This free access page helps new students understand how Lo Chan Peng's online course system works before enrolling in a paid course.

After enrolling in a paid course, you will receive an email with your course access link. You may also create a Gumroad account and return to your purchased courses through your Gumroad library.

If you are an English-speaking student, we recommend beginning with the current English-subtitled flagship course:
The Secrets of Lo Chan Peng: Advanced Oil Painting Strategy and Special Techniques
https://lochanpeng.com/course/23

Use this free page to become familiar with the viewing experience before choosing the course that best fits your learning path.

Now available with multilingual subtitles:
English｜日本語｜Español｜Italiano｜ภาษาไทย
https://youtu.be/m0H0kpjStfg
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This is a foundational portrait drawing course centered on understanding. Beginning with geometric forms, light and shadow, the skull, muscles and fat, facial features, hair, and the emotions and expressions of the figure, the course gradually builds a complete ability to draw portraits.

In Lo Chan Peng’s painting system, a portrait is not merely a combination of facial features. It is an integrated whole formed by structure, volume, expression, and psychological presence. This course will guide students in learning how to truly understand a face: how the bones support the form, how muscles and fat affect the surface, how light and shadow describe volume, and how emotion gives the figure a sense of life on the page.

This is not only a course in drawing technique, but a complete system for training the way we see. Now, with subtitles in English, 日本語, Español, Italiano, and ภาษาไทย, this course is officially open to more international students.

Introduction:
Drawing is the foundation of all visual arts.

Your creative medium may be digital painting, watercolor, oil painting, acrylic, colored pencil, or any other form. But if you want to create truly convincing work, you cannot separate yourself from the foundation of drawing. This is especially true for portraits, where the complexity of structure reveals an artist’s powers of observation, form-building ability, and visual judgment with absolute clarity.

Have you ever encountered these challenges in your creative process?

You want to understand facial proportions more accurately.
You want to draw the posture and presence of the figure more vividly.
You want to handle complex hair in a more natural way.
You want to capture a person’s emotion and expression.
You want your work to be more than a likeness — you want it to feel truly alive.

No matter what stage you are currently in, or what bottleneck you are facing, returning to drawing practice is always the key to elevating your creative level.

Follow internationally recognized contemporary realist artist Lo Chan Peng and rediscover the essence of portrait drawing.

Lo Chan Peng is an internationally recognized Taiwanese contemporary artist known for his realist portrait painting. His works are vivid and lifelike, creating a pure and profound visual atmosphere. He has a remarkable ability to capture the emotions and inner states of his subjects, giving his paintings a quietly immersive power. He is regarded as a highly acclaimed master of contemporary realist portrait painting.

Teacher Lo says:

Painting is a fascinating act. With only the simplest materials and one quiet afternoon, you can create a period of time in dialogue with yourself.

To complete a painting from nothing is an immersive experience, and it is also part of my daily life. To me, this is a beauty I cannot stop pursuing. I hope to share this process with you through this course.

Course Content:

Materials Introduction

1. Pencil Drawing Materials and Basic Concepts — 23:04

Unit One: The Three Fundamental Forms of Visual Art｜Basic Concepts of Drawing

2. Geometric Forms — Introduction — 04:34

3. Drawing the Cube — 18:57

4. Drawing the Sphere — 23:46

5. Drawing the Cylinder — 22:22

Unit Two: The Light-Shadow Transition｜The Key to Figurative Painting

6. In-Depth Analysis of the Light-Shadow Transition — 25:12

Unit Three: Skull Structure｜The Key to Portrait Form

7. Introduction to the Structure from the Top of the Head to the Chin — 21:44

8. Analysis of Skeletal Structure — 27:03

9. Drawing a Skull — 53:09

Unit Four: Muscles and Fat｜Understanding Facial Movement

10. Distribution of Muscles and Fat — 18:35

11. The Movement and Function of Each Muscle Group — 16:17

Unit Five: Detailed Drawing of the Facial Features｜Connecting External Features｜Integrated Course Practice

12. Complete Drawing from Two Angles: Elderly Male, Part 1 — 69:01

13. Complete Drawing from Two Angles: Elderly Male, Part 2 — 51:13

14. Complete Drawing from Two Angles: Young Female, Part 1 — 52:00

15. Complete Drawing from Two Angles: Young Female, Part 2 — 54:42

16. Complete Drawing from Two Angles: Young Female, Part 3 — 54:15

Unit Six: Emotion and Expression｜The Essence of Portrait Painting

17. Emotion and Expression: The Essence of Portrait Painting — 25:41

Bonus Lessons

18. Introduction to Oil Painting Tools and Studio Setup — 11:42

19. How to Apply Drawing Concepts to Oil Painting — 29:07

20. Detailed Teaching and Sharing on Oil Painting Creation — 12:38

The Secrets of Lo Chan Peng is the advanced center of the Lo Chan Peng Painting System. It is designed for serious painters, art students, atelier-trained artists, and professional creators who want to study how Lo Chan Peng builds an oil painting from overall strategy to final surface.

