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jzero

June 3rd, 2004, 04:37 PM

Dallas as well.

THIS is what I have been looking for, local stooges interested in the same things as me. For some reason, none of my friends are artists, and that tends to make one... isolated.

Nimrod, Subroutine6, Wycliffe, Robert, anyone else hailing from The 'Plex, post your pertinent info -- job, local area, interests, etc. Post a link to an example of your work, too (one will suffice). Us other visual people will have something to identify you by.

I live in Garland, have an Illustration degree, work downtown as a graphic designer. Got a house and kids and stuff too.
My self-portrait:
http://jzero1.home.mindspring.com/forums/illithid/illithid_mage_face.jpg

/jzero

robert

June 3rd, 2004, 09:12 PM

hi there im an artist to whoo hoo glad to finnally meet some of our kniod , they seem to be few and far between..

any way i have a multimedia degree , fresh out of school , sort of, i graduated in dedember amd have been working on my 3d reel at night and workining at the dallas transplant institute by day. im very eager to get my career going. I set this wheel in motion when i was like 3 working in my moms ceramic shop. Man every day i learn somthing new and add it to my brain base....

looking forward to austin, meeting and talking with some pros [email protected]

Flint

June 3rd, 2004, 10:41 PM

Austin

Flint

June 3rd, 2004, 10:44 PM

Originally posted by johnsaulrubio
Hey folks...

Austin Sketch Group REPRESENT!
http://www.austinsketchgroup.com

John Rubio

http://www.johnrubio.com
http://www.johnrubio.com/sketches
http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnsaulrubio/

Austin Sketch group !? AAAAUUUUGH!!! Count me in !

Adam

June 8th, 2004, 01:45 PM

!!! Awesome - I remember Android mentioning this a while ago, I am so there...the page mentions students, does that mean occasionally there are lessons or tutorials or anything? just curious - either way is cool with me, see you all sunday!

ganjamon

June 13th, 2004, 01:05 PM

Yo San Antonio!
Any sketch groupers here?
:evilbat:

Sirtimus

June 20th, 2004, 07:05 PM

Hello everyone im quite new here. I think it would be awesome to start a drawing monestery right here in the dfw area. That would just rock. Ive been looking for some true blue drawing guru's for some time. Lets paint the town with lead. Anyone who lives in the dfw area and wants to start a drawing troup just throw me a line at [email protected] Awesome

Abbobaf

June 21st, 2004, 02:53 PM

I'm out in Marshall...East Texas, about 30 miles west of Shreveport off of I-20. There are a few good artist around, but I have yet to meet any that are interesting in the same kind of stuff as I...sci-fi/fantasy...pen/pencil...

M.C.Barrett

June 23rd, 2004, 02:15 AM

heh, that's interesting. my brother is in marshall, though he'll soon be moving back to DFW to likely go to my school.

Abbobaf

June 23rd, 2004, 01:38 PM

Cool...I used to live out in Arlington. ...I went to UTA for a bit. I still get out there(Mansfield/Arlington) pretty often, but mainly we end up eating sushi(in plano) and hitting the hobby shops...

Marshall kinda sucks...Longview is a bit more tolerable. I end up there often.

BlueMech

July 8th, 2004, 05:10 PM

Do any of ya'll live in Austin? I live in Cedar Park, which is just outside of it...

tatiana

July 8th, 2004, 06:10 PM

I'm in the DFW metroplex...for now :D

Finished my BFA in Denton back in '92, just got another degree at AI Dallas studying animation art/design...have mostly worked in Dallas, Richardson and Irving/Los Colinas although my consulting webwork has made me travel and work East Coast, West Coast and areas in-between depending on the client...generally living/based somewhere's in the mid-cities (Arlington, HEB, Irving/Los Colinas...moving again this Fall when my lease is up).

