he graduated. shit.

[Anonymous No.1584568]

>>1584563
top is start of school, bottom is half a year later....!!!

[Anonymous No.1584569]

>>1584556
Nevermind I'm an idiot.

[Anonymous No.1584571]

>>1584569
there is?!!!! Explain please!!!!

[Anonymous No.1584573]

Usually the content in this board isn't much different from your average crimsondaggers threads, but you DO really shine from time to time, d/ic/ks...

[Anonymous No.1584576]

>>1584558
this is amazing.

[Anonymous No.1584578]

>>1584546
Wow that is one gay picture. Don't get me wrong, it's great craftsmanship and whatnot, but it's hella gay.

[Anonymous No.1584581]

>>1584578
its fucking gemini. what do u expect

[Anonymous No.1584583]

>>1584571
Well it's kind of weird, some of the sketchbooks have star ratings but the vast majority don't. And even those who do have them don't make much sense. Like some rather mediocre guys have 4 star SBs meanwhile sunzheng got a 3 star SB.

[Anonymous No.1584585]

>>1584583
if you find more please do share! I'm scavenging weibo for more cool stuff right now.

[Anonymous No.1584587]

process gif

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[Anonymous No.1584596]

metal process by HGJART

[Anonymous No.1584610]

>>1584578

i agree. it's so gay it makes you a bit worried for liking the pure technical side of it so much.

[Anonymous No.1584611]

>>1584610
:)

[Anonymous No.1584612]

Ginogino process, a bit cropped but still usefull.

>>1584611
y-you too!

[Anonymous No.1584617]

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[Anonymous No.1584620]

sorry im posting so much hgjart, his stuff is so fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.1584622]

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[Anonymous No.1584633]

how many chains can one man draw

[Anonymous No.1584635]

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[Anonymous No.1584637]

>>1584636
process pic

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>>1584635
come on fuckers, i can't do this alone

[Anonymous No.1584638]

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[Anonymous No.1584642]

that feel when you realize your art heros are dwarfed by these asian dudes you've never heard of before. holy shit thread of the year EASILY

[Anonymous No.1584643]

>>1584642
its realy funny though. a lot of them admire mullins, jaime jones, and traditional painters like richard schmid

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[Anonymous No.1584647]

anyone managed to get past this?

[Anonymous No.1584648]

I'm back, had to do some chores around the house. I'll start posting stuff again.

[Anonymous No.1584654]

>>1584647
just look up tutorials online on how to sign up for weibo. you should be able to find something
that page though is asking where you live (the option in your pic is set to China (中国), scroll down until you see something like 美国 which is america..if that's where u live)
the option after that is asking for your phone number???
and then the third one i'm guessing is the activation code. maybe they'll send you something via phone, i dont'remember how i signed up for my account

[Anonymous No.1584657]

Ginogino process 0/1

[Anonymous No.1584660]

>>1584657
1/1

[Anonymous No.1584668]

Jesus christ....

[Anonymous No.1584671]

Pic from Weaboo jia.

[Anonymous No.1584682]

Holy illidan and malfurion.

[Anonymous No.1584686]

>>1584682
that is incredible.

[Anonymous No.1584687]

>>1584686
man, you really got gay for HGJART

[Anonymous No.1584690]

>>1584687
yeah. i found my new favorite artist today :) lol
also i'm female :P

[Anonymous No.1584693]

>>1584625
detail

[Anonymous No.1584694]

>>1584671
Another one from weaboo jia.

Friends who are trying to register but can't, try with firefox. It didn't let me when I was trying with chrome but with firefox it let me just fine. Also, try to join via the red button here: www.weibo.com

[Anonymous No.1584695]

b&w -> color

[Anonymous No.1584705]

>>1584671
>>1584694
Wait, is this actually Ruanjia or some other artist who is really great at copying Ruanjia's painting technique?

[Anonymous No.1584708]

>>1584705
>other guy, it doesn't even looks like something made by him, is just... a bit similar, but weaboo content.

[Anonymous No.1584712]

>>1584708
whoops, sorry for the greentext.

[Anonymous No.1584721]

KEEP LOOTING AND POSTING

*cracks the whip*

[Anonymous No.1584722]

>>1584721
Only if you guys start helping!

[Anonymous No.1584723]

>>1584705
maybe it's his older work.

[Anonymous No.1584724]

>>1584723
it isn't it's another artist.
His older work was worse than that, haha.

[Anonymous No.1584730]

>>1584724
are you guessing?

[Anonymous No.1584732]

>>1584730
nop, I saw it. It's horrofying.

[Anonymous No.1584733]

>>1584694
that face to head ratio tho

[Anonymous No.1584739]

>>1584722
tell me where to start. I have hard time figuring the layout of the site

[Anonymous No.1584742]

>>1584739
http://weibo.com/p/1005051581734707/follow?relate=fans_follow&from=page_100505_home&wvr=5.1&mod=fanslikemore
people who ruan jia follows.
Then is just like you would browse in facebook. People like stuff from other people, it gets you to their blo,g you check their stuff, etc.

Captcha: Aryant experienced

[Anonymous No.1584747]

>>1584739
google chrome's translate function makes it a lot easier to navigate the site

[Anonymous No.1584751]

>>1584733
i guess she needs more skull to support the horns

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[Anonymous No.1584761]

thanks for posting these, I dont have the patience to log into that site.

[Anonymous No.1584763]

I found a guy who is like the second coming of bekinski.

Jesus christ how horrorifying

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[Anonymous No.1584766]

maybe someone can just post the login info he used to enter weibo

plz

i will contribute with all my might

[Anonymous No.1584767]

>>1584766
only if you are the real muh.

[Anonymous No.1584773]

>>1584767

fuk. busted.

[Anonymous No.1584787]

>>1584611
its ok 2 b gay

[Anonymous No.1584797]

tfw when Chinese website robots won't even send me texts ;_;.

[Anonymous No.1584808]

When I first tried to sign up I clicked it away when I saw it needed a phone number. Now every time I try again it tells me 'Registered too frequently, please try again later'. I waited nearly 12 hours and it still gives me the damn message. Absolute bullshit.
Tried a proxy site but they don't load the pop-up. At least not the ones I've tried, so does anyone know one that might work?

[Anonymous No.1584810]

>>1584808
Try with firefox.

[Anonymous No.1584811]

>>1584808
They don't want us to have their secrets, anon. Don't give up!

[Anonymous No.1584813]

Have the chosen ones already left us?
Has anyone found any tutorials to register or avoid that text thing?

[Anonymous No.1584815]

>>1584518
anybody found anything else in this forum?

[Anonymous No.1584817]

>>1584813
i'm one of the people who already had a weibo account.
http://www.weibo.com/signup/signup.php?from=usweibo
I just signed up for another account through that link with no problems. Email, password, nickname, capcha. then i put US as my area, put in my phone number, clicked the A-Code button, and the site sent my phone an activation code. then I put the code in and voila.
i'm on chrome btw.

[Anonymous No.1584822]

>>1584501
That...is...It's beautiful.

[Anonymous No.1584823]

>>1584817

I'm stuck on the code thing. The first several times it supposedly sent it, I got nothing. Now it just flat out tells me that it can't send me one and called me a little bitch.

[Anonymous No.1584827]

There is absolutely zero logic behind this progress. In first year of his drawing (traditional and digital) you can see SOME progress, but nothing too dramatical. But then in the next year of doing art, his skill jumped from novice to professional.
I've seen progress of guys like Dave Rapoza, Hannes, Janashi and all other "famous" guys from Cghub and CA but none of them can't even get fucking close to the progress he achieved in a fucking year.
Not to mention how high his skills are now..

[Anonymous No.1584834]

>>1584817
awesome, post more stuff or cool users if you find something!

[Anonymous No.1584841]

>>1584827
WHAT THE FUCK

[Anonymous No.1584847]

>>1584827


fuuuuuuuck.....

[Anonymous No.1584849]

>>1584827
Dude, all of that early work is from
http://www.ccgaa.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=31692&extra=&page=1

That's Sunzheng, not Ruanjia. That guy is pretty damn good too, but he's nowhere near Ruanjia's level either.

Ruanjia has been doing art way longer than you think. This is something he posted on conceptart.org back in 2008.

[Anonymous No.1584860]

>>1584849
I'm so fucking happy that you guys found that sketchbook today and all that ruan jia works that we haven't seen before. Thanks based d/ic/ks

[Anonymous No.1584876]

Would anyone with a weibo account care to check out http://www.weibo.com/yangqi917 and post some of his work from there? Someone posted a process image earlier in this thread and I'd love to know if there's more of this sort of stuff where that came from.

[Anonymous No.1584878]

here's his cghub account
http://yangqi917.cghub.com

[Anonymous No.1584882]

>>1584876
those were the only process images i could find.

found this one too though. the rest of the images on his blog are on his cghub, i think

[Anonymous No.1584884]

>>1584876
There are plenty that aren't on cghub.

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>>1584884
another one.

[Anonymous No.1584890]

>>1584546
>tfw no stabby bf
early ruanjia

[Anonymous No.1584896]

>>1584668
HOLY SON OF GOD

[Anonymous No.1584920]

>>1584878

THIS ONE WAS BORN 85

FUCK YEAH. guess i'll have to reach his level within 3 years.

[Anonymous No.1584946]

I'm not having any luck with weibo so I sought it through an asian Pinterest and came across this:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_67cef2240102edv2.html
It's the graduation work of a Chinese digital art school. I can only wonder what age these guys are, there's some pretty solid stuff.

http://blog.sina.com.cn/fangzhengcheng this is the blog of the student from the image. His progress from 2011 to 2013 is insane.

[Anonymous No.1584947]

>>1584946
Oh crap, I dun goof'd. What I wanted to say was:
this is the blog of the student from the image. Look at his progress from 2011 to 2013, it's insane.

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[Anonymous No.1585122]

>>1584946
posting another one from here. Good finding!!!

[Anonymous No.1585128]

Guys, for all those who can browse weibo, blog.sina is still awesome for good findings! Don't give up!

[Anonymous No.1585129]

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=2501902

From pic related. You can see the influence of hjgart and ruan jia all over the fucking place.

[Anonymous No.1585133]

>>1585129
>You can see the influence of hjgart and ruan jia all over the fucking place.

No wonder, gjschool is a student blog, from what I know, Ruanjia either is a full time teacher there or does occasional demos.

[Anonymous No.1585135]

>>1585133
I know, I was just pinpoiting that.

I wish I knew chinesse and could learn from them.

[Anonymous No.1585158]

2 years progress

[Anonymous No.1585412]

http://blog.sina.com.cn/b98
Blog of a Chinese teacher, lots and lots of walkthroughs. Don't forget to click on the 'read more' buttons at the bottom of a post preview.

[Anonymous No.1585414]

>>1585412
I'm not even kidding, this guy has 6 years worth of class walkthroughs on his blog.

Image walkthrough: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4d63e5520100cr0c.html

[Anonymous No.1585422]

>>1585414
he worked on that image for 6 years?

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[Anonymous No.1585430]

>>1585422
No, he does these during classes/demonstrations. I meant that they go 6 years back, so there's a whole lot of them.

[Anonymous No.1585435]

By the way, HGjart has his own site outside weibo.
http://www.hgjart.com/

[Anonymous No.1585451]

this is great art and all, but i find this shit demotivating. not that i'm gonna quit or anything, but it really makes me wonder what the hell they're practicing and teaching on a daily basis to get so far so quickly. they're accomplishing what would take maybe 95% of artists out there 6-8 years to learn in 2-4 years.

i wouldn't doubt they practice 12-16 hours a day, but...practicing what? because it's probably not loomis

[Anonymous No.1585455]

>>1585451

That's what I keep asking myself, what is it that they're studying so hard on exactly? Give me some of that, I'll guarantee you I will grind on it for years as well.

[Anonymous No.1585460]

>>1584787
it's degenerate

[Anonymous No.1585461]

>>1585451
they get to live where they study, and they just focus on getting your art better. Art institutes and colleges here in WESTERNIA make you put lot of efforts in learning about art history and stuff that gives your art another meaning.

Their metod of learning is great for game illustration, yeah, but it works only for that, and all they work ends up looking very similar. Its like preparing a doctor, (or at least how I think they prepare doctors) they all know the same and should use the same procedures to get the best results.

