28th World Wide Sketch Crawl is this Saturday, July 31!

Sketch Crawl is a worldwide marathon of drawing. You’ll be sketching on this day with artists all over the world! We usually share our sketches over a meal and post our drawings in the Sketch Crawl forum. General information on Sketch Crawl is at http://sketchcrawl.com. Los Angeles Sketchcrawl Forum is at:
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Please see below for information on Los Angeles Sketch Crawl – it’s free to participate except for parking/metro fee + snacks/meal.

28th World Wide Sketchcrawl
Saturday, July 31, 2010
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LOCATION: Hollywood and Highland

http://www.hollywoodandhighland.com/

Lots of people/crazy characters, architecture, restaurants, and in general just a lot packed within a small distance

TIME: 11 am – ? Meet at the fountain. Come and go as you please, stay as long or little as you would like.

PARKING:
* $2 parking for 4hrs with validation
- OR-
* $10 max
OTHER OPTIONS:
* Public Transportation
* Subway stop right at H&H + is $3 round trip

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If this is the first time you have ever heard of Sketchcrawl, every two months there is a date set for anyone interested (artistic or not) to get out, experience life, and draw from it. Be that with a group in your area or go solo to explore. As you can see by checking out the forum there will be people drawing from all over the world. And if you look at forums from the previous Sketchcrawls you will see that many people are at different skill levels and that there are a lot of kind and supportive participants.

So don’t be afraid! Come out, make some new friends, and have fun. This is an open invite to ANYONE interested, artistic or not. Bring your friends, bring your family, and bring some paper. :]

WHAT A group art exhibition showcasing the work of Art Center College of Design (ACCD) illustration alumni and benefiting the Mini Lai Scholarship Fund. 100% of the proceeds of the artwork sales will go toward the fund, helping ACCD illustration students continue their studies, graduate from school, inspire their work, and build their careers. The show will feature high-quality, affordable artwork, priced at no more than $300. Light refreshments will be served. Gourmet food trucks will also be serving food outside of the show. A percentage of the proceeds of their sales will go toward the fund. Music will be provided by a DJ. WHEN One night only. Saturday, October 23, 2010, 8:00-11:00 p.m. WHERE Art Center College of Design – South Campus Gallery 950 South Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105

“The Mini Show” art show will raise money for the Mini Lai Scholarship fund, given out once a year to an Art Center Illustration student with financial hardship. Most of you may know Mini Lai, a wonderful friend who went through the Illustration program with many of us. For those of you that were not blessed to know Mini, this is a great opportunity to give back to your alma mater and help ACCD illustration students continue their studies. We’re going to promote the show as a big event with art, food, and music in a very cool venue. Toyota has already sign on to sponsor the show and we are going to approach other corporations and local busnesses to help as well. It should be a fun night! We would like you to be involved in this art show. Go to www.minilai.com to learn more about the fund and the show. 1. We are inviting you and any of your Illustration alumni friends to donate art pieces for the show, as many as you like. 2. The artwork will be collected between now and September 25th. We need to collect artwork early for promotional purposes (exception will be made for artists creating art for the show). 3. Artwork can be existing or new, but must be ready to hang. The goal of the show is to offer affordably-priced art, from about $80 to $300. The art piece should have a value within this price range. 100% of the sale would go towards the fund (Your donation of artwork is tax deductible. Please consult your tax advisor). This would be a great way to be a part of a group art show without doing too much work, get some publicity for yourselves, while giving to a good cause! For details on the submission process visit the Upcoming Events page at http://minilai.com/upcoming.html If you are interested let me know ASAP so I can determine an initial count of participating artists, and find out if we need to open the submission call to other alumni. Spread the word and thanks, Brian Damitz

Digital Figure Painting (using Photoshop) (Starts July 29th – 10wks)
Instructor: Alex Ruiz

Thursday, 7pm-10pm

 

 
The focus of this course will be on digital life drawing and painting using Adobe Photoshop and other digital techniques. The class also explores working with brushes and digital drawing tablets (such as those from Wacom) with a live model in the room to replicate through drawing and painting the human figure as would be done in a studio environment. Gesture, form, and anatomy will also be discussed in depth.

Class Info

 

Drawing Storyboards/Graphic Novels with Light (Starts Aug. 14th – 5wks)
Instructor: Marcos Mateu

 

Saturday, 10am-1pm

Light is the element that will dramatically influence a set and the characters within. Depending on the use we make of it the perception of the image will change in order to fit the storytelling moment. In this course we will observe and ink on paper sets under different lighting conditions, in convincing and practical ways, to then apply these techniques to specific panels that will deliver the desired message to an audience.There will also be slide show, analysis and discussion of artwork examples.

