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Semester’s winding down here at the university! Finally!
Lately I had my nose to the grindstone trying to get all caught up with the MAP Monthlies! And…guess what? I am all done and caught up through April and May’s comes out soon!
This series from November till April features an Inktober that I take from the original 1 hour drawing done live on Instagram through the general illustration process to a completed ink and watercolor image. A snippet is featured in this post! Hopefully it helps you out!
There’re a bunch more in the can that I’m looking forward to sharing with you as the year progresses!
Also, due to all the online instruction I had to do this year, I have a ton more courses coming your way as I complete them this Summer and Fall. That will mean more potential progress in your drawing skills as you sit down, focus, and work your way through those exercises!
There will be more on perspective, designing image spaces, working with lens types (great for storyboarders and animators). Foundational figure drawing, essential anatomy and the figure applied in composition and spaces!
Largely it is just a process of seeing which content can be kept, which needs to be updated, and what new content to add to complete these courses. Look for those as the year moves on!
Actually, I will hit up my email list to see which course completion gets prioritized first!
Once these get done, there will also be a graphical overhaul of the subscribers’ course page to make it easy to coordinate your learning path!
So…lots coming!
Join up today to get in while the price is still held at the Prime Founder’s rate. You’ll always keep that!
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Welcome to 2021!
First of all there’s a big noticeable update to the site! Hopefully easier to find and use info from the main pages!
Second of all! Another course has been fully loaded. It’s about the basic use of precise 1 Point Perspective, Composition, and Simple technical pen (micron) style inking! All paid memberships should have it in their course library now!
THIRD of all! I have a ton of other content that’s being finalized for the site and should be coming over the next few months as things settle down at the university!
I’m really looking forward to sharing it all with you!
Do hit me up with any questions or comments you may have!
Continued Adventures in Covid Isolation!
Ready for the final section?
you probably heard by now that,
there’s
A BRAND NEW COURSE IS IN THE CAN!
It’s all about learning to break things down into their basic Primitives (simple 3D forms) and then how to draw simple and complex objects from reference at any angle using simple perspective tricks and forms!
Right now and over the next couple of weeks the lessons will drop into the course.
Subscribers should check their Dashboard to jump into it!
The fourth final section is up NOW!
So, if you haven’t yet, do check it out!
Current and future subscribers now have access to it!
For people new to the site you can sign up for a 3 day free trial to see all the courses before you need to pay for it.
For those that already took advantage of that in the past, I’ll leave a few of the lessons in the Sample Lessons. You get a link in your email to access that if you haven’t yet after you sign up for the myartprofessor newsletter.
I’m really excited about this course and the series that will follow over the next couple months as I go in and finalize projects, insert extra lessons etc to bring it all to finish.
Their working titles are:
I’ll share more about them in the future.
You’ll see some other changes here on the site too as I come up for air that I think will simplify and organize things as I add more and more lessons here.
Continued Adventures in Covid Isolation!
Where are you at in the new course yet?
Either way more about my adventures in isolation begin below.
oh you haven’t heard?
there’s
A BRAND NEW COURSE IS IN THE CAN!
It’s all about learning to break things down into their basic Primitives (simple 3D forms) and then how to draw simple and complex objects from reference at any angle using simple perspective tricks and forms!
Right now and over the next couple of weeks the lessons will drop into the course.
Subscribers should check their Dashboard to jump into it!
The third full section is up NOW!
This course (and the FOUR to follow!) are based on a course I put together for my design drawing students at my new university. I’ll chat about that here on the blog over the next few weeks as each section of Foundations of Form makes its way onto the site!
Covid Adventure Notes!
More next week.
Continued Adventures in Covid Isolation!
Have you looked at the new course yet?
Either way more about my adventures in isolation begin below.
in case you missed it,
there’s
A BRAND NEW COURSE IS IN THE CAN!
It’s all about learning to break things down into their basic Primitives (simple 3D forms) and then how to draw simple and complex objects from reference at any angle using simple perspective tricks and forms!
Right now and over the next couple of weeks the lessons will drop into the course.
Subscribers should check their Dashboard to jump into it!
The second full section is up NOW!
This course (and the FOUR to follow!) are based on a course I put together for my design drawing students at my new university. I’ll chat about that here on the blog over the next few weeks as each section of Foundations of Form makes its way onto the site!
Covid Adventure Notes!
School ended in May and I hit the end of the semester like car folding over a tree. It was all very strange. I started a Kratky style hydroponic garden in my closet to grow bok choy and buttercrunch lettuce (look it up, pretty easy to do). Even put the lighting on a timer to set it and forget it! The local gardening supplier was considered essential and were open. Also at this point I grabbed toilet paper whenever I saw it at the shops when I went out from my house every few weeks. Now I have an 18 month supply… I fully stocked my freezer and fridge.