There was a life-drawing group a while back that was started through conceptart.org and we even had a yahoogroup email list...but it seems that no one could meet at a good time/place so that kind of fell apart.

t

jzero

July 8th, 2004, 06:57 PM

Hey, Tanja --

Saw your post about the Sketch Group over at Polycount, too. I hear tales about the older group. I heard Glenn Israel started it -- it's too bad he moved away! I am so stoked about this one, though, seeing all the people that are hitching onto the idea.

Sorry you won't be at the upcoming one, but if all goes well there will be a next one, and maybe a next....

/jzero

Daunting

November 8th, 2004, 12:42 AM

sorry to be postin so late but is anybody here in Houston? Ive only seen one. prolly meet up in a sketchgroup or something.

IanE

November 24th, 2004, 01:11 AM

I just joined the forum last night I think. I'm in Austin mostly. San Antonio/Houston/Marfa/Dallas at other times.

Word.

Feeves

November 25th, 2004, 01:59 PM

San Antonio here as well. Graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Most of the time on cool days, you can find me at the zoo.

Android

November 25th, 2004, 09:49 PM

im giving a small intimate workshop next weekend dec 3,4,5 sing up or miss out and regret it 4-ever-

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=354768#post354768

Monsterboy

December 2nd, 2004, 03:06 AM

Hey, Andrew,
Your link didnt work, what workshop are you talking about? I live in Austin and like to sign up if it is here.

Daunting

December 15th, 2004, 11:12 PM

If we could possibly find a time when everybody is free we could possibly get some people together and introduce ourselves and make it real nice like. Anybody know any good dates?

IanE

December 27th, 2004, 03:55 PM

There's a bunch of artists going to the Art Institute of Houston on February 12, it's a Saturday and the school is having an open house type deal. I'd love to have a Texas get together, any day is fine for me, sorry I'm no help haha.

saraesc

December 29th, 2004, 07:32 PM

hey i'm from san antonio too - but not for long (school starts jan. 15)

i'm always up for drawing - life drawing - imaginative drawing - painting drawing...

if yall dont know. the Coppini Academy (near trinity) has life drawing that is open to the public on wed. and thur. at 7pm (it's 5 dollars but they have really good models who pose for 3hours give or take a few breaks- here's the link- http://www.coppiniacademy.com )

feel free to instant message me. aim screename - ninjamilla

KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME

Derram

September 12th, 2006, 02:13 AM

Hey folks...

Austin Sketch Group REPRESENT!
http://www.austinsketchgroup.com

John Rubio

http://www.johnrubio.com
http://www.johnrubio.com/sketches
http://www.livejournal.com/users/johnsaulrubio/

Anyone else miss this thread? It is a tad old after all.
I just went last Sunday. Lots of talent there, can't wait for next week!

Sundance

September 22nd, 2006, 01:15 AM

Dallas (Plano in truth)...it would be nice to get togeather. Somebody besides me set it up :D

quesadeist

September 22nd, 2006, 02:22 PM

Denton, but close enough to Dallas not to care about travel-time. :P

Thanks for the heads-up, Sundance. I'm up to sketching if everyone else is. Just give me an address and I'm there.

Shoe

October 15th, 2006, 09:45 AM

Anyone else miss this thread? It is a tad old after all.
I just went last Sunday. Lots of talent there, can't wait for next week!

I just found it.. 4years later. Oh, well. I've been going to sketchgroup for a couple of years now. Not in a while though, its gotten hard to get away on Sundays. I've been thinking of getting a group together during the week sometime if any Austinites are interested.

Snuggles

October 22nd, 2006, 09:47 PM

Whooh, Steinspinne's also a Denton-ite? Go DFW area go! UNT student myself...how many of us are there on here right now?

JAG.

October 24th, 2006, 10:56 AM

man wtf?? NO ONE else in here is in houston besides me?! im feelin kinda left out.. - JAG

Sundance

October 24th, 2006, 11:47 AM

I'm in Houston all the time...I just wouldn't want to live there :P

JAG.

October 24th, 2006, 04:32 PM

har har har.. id be swell to meet up with another artist in houston. next time anyone heads this way let me know at least... *curls into a ball in the corner*

Sundance

October 24th, 2006, 04:53 PM

har har har.. id be swell to meet up with another artist in houston. next time anyone heads this way let me know at least... *curls into a ball in the corner*

OK then...I'm flying in tomorrow morning! I land around 7:15 at Hobby, and I'll be working at the Willowbrook Mall Macy's until around 2:30. If you're going to be in the area pm me and I'll send you my cell number. Maybe we could hook up for lunch. Of course...calling me an "artist" is being awfully liberal...most people just call me an ass hole who pretends to know how to draw.

:)

Derram

October 24th, 2006, 05:08 PM

I just found it.. 4years later. Oh, well. I've been going to sketchgroup for a couple of years now. Not in a while though, its gotten hard to get away on Sundays. I've been thinking of getting a group together during the week sometime if any Austinites are interested.
Look at me, late to the party again... Ah well.
I've missed the last few Sundays for various reasons, many of them being homework, but I do plan on returning. During the week could be cool, thats when I'm still procrastinating and its as if I have all the free time in the world. I mean just look at me now.

quesadeist

October 24th, 2006, 05:14 PM

Whooh, Steinspinne's also a Denton-ite? Go DFW area go! UNT student myself...how many of us are there on here right now?

Wow, I didn't know there were so many of us on here... Just the other night I met up with Bluemech and ElvisMcVegas for pizza and coffee on Fry St. They apparantly just started at UNT this semester. You should IM me sometime, we'll do something.

-=grimjack=-

October 24th, 2006, 05:30 PM

I live in houston......I need to get back into drawing again....I haven't picked up a pencil in a while....like at least a year.

JAG.

October 25th, 2006, 08:56 AM

OK then...I'm flying in tomorrow morning! I land around 7:15 at Hobby, and I'll be working at the Willowbrook Mall Macy's until around 2:30. If you're going to be in the area pm me and I'll send you my cell number. Maybe we could hook up for lunch. Of course...calling me an "artist" is being awfully liberal...most people just call me an ass hole who pretends to know how to draw.

:)

hmm willowbrook, not really in that area.. and i work from 8 to 5 near the galleria. if you're around in the evening we could meet somewhere maybe.. likewise send me a pm and let me know. - JAG

-=grimjack=-

October 25th, 2006, 11:29 AM

hmm willowbrook, not really in that area.. and i work from 8 to 5 near the galleria. if you're around in the evening we could meet somewhere maybe.. likewise send me a pm and let me know. - JAG

I work in the galleria area too! LOL..... for like the next 2 weeks. then its back to Sugarland to work.

What do you do out here in the galleria?

JAG.

October 25th, 2006, 03:08 PM

I work in the galleria area too! LOL..... for like the next 2 weeks. then its back to Sugarland to work.

What do you do out here in the galleria?

i work for an engineering company.. that pretty much owns my ass. its about 2 miles from the galleria. my only time to do any art is the 3 hrs before i go to bed once i get home.. it sucks. what are you doing there for 2 weeks??

-=grimjack=-

October 26th, 2006, 12:42 PM

i work for an engineering company.. that pretty much owns my ass. its about 2 miles from the galleria. my only time to do any art is the 3 hrs before i go to bed once i get home.. it sucks. what are you doing there for 2 weeks??

I am a buyer at a company called CECO, but I just got an offer by my old employeer to come back to them. They are in the stafford/sugarland area.

I hear you about the art action.... Its like I dont have the time I used to, I would still love to do it because I have all these ideas, and a little bit of talent. Then when I want to draw something else comes up, my car club has something to do, or a softball game, or hell just going out and getting a few drinks...you know what I mean?

JAG.

October 26th, 2006, 03:00 PM

yeah i know exactly what you mean.. i try to get in as much fun as i can, then usually sacrifice sleep for art. either way, its more of a hobby for me..

