Digital Visual Artist

Alon Chou

Taiwanese freelance digital artist Alon Chou worked in traditional media like oil painting and watercolor while a student at National Taiwan University of Art, and began learning digital art media only after taking a 3D modeling job with XPEC. Though he excelled at CG, Chou still identifies more with traditional artists in terms of his subject matter and style.

Chou told It’s Art Magazine, “What I want to express in my art is similar to the dramatic appeals in traditional drawings. I always hope to have a complete composition and plot. As for the contents of paintings, I wish to start with the emotions of daily life because we humans have all sorts of feelings. Anything picked up from daily life has the chance of becoming a touching piece of art work. Therefore, if there’s people involved in the work, I will make the emotion I want to express as the starting point.”

Quote from his website,

“ My name is Alon (阿龍) Chou, I am from Taiwan. I graduated from National
Taiwan University of Arts, I worked in a game studio, mainly working on low-poly
3D modeling. Since I was still very attached to 2D illustration, I decided to leave
the job and focus on drawing as a 2D artist. I am now working as a freelancer, and
I do illustrations, character designs and scenery designs for games and animation films.

Drawing to me is like a single frame of a movie, it is dramatic, and should be something
simple and easy to understand without difficult theories. A drawing should be a complete
presentation of plot, emotion, the interaction, background, the space relation, the lights
and shadows, the atmosphere, etc. I would like to include all these elements into my
drawings, and make it better.

I am glad for sharing my thoughts here.
Thank you everybody!”

Some of his artworks:

His website: http://www.alon.tw