Warrior Painters Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Our guests Simon Lok and Calvin Liang have a lot of things in common, but the most important experience they share is switching to a fine art career after working in the animation industry for many years. Find out about these two fine art painting masters’ journeys through this talk hosted by Q (Qianjiao) Ma and Nikita Chan.

Guests:

Simon (Saiping) Lok @_simon_lok_ 

Calvin Liang @calvin_liang_ 

Hosts:

Q (Qianjiao) Ma @q_sketches 

Nikita Chan @chanikitaa 

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Caroline lights up every conversation with her positive attitude. She’s worked very hard at the things she does and her “just-do-it” spirit pushes her further in her art and life. Working in animation now, Caroline has a very good reason to consume manga and anime to stay motivated!

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Featured Artist: Caroline Chiou @bleachedsnow 

Host: Kayleigh Ma @kayleighx 

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Long-time Urban Sketcher and art instructor, Virginia Hein, sat down with us and chatted about her design career, her teaching journey, and how she supports the growth of Urban Sketchers both in LA and overseas. Virginia finds enormous joy in teaching and also learning from her students. Her motto is “I’m always learning.” We thank her for being such a great teacher and an inspiration to all of us!

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Featured Artist: Virginia Hein @virginiahein 

Host: Angela Sung @angothemango 

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Nellie Robinson has a dual-degree in computer science and illustration and now she works as a Technical Director at Disney. In this interview, Nellie shares how her passion for programming and art helped her land this career path that combines the best of both worlds (HINT: her internship at Pixar helped a lot.) She talks about how much she enjoyed exploring LA with plein-air painting, and how taking notes from nature can be very beneficial for her line of work. And also, she’s working on her own painting app!

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Featured artist: Nellie Robinson @_narobins 

Host: Michelle Lin @michelleinteal 

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Before establishing Nucleus, a gallery that is dedicated to showcasing entertainment art and artists, Ben Zhu graduated from Art Center College of Design and worked on Call of Duty I. What led him to his journey to become an ARTrepreneur? What makes Gallery Nucleus unique? What are his secrets for running a successful art business? What suggestions does he have for artists to work with galleries? What are his newest artistic pursuits? In this episode, Ben answers all these questions. He also shares a bit on work-life balance and his measurements for success.

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Featured Guest: Ben Zhu, Gallery Nucleus  

Host: Kayleigh Ma @kayleighx

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In this episode, India-native artist and illustrator Gunja Bhatt shares her experience living and teaching in the Bay Area, dealing with visa issues, and how art, especially plein-air painting, has accompanied her along the way. She enjoys the art community we have established very much and her "go-with-the-flow" attitude makes her such an easy-going person to paint with!

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Featured artist: Gunja Bhatt @artist.gunja 

Host: Michelle Lin @michelleinteal 

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Want to sell your artwork but don’t know where to begin? In this episode, three expert “con-artists” Larry Quach, Eunjung June Kim, and Mauricio Abril talk about exhibiting at various art conventions. They share valuable lessons learned from successes and failures as they navigated the challenging yet rewarding world of conventions. With no in-person events this year, find out how these artists are adjusting their art businesses to the global pandemic. We are so glad to have Linden Li back to host another exciting topic.

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Featured Artists:

Larry Quach @larryquach 

Eunjung June Kim @hediun 

Mauricio Abril @mauartist 

Host: Linden Li @lindenpaints 

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After working an office job for 2 years after college, Randolph decided to pursue a career in entertainment out of his love for art. He got his first game gig literally minutes after walking into CTN Expo. Now he is a Background Painter in animation. Aside from his full-time job, some freelance, and taking care of his 2-year-old, he manages to find time to practice traditional painting after everyone goes to sleep. Randolph is really into reading art-related books and we call him "The Scholar" in the group. His other passion is to share his art history knowledge with people and we look forward to having him on the show again in the near future.

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Featured artist: Randolph Williams @rawiii 

Host: Kayleigh Ma @kayleighx 

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Have you also wanted to tighten up the graphics on level 3? Well, we heard many people went to work for game studios because of that classic commercial. In this episode, three well-established game artists, Jeremy Fenske, Kristina Ness and Tim Kaminski, share their career paths in the game industry, what they think about the future of game art, and other fun stuff. This episode’s host, Esther Wu, has also worked in games for a long time before switching to animation.

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Featured Artists:

Jeremy Fenske @jeremyfenskeart 

Kristina Ness @____ness

Tim Kaminski @randomspirits 

Host: Esther Wu @artbywu 

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Sherwin made a career switch to become an artist after working an office job for a decade. Now he is a visdev artist at DreamWorks and also an art instructor at CDA (Concept Design Academy). Sherwin is passionate about documenting his surroundings with creative methods, and plein-air painting is just one of them.

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Featured artist: Sherwin Abesamis @winsher 

Host: Michelle Lin @michelleinteal 

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