Art Prof

Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Deepti Menon demonstrate how to do a mastercopy in Procreate. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fV3bT7vgrv4. Deepti and Jordan explain why doing a mastercopy is a good exercise for beefing up your digital painting skills, with a step by step process for starting one.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Cat Huang and Alex Rowe explain how lighting works, focusing on the specifics of how highlights work. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VMM99HxtKkM.  They explain how artists can apply their knowledge of highlights, both as a visual element and as a tool for narrative storytelling.

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Part 4 of 4: Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates water mixable oil painting techniques of a still life based on the complementary pair yellow and purple. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pCDb3rUpLGw. Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/UK6Vc44wvGU, Part 2: https://youtu.be/SI7OxHZwe_8 and Part 3: https://youtu.be/alPWajT3RRQ. This is a follow up exercise to a complementary color chart that Prof Lieu did in gouache to explore complementary colors: https://youtu.be/I3jTmDEIqcw. Prof Lieu talks about color saturation, value, composition, and more.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster demonstrate how to draw the front male torso. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lir_c6zZdH8. Prof Lieu shows cross-hatching techniques using a charcoal pencil and vine charcoal while Jordan draws with Procreate. Jordan and Prof Lieu talk about anatomical landmarks on the front male torso including the centerline, pit of the neck, the clavicles, the sternum, and muscles including the pectoralis major, the external oblique, and more.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Deepti Menon outline a part 1 of an animation curriculum for self-taught artists. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7xXE4Mb1HCs. Prof Lieu and Deepti explain basic principles of animation including movement, timing, weight, and personality, as well as strategies for storytelling like exaggeration and anticipation. Next they talk about historical animators and essential skills like line, color, and gesture that are necessary to be an animator.

Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to sculpt a small clay relief sculpture of a face, using plastilene, an oil based clay that is flexible and safe for home art studios. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nfHsAncF1VQ. 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 Artists Alex Rowe and Cat Huang outline an illustration curriculum for self-taught artists. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lqgByXQgS68. Prof Lieu, Alex, and Cat explain the parts of the illustration industry: children's books, editorial, comics, political cartoons, adult books, and more. They cover illustration prompts you can give yourself, illustration websites and conferences, as well as the essential skills illustrators need such as linear perspective, color theory, drawing clothing, 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 "half-lock fold." Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9CuyWvtrUG4. Prof Lieu and Jordan do a drawing demo using Procreate and colored pencils on how to draw "half-lock 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 and Teaching Artist Lauryn Welch discuss why it's important for artists to cold call to get professional opportunities as an artist. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yA8rp968FLM. Prof Lieu and Lauryn explain how to research specific people to contact, the logistics of how to go about writing an introductory email that is professional, succinct, and appropriate, and how to follow up in a manner that is not intrusive or demanding.

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Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Deepti Menon demonstrate how to develop details in landscape paintings in Procreate, using a broad range of reference photos. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m3_RC-9EkPo. Deepti and Jordan talk about strategies like atmospheric perspective, texture, foreground, middle ground, and background to create a convincing landscape.

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