-=grimjack=-

October 27th, 2006, 10:13 AM

yea at one time it was a dream to make it into a profession, but now that not really attainable for me. But I still love to draw, and keep my imagination going.....thank gawd for Table top RPGs like D&D and others. I get inspired to draw, paint minis, or even write when I have to come up with a new character for the game. Then I move on to other peoples characters once I get a feel for them.

JAG.

October 28th, 2006, 05:44 PM

i forcegully make time for art. usually sacrifice sleep for it.. other wise i really never would have time for it. i also do what i can while im at work, but sneaking around with it is hard.. - JAG

res01ve

August 27th, 2008, 01:16 PM

Howdy.
Just moved to Arlington, looking for Life Drawing sessions and hopefully even a teacher in the Dallas-Ft Worth area. Saw the bit about the sketchgroup, I'll be there on Sunday. If you know anything about the other two thangs, please get at me.
Thanks :.

Sundance

August 27th, 2008, 10:32 PM

Yo' res01ve....

This thread has been asleep since 2006. I don't know that I'd put any faith in a sketchgroup that was set up two years ago.

res01ve

August 28th, 2008, 08:26 AM

Yo Sundance.
The sketchgroup has a blog ::
dallassketchgroup.blogspot.com/ (http://www.dallassketchgroup.blogspot.com/)

It's been updated a bit more recently :.

Sundance

August 28th, 2008, 08:47 AM

Well now! Thanks for the link. :drinkup:

KidApe

August 30th, 2008, 11:57 PM

Austin! I attend the figurative drawing sessions at the Austin Visual Art Association, neat little place that's growing.

res01ve

September 1st, 2008, 09:08 AM

Austin is a bit of a drive (3 hours),
but I've been informed of free life drawing at University of Texas Dallas on Mondays at 7pm and Fridays at 5pm in the art barn.
see you there :.

Equality72521

October 29th, 2008, 01:38 AM

thought id revive this, its been almost two months, does anyone attend the dallas sketch group? sounds like a good place to get contacts

tatiana

October 31st, 2008, 01:26 PM

I haven't been in months. :(

However, I just signed up for a Dr. Sketchy Dallas event that happens this Sunday, November 2nd. I was looking for info on the earthquake (!!) that I heard about this morning -- thought it was a joke. Anyways, I happened to look down at the events section on the NBC news site and saw a mention. I've never been to a Dr Sketchy meeting, but it sounds like fun and I hope to socialize with a few other artists.

Who knows, we might run into some folks from the Dallas sketchgroup, heh.

http://www.myspace.com/dallassketchy

t

Equality72521

November 3rd, 2008, 01:29 PM

tatiana HAHA read your post a day too late, yeah ive looked into Dr Sketchys ill have to go next time around, didya find anyone from the sketch group?

tatiana

November 3rd, 2008, 02:24 PM

Yup, there were a couple of guys at Dr. Sketchy's that had also been at the Dallas sketchgroup a few times -- they remembered me. :)

Dr. Sketchy's Dallas was definitely fun and the two female models came up with some interesting costumes and poses from their Burlesque show. The drawing group was small but that was good (to me at least) since we all had good views of the models without crowding each other. I'm looking forward to the next event, although I'm hoping the group doesn't get too big once more artists hear about it. I think the next meeting is December 6th? They'll update their MySpace and Blog sites with the info soon, I'm sure. Lisa, the artist who was involved in starting up Dr. Sketchy Dallas, told me that they had models scheduled up through March at least, which is good. Hope to see you there next time!

t

Equality72521

November 4th, 2008, 02:51 AM

december 6, ill mark that in the calendar, so the dallas sketch group is still up then?

