my art professor | Peter Sakievich
Peter’s experience and knowledge that turns students into pros consistently and affordably with student-tested and updated courses here on myartprofessor.com
He’s taught at seven universities in two countries and multiple states for over 20 YEARS. Some of them are among the most important in Design and Arts. His students range from first year foundations students to upper level students and across multiple departments including illustration, concept art, motion design, and fine art painting.
Today he teaches Concept Design and more at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA as a tenure track research professor of concept design.
That range of teaching experience means he understands the importance of connecting experience and information not only in an isolated per course and project step-by-step way, but also knows exactly how to reinforce vital (often invisible) artistic principles across subjects, materials, media and markets.
In the professional markets his past concept clients include companies like Disney Interactive, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, and many many more!
Peter even has a giant 100+ foot long 14″ tall mural installed inside dozens of Maverik gas stations across the western US.
And he’s shown oil paintings in art galleries in Hong Kong, New York, Scottsdale, Park City, and California.
That experience helps him extend what he teaches beyond just basic theory in the classroom but to the real world.
This is yours to access here in a growing library of courses presented in sequence to build skills and a portfolio to bring to market!
(btw…Sack-Uh-Vitch…in case you were wondering)
live free office hours
Come chat with me, get your questions answered, sit in on demos and more over on youtube!
Since he’s demo’d skills in front of hundreds (maybe thousands?) of students over the last 20 years, he’s more than comfortable working and talking.
Prof. Sakievich streams most days in the mornings and evenings. He’s typically working on his personal projects and is happy to chat, demo, answer questions and more.
a little portfolio below, click on the links to see a lot more
teaching philoshopy (pedagogy)
Professor Sakievich noticed through his years of teaching that not all students are as fixated on essential (but invisible) basic art skills like Perspective, Figure Drawing, Anatomy, Color Theory, etc. in the same way he is.
What he found out through live, real-time, in-person testing on live human subjects in the classroom is that what you really want are the insights and skills that help you expand your ability to access your imagination.
You know…what he actually wanted as a student too.
former students' in-class work!
the very real AI threat
Those deep level skills that lead to personal vision ARE under attack today with AI scams and systems that threaten not only the livelihoods and artistic legacies of real people but also the important ability to access imagination and aspiration. The high level skills here now and being added will only make an artist a more independent and needed figure in the coming flood of mediocrity.