Art Prof

Art Prof Clara Lieu, Teaching Artist Cat Huang, and Guest Teaching Artist Julie Benbassat talk about their absolute, must read manga books. Julie and Cat provide their insight on a diverse range of manga types and topics: Shōjo, Shōnen, comedy/gag, horror, and mystery. 

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Lauryn Welch and Jordan McCracken-Foster discuss how you define plagiarism as an artist. Prof Lieu, Lauryn, and Jordan provide several examples where artists have been accused of plagiarism, and in some cases where a lawsuit determined the final outcome.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu interviews Teaching Artist Cat Huang about her artistic development as a child to her time as an undergraduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied illustration. Cat's current studio practice focuses on comics and illustration.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Eloise Sherrid and Alex Rowe discuss different ways that visual artists can brainstorm their ideas to create artworks. Exercises such as word association, mind maps, thumbnail sketches, sketchbooking are all discussed as a means towards stimulating the development of ideas for future artworks.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Cat Huang debate the character of Korra from the 2012 animated TV series "Legend of Korra." In "Crit Clash," we assign a point of view to each artist for the purposes of this debate. In this case, Jordan is arguing for the character of Korra while Cat is arguing against. These views are not necessarily what Cat and Jordan think in real life by the way, so you might see them making statements they wouldn't normally make! Find out Cat and Jordan's IRL opinions after the stream in the #crit-clash-reveals channel in the Art Prof Discord. The invite link to our Discord is: https://discord.gg/g5XQRpT

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and college students Anya Chen and Ruth Lee talk about their experience as art majors at UCLA. Anya and Ruth discuss their college art portfolios, their decision to study art at a college as opposed to art school, and the advantages of studying art at a college that they have experienced so far.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu, and Teaching Artists Deepti Menon and Jordan-McCracken-Foster discuss whether age matters as an artist. Unfortunately much of the world is obsessed with youth, is this the case in the art world as well? Prof Lieu, Deepti, and Jordan cite several examples of artists at different ages and whether that had an impact or not on their artistic careers.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Lauryn Welch talk about how to decide whether to do do an MFA program in studio art. Prof Lieu and Lauryn talk about how to figure out whether having an MFA program is worth the time and cost: do you want to get an MFA to teach at the college level? To get professional connections to enter the New York City art scene? Do you want to have concentrated time to engage critically with your artwork and create a series beyond your undergraduate studies?

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan-McCracken-Foster talk about what practices to avoid when promoting your artwork online. Prof Lieu and Jordan talk about actions you can avoid that risk you coming across as pushy and self absorbed when showing people your artwork online.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof

Art Prof Clara Lieu interviews Teaching Artist Deepti Menon about her artistic development as a child to her time as an undergraduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied animation. Currently Deepti is a freelance animator, producing music videos.

Support Art Prof on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artprof or make a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.me/artprof