Thats my piece of grain, at least, what do you guys think? Pic semi-related. It all looks amazing, but that's all.

[Anonymous No.1585464]

>>1585451
probably just life studies etc
other than that it looks like just techniques that are passed down. they seem to be more efficient at it since their work looks so similar.

if you look at this >>1585412
it's actually pretty interesting. they always focus so much on light.
specific techniques like this are probably easy to pass on. but then again, it's just technique.
honestly i think their stuff is pretty gimmicky.

now i doubt jaime could pass on his skill that easily.

[Anonymous No.1585502]

>>1585464
There are a shitload of very competent artists who have Jaime's style down to a T.

[Anonymous No.1585523]

>>1585502

who?

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[Anonymous No.1585566]

>>1585523
James Zapata, Lingy0, Shaddy, Eytan Zana, early Maciej Kuciara, Peleng when he tries to, DanielC...just to name a few off the top of my head. Jaime's technique is nothing unique or special. It's his understanding of the principles that makes his work so great. Same thing with Ruanjia and those handful of great chinese artists.

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>>1585566
>>1585502

lol what a load of bs

[Anonymous No.1585604]

>>1585566
Who is Jaime? Jaime Jones?

[Anonymous No.1585613]

>>1585604
nah, he is talking about frank zinatra.

[Anonymous No.1585620]

>>1585591
Great counter argument you mental midget.

[Anonymous No.1585621]

>>1585591
What is bullshit? After Mullins, Jaime is pretty much the most influential and most copied digital artist right now. There are thousands of artists trying to imitate his technique and quite a few have become pretty good at it.

[Anonymous No.1585637]

>>1585621

yeah, no. pretty good at it? i couldn't disagree more. down to a T ? i couldn't disagree more

nobody is even cloes imo

[Anonymous No.1585646]

>>1585637
lol, then I guess you just don't know many artists. Stop being such a giant fanboy. I love Jaime's work myself, but he's not the undeniable god of digital art. His technique focuses on a painterly look and brush economy, that's something a lot of artists are good at and not something only Jaime has ever mastered. If he were to directly teach his painting technique to students, they could just as easily catch up on it as the artists that are taught by Ruanjia.

Now everything that makes both Jaime's and Ruanjia's work stand out from the rest is an undeniable mastery of the fundamentals. They have a great understanding of color and light, of composition, of values etc. That is what seperates them from the rest. Not some superficial technique they use.

[Anonymous No.1585650]

>>1585502
Original poster here.
You're kinda missing the point.
For example, look at
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>>1585425
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>>1584686
And many more

What they all have in common is that exept for the main focus of the subject, everything is low saturation, low contrast and maybe even vague.
The main focus on he other hand always has contrast, is sharp, and and saturated in comparison. sometimes even with a light shining directly on the place of focus. It's always the sparse lighting and that little bit of light in the center of attention that makes the piece work. it literally makes them glow.

Almost all of ruan jias best pieces are like that. (as far as i know)
That kind of working process automatically makes a piece that guides the eye well, and is well structured. It's a process that is grounded in a compositional
principles, and is made to guide the eye by using ONE strong focus.

When you take jamie in comparison, It's not always that obvious to explain why his pieces work so well, and every piece is different.
And of course, what makes them both great is the fundamentals they have underneath that process, but i'm saying this "typically chinese process" is a lot easier to streamline.
coming back to what >>1585451 said, i think most of the pieces not done by ruanjia aren't even that impressive in terms of technique, but they still "work", simply because that process is so well structured.

Well, correct me if i'm wrong. This is just a feeling i have.

[Anonymous No.1585651]

>>1585646

[Anonymous No.1585654]

>>1585650
One other thing i've realized is that eastern artist like to rely on artificial setting, lighting and even stylizing while western artists have the tendency to "keep it real" in terms of lighting and stuff
You can see it even if you just look at /ic/

Or maybe that has to do with the difference in the industries. like concept art vs illustration etc..

[Anonymous No.1585666]

>>1585654
You are looking at a handful of chinese artists who are heavily influenced by HGJart and Ruanjia. That's not representative of all eastern artists. In fact, I feel that a lot of chinese artists love to use very naturalistic lighting. Look at Yang Qi, Ling Xiang, Linran, Donglu Yu for example.