Andrew Marks

November 18th, 2008, 12:08 AM

They now have a Dr. Sketchys in Houston, Houston artist should look into it. :rendered:

jzero

December 2nd, 2008, 01:51 PM

Back to CA after a loooong hiatus, good to see at least a few people posting from Dallas. Good to see this, too. (http://www.dallassketchgroup.blogspot.com/)

I'm going to Dr Sketchy's this Saturday, the 6th, no question:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/3027901770_7af68a6ed4_o.jpg

Looks like you can even ride the train downtown to it! (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1402+Main+St+Dallas+TX&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.339735,62.314453&ie=UTF8&ll=32.780004,-96.800258&spn=0.011546,0.015213&z=16)

:yum:

Equality72521

December 2nd, 2008, 02:09 PM

jzero well, 6 years is a long time! Ill be going on saturday as well, hoping to meet some like minded people!

jzero

December 2nd, 2008, 02:59 PM

Hah, it hasn't been 6 years, just... 3? No way... I was in the group that Paul 'ThE_BirD' got started at Half Price back then.

A lot's changed since then. I'm ready to get back into it. Hope to see you Saturday.

.

Equality72521

December 7th, 2008, 01:15 AM

could not go!!!!!! needed money and couldnt get outta work tonite, hope it went well, would love to see some sketches!

JAG.

December 11th, 2008, 09:44 PM

man look who's back from a long long journey.. and now im BOOOOOOOOOOOOORED. its been 2 years now, there HAS to be new folks in houston.. right?? anyone? bueller? bueller?- JAG

Equality72521

January 1st, 2009, 11:06 PM

Dr. Sketchy's in Dallas on Saturday! Im in, anyone else?

tatiana

January 5th, 2009, 06:25 PM

Yup -- I was there this past Saturday, too! Great fun and what an awesome way to kick-off the new year. Good to finally get some live figure drawing practice (something I really miss) and some time away from my computer, too.

:)

HotDamnMan

January 9th, 2009, 05:52 PM

Damn! I wish I lived in Dallas!
Texarkana has nothing but blue-haired ladies doing watercolor flowers!

Equality72521

January 11th, 2009, 11:08 PM

tatiana i was there as well, had a blast, the stuff i did is in my sketchbook of you wanna look

here is me at the bar

tatiana

January 17th, 2009, 07:59 PM

Dallas Dr. Sketchy has been great...but have you all heard the news about this big upcoming Dallas event? :cheerleader:

ConceptArt.Org International Art and Design Workshop: DALLAS TEXAS - March 28-31 2009

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2088120#post2088120

lowercase

January 24th, 2009, 09:57 AM

Good to see some fellow Texans on these boards.

I'm from the Houston area.

John Picacio

February 2nd, 2009, 06:29 PM

I'm over here in San Antonio. Just noticed this thread, courtesy of Equality72521. Just registered with the CA forums here in the last week or so. Planning on attending the Dallas event in March.

Here are some examples of my published work from 2008.

http://www.johnpicacio.com/2009/01/my-2008-published-work.html

Here's one of my pieces completed so far in '09 -- the cover illo for the forthcoming limited edition of Dan Simmons' DROOD.

http://www.johnpicacio.com/2009/01/drood-final-cover-art.html

Looking forward to meeting more folks here at CA in the coming days and weeks....

Wiggles

February 4th, 2009, 09:45 PM

From Austin y'all. Still in HS and hardly get out to do extra activities. The Austin Sketch Group sounds WICKED! My only wish is that I could attend but *sigh* too much homework and traveling. Besides, I have no car :(

Epodemic

February 7th, 2009, 10:37 AM

From San Antonio as well.

Really wish I could get to that Dallas workshop.

H.Evans

February 9th, 2009, 11:59 AM

Houstonian road warrior here! I'll see some of you guys in Dallas!

EVILNICK

February 9th, 2009, 02:56 PM

Amarillo native in San Antonio for a Military Contract.

http://evilnick.deviantart.com/

Surzsha

February 13th, 2009, 12:04 PM

tatiana

February 13th, 2009, 05:05 PM

...Never thought there'd be plenty of fellow Texan artists. And yet again, most artists are from either up north or in another country, am I right?

You mean another country besides Texas? :)

maldrin

February 14th, 2009, 03:06 PM

You mean another country besides Texas? :)

Hahahaha!