This is not a basic painting tutorial. It is a close study of pictorial decision-making: composition strategy, long-term painting judgment, glazing, layered color structure, hair rendering, skin texture, blood-vessel effects, surface rhythm, and Lo Chan Peng's original fishnet-like painting method.

The course reveals how a painting is not completed by isolated techniques alone, but by the coordination of structure, timing, material behavior, edge, texture, and accumulated visual decisions. For students who want to enter the core of Lo Chan Peng's oil painting method, this is the flagship course.

Mandarin Chinese audio with Chinese and English subtitles.

To give you a sense of the quality of these English subtitles, you can first watch the preview video. This is Episode 11 from the complete 12-episode course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwzSkVlcUk

Continue the Study:

This course is the advanced center of the current English-ready oil painting path. Students who need stronger preparation should first study materials through Basic Oil Painting Knowledge and Canvas Preparation, traditional methods through Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques, or portrait structure through Osamu Dazai Portrait.

- Basic Oil Painting Knowledge and Canvas Preparation: https://lochanpeng.com/course/17
- Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques: https://lochanpeng.com/course/21
- Osamu Dazai Portrait: https://lochanpeng.com/course/16

Training Objective: Through demonstrations of three works, this course helps students thoroughly understand the methods and concepts behind the three major traditional oil painting techniques, allowing them to apply these methods more freely in future work.

Difficulty: ▮▮▮▮▮▯
Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes
$149 USD

Content:

Basic Rules 31 min

Glazing Method, Part 1 45 min

Glazing Method, Part 2 44 min

Layered Painting Method, Part 1 45 min

Layered Painting Method, Part 2 1 hr 27 min

Alla Prima 1 hr 18 min

Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques introduces three essential approaches in oil painting: glazing, layered painting, and alla prima.

Within the Lo Chan Peng Painting System, this course functions as the bridge between material knowledge and pictorial strategy. These methods are not simply different surface effects. Each one carries a different rhythm, material logic, and way of making decisions.

Through complete demonstrations, Lo Chan Peng explains how transparent layers, gradual construction, and direct painting each shape the final image. Students learn not only what these methods look like, but how each method changes the painter's relationship with time, correction, opacity, luminosity, and visual depth.

Mandarin Chinese audio with Chinese and English subtitles.

Preview video link:

- Three major traditional techniques of oil painting-1 Basic rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP9v3YNeAmo

Continue the Study:

After learning the main traditional methods, students can begin to see technique as part of a larger painting strategy. Continue with The Secrets of Lo Chan Peng to study how glazing, surface, skin, hair, and long-form decisions operate inside a full painting process: https://lochanpeng.com/course/23

English Subtitle Preview Video
https://youtu.be/7n5BnRvBZGg

This free preview offers a direct look at how Lo Chan Peng approaches hair in figurative drawing and painting.

Hair is not only a collection of strands. It depends on structure, direction, rhythm, volume, edge, weight, and the relationship between the head and the surrounding space. Use this preview to observe the pace of instruction, the level of detail, and the way form, rhythm, and texture are considered during the working process.

Within the Lo Chan Peng Painting System, this preview functions as a small but revealing entry point: it shows how a detail becomes meaningful only when it belongs to a larger structure.

Continue the Study:

Hair is not only detail; it depends on structure, volume, edge, and the larger painting surface. Continue with Osamu Dazai Portrait for portrait structure, or The Secrets of Lo Chan Peng for advanced oil painting surface and hair strategy.

- Osamu Dazai Portrait: https://lochanpeng.com/course/16
- The Secrets of Lo Chan Peng: https://lochanpeng.com/course/23

This free preview introduces the role of oil ground in oil painting and why surface preparation affects the final image.

It is a useful starting point for students who want to understand the material foundation behind Lo Chan Peng's painting process. Oil ground is not merely a technical preparation; it influences absorbency, surface response, layering, color behavior, and the long-term stability of the painting.

Within the Lo Chan Peng Painting System, this preview opens the material side of the practice: the understanding that a painting begins before the first visible image appears.

