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Anatomy for Artists: Leg Bones

Art Prof Clara Lieu explains the bones in the leg, including the femur, the patella, the tibia, fibula, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZoLchdFMLVk. Watch all of our Anatomy for Artist videos in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1E6eOxiEY&list=PLvt8_pMl6ywmazoENEsPesAumylTEHEoa

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Draw Along: Hairstyles in Procreate

Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Deepti Menon demonstrate how to draw a range of hairstyles in Procreate. Watch this episode here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CdkwadBRffc. Jordan and Deepti how to approach drawing the hair as a three dimensional mass, and then subdividing that mass to articulate the specific clumps of hair. Procreate drawing techniques are also explained and demonstrated.

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Warm & Cool Colors Explained!

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Alex Rowe and Lauryn Welch explain the basics of how warm colors and cool colors work in art. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GrjMxPyM5C0. Prof Lieu, Alex, and Lauryn explain that warm and cool colors is contextual and is often times not as straightforward as it might seem and provide examples from contemporary art and art history that illustrate the many nuances of color temperature.

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Comics Draw Along: No Keyboard Symbols

Teaching Artist Cat Huang and Deepti Menon demo how to create a comic that uses no symbols from a keyboard. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5rHlEbbGrSg. Cat explains useful comics techniques such as point of view, the "foot rule," panels, speech bubbles, spreads, and pages in order to communicate a narrative. 

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Paint Along: Mixing Flesh Tones, Part 2 of 3

Part 2 of 3: Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to mix flesh tones using water mixable oil paints and a palette knife. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/wk6ZevvzXao and watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/gC7h8sa_xFg.  Using exclusively a palette knife is an effective way to focus entirely on the color mixing process by removing the distraction of needing to address brush technique at the same time. Painting a self-portrait from life, Prof Lieu explains how to observe colors in the skin and balance out hue, saturation, value, and warm/cool colors.

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Linear Perspective Drawing Demo for Beginners

Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to apply principles of 1 point linear perspective into the context of observational drawing. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-tamvJpVh5M. Prof Lieu talks about how to identify the vanishing point, the vanishing lines, establish the horizon line, and how to develop the drawing to convey a convincing sense of space.

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Comics Curriculum for Self-Taught Artists, Part 1

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Cat Huang outline part 1 of a comics curriculum for self-taught artists. Watch this episode here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jGIA3NzT_QU. Prof Lieu and Cat explain how the international comics industry, types of comics including webtoons, non-fiction biographies, superhero, Sunday Funnies. They explain the visual language of comics including panels, speech bubbles, spreads, and pages, as well as techniques like the 180 degree rule, point of view, tangents, the foot rule, and more.

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Self-Taught Artists Illustration Curriculum, Part 2

Part 2: Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Alex Rowe outline an illustration curriculum for self-taught artists. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KppzFTmefpY, and watch part 1: https://youtu.be/lqgByXQgS68. Prof Lieu & Alex, and Cat explain art media that is conducive to the turnover rate for illustration jobs, prompts you can assign yourself to practice your illustration skills, how the contemporary illustration industry works, as well as books, blogs, websites, and Instagram accounts that are great resources for illustration.

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Painting & Designing a Tarot Card Deck

Art Prof Clara Lieu speaks to Mia Rozear about her process creating 78 hand painter tarot cards titled "The Curious Travelers Tarot Deck. " Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LyaRYxQ87pQ/. Mia explains her research & sketching process, development of the imagery, her painting technique and her experience running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the deck.

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Sculpt Along: Figure in Plastilene Clay

Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to sculpt a small scale sculpture sketch of a figure using plastilene, an oil based clay that is flexible and safe for home art studios. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gOnu9BHPV18. Prof Lieu explains how to work from reference photos for the sculpture, how to build up the base and structure of the sculpture down to the finer details.

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