So a Texas thread is really broad. I see a lot of dead threads about Dallas (where I'm closest to) and other areas - did things just never work out? Just curious if any of the folks who tried to pull off sketch groups and such still have any going...or should that be a new thread?

maldrin

Surzsha

February 14th, 2009, 04:27 PM

You mean another country besides Texas? :)

Texas is a state. XD
But yeah, when I said up north I meant in the northern states of the U.S. There are plenty of American artists out there.

KrisCynical

February 17th, 2009, 12:24 AM

tatiana

February 17th, 2009, 02:15 PM

Hahahaha!

So a Texas thread is really broad. I see a lot of dead threads about Dallas (where I'm closest to) and other areas - did things just never work out? Just curious if any of the folks who tried to pull off sketch groups and such still have any going...or should that be a new thread?

maldrin

The Dallas Sketchgroup was pretty active at least through late last year with the help of several Ensemble Studio and Terminal Reality game artists, and students from the Art Institute and the SMU Guildhall. I haven't been in awhile myself, although I still post area info over on the SG blog...and I haven't heard from those guys or run into them at Dr. Sketchy, so I can't say whether or not people still meet at Half-Price Books for that.

I know that the "Bunch of Short Guys" animation group was coordinating with Brett and other game artists for a bit because they were instructors at the Guildhall, or something like that. It's possible you can find out more about any Dallas area meet-ups through them:

http://abunchofshortguys.org/

t

tatiana

February 17th, 2009, 02:19 PM

I just joined a few days ago... I'm in the DFW area, Arlington to be exact. Since I went to college for art out of state I know NO ARTISTS HERE GOAH. D:

At least on this thread nobody will think I'm from Virginia...

Hey KrisCynical -- based on your website, you might be interested in checking out the regional chapter of the SCBWI especially since you're based in Arlington. :)

http://www.northtexasscbwi.org/

bclark

February 17th, 2009, 04:18 PM

I am going to be speaking at the workshop and hope to meet some of you there
on sunday. Should be a great show, the last time I was at a workshop, was the Austin one and I got to speak and I hold on to my " i survived the heat" poster that was created on the last day:)

Brad

Brad Clark
Consultant and other things- Texas (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bclarkcghar)
Author: Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging (http://inspired3dadvancedrigging.blogspot.com/)
The Character Animator Toolkit for Motionbuilder :available now: (http://motionbuildertraining.blogspot.com/)

Heliux

February 19th, 2009, 09:10 PM

Heh. Oh man. SooooOO EXCITED!
I'm willing to split gas costs with folks transiting from Austin if they provide the car ;P -I'm currently in the Lakeway-ish area (west of downtown-mopac, 2222, 620) but I'd love to get together with peeps to talk about prepping portfollios.
I'm thinking about staying with my cousin and his wife in Dallas so I probably won't get a hotel as I am poor as dirt (this will cost me a paycheck or two) but foresooth! where there's a will there's a way kind-of-thing...;)

tatiana

February 20th, 2009, 09:31 AM

Just an FYI if you're in or close to the DFW area this weekend, tomorrow is the ABOSG general meeting, and also the Diverge Workshop up in Plano:

Quoting from the reminder email I got this morning --

Next Meeting: THIS Saturday, February 21, 2009
Location: Collin County Community College, Room C104
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Speaker: Bryan Brewer, Character Animator, 3-D Realms

ABOSG is headed back to Collin College to welcome Bryan Brewer of 3D
Realms as he discusses the motion capture pipeline for video games.

Bryan studied 3D animation at Collin County Community College while
working as an Illustrator for Fasen Arts and Blue Line studios.

His first full time industry position was as a Storyboard Artist for
DNA Productions in Irving, TX. He began with the first season of the
television show, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The
show's popularity won itself an instant audience, several Annies over
multiple seasons, and an Oscar nomination for an eventual feature
film.

Bryan moved on to become a 3D artist at CAT Studios. He
learned the entire pipe line of production by doing everything from
storyboarding to being a render wrangler. The challenge of working on
films, television, and international commercials was just
the beginning.

