Top 10 creative superbowl ads 2009

Top 10 creative superbowl ads 2009. These are my pick of commercial that I really like during superbowl. They are creative, cunning, inspiring...well, these ten commercial suit my taste.
These probably are the best of the best creative teams who came up with these memorable and cool ads so that we would actually enjoy watching them instead of avoiding them like we usually do with most advertisements. High production value stuffs.

Let me know which one you like. :)

I hope you enjoy them
1) Coca-cola Heist:


2) Coca-cola Avatar


3) Audi The Chase


4) BridgeStone: Astronauts


5)Pepsi Max: I am good



6)Doritos Power of the Crunch


7) Pixar UP (I cannot wait for this movie, it looks so COOL!)


8) Transformer II


9) StarTrek the movie Usually I don't really care for The Franchise, but J.J. Abram's directing it? I am very excited to see the direction of this movie!!! So far it looks so good!

Longer version: StarTrek The Movie 2009
10)Monster Double take


Well, that's all friends.

New Drawing Video tutorials:
-Drawing Male Face Swordman
-Character Design Face Male Merchant Character
-Environmental concept Ice landscape
-Painting crystal cave concept
-Painting with waterfall custom brushes
-How to paint rocky bridge.
-Draw and paint valleys environmental concept
-Draw Female spy comics style
-How to draw a woman
-Painting portrait front view

Three coolest buidling hotel concept design

Three coolest hotel building concept designs. Just found these images around the web.
This are so cool and might be useful to stir your imagination and be inspired.

1) Designer: Sybarite
Status: Concept
Estimated project cost: $500million




2) Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Designer: Tom Wright (WS Atkins PLC), Khuan Chew
Status: Complete
Estimated project cost: $650 million


3) Location: Songjiang, China
Designer: Atkin�s Architecture Group
Status: Concept


New Drawing Video tutorials:
-Draw and paint valleys environmental concept
-Draw Female spy comics style
-How to draw a woman
-Draw Metal Gear girl assassin.
-Drawing Manga woman face, hair, and torso
-Painting portrait front view
-Painting portrait profile or side view
-Painting portrait 3/4 view

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-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

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Leathal injection droid and steam punk insect

Leathal injection droid and steam punk insect
Wow, these are real gems. Super cool art of robots and alike from Christopher Conte
from Norway that I stumbled on while looking for some inspirational stuff on the web.

Here are some of his work:


visit his site at: microbotic.org
I love them all ;)

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New Drawing Video tutorials:
-Draw Female spy comics style
-How to draw witch hunter
-How to draw a woman
-How to draw Manga female character
-Draw Metal Gear girl assassin.
-Drawing Manga woman face, hair, and torso
-Painting portrait front view
-Painting portrait profile or side view
-Painting portrait 3/4 view

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

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Blade and Soul Concept art and screenshots.

Blade and Soul Concept art and screenshots.

Here are some of the released concept art and screenshots of the game.

1) Kym Hyung Tae the artist behind the characters of Blade and Soul visited ArenaNet, GuildWars 2 Dev Team.
Top: Donald Phan, Joe Pikop, Aaron Coberly (Team Lead, Character GW2), and Daniel Dociu (Art Director ArenaNet and NCSoft)
Bottom: Jason Juan, Kim Hyung Tae (Blade & Soul Character Design Artist), and ME.

Some Character design art and screen shots from Blade & Soul 2008 Press released.



Blade and Soul Screenshots:

Enjoy the visual candy boys and girls
New tutorials from idrawgirls:
-Drawing and shading face and head
-Draw quick comics panel using values and composition.
-Drawing haunted tree and castle
-Manga tutorial drawing giant mecha robot
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.

Dragon Creature design tutorial
- (Part 1) Draw and paint Dragon Fire Blaze
- (Part 2) Manga Tutorial Draw Fire Dragon
- (Part 3) Digital Art tutorial, Dragon Creature
- (Part 4) Digital Painting Step by step, dragon
- (Part 5) Drawing and painting Dragon Creature

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Artists, Mastering your craft 10,000 hours from Malcolm Gladwell new book

Artists, Mastering your craft 10,000 hours from Malcolm Gladwell new book.

If you focus on practicing your craft drawing and painting for 100,000 hours, what could you become?
I know I have not yet arrive that that strides...it was an on off for me. Now I have to reconsider my schedule and focus more on my craft. This art blog help me stay on course immensely, and some day I hope hard work pays off. :)

I just read this book by Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Highly recommended!!!

In the first chapter (section), he talk about 10,000 hours that takes someone to be a master of of her trade. He mention Bill Gates, Mozart, etc.