[Anonymous No.1585677]

>>1584763
>>1584764
Fuck me, I love it.

[Anonymous No.1585678]

>>1585646

image you posted is certainly nice and technically of high quality but i don't see ANY jaime jones in there. zero.

>>1585651

same for this. yeah it's lose and suggestive. still, there is no jaime jones there. absolutely none. that guy is mediocre as phuck all over the place (imo, forgive my judging)

[Anonymous No.1585680]

>>1585678
i can't possibly respect your opinion after what you just said.

[Anonymous No.1585694]

>>1585680

[Anonymous No.1585712]

>>1584849

How long do you think something like that should take to make?

[Anonymous No.1585714]

>>1585712
read his interview. should be easy to find.

[Anonymous No.1585730]

>>1585712

this anon >>1585714 is referreing to an interview where he says he works on his images for several months. which ones took how long exactly, who knows but the one you referred to would porbably have taken him several weeks

[Anonymous No.1585733]

>>1585712
http://cgcookie.com/concept/2012/11/15/interview-ruan-jia/
Ruanjia interview

2. Your pieces are so intricate and beautifully detailed, how long does each piece typically take you?

In my website 2Dgallery page,i use 1-2 months to work on a image usually, on the sketch page i use around 2 hours – 7days, the more details there are, I need more time to do them.

[Anonymous No.1585740]

>>1585733
try this: 5 minutes a day for 1 year.

[Anonymous No.1585750]

>>1585650
saving your comment. you're spot on. if you take a look at details like >>1584550 you can clearly see this happening: desaturation in the areas not in focus, and then these small specks of extreme saturation where the main focus is.
that and constant alteration of warm vs cool hues everywhere, which creates this kind of pleasant vibration in the eye (totally not scientific i know, but it's what it feels like). jaime jones does this too, but much more subtly
pic is jaime jones.

[Anonymous No.1585762]

>>1585750
There's constant variations in everything Ruan does. I started doing some studies of his recently and I found that every single mark he makes is in effort of describing the form. To do this, he controls the living hell out of everything (including the shape design) and will change it ever so slightly to make sure it reads that the form is turned. Look at the eyelids of >>1583591. Notice on (our) left you can almost draw a line where the shades change. As the eyelid faces down to the eyeball, there's a small white light he made sure to put there so you know it flattens out. The right eyelid has one single sharp inverted U shape to describe it facing us, and a few more distinct turns facing upwards.

There's even variations within the variations of the hair. Sometimes he'll make shit up just to have it read as turning in a different direction. So if you look at the M shape above the center of his brow, you can again draw out the lines that he put in to make it read as if it's turning. He went vertically down the form as well.

When I was doing the studies, I would actually pause and contemplate every stroke and I really got into the mindset.
>"Does this mark help show the form I’m trying to show?"
>"Does it show the plane change accurately and is it pleasing to the eye?"
Now notice the value of the ear. That's controlled as hell too, especially in shape, but he doesn't worry about making it read because he wants your eye focused elsewhere.

Another anon put it really well in a different thread. Ruan has a mastery of every single facet put into his work. It's like a surgeon mathematically and painstakingly crafting every detail, or something to that effect.

[Anonymous No.1586080]

>>1585762
Hm, so you could say that he fakes the values to have the form read lots better? What I mean by faking the values, is that he doesn't works with how the light really works and strikes the object, but rather uses intuition and judgement to lay the values that will read better for that form?
I hope I'm explaining myself well.

[Anonymous No.1586096]

Posting the high res of one of his pieces to put some emphasis on the level of detail.

[Anonymous No.1586098]

Ruanjia in conceptart.org said this if it helps break down his workflow a bit:

"usually, i draw the layer one by one, and then combinate one by one. little by little, it's many layers at last. the most artwork has more than 200 layers -.-"

[Anonymous No.1586102]

>>1586096
Where did you find the high res?

[Anonymous No.1586111]

>>1586102
I have a few more for studies purposes. I will trade knowledge for knowledge, lets keep posting some awesome or informative stuff!

