AgentKieu

A loose gouache portrait study.

Happy New Year!

As an artist 2020 was definitely a year of growth for me. I kept my promise to draw everyday and re-learned how to paint. I managed to fully completed 2 sketchbooks and started another. I also took several online art classes to build on my fundamental foundation.

Overall it was a very productive year.

Finally finished coloring in Masked Usagi and Luna.

A fan study of the comic goddess @mirkand89's Leslie from "Unnatural".

Reminiscing a sweet autumn afternoon. The sound of live guitar playing from the street.

Happy Thanksgiving!

How are you celebrating the holidays this year?

Gouache study of Jeong Moon-geun's digital manhwa.

I'm in love with their style and coloring, and best way to learn their technique is to copy it. Through this I am learning how the artist uses complementary color palette (blue/orange, purple/yellow) to create a calm yet exciting color scheme.

Also translating a digital piece onto traditional mediums was a challenge in itself. I had to think ahead and figure out how to layer the washes of paint to achieve the digital colors.

I've been reading a lot of comics and manga lately, so naturally I'm inspired to make a manga inspired piece. What do you guys think of this style?

Sunsets make me sad in a deep nostalgic way. I am taken by it's beauty but I am aware of the fleeting moments of its existence.

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus