art by dan yu

Secret Sketch Lab

2009-11-18T21:42:00.004-08:00

My fellow artists and I at Klei Entertainment have made a new art blog called the 'Secret Sketch Lab.'

http://secretsketchlab.blogspot.com/

Here are some of the weekly pieces I've done so far.

Mission Trip

2008-11-17T23:31:00.002-08:00

Something I did for my church's sunday school.

Sugar Rush Trailer

2008-11-09T22:23:00.007-08:00

Hello! Sorry I haven't posted anything in a long time. I've been busy working at Klei Entertainment these last few months where we are creating the first game to be published by Nexon America "Sugar Rush". It's my first time working at a game studio but I'm having lots fun working because I get to do the same things I would do at an animation studio.

Sugar Rush game trailer was recently released on the net so go check it out for some sugary goodness. I was able to be a part of making this awesome trailer doing some boards, designs, and animation.

If you're interested, you can sign up for the next closed beta. Also, if you live in the States and love Slurpee, go to 7-Eleven and grab a Slurpee to get exclusive items for the closed beta. Apparently, the Slurpee cup has my art work on it. How exciting!

Anyway, I hope I'll be able to post more art work from Sugar Rush once the game is out.

Prepare for the RUSH!!

Blanka

2008-06-01T01:22:00.005-07:00

Hello. It's 1:30AM Sunday and I just finished my Blanka. Sorry for the late post but I've been busy working. The first image is a scan of a small thumbnail that I did on my sketchbook (not Sketchbook Pro!!). I had a really hard time trying to pose him out in that perspective, but I think it turned out ok.

Update: Our next SF characters to draw will be Chun Li, then M Bison (I'm guessing the American one)!

Dhalsim

2008-05-12T23:22:00.002-07:00

I'll try to colour this one in the future. Right now I'm just too busy with work.

SF tribute - Oro

2008-05-04T01:35:00.006-07:00

I decided to join some of my friends at drawing a Street Fighter character each week. I'm a bit late but here is my Oro for this week! Too bad I didn't try for the SF Tribute Book by Udon. But check out my buddy Shu's blog for his awesome SF work. One of his entries is going to be in the book. Well done Shu!

Update: I added some colours!

Workout

2008-04-24T17:27:00.005-07:00

Hey all! I've been super busy these last few weeks with relatives coming over from LA and S. Korea for one of my sister's wedding. The wedding was great and it was a new experience for my family. Now that I have some spare time, I decided to start going to the gym again. I love working out cause it relieves stress. I felt great after working out today! Now I gotta go play some B-Ball with my friends.

Jina and Sunny's wedding card

2008-03-31T12:08:00.007-07:00

The wedding invitation card finally came out a few weeks ago! Jina stubbornly went for the pop-up look and a bunch of people had to sacrifice their time cutting and pasting the design into the card. But in the end, everyone was happy with the result. The pop-up part was designed my me and the rest were designed by Sunny's friend Amy.

Must read!

2008-03-28T13:55:00.003-07:00

*Everyone involved in the animation/movie industry should go and read this post on the TAG Blog! I totally agree with what Steve wrote on the post and I wanted to share it with my animation fellas.

Gorillas

2008-03-25T23:13:00.024-07:00

Just having some fun drawing gorillas. I find them very fun to draw! I hope everyone's had a good Easter.

Update: more gorillas!

Whenever I look at images of former NBA player Patrick Ewing, I can't help but think of gorillas. No offense to the Knick fans. He was one of the 50 greatest players of all time.

Update Mar.28: Just having some more fun!

More girls

2008-02-15T15:19:00.002-08:00

I've been drawing more girls lately cause I tend to draw guys more when I'm just doodling. Girls have such nice "S" curves.

girl studies

2008-02-06T19:08:00.000-08:00

Samurai

2008-02-04T21:29:00.005-08:00

I did this one just to practice colouring in Photoshop. I spent way too much time on it and I think I over did it. Also, I shouldn't have painted on one layer most of the time... But I'm pretty happy I did it and it's time to move on to another one.

Click on this one for bigger pic.

Another one

2007-12-18T20:52:00.000-08:00

My sister asked me to do another drawing but more cartoony this time. She wants to have some sort of word balloons in there. I don't think she's made up her mind yet on how she wants it to look. I have a feeling she's gonna ask me for more variations...

Jina and Sunny

2007-12-08T17:16:00.000-08:00

One of my sisters is getting married next year! She asked me to do a drawing to put on her wedding invitation card. I'm almost finished and the border is just a temporary thing. I'm really happy for her. :)

faces

2007-11-17T01:31:00.001-08:00

I saw someone do something like this before
(sorry I can't remember who or where it was from)
so I gave it a try.

practice

2007-11-12T22:38:00.000-08:00

I've added some textures here just for fun.

storyboard work

2007-11-06T22:37:00.000-08:00

Just a little sequence I had to do for Edgar & Ellen.
I wish I own a cintiq!!

pen tool practice

2007-11-06T22:30:00.000-08:00

Okay, I'm trying to get back to this blogging. Sorry I've been such a lazy bum. I promise I'll post more often. Anyways, I'm not really a photoshop/illustrator guru, so I've been learning how to use the pen tool. Personally I think flash is more easier for cleaning up drawings.

Flash Animation by Daniel Yu

2007-10-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

I've finally managed to put together a flash reel!

All of the scenes are from Atomic Betty
which I worked on for 2 seasons.

It was also my first gig right out of school.

The BG music is the opening song of one of my
favourite anime show Cowboy Bebop.

Enjoy! :)

Snow...

2007-01-18T23:39:00.000-08:00

It's been snowing a lot here lately and my commute to work has been just hell (but cold). One day I wasted about 8 hours just on commute by bus. 8!!! I was a full-time commuter that day.

Intress poses

2006-12-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

Poses from board revs.

Propz

2006-11-27T16:10:00.000-08:00

Some propz.

Update!

2006-11-27T15:33:00.000-08:00

Hey all! Here are some drawings for the update. I will post up more stuff from work soon. This one was done for 'Chaotic' at work. It's not really going to be used though. Sniff*

Weekend!!!

2006-09-08T17:25:00.000-07:00

Photoshop doodle.

Napoleon Dynamite

2006-08-28T10:35:00.000-07:00

New post

2006-07-18T13:40:00.000-07:00

Okay okay.. I'm really sorry for being a bad blogger and not posting anything for like 2 months. To prove that I've been drawing though, I'm finally posting something I did for work. For the last couple of months, I've been drawing props for a show called Word World where characters and things are made of words like the ship I'm posting here. Last week our crew was told that the show was going to be moved to New York. I don't wanna go in to too much detail but things have been kinda all over the place for me. Since I'm not in WW any more, they moved me in to another show called Chaotic. I'm helping with character designs at the moment.

T-shirt for my sister

2006-05-23T00:22:00.000-07:00

This is a design I did for one of my sister's birthday gift. I got it printed on a black T-shirt at Cherry Bomb on Granville. It came out really nice and my sister loved it. Oh.. and she's a florist by the way. I told her to wear it at work. Man.. why am I such a sweet ass. LOL

getting warmed up for work next week

2006-05-12T13:46:00.000-07:00

Cowboy sketch for an exercise in Tom Bancroft's design book 'Creating Characters with Personality'. I think it's one of the best design books I've read so far.

Some more rough sketches to get ready for my new job as a designer at Bardel Entertainment next week. I'm pretty excited about this new gig.

some sketches

2006-05-03T21:32:00.000-07:00

Some more pirate sketches done recently.

This one was actually done with pencil on paper. lol

Mythical Beast - Dragon

2006-04-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

Dragon concept.

Mythical Beast - Griffin

2006-04-30T17:08:00.000-07:00

About a week ago I came up with an idea of doing some comic strips involving mythical beasts. Here's a couple of sketches done today for griffin. I'll try to post up some more in the future.

FINISHED!!!

2006-04-22T22:12:00.000-07:00

I'm finally done! I drew myself celebrating the end of Atomic Betty Season 2 in Betty style. Now I'll have more time to DRAW!!

Interesting article

2006-04-18T22:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to an interesting article my bro just sent me.

Design software weakens classic drawing skills

It's so true. Nothing beats good old pencil on paper.
Sorry for the lack of new posts with pictures btw... :(
I'm on my last week of Betty. Horray!

Animator's wage survey 2006

2006-04-07T23:19:00.000-07:00

Animator's Wage Survey 2006

Arrgghhh...

kids

2006-04-03T00:24:00.000-07:00

Doodles from the weekend.

Lifedrawing

2006-04-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to update my portfolio because I haven't for the last
two years. What's frustrating is that I don't have much new stuff
to add. :(
This is one of my reasons for opening up this blog. So I can keep
pushing myself to do draw more and be motivated by other artists.
These are lifedrawings that I did back when I was still in school.
I'm going to try lifedrawing again once I finish my 2nd season of Betty.
Anybody interested in going to the zoo with me?!!?!

My first storyboard gig

2006-04-01T20:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the first few pages of a storyboard I did last year for Warner Bros. After finishing the first season of Atomic Betty, I got a chance to do my first storyboard at Atomic since graduating from school. I was pretty nervous because not only it was my first storyboard gig, but because I haven't really practiced drawing since I was always busy animating in Flash. I started out doing some revisions for the first three days and after I had finished all the revisions, I got to do a whole board from start to finish in three weeks. I didn't realise back then, that three weeks wasn't very much time to finish a whole board! So I had to work like crazy day and night including the weekends, and by the time I was finished, I was literally burnt out. Still, I had a great deal of FUN being able to draw again. Hopefully I'll have more chances in the future to do some more boards. Anyway, these images are a scan of a photocopy so they're not the best interms of image quality. I hope you guys can understand my storytelling. :)

another version

2006-03-26T01:22:00.000-08:00

Just trying different things.

Ryu

2006-03-26T00:05:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the late update folks. Here's a weekend post of Ryu! I might do something later on with Photoshop with the coloured version, but for now I think this is good enough. BTW, I'm now working on my LAST episode of Atomic Betty Season 2. I can't believe I've already been through two seasons.

Pirate

2006-03-20T00:44:00.000-08:00

Yarrr!!!

Blog Links

2006-03-18T23:02:00.000-08:00

Today I've spent some time updating my blog links.
It's amazing how many talented artists there are!
But if you'd like to see an even better list of awesome blog links,
just go to http://reddotbloglinks.blogspot.com/.
You'll even find links to some Atomic-ers like
Jeff,Ridd,Clio,Pat, and Kevin. You guys rock!

basic shapes

2006-03-16T23:40:00.000-08:00

Me and a couple of guys at work decided to do a character sketch today at work using basic shapes. The shape we used was something like this.

I coloured it at home after work using photoshop again. I'd have to say yellow and purple is one of my favourite colour combinations.

girl in red

2006-03-14T23:00:00.000-08:00

Here's another post done in photoshop. Even though I'm still an amature with photoshop compared to so many people I know, I'm having lots of fun lately :)

weekend doodle

2006-03-13T01:21:00.000-08:00

For Leo

2006-03-10T19:11:00.000-08:00

This is a going away doodle I did for a friend who will be working in Ireland for the next 14 months. Good luck Rrrrreo!

photoshop practice

2006-03-09T22:55:00.000-08:00

ugghh.. can someone teach me how to colour in photoshop?!!

Street Fighter Rules

2006-03-09T21:53:00.000-08:00

Just a doodle I did at work one morning.

finally!

2006-03-09T19:20:00.000-08:00

I must start drawing more again!