The Pixel Pintura Workshops have been conducted since 2003. It first started solely with the Digital Coloring Pro Workshop. Digital Coloring Basics and Digital Painting Basics followed afterwards.
Pixel Pintura’s first ever student was a pretty lady named Rachel Cheung from the Immaculate Conception Academy. (Back then Pixel Pintura was just called the Digital Coloring Workshop.) Since her, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching roughly 6 students or professionals a year.
This page is where you can read comments from some of the Pixel Pintura graduates. They can tell you themselves what they think about the workshop(s) they took and how their learning experience went.
July 23rd, 2007 - 11:14 am
mahusay magkulay yang si joel sa computer.
July 23rd, 2007 - 1:36 pm
I enjoyed Joel Chua’s workshop. The one on one and pair methods really means you get a lot of attention from him and he can comment about details like your strokes and other nuisances.
really really helpful!
July 23rd, 2007 - 5:10 pm
I really enjoyed sir Joel Chua’s classes, he taught me ways to color i never thought i could till i took his classes
July 29th, 2007 - 12:21 am
Taking classes from a person as skilled as Joel was quite the experience. Definitely changed my perspective on the way I see color - from the monitor to print. He’s been doing this a long time so go ahead ask him a question, a stupid one even, or his personal criticism. I’m sure he’s ready to share his honest opinion.
August 2nd, 2007 - 10:03 pm
Sir Joel’s workshop is interesting.
It challenges and makes me think of different perspectives to come out with good looking art. Every time we end a workshop I have this strange addiction to the art I’m working on and would want to perfect it as much as I can. His critic is valuable too if you really want to have a good and honest opinion about your art and how to improve.
August 5th, 2007 - 9:47 pm
Joel Chua’s workshop really helped me with the way I do my illustrations. I used to have a hard time with colors that I often omit them. But now I tend to favor digital painting over sketching.
August 6th, 2007 - 8:57 am
Its because of sensei’s workshop that I learned the basics of coloring digitally, specially with my work right now.
I would take up his advance coloring workshop if I had the time…
August 10th, 2007 - 4:11 pm
i think what i liked most about the workshops whether it be digital coloring or painting was the invaluable color lesson. it seems so easy to just randomly pick out colors from the color picker but seriously, half the time i pick out the wrong colors to use. after the workshops though i got a better understanding in choosing colors and setting the best palette to work with. His critique is great too! it’s especially helpful to people like me who just learn from books and have nearly zero formal training in art.It had me work on my weakpoints (still working on them though hahaha) which i didn’t even know were my weaknesses before.
August 14th, 2007 - 11:57 am
oh the lessons he teaches are useful for photoshop beginners. this workshop is great for those who wants to get a good “kick-off” knowledge on how to handle photoshop.
you guys dont have to worry getting your stye changed, since mr. joel will work around your coloring style! ^__^ a very good way to invest if you really want to learn digital colouring/painting. i took 2 courses from him myself ^__^
August 17th, 2007 - 6:52 pm
i was already versed in photoshop when i enrolled with joel, but i learned a lot of techniques to make working more efficient….
he gives you practical techniques, methodologies and shortcuts to make work more fun.
September 4th, 2007 - 1:22 am
Joel is one of the fastest and most talented colorists I know. I was able to assemble a very nice portfolio after taking his lessons, and got into advertising even though I had zero experience in graphic arts. Now I work for a web design company and I still use all the Photoshop techniques that I learned from Joel.
October 26th, 2007 - 9:27 pm
He is strict, but a GOOD TEACHER b(^o^)d