Schoolism Live San Francisco 2015 – Day 2
After an amazingly full day one at the Schoolism Live in San Francisco, day two began with me running behind. The BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, doesn’t run on its normal schedule on Sundays so I was late arriving at the conference. Instead of being 10 rows from the front I ended up being three rows from […]
Schoolism Live San Francisco 2015 – Day 1
Today, July 18th, I was able to head to downtown San Francisco to go to a live Schoolism event. This workshop featuring some pretty amazing artists. I got a two day pass for this conference so I was able to learn from some icons of the entertainment industry. The weekend agenda went as follows; Day 1 STORY […]
Review – Schoolism’s Character Design 2 online class with Stephen Silver
Last year I took the second character design class offered by Schoolism.com entitled Character Design 2 with Stephen Silver. This course was taught by Stephen Silver, a professional character designer working in the field of animation. He has worked on shows like Disney Channel‘s Kim Possible and Nickelodeon‘s Danny Phantom. Like I mentioned this is […]
Wacom Cintiq Companion Review
If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time you’ll know that I have been looking for a portable digital drawing solution. I’ve tried drawing on my iPad with expensive stylists and even tried Microsoft’s Surface tablet, but nothing I found ever made me feel like I was drawing on my Wacom Cintiq. Maybe […]
Schoolism’s Gesture Drawing class and My thoughts
Last weekend I finished up my Gesture drawing class at Schoolism.com with Alex Woo. This is the second class I’ve taken at this site and so far I’ve found both classes to be very helpful. The first class I took at Schoolism was character design (Read my review of that class here). When I took my […]
Book Report – The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
One of the most amazing movies I’ve seen in the 3D era of animated movies has got to be How to Train Your Dragon. A big part of that for me has to be the way the animators gave life to the dragons. This is why I love these types of art books. I love […]
Schoolism.com – Character Design: My thoughts
First off what is Schoolism? Schoolism is an online school that teaches classes for artists. The classes are taught by working professionals through out the 9 to 14 weeks course (depending on the classes). They offer a self taught version for around 500 dollars and a critiqued session course for 1000 dollars. The classes are […]
Sketchbook Pro – Review
My best new thing in the world is Sketchbook Pro. SketchBook Pro by Autodesk feels like actually drawing on paper. It takes a little time to get used to it if you’re coming from PhotoShop because the UI doesn’t work like Adobe has trained us it should. Once you get passed that, I’ve found that […]