[Anonymous No.1586114]

>>1586080
Looking for more insight into this.

[Anonymous No.1586141]

>>1586096
Detail? Are you joking? Those are photo overlay details.

[Anonymous No.1586142]

>>1586141
nice b8 m8
im sure someone will bite eventually

[Anonymous No.1586181]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFRbvtky1y4
rarara ruan jia~

[tehmeh No.1586187]

>>1586111
>>1586096
wow!

as to more info, i wrote tonnes of shit on ruan's process and techniques in the last thread, if any archived that
pic his old studio

[FiRez !!tndrCZJHE+I No.1586188]

>>1585461
I feel the same, most of these are too "clinic". I would love to see a bit more of looseness and subjectivity from any of these artists.

[Anonymous No.1586189]

>>1586187
anyone has any link to that archive? searched in the webs but couldn't find anything.
It would be much apreciated.

[Anonymous No.1586191]

>>1586187
cool, where did you get that pic?

[Anonymous No.1586192]

http://fuuka.warosu.org/ic/thread/1562623
this one?

[Anonymous No.1586197]

>>1585666
True, i was kinda generalizing there. obviously not all chinese artists paint the same way.
And it's not like a new thing either, many old paintings worked on the same principles, mainly for religious stuff.
Maybe you could say that this has become a trend among chinese painters or something, since i don't see this that often in the west right now. not to this extent anyway.

[Anonymous No.1586225]

>>1586189

4chan archive is down atm , it's a fucking shame bc that thread was an absolute gem and filled to the brim with knowledge

>>1586191

i might be wrong but i believe it's from his weibo blog

[Anonymous No.1586227]

>>1586192
>http://fuuka.warosu.org/ic/thread/1562623

ermagerd there it is! awesome, glad to see it wasn't lost

[Anonymous No.1586236]

>>1584550
Ogling faggits, wasting time making comments awing over this, you should be practicing.
Nobody gives you credit for noticing detail, you will be shunned.

[Anonymous No.1586237]

>>1586236
the baits never stop.

[Anonymous No.1586238]

>>1586236
oh no, shunned on anonymous board. we're fucked.

[Anonymous No.1586240]

>>1586236
You're right, now shoo, shoo, go practice and gtfo.

[Anonymous No.1586270]

So, is there any other cool chinnese artist that we might have overlooked that has or is kinda related to this style, or we have already covered all of them?

[Anonymous No.1586277]

>>1586270
or maybe any western digital/traditional painter that wasn't mentioned?

[Anonymous No.1586437]

>>1584546
Is the author female?

[Anonymous No.1586444]

How do they achieve this slightly iridescent/transparent type of rendering?

[Anonymous No.1586450]

>>1585650
The artwork also has a somewhat feminine, ornamental feel, which makes it look different from typical Western concepts.

[Anonymous No.1586618]

>>1586437
hgjart is male

[Anonymous No.1586699]

>>1585650
That's kind of a generic description though. You can say that 99% of art will do that. It is just putting the most contrast and detail in the focal point and then creating hierarchies of value and colour and edges. Nothing new or unique to Ruanjia.

And honestly a lot of the other artists that are ripping off Ruanjia...feel like ripoffs. I see them using his visual language and tricks, but they are just...throwing them in there. Like "oh, speckly brush on hard light layer, check, glowing shadows, check, stealing his hand design, check, stealing his colours, check". They don't actually seem to understand why he is using all these things or to what efffect, they just put it in their painting for the sake of it. The result is a gimmicky copy, and half the time you can tell immediately which exact piece of Ruanjia's they are copying these things from.

Anyways, attached is a Ruanjia image that isn't following your sparse glowing formula.

[Anonymous No.1586700]

>>1586098
That was 5 years ago. It is clear by looking at his present work that he no longer works anything like that. He appears to paint much more opaquely and directly now, maybe with only a bit of glazing at the end (as opposed to glazing the entire image like he did before).

[Anonymous No.1586799]

>>1585425
>>1584763
>>1584759
Who painted these?

[Anonymous No.1586850]

THEY ARR ROOK SAME

[Anonymous No.1586891]

Compiled the breakdown and observations that chumbumpark made of ruan jia for future generations.