I also had some new perspective. Figuratively and literally. I could see a lot more clearly what my students needed from their first semester course to benefit their second semester of figure focus. That got the brain juices flowing. There’s a lot to consider and how do you fold the technical information with the conceptual into a practical step-by-step course. Notes were scattered all over, but as I laid it out, the noise turned into a pattern. That pattern turned into a process.
The big question came.
How do I get the students to shift from the inexperienced view of the world, to one that revolved around deconstructing what surrounds them into something that’s manageable, that anyone from any background can learn and follow?
But then the covid cases started to surge again in July.
Decisions had to be made…
More next week.
Adventures in Covid Isolation, right?
I can’t speak for the rest of you, but it’s been an insane year!
– Oh you too? –
more about my adventures in isolation begin below.
but…there’s
A BRAND NEW COURSE IS IN THE CAN!
It’s all about learning to break things down into their basic Primitives (simple 3D forms) and then how to draw simple and complex objects from reference at any angle using simple perspective tricks and forms!
Right now and over the next few weeks subscribers will get access to this new course.
Subscribers should check their Dashboard to jump into it!
The first full section is up NOW!
This course (and the FOUR to follow!) are based on a course I put together for my design drawing students at my new university. I’ll chat about that here on the blog over the next few weeks as each section of Foundations of Form makes its way onto the site!
Covid Adventure Notes!
Let’s begin!
When Covid hit the US back in March and I had to take my figure drawing class online for the second half of the semester. It represented a radical shift from the way I delivered figure drawing to my students in the past. I teach a step-by-step method for drawing the figure that brings together the amazing lessons I learned from my best instructors along with insights I received since. My students just completed that process and they just started doing long poses for it when we went on Spring Break in mid-March. We all watched as this mysterious disease made it’s way out of China and across the world. During the break I stopped into my office and saw my area head. I asked…are we coming back after spring break?
He just sighed.
The next day they announced that all classes were going online and students who had left to other countries and states would not return to campus and that the campus would no longer hold classes in person.
We were all going on Zoom.
Not just here, but everywhere.
And I had a week to prepare the new content based on the new set of circumstances. Personally I felt disappointed that all this work would be wasted, I had this track of study all laid out in my head. The students responded really well to it and they were on track for amazing new work.
The thing is…
The second part of this course, the part after the process had been studied and mastered, takes them through a number of exercises to help them actually use the figure in more practical and professional circumstances.
I love figure drawing just for figure drawing, but as a teacher I learned that not everyone does (sadly…), but that people do seem to get more invested in things that really serve a longer term personal goal. For many of these students drawing isn’t there just for drawing, but for communicating with clients and for organizing, presenting, and selling their ideas. They adapted beautifully and by the end produced some great illustrations based on processes that will eventually come here too!
But, this also got me thinking about the Fall drawing course for freshmen and the months ahead of me that were needed to prepare. A drawing course very different than any I ever taught or been taught. One that brings a lot more purpose, concept and ideation to drawing.
I’ll talk about that more next time!
See you then!
While I have not updated this blog in several months, there have been ongoing updates to the course materials since the last January update.
I completed the 2pt Perspective Course in April! All the content you need to master 1 & 2 Point Linear Perspective, well, it’s up and ready for you to dive in deep with!
And the MAPMonthlies (April & May) are now up to date as well, soon to be followed up with the June edition in the next week or so!
Along with these updates, I’m hard at work on organizing and preparing to build the next set of courses during the summer break. I’ve also been really active over on the rainlandstudios instagram account and now I’m nearly at 50 thousand followers!
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The January MAP Monthly was added a couple weeks back! I used a popular instagram post as the subject and I walk you through the whole process of developing the image and finishing it! Check it out, follow along, and let me know what you think!
I kept pretty quiet over the last month as I’ve been pushing through on finalizing the 2 Point Perspective course. Well, since the last update I completed and added the traditional media series & two of the Follow Along sections to the course.
That is…I’ve added 30 videos over that time period. Yeah, just checked the exact count. 31 if you count the January MAP Monthly.
What do all those include?
The Architectural Projection project and Building Construction (exterior & interior combined). The image above comes from the Building Construction project. It’s not that scary, trust me!
Just one section left! Then I can move on putting together some other new courses! I’m thinking about working on two at the same time, but I do need to think through it a bit more. I also added update posts to the top of the 2 Point Course to make it easier to keep track of what I’ve added and so you can check out the new stuff if you’re all caught up! That will go away once the course is complete.
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