Continue the Study:

Oil ground is part of a larger material system: surface, absorbency, layering, and the way paint behaves over time. Continue with Basic Oil Painting Knowledge and Canvas Preparation, then Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques to connect material preparation with painting methods.

- Basic Oil Painting Knowledge and Canvas Preparation: https://lochanpeng.com/course/17
- Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques: https://lochanpeng.com/course/21

Basic Oil Painting Knowledge and Canvas Preparation is the material foundation of the Lo Chan Peng Painting System. It is designed for students who want to understand how canvas, ground, paint, color, and time shape a painting before moving into more advanced pictorial methods.

This course introduces oil painting materials, color theory, canvas preparation, water-based ground, oil ground, and the basic working principles that determine how oil paint behaves over time. Many problems that appear later in a painting begin much earlier: with an unsuitable surface, an unclear material choice, or a misunderstanding of how paint, absorbency, and layering interact.

This course gives students a more disciplined beginning. Instead of treating materials as secondary accessories, it teaches them as the first structural layer of the painting itself.

Mandarin Chinese audio with Chinese and English subtitles.

English Subtitle Preview Video:
[https://youtu.be/7n5BnRvBZGg](https://youtu.be/7n5BnRvBZGg)

Course Preview Videos:
[https://youtu.be/SdnZV9IaaLA](https://youtu.be/SdnZV9IaaLA)
[https://youtu.be/NowyNMow4vw](https://youtu.be/NowyNMow4vw)

Continue the Study:

Once students understand the material foundation, the next question is how oil paint can be organized into distinct pictorial methods. Continue with Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques to study painting in layers, glazing, and alla prima:
[https://lochanpeng.com/course/21](https://lochanpeng.com/course/21)

Basic Oil Painting Knowledge

Overview of Oil Painting Materials — 44 min
This lesson provides a comprehensive introduction to the materials used by Lo Chan Peng and their characteristics. It brings the study of oil painting materials into the course, helping students understand the complexity of oil painting media and the role each material plays within the painting process.

Color Theory — 31 min
This lesson introduces the principles of color, together with Lo Chan Peng’s own perspective on color. Understanding hue, value, chroma, and color relationships will help students apply this knowledge to the traditional painting techniques introduced later in the course.

Introduction to the Three Major Traditional Oil Painting Techniques — 7 min
This lesson introduces the basic logic and historical context of three major traditional oil painting techniques: painting in layers, glazing, and alla prima. It helps students understand the fundamental concepts behind each method before entering more advanced technical practice.

Training Objective:
To understand the fundamental materials, color theory, and general principles behind the three major traditional oil painting techniques.

Recommended For:
Students with no prior foundation, or students who only have a limited understanding of oil painting.

Difficulty: ▮▯▯▯▯▯

Duration: 44 min, 31 min, 7 min

Canvas Preparation

Training Objective:
Store-bought canvases cannot always be fully tailored to your own pictorial needs. Through Lo Chan Peng’s instruction, students will learn how to make a canvas from the beginning and prepare a painting surface designed specifically for their own work. This is the first step toward becoming a professional painter.

Recommended For:
Students who already have a basic understanding of oil painting materials and color theory, and are ready to begin painting in oil.

Difficulty: ▮▮▯▯▯▯

Duration: 39 min, 36 min, 31 min

Content:

Canvas Preparation — 39 min
By making your own canvas, you will gain a deeper understanding of the materials themselves and learn how to create more subtle surface and textural variations in oil painting.

Water-Based Ground — 36 min
Water-based ground is an essential part of canvas preparation. Lo Chan Peng shares the method he has developed, allowing students to complete this step in a simple, practical, and reliable way.

Oil Ground — 31 min
This lesson introduces why oil ground is necessary, what it means within the painting process, and how the choice of ground color can affect the final work.

(with English subtitles)
Training focus:

Osamu Dazai Portrait in Graphite

Drawings are very important. We started this drawing internally from the structure. Understanding the corresponding bones and muscles completes the drawing.

This is a great fundamental workout.

Osamu Dazai’s portrait for one hour is more aimed at advanced students. He no longer starts from the introduction of materials and basic concepts but goes directly to portraying portraits.

This film focuses on the memory of skeletal muscle and epidermis.
Suitable for: students who have passed the primary sketch

Duration: 1 hour14min

Difficulty: ▮▮▮▯▯▯

★Homework group opening hours: 2021/10/10-2022/4/10 ★
★A link and QR code to join the group will be given in the course letter★

You will be able to watch this video online unlimited times.

Preview video：https://youtu.be/p1OxMTUSLps