White Hair is Cool

[JasonChan]

Some pieces I've done lately. Lots of white hair :)

School project with my Angel mascot.
http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2006/original/angelflight.jpg

Commissioned piece.
http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2006/work/huntermara.jpg

Some pieces for my site:
http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2006/original/junk-angel.jpg

http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2006/original/whiteangel_big.jpg

[Yoonjin]

Grat stuff Jason, I guess they really get you on the right track at Art Center

[AmishCommy]

beautiful work man. love the comic and the lighting in the second piece

[JasonChan]

Thanks, guys :)

Actually, I'm at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.

[arumeo]

You are evolving into amazingness.
I've been an eager observer of your work since early eden.dreamcrafter.com, and I do not plan to stop checking out your works.
Keep doing what you do! It is apreciated by many I am sure :D

[Victor B]

fantastic post's The first panel of the first image just grabbed me excellent potrayal of light! Thanks for posting trully a feast for the eyes.. The only thing that sticks out to me is the projected shadow in panel two image one the shadow of the girl looks faked not actually what it would look like, however I could be wrong and its a minor detail great work!

[Yoonjin]

=D Must have got that wrong, anyway white hair is still cool

[Gloominati]

Awesome pieces, dude!! I always love it when an artist is able to make a cold color appear warm (just like you do with the blue sky)!! Thanks for sharing, dude!

[Fozzybar]

wow, the jeans on the sitting angel is perfect! looks like a photograph...greatly done!

I wonder about the girls right ear in the moonlight image though...looks too bright compared to the overall lighting setting...

[Xpose]

Awsome work! You've really nailed it on these! Great site too.

[Matt Dixon]

Extremely solid work, Jason. These, and your fantastic entry for the last round of the Thunderdome have made me a real fan. Keep it up!

[Inkfish]

Really beautiful stuff. I love the first two images.

[Sinix]

This stuff is amazing. You're driving your way to the top of my favorite artists. The first piece especially.

[Matt Smith]

Really nice work, its hard to pick a fav, but i saved them all to my folder.

[AngryScientist]

Great works, very solid! Only thing that bugs m is the size of the sittig angel's head as compared to the rest of her. I'm glad they allow you to use the digital medium so extensively where you study :)

[Main Loop]

really nice. very good skintones, the jeans on that one caught my eye as well.. Unless she's supposed to be like 13 or something, the head is a tad too big on the last image.

[robinchyo]

Excellent stuff. Don't let the pretty girl die. :-(

[Aly Fell]

Yes, white hair is indeed cool, especially when you paint it Jason! ;) Lovely work! What are you using to do these in?

[Shinryu]

fucking excellent , amazing stuff

cheers

[noiion]

Oh yeah here is my favorite artist. I've seen all but the first one. They are very inspiring. I actually tried to adapt to your painting style. Never said I succeeded, though. :bashful: You're still in school? Incredible!

[strych9ine]

Such damn fine work... you had me at barbed-wire halo. The first sequential is fantastic.

[Davidskiwan]

woah... beautiful, through and through, the last one... touched me in places that cant be named D:

[Carnifex]

ohhhh yeah.
*saved*

[Irene Gallo]

Awesome stuff, Jason! I can't believe this quality of work coming from someone still in school.

I'm looking forward to seeing you at Art Out Loud.

[Madman!]

dang I can't wait to find me a women with some white hair..wait a minute.

Sweet stuff and I agree with Fozzy love those pants they look real.

[Simon Boxer]

Hot damn! Love the jeans girl one - amazingly accurate.

[Lemai]

ur dope....dat's all i can really say right now, lol.

[Hawk-3ye]

white hair......is....DEFINETLY cool!!!!

AWESOME!

[CoreyArt]

jason you bastard, always making us look bad, what's wrong with you. Oh, and I like the modernized background you did very cool.,

[Zman]

She makes a very alluring character. Your website is top notch. Nice to see your work.

[Pixeldragoon]

Great work. Though on the fourth piece her hand seems a bit small. That or I just like making big hands. Good luck!

[JasonChan]

Thanks everybody!

vctr: yeah... i think I forgot to go back over that with another pass. That's basically a placeholder shadow that I stuck there. Good eye :)

matt: Thanks! I hope I can keep it up :p

Main Loop: I don't know how old she is... she's either 13 or a very small woman.