Class Info 

 

Entertainment Composition (Starts Aug. 21st – 5wks)
Instructor: Bryan Norton

 

Saturday, 2pm-5pm

 

The focus of this course is to investigate different methods of sketching and visual concept development for entertainment projects while stressing creative thinking, drawing from the imagination, and composition. Using fundamental drawing and design principles students will explore in class and at home using ink pens, pencils, markers/and or watercolors to fully realize their ideas through various exercises and small design projects including character design, environments, props and/or vehicles. In addition to interactive lectures, instruction includes demos and technical information on materials, methods, and uses of various sketching techniques and styles as they apply to entertainment design. My goal is to give students a hands-on overview of entertainment design sketching and composition that is content rich in a very interactive and open setting that allows students to participate and express their creativity using the knowledge they gain from this course. Should Have Prior Knowledge Of: Basic perspective drawing, previous figure drawing/quick sketch.

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Environment Layout Design (Starts July 14th – 10wks)
Instructor: Robert St. Pierre

 

Wednesday, 7pm-10pm

This course explores the fundamentals of environment design. The class will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of what goes into designing environments including a step by step process which will culminate with the students producing environment drawings of their own. Weekly lectures and demonstrations will cover topics such as staging and composition, 1, 2, 3 and 5 point perspective, scaling characters, visual story telling, natural and artificial lighting, thumbnails and rough sketching, final line and line quality and tonal drawings. Students will be expected to work within the classroom as well as manage homework assignments.

Class Info

 

If you would like to register for any of these classes, call 818.708.9232

#4250 – Environment Layout Design
(Starts July 14th – 10wks)

Instructor : Robert St. Pierre
Wednesday, 7pm-10pm

Robert St. Pierre was the Production Designer for the movie “9″ His responsibilities include facilitating final design, overseeing simple proxy to hi-res 3D models including environment, characters and props. You can watch the trailer at: http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/9/

He also worked as the Layout Artist for Disney’s the “Princess and the Frog”. You can view the trailer at http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/

He is currently working as a layout artist on “Winnie the Pooh” movie at Disney.

Click to view class info

#4050/4055 – Narrative Illustration for Entertainment/Composition
(Starts July 17th – 5 weeks/10wks)

Instructor: Bryan Norton
Saturday, 2pm-5pm

Click here to view 5- week class Entertainment Composition Class

Click to view 5- Week Narrative Illustration Class

Click to view 10-week class

If you are interested in taking any of these classes, call 818.708.9232 or email us at
contactus@laafa.org

Hi Everyone,

Steve Jung is coming to CDA for a 1 day workshop on the topic of “Film Production Illustration” this coming Saturday.

Date – July 17th

Time – 2~7PM

Price – $120

Steve’s past projects include “Tron Legacy”, “Transformer 2″, “Gatchaman”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” and “Darkwatch”

This is a great workshop for anyone interested in concept design for film or the process of creating a digital illustration for pre-production.

To sign up, just e-mail us at contact@conceptdesignacad.com to reserve your spot.

Space is limited, so sign up soon while the seats are still available~!!

Best,
Concept Design Academy
www.conceptdesignacad.com

This is an incredibly informative and intense workshop for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of composition. This workshop is extremely helpful for fine artists and entertainment artists. Nathan will discussing how to create a mood and how to organize complex scenes through color and value.

Lecture and Slideshow: 12pm-3pm- $69
Demo 3:30pm-5pm- $30
Lecture and Demo- $99

To view his video, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFrpJx6apM

Alex Ruiz will be teaching a Digital Figure Painting Class at LAAFA, starting July 15th. The class runs for ten weeks and will be working in Photoshop.

For more class info, http://laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3157&cat_id=4

To register, call 818.708.9232.

The class is the same class that Mark teaches at Disney and Dreamworks condensed into a very dense amount of knowledge for a 10 week session- July 12th from 7:30pm to 10:30pm! This class will help explain how to design and capture the essence of life through the knowledge of gesture drawing, increase observation skills and use basic design principles that will help to fuel the power of your imagination . . . all of which are important and necessary skills to have in the animation, illustration and the entertainment industry! To enroll in this class call: 818-708-9232 or visit www.laafa.org to enroll online.