His premise is that there are (at least?) two different kinds of geniuses, one is the type who may arrive at genius via an incredible inimitable moment of inspiration, another is someone who's very smart and arrives at genius after years of focused study. 10,000 hours mastery theory.

Gladwell suggested that studies show 10,000 hours of focused study is what's needed to become a master of something. And this translates to about ten years (actually 11.5, but thereabouts).

This makes a lot of sense to me and gives an interesting fixed boundary to work with. If you start drawing and painting seriously at 16 (four to eight hours a day), and stay there for ten years, at 26 you should be a master. And filmmakers and artists who start at 20, may hit their stride at 30. And of course you can accelerate or slow down the process according to how much you want to focus. And it highlights how you inhibit your potential in one field by spreading yourself across many fields. The phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" speaks directly to this 10,000 hours theory.

Anyway, the book is pretty long but the particular chapter was interesting to me and related to our field so I thought I would share it with you guys.

Summery of the book:
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from... *The Outliers* (out this week) focuses on success and the hard work, social context and cultural background that explains why some people excel and others don�t. He has a related article in The New Yorker on genius (trivia note: a related post of his on this topic was rejected a long time ago by the New Yorker). Gladwell�s new book seems better at explaining the success of some than in its prescriptions for how to get others to succeed and so on.

Good luck to us all with 10,000 hours. Let me know what your thought are on this post. :)

New tutorials:
-Drawing and shading face and head
-Draw quick comics panel using values and composition.
-Drawing haunted tree and castle
-Manga tutorial drawing giant mecha robot
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.

Dragon Creature design tutorial
- (Part 1) Draw and paint Dragon Fire Blaze
- (Part 2) Manga Tutorial Draw Fire Dragon
- (Part 3) Digital Art tutorial, Dragon Creature
- (Part 4) Digital Painting Step by step, dragon
- (Part 5) Drawing and painting Dragon Creature

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

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Praying Mantis Kung Fu videos

Praying Mantis Kung Fu video clips

Well well well, since my Manga Comics is now involve very much about Praying Mantis style Kung Fu. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it in real life form. The one I picked out in the story has the northern Shaolin influence called "7 Stars Praying Mantis." The form is also as far as I can see similar to Wing Chun sticky hands movement in some ways. Anyway, here are some clips:

This one is Praying Mantis VS Wing Chun (Bruce Lee) home video: The winner is obviously Wing Chun, the other dude already lost in the beginning...he jump around too much and insufficient movement. The winner walk straight forward just trying to go for the kill. It's not the form that really matter here though, it is he who has better skills.


This is a solo Preying Mantis style form


And this is sparring (I can see similarity between sticky hand of Wing Chun and the Mantis, especially when he hook and draw the opponent inward.) If you watch carefully (*It's really fast I know), the guy on the left got hit in the face so many times...but this just some kind of sparring demo practice I think so the movement went on.


Alright, I hope you guys have fun watching these. Now you have more info about the actual form. Hope this info help you enjoy the up coming Kapow Express Manga a little more. :)

New tutorials:
-Draw quick comics panel using values and composition.
-Drawing haunted tree and castle
-Manga tutorial drawing giant mecha robot
-Values exercise with three cubes
-How to draw face soft shading female.
-Drawing and painting female nurse cartoon.
-Concept Art tutorial, magma river lava environment.
-How to draw chibi robot Gigantor step by step
-Drawing mutant humanoid creature head

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

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007 James Bond retro movie posters Part II, inspiration for artists

007 James Bond retro movie posters Part II, inspiration for artists. Creative art work from the past. Too bad they don't do them nowadays anymore after the end of 90's.

Here is part II of 007 slick poster collection part of my newly discover inspirational collective. Enjoy! For me, I think these are very sexy and slick. I really dig them. They really do know how to draw and paint girls.

I could not find any artist's names, apologize before hand. :(


BTW:
Let me know guys if pose like this will be useful or if you are interested in subject matter? Feedback and comment are always welcome here, don't be shy. ;)
I also plan to post landscape and cool industrial photos or painting...anyone know of a good site or blog for such cool visual stimulating images, let me know by commenting on the blog.

New tutorials:
-Drawing mutant humanoid creature head
-Figure drawing technique gesture tutorial
-Digital painting tutorial technique Mecha commando
-How to paint water and mountain landscape technique
-Art tutorial, how to paint gold armor
-Draw comics woman sitting on a chair.
-Draw Manga jump action movement
-Draw Manga punch action movement

FEATURE TUTORIAL:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

More Environmental tutorials:
-Environmental concept sketch, tunnel.
-One point perspective environment sketch for artists
-Two point perspective environment sketch for artists
-Three point perspective enviroment sketch for artists.
-Composition lesson for artists, rules of thirds.

** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

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