KAN LIU ART TUTORIAL | Artof666K Style Study

It is the final week of the month and you know what that means. It's Style Study time!
And today we’re looking at adorable, Manga-inspired illustrations of Riot Games Artist Kan Liu, better known by his online name Artof666K
We study his style of painting, analyse his portraits, and put it all together into an original painting of our own!
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Intro: 00:00
Part 1 - Analysis: 02:15
Part 2 - Study: 15:53
Part 3 - Original: 19:45
Outro: 22:44
All of Kan’s artwork is from:
* His Instagram: artof666k?...
* His Artstation: www.artstation.com/666kart
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I'm Srish, and I'm a coffee-addicted, pug-loving artist and spirituality junkie, with a penchant for content creation. Here, I share with you ideas on how to make the most out of your own creativity via digital painting tutorials, speedpaints, software and tech reviews, and pretty much any DIY art hack you can think of. I also created the Style Study series to help us all learn from some of our favourite artists, because you can never learn too much!
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[@mathilda6763]

I really like the orange-peachy accents that are often around figure. it's not super dominant but I think it still adds something in contrast with the often sky-blue atmosphere. Maybe he blocks out the silhouette with orange before painting above it with the local colours

[@SrishCreates]

Oooh that actually makes sense, it might be the underpainting or sketch peeking through! Such a cool little detail honestly!

[@dynamis_yt]

19:15 Kan Liu usually has a lineart sketch that he turns orange and paints over. So the orange is the old line art showing through. He has a video "666K信譞 Water Caller Drawing Process" where you can see this process.
Btw nice video! I've been referencing/studying Kan's art a lot lately and I wish it had been there when I started haha.
Here's a few things I've noticed that might help those who want to learn his style:
- Like you pointed out, he mostly renders using hard edges by painting with a untextured round hard brush (sometimes with opacity linked to pen pressure, but mostly not). To soften the some edges and give texture, he uses a streaky smudge brush. It's a style that requires a confident brush work to not look messy (specially when drawing water).
Because of the hard edges, it's important to have a good understanding of form and pay attention to the shape of each block of colour.
Btw, he uses unsharp mask as a post-processing step, which accentuates the hard edges even more.
- Also, I often forget it but the secondary light is quite prominent in Kan Liu's style. The colour depends on the illuminating surface (mainly : sky → blue, ground → orange).
- And for the composition, it's interesting to note how the effects often circle around the character to provide a point of focus.

[@midhunmartin6627]

Didn't see any videos on my subscribed list for a long time... Happy to see the creator of style study on my TH-cam home feeds back again!😜

[@SrishCreates]

Whaaaaaaat i been posting so regularly 😭 glad it showed back up though, welcome backkkk

[@pyeitme508]

RAD!