The Technique~

I can try and list every source of techniques, or material Lee's art comes from, but this would be impossible. Most of Lee's art is too creative to come up with any idea of what inspired him. Lee's technique is from his experience with art. Although there is a lot of art to show, Lee never forgets how he gets his idea's and what he was intending by implementing them.

Several of Lee's techniques were inspired by the anatomy books he checked out, from his local library. I don't remember the titles to all of them. Most were purely about anatomy, some taught perspective and shading techniques. It wasn't only human anatomy; Lee would also practice animal anatomy, winged mammal anatomy and maniraptora anatomy. This led to creating his creative types of mammals based on mammals here on earth. I'm not sure if Lee ever covered plant anatomy as it may seem like in figure: 1. Lee also uses various pencil and pen shading techniques. Some of which require a very thin .20mm pen point and a thin sharpened 0.3mm mechanical pencil. Lee uses custom shading techniques similar to stippling (dots), contour lines, parallel lines, and cross hatching. Combine these diverse techniques with an incredible creative technical command, and you have the amazing style of Lee.

There's a very nice shading technique he created, similar to cross hatching (figure: 1). I'm not sure what he calls it, maybe swirl hatching?

No matter how much time Lee spends on his art work from a few minutes to a full year. It never occurs to be Lee's final intention. Lee is always creating enhanced versions of his drawings, concepts, and paintings. Sometimes it's a small enhancement, most of the time it's a completely new drawing or painting. Even though Lee never runs out of ideas, it's in no way a bad choice to enhance a previously enjoyed idea.

Most of Lee's drawings so far are all concepts, their obviously incomplete, just an idea for a better piece of work I guess. This is unfortunate because some of Lee's most creative ideas are still unfolded in these "concepts". Examples from the concepts are all used in some of his recent work. But hardly any are of which the conventional versions of his concept art. Most of this has to do with "Lee never running out of ideas" I would guess. We'll just let time go by and let Lee surprise us.

First off, "Lee" isn't Lee's real name. Lee has chosen to use this particular nickname. Lee's real name is Christian Amadeus Rodriguez. The name "Lee" was chosen from Lee Chaolan. Lee Chaolan is a video game character from the Tekken fighting game series. Lee is quite the fan. One of the main reasons has to be is that Lee looks exactly like the video game character; also, Lee practices Chaolan's Mishima Karate fighting style and incorporates it into his own. When this site was first created in 2003, Lee represented himself as the video game character.

Lee has much to say about his art. You can look at some of his art, and it can take some time to find everything, it's like a hidden picture puzzle. It's almost different each time you observe it.

• Alex Grey
• Burne Hogarth
• Hyung-tae Kim
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Pablo Picasso
• Raffaello Sanzio
• Tetsuya Nomura
• Yoji Shinkawa
• Yoshitaka Amano
• Alan Lee
• Brain Froud
• Salvador Dalí

Neo-Classical:

• Cacophony (Jason Becker & Marty Friedman)
• Jason Becker
• Joe Stump
• Michael Angelo Batio
• Steve Vai
• Uli Jon Roth
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen

• Antonio Vivaldi
• Gioachino Antonio Rossini
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Niccolò Paganini
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Hirokazu Ando
• Koji Kondo & Toru Minegishi
• Nobou Uematsu
• Shiro Hamaguchi & Seiji Honda
• Tadashi Ikegami, Shogo Sakai, Takuto Kitsuta
• Tool
• Bone thugs~N~harmony
• Bizzy Bone