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Yuumei

The art and musings of a disillusioned idealist.

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Life's Journey - Video Tutorial

A voice-over video tutorial for my painting “Life’s Journey” with a focus on painting with 3D architectural models, lighting, shading, and other general techniques.

Our Blue Planet - Video Tutorial

A voice-over video tutorial for my painting “Our Blue Planet” with a focus on creating the illusion of water, and general painting techniques.

Cloud Tutorials

Tutorials and free Photoshop brush downloads on how I paint clouds and stars. I hope it helps! :)

Head Perspective chart

I made this back in 2009 to help aspiring artists with drawing the human head from different angles. It's very outdated now and I plan on updating this with something better in the future, but in the mean time, I hope this will be of some help.

3D Background Tutorial

Some old and outdated tutorials I made in 2012 on how I use 3D models in Sketchup to save time on drawing multiple backgrounds in my comics. I will be making a new tutorial in the future with more tips, shortcuts, and techniques :) 

Caged Heart: Painting Process in Photoshop and SAI

This is the recorded painting process for my drawing, Caged Heart. I used very straight forward painting techniques that have all been explained in past tutorials before, so there's no captions for this one. 

Cityscape Speedpaint Video Tutorial

A captioned video tutorial showing the entire process of how I paint cities using shortcut techniques. 

Portrait Speedpaint Video Tutorials

Here's a small collection of speedpaint videos, some with caption, some without, to show the various processes for my human portrait paintings :)

Space & Cloud Speedpaint Video Tutorial

Captioned speedpaint video of how I paint clouds and stars.

Aerial Cityscape Video Tutorial

Learn to paint the city night from an aerial perspective quickly and easily.

Perspective Shortcut Video Tutorial

Some handy shortcuts to speed up drawing perspective lines and multiple objects on the same perspective plane.

3D Background Paintover Tutorial (Paint tool SAI)

This is a video tutorial of how I painted "Better Tomorrow" using a 3D model made in Sketchup as a base. The focus is just on how I make the render less 3D and give it that 2D painted look. I'll focus on the 3D modeling and rendering works in other tutorial :)

Milky Way Painting Tutorial [Photoshop and SAI]

Simple and fast way to paint the Milky Way using my cloud and star Photoshop brushes. Free download link for the brushes is provided :)

Photo Background Paintover Tutorial

This video tutorial shows a few tricks to turn a photo into a painting. It's a handy way to save time and create art with unique styles without hurting your hand in the process of having to paint too much.

Come Find Me - Photo Paintover Tutorial

Voice-over tutorial showing the various techniques to incorporate a photo into your painting.

How to Paint Space in under 10 Minutes

A quick video showing how I paint a vibrant Milk Way. Free brush downloads included!

Life's Journey - Video Tutorial

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Our Blue Planet - Video Tutorial

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Cloud Tutorials

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Head Perspective chart

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3D Background Tutorial

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Caged Heart: Painting Process in Photoshop and SAI

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Cityscape Speedpaint Video Tutorial

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Portrait Speedpaint Video Tutorials

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Space & Cloud Speedpaint Video Tutorial

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Aerial Cityscape Video Tutorial

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Perspective Shortcut Video Tutorial

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3D Background Paintover Tutorial (Paint tool SAI)

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Milky Way Painting Tutorial [Photoshop and SAI]

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Photo Background Paintover Tutorial

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Come Find Me - Photo Paintover Tutorial

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How to Paint Space in under 10 Minutes

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