by yimiris | Jul 3, 2020 | Drawing
Exchange with social media friends – Firm and Soft Edges in Drawing 答網友問 – 素描中的虛與實 Dear Mr. Yim, I love drawing and have watched your drawing video lessons many times. I’m mesmerized by the firm and soft edges and texture in your drawing and would like to...
by yimiris | Dec 3, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
Happy holidays! We are offering 25% off for books and video lessons until 12/06. Please enter code HappyHolidays for checkout. How to create narrative paintings (part 3) This is a follow-up post of the previous two posts (links below) and part 2 of case study...
by yimiris | Nov 13, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
This is a follow-up post to the previous post about how to create narrative paintings. In this post and the next, I’m going to share my experience in creating Taiwan’s Forefathers – Reaching Shore in two parts: The first part introduces the conceptual sketch, pencil...
by yimiris | Nov 2, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
Narrative painting is the most challenging genre in realistic art. It’s labor intensive and time consuming. It requires a solid foundation of drawing and sketching and adept portrait painting skills. It’s challenging and painstaking to create a narrative painting but...
by yimiris | Jul 5, 2019 | Oil painting, Other
Note: The article below recounts a painting trip to Xiangxi (Western Hunan), China in 1988, and is a snapshot of China at the time, roughly a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping opened up the country, and right before the 1989 crackdown...
