Art Prof

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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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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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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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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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Deepti Menon outline a part 2 of an animation curriculum for self-taught artists. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oG-_L9X2c08. Watch part 1: https://youtu.be/7xXE4Mb1HCs. Prof Lieu and Deepti explain skills required to do animation, types of animation including 3D, hand drawn, stop motion, gifs, zoetropes, flip books, professional development for animators, and more.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster lead discussion and do a demo on how to draw clothing, focusing on the "spiral fold." Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hEPmdogfnvk. Prof Lieu and Jordan do a drawing demo using Procreate and colored pencils on how to draw "spiral folds" while also talking about the challenges of drawing clothing and providing advice for how to start. Prof Lieu and Jordan explain different fold types: pipe fold, moving fold, half lock fold, dead fold, diaper fold, zig zag fold, and spiral fold.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates 2 minute gesture drawings using stills from Eadweard Muybridge's book "The Human Figure in Action." Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8BUa5gH7pyQ. Prof Lieu explains how to capture the most essential masses and forms of the human figure within 2 minutes. Watch out Anatomy for Artists series in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1E6eOxiEY&list=PLvt8_pMl6ywmazoENEsPesAumylTEHEoa 

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Teaching Artists Cat Huang and Jordan McCracken-Foster demonstrate in Procreate how to create different lighting situation for characters. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VTQJtpckVU8. Cat and Jordan talk about how color and light interact to create a broad range of color schemes.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to mix flesh tones using water mixable oil paints and a palette knife. Watch this episode on YouTube: 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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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Art Prof Teaching Artist Alex Rowe talk about FORM.   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CHsoPZ_JZtA.  Form is one of the Elements of Art and the infinite ways form can be manipulated in visual arts to create engaging images. Prof Lieu and Alex provide examples of contemporary art and images from art history where form plays an integral role.

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