Robin: But the's an angel... or she will be one :)

Posh: Thanks! I'm using Painter mostly. Some Photoshop for color manip.

Irene: Thank you :) I look forward to seeing you in April!

Corey: Yeah, I don't do enough everyday architecture... probably cause i hate perspective and straight lines :)

[seba_boi]

WWWWWOOOWWWIIEEE!!!... I was listening to some Wolf's Rain music, and then I witnessed these and it just floored me!!!!!!!... I'm terribly speechless!!!

[evidence]

wow the sequential page is really nice. only comment i would have is in the first panel. the bird farthest to the right seems to be blending into her head, or creating some kind of tangent. maybe separate the two with a shadow?

[BOON]

love and respect

[Denart]

sheeeiiit. Stop killing me! URGGH! OW!

[michael see]

white hair is super cool.love all thats stuff jason:)

[Newmember]

Jason, I've been looking at your artwork since I was in high school and watched as I see your work evolving and evolving into something every artist desires. Whenever I need insparation or motivation, I turn to your site. Your work is truly wonderful, and keep up the awesome work man.

[Barts]

hey jason luv your work, so inspiring, keep it up

[Death]

Insane! These totally put my stuff to shame! :D. Keep up the awesomeness! :D.

[fooxoo]

Beaaaaaaaautiful!!!! Sigh....

[dibumac]

Great work, man. The first piece , the one at the bridge, is just so evocative.... Of all the works I've seen from you, that's the one on which content equals technique. In my opinion you're getting somewhere and so soon ! Sure you'll be one of the artists to have a nice place in the industry in the near future, if you keep working this hard !
5 stars from me !

[R.S.Hansen]

I`m blown away!!!

[Hiipi]

Really beautiful works, man! I have been digging your work long already, there´s something there that you can make the colors so subtle and light but still so strong and vibrant! I have no clue how, you just have the vision. Beautiful work!!!

Oh, and the link to angelkiss_big -pic on your website works not!

[Red_Rook]

wow fantastic work dude, ima fan forsure :D

[duddlebug]

These are just groovy, Jason.

I love that first one with the birds. The sunshine, lighting and feel of the city is great and i particularly like the cast shadow of the girl on the ground below. Does it end there? Or is there more?

[FuT]

white hair is definitely cool!!! these are just superb, you must make some more. you got me addicted to white hair now.

[Art_Addict]

wow ! extremely nice

[Cique]

:O Fantastical!!! Web site very cool too.

[Chuck,mate.]

your style, color, compositions and technique are all flawless.
damn you.
:)
keep on posting Mr. chan.

[janni]

good drawing, good technique. great work. i dig.
love how you use simple expressions in you faces to create your mood. i'm a big fun of that.

[DSillustration]

well,
my Chan folder just got bigger.

i never saw that first one...
you holding out on me?!

[zao75231]

Mr. Chan, I can't tell you enough how much you have and still inspire me to this day that your work as such overwhelming and life in your work. Great job sir and thank you for sharing.

-Rob:D

[daarken]

nice to see some good artists coming out of the academy. one thing i noticed on the 2nd piece is her neck seems to be at the wrong angle. either that or i think there is a piece of fur from her outfit that is a tangent with her neck, making it look like her neck cuts back at a drastic angle.

[Konstruktion]

Those artworks for your homepage is (are?) awesome! I hate manga, that's just the way it is. But the kind of manga you draw, only slightly inspired by it, that's just awesome! Really good use of colors, everything is just great.

[viag]

really nice ! great colors

i love the mood in the first pic (storyboard?)

[Eytan]

WHOA...
I just made a doody.

Bookmarked ur site, and I've got to say your thunderdome piece is by far one of the greatest I've seen.

[thejen]

Wow. Spectacularous. Love the website too.

[P E N Ricklund]

Jason, wow. Really love the first one.
Can't wait until you're out there kicking ass in the buisness.
High Five man!

Hugs!

[el coro]

fucking great work man! you should be proud of your progress. you just keep gettin better and better dude.... -c36

[Dead Road 7]

My friend's sister bleached her hair white. She added a red streak. It was awesome. And really hot.

And the colors on the first one slay me. Great job.

[Fisch]

Jason, some great work man. Just went to your site and was totally enchanted.

The kids fighting on the dragon and Pegasus backs is priceless. And you do some fine white hair!

