NEWS:
The next run of Becoming A Better Artist workshop is now open for enrollment:
http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=384
The workshop will be from May 20th to July 15th.
The previous workshop was sold out again, so if you didn’t get in last time and was kicking yourself for enrolling too late, now’s your chance to enroll early to ensure you get a spot.
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My students are really awesome. Intelligent, passionate, creative, hard-working, funny, and just really nice people in general.
The 14th run of the workshop that just concluded was one of the best runs I’ve taught, with really enthusiastic, hard-working, intelligent, and appreciative students. They surprised me at the end of the workshop with this lovely image:
Kirsty, the workshop manager for Ballistic Media, is awesome too. For my fortieth birthday, not only did she send gifts, she also surprised me with a special art competition for my alumni students. The winners got to choose a workshop for free (that’s $599 in value). According to Kirsty’s rules, I had to pick two winners, and here are the two I picked as winners, and the two runner-up’s:
(The theme of the competition was “Surprise!”)
Jean-Noe Tharin was the winner. His explanation of the “surprise” was hilarious too:
“Robert is helping us all to achieve our artistic goals. It’s our turn to help him achieve his resolution! I’ve mailed some people in California and made some calls and I’m glad to say that Lincoln is now a national park with wild bears. Bears are perfect running pet and will help him to stay fit!
The newly formed Lincoln Bear Patrol (LBP) will put some signs in the street tomorrow morning to warn people that their new (friendly) neighbours are there!”
(The in-joke is that for my new year’s resolution, I said I wasn’t going to list “regular exercise” as one of the goals anymore, because I always fail at achieving it year after year. I’m happy to say that I’ve actually been pretty good at keeping it up so far this year, and no wild bears required.”)
Suresh V. Selvaraj was the other winner. His idea was entertaining and easy to understand, and had a strong cohesiveness in how the idea was executed.
Jorge Valentin Cruz’s entry was a strong runner-up, with a quirky idea and strong execution. In the alumni students forum (a private forum just for my alumni students. I created it so I can continue to mentor all of my students after the workshop has ended, for as long as they still need my help), Jorge always jokes about how he thinks I have cybernetic eyes, since I always spot problems in students’ work that they themselves never notice; that’s why I’m depicted as a robot. And the cast of disparate characters? That’s the “surprise,” according to him.
Lukasz Jastrzebski’s caricature of me was another strong runner-up. He imagined how my face looks when I look at the assignments the students posted.
I don’t know if other online workshop instructors receive these kind of appreciative gestures from their students (as far as I know, they don’t–online workshops are often quite impersonal), and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that all of the hard work I put into helping my students reach their goals and fulfill their dreams are well appreciated.
(If you want to find out more about my workshop, the course description page is here (with overview and detailed week-by-week outline): http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=363. There are also a lot of student testimonials as well.
NEWS:
The next run of Becoming A Better Artist workshop is now open for enrollment: http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=363&utm_source=cgsociety&utm_medium=forumpost&utm_campaign=chamar363
The workshop will be from March 18 to May 13.
We had another sold out workshop last run, so make sure you enroll early if you want to get in. I’ve often had people tell me they waited too long and then all the vacancies were gone by the time they got around to enrolling.
We’re right in the middles of the current run, and it’s a really good one. The students are passionate, intelligent, hard-working, friendly, selfless, and very supportive of each other. Lot’s of amazing moments of discovery and precious insights.
NEWS:
The next run of Becoming A Better Artist workshop is now open for enrollment: http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=325&utm_source=cgsociety&utm_medium=forumpost&utm_campaign=chajan325
The workshop will be from January 7th to March 4th.
I want to address something that’s often been asked in past by those who want to know more about the workshop (despite the very detailed description of the workshop shown on the promo/enrollment page, including a weeek-by-week outline). So this time, I included this following information to elaborate even further on what I think everyone should know about the workshop:
Please Note: The heart and soul of this workshop is the mentoring of the students by the instructor, through direct interaction, in-depth critiques and discussions, answering of difficult and complex questions asked by students, and careful monitoring of the students’ growth and development so the mentoring can be catered to each student’s specific needs and personality. This is the most important aspect of the workshop, and it is what made this workshop so popular.
The lecture notes and videos are the two other aspects of the workshop, and they tackle different areas of each week’s focus. The videos are mostly supplemental and aimed mainly at beginners, while the lecture notes are the main focus and contain the most sophisticated and advanced concepts. The interaction between students and instructor in the form of in-depth, thoughtful critiques for the assignments, is what takes the lessons from theory to execution, and in turn, allow the students to really absorb the knowledge and utilize them effectively.
Students will be given assignments each week that push them to think creatively, experiment, and try different approaches to solve problems and find the most effective way to communicate their visual ideas. Through extensive feedback and thoughtful critiques, the students will make great strides in ways they could not have on their own without a mentor to guide them through the journey.
NEWS:
The next run of Becoming A Better Artist workshop is now open for enrollment: http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=293
The workshop will be from September 10th to November 4th.
We had 3 consecutive sold out runs of the workshops this year, and the past two runs went over the enrollment limit due to high demand. It’s extra work on my end, and I have to stay up later to help the students with critiques and questions, but it’s worth it, because I can help more students reach their goals and make their dreams come true–to become the artist they aspire to be, and to achieve the career goals they are chasing after.
I know a lot of you have been wanting to join us, and have been waiting for the right timing or saving up for it. I’m going to keep running this workshop for as long as I can, and when you are ready to come and join us, you’ll become part of the alumni students community, with our own private forum for critiques, discussions about personal artistic growth, portfolio/career development, and on-going mentoring from me, as well as mutual support and friendship from fellow alumni students. It’s a much cozier atmosphere compared to large, anonymous forums, because all the alumni students have been through the same experienced during the workshop, and for many, it’s been a transcendent experience in artistic growth, self-awareness, discovery, and huge boost in skill, knowledge, and confidence.
For those of you yet to experience the workshop, we’re waiting for you to come and join us.
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