NEWS:
Enrollment for the 9th run of my art workshop (Becoming A Better Artist: Critical Knowledge and Techniques For Today’s Artists) is now open. The link below contains all the details regarding the workshop such as the course contents, week-by-week detailed outline, student testimonials, and enrollment details:
http://beta.workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=177
The workshop will start on November 21st, 2011.
Typically, it’s a bad idea to have a workshop at the end of the year due to the holiday season, but I know some people don’t celebrate those holidays and prefer to get stuff done with the down time (I’m one of those people), so I’m going to run a workshop anyway, even if it might be a smaller class.
If you’re wondering if the holiday season will be a problem, don’t worry about it. There are no deadlines for the assignments and I have always let students take time off to go on vacation or deal with unexpected things in life. They just come back later and continue, even if it’s after the official end date of the workshop, I’ll still be there. The dates are really just a formality and I don’t abide by them. I continue to teach and help students long after the official ending date of the workshop–even months or years later (past students I taught can attest to this). I’m very open and flexible, and it’s far more important to me that you actually learn and grow, instead of adhering to some kind of arbitrary deadline or schedule. So, if you’re going to be busy during Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years, don’t worry about spending time with family and friends–just go have fun, and then return to class later–I’ll always be there to help you.
Good afternoon,
This might be a really odd, yet bizzare question. On the workshop will it be digitally based or visual art. The reason I ask is I’m just now expanding to digital art and have no digital works, only visual. Before the class starts I’m going to get familiar with zbrush 4. My career goal is to first have a title of a 3D artist, then expand.
The workshop teaches the essential foundations that all visual artists need to know, including digital 3D and 2D, graphic designers, photographers, and traditional artists. As long as you work with your eyes as a creative person, then you need to learn those critical foundations–no exceptions. If you want to become an authoritative and credible artist, then the stuff the workshop teaches is a must.
Thank you very much for answer my questions. I’m very excited about the course, and what it all has to offer. Thank you for putting something like this together.