Scott Fischer

[Onir]

:jawdrop: Good lord man, amazing stuff! Gonna have to agree with Fisch and say I was blown away by your website; you show such great emotion in your characters and your designs are beautiful as well. You're definitely gonna go places (that is if you haven't already ;) ) Keep it up!

[tensai]

hot stuff man. has a very nice atmosphere to it.

[cobaltx]

wow !! beautiful stuff

[seba_boi]

The kids fighting on the dragon and Pegasus backs is priceless. Yes... Fantastic stuff!... The stone giant piece is also full of life (ironic!)... Love the white-haired gal with the rose as well (looks like Chiaki!)...

:D

[Form]

hey man, i didnt sift through the slog of replies, so excuse me if im doubling up a comment.

but on the last couple angel pics, the wing structure seems to be different on ea ch side of her. The wing facing us has a bend in it but the rear wing sweeps away with apparently no 'elbow' in the wing...

This may be stylistic, or intentional in the design?

[loomer]

I'm really diggin the direction you have been going with your work Jason. You seem to have a lot more fluidity in the forms of the figures...not that they were stiff before, but now they really seem to have more life.
I'll be at Art Out Loud in April...be sure to meet the NY gang :)

[smash.rs]

It's only me ?...the last two times you post i can't see anything...i've tryed different browsers, ask some friends that live here in Brazil and nothing appears for then too...your site doesn't open either...
Well, as a big fan of your work that make me frustated...i hope that i can found what's the matter...

[SprayNation]

Great work Jason. Love the color scheme in the girl and the moon piece.

[monsi]

Incredible.. Absolutely beautiful pieces man. great work :D

[chain&jane]

Ha !
beautiful stuff ,

[stoph]

No.3 now adorns my desktop. kudos to you!

[evilhead]

Hey Jason. When you start a fresh canvas, is it 600px, 3000px, what? Then you just start pushing around color, or do you sketch with pencil first, or maybe scan a real line drawing? What's your process?

[JasonChan]

I usually doodle up something, but nothing worth sticking to. My doodles are mainly for composition and ideas to flow. From there I go to paint with a minimum of 300 to 400 dpi, keeping the file atleast the size of a piece of paper just in case I want a poster or something later :) When I don't want to use pencil, the process is still the same except I doodle with color instead of pencil. Doodles are just necessary for commission work because my clients need to know what I'm going to do.

[Ben Shore]

Fantastic stuff man! I love the moody/angelic contrast and the lighting and color are spot on!

If I had to be picky and offer a critique, the eyes on the second (predominately blue) piece seem too big... or even simply too flat for how big they are. I think it's a fine stylistic choice but it threw me off a little.

great work!!

[Chris J. Anderson!]

I was looking at your website. You've got sophisticated skills man.

[JoshuaTheJames]

Remember this is from a complete 'Joker' so take it or leave it.


You have painting Down. Stop skimping on the anatomy and really push your compositions to a new ground that will set you apart from others. This is all 'next level' stuff so don't take it as an insult. Just ideas how I personally feel you could move forward more quickly.

Fun stuff as always.


-JtJ

[stoph]

You have painting Down. Stop skimping on the anatomy and really push your compositions to a new ground that will set you apart from others.

-JtJ
far out.. if hes skimping on anatomy and composition, then ive got a lot to worry about! haha.. :nohope:

[silken]

really beautiful work....I love finding new artists to look up to!

[stoph]

a lot of white-haired fairies died to resurrect this thread..

[light]

Threads should just get auto-locked after 6 months to avoid this.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

holy boody hell... good shit mang... good shit...
this one is now my new wallpaper:

http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2006/original/whiteangel_big.jpg

[Bammer]

Silken.. damn it...

[Jazz]

Oh, such beautiful white hair!! :D :D Her face is so smooth and soft, yet there's something about it that makes her seem glum...I love it!!

I was curious about her wings in the third picture (though I think someone noticed this differently), but the wing on our left looks like hair more than feathers! Though, it's really neat, like the wing's been unwoven somehow!

[john-briner-art]

Cool! It reminds me of Japanese Animation. The third one is my favorite. Aside from the subject, the good background gives a good effect on your piece.

[DANKA]

Nice illustrations...and great hair!

[isissousa]

Beauuutiful paintings :D

[wendysfh]

i can not see the pictures you give, maybe something wrong in my browser, but i'm very curious the pieces you have done, i hope someday, i can see your pieces. Thank you.