When a chance to enter the game industry fell in his lap, Bryan
took a position as a 3D animator at Terminal Reality. He worked on a
Clive Barker game, Demonic. The game was unfortunately canceled, but
it was markedly canonized in the hilarious Happy Madison film,
Grandma's Boy. He was also part of the team that helped secure TRI
with the rights to the new Ghost Busters game. During this time Bryan
freelanced as an animator for Reel FX on the movie Everyone's Hero.

In late 2006 Bryan was given an opportunity he couldn't pass up. He
took a job at 3D Realms to work on Duke Nukem Forever. He is now
working on both sides of the motion capture pipeline, capturing and
then editing all human characters for the game.

******************************
*************************

Diverge Workshop
Game Industry Conference
February 20-22, 2009

Diverge hosts a grassroots video game art workshop in Dallas, TX. On
February 20th-22nd Diverge holds their 5th workshop to educate and
inspire the local art community. This particular workshop will explore
techniques such as digital 2d, 3d, traditional 2d, and motion capture.
Students and professionals will be exposed to a plethora of art
creation. Come be inspired by the variety of art media and open the
creative floodgates! The event will take place at Motus Digital.

***For those of you attending the ABOSG meeting this Saturday morning,
we'll be wrapping up our meeting a little early so everyone who wants to attend the Diverge workshop will arrive (just a few blocks away at Motus Digital) on time.

http://www.divergeworkshop.com

Wiggles

February 21st, 2009, 11:53 AM

I'm on here for several days, almost a week or two, and I never even noticed this thread. Well, I don't tend to look around, anyways. :|

Never thought there'd be plenty of fellow Texan artists. And yet again, most artists are from either up north or in another country, am I right?

Texas houses a lot of artists actually. Cities like Dallas and Austin are growing in the video game industry and are recruiting a lot of concept artist! :)

ATTENTION ANYONE WHO WILL BE IN THE AUSTIN AREA ON FEBRUARY 28th

At Gemini School of Visual Arts and Communication there will be an open house with a lot of really great artists giving demonstrations of their field of work! Check out the school here: http://www.geminischool.com/html/index.asp
There is also a thread updated by the school every so often here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=137711
The school is located in Cedar Park and is a little bit hidden, you wouldn't notice it unless if you were looking for it. Directions can be found here: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=gemini+school+cedar+park&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=0,0,7958161007059733463&ei=1jCgSbysCpjAtge9tLyMDQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image

I will be doing my best to attend this, but sometime during the day I have Solo and Ensemble for band. I hope someone finds this useful!

Heliux

February 24th, 2009, 04:46 AM

Texas houses a lot of artists actually. Cities like Dallas and Austin are growing in the video game industry and are recruiting a lot of concept artist! :)

ATTENTION ANYONE WHO WILL BE IN THE AUSTIN AREA ON FEBRUARY 28th

At Gemini School of Visual Arts and Communication there will be an open house with a lot of really great artists giving demonstrations of their field of work! Check out the school here: http://www.geminischool.com/html/index.asp
There is also a thread updated by the school every so often here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=137711
The school is located in Cedar Park and is a little bit hidden, you wouldn't notice it unless if you were looking for it. Directions can be found here: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=gemini+school+cedar+park&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=0,0,7958161007059733463&ei=1jCgSbysCpjAtge9tLyMDQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image

I will be doing my best to attend this, but sometime during the day I have Solo and Ensemble for band. I hope someone finds this useful!

Thanks for the post! Yeah, I saw this school in the paper when they first opened a few years ago. Looked very high quality, but a little too soon to tell if they could maintain. I know they have financing from oversea, or at least I assume so being a plant from the UK school. I also have a couple friends already enrolled and wrapping things up here, so yeah-I'll be there if I can get work off and find a way there. :P

Topheralope

February 28th, 2009, 02:37 AM

Hello from San Marcos. I got my BFA in Communication Design from Texas State in 2006 and up until recently was doing concept art for waterpark and children's playground products.

I'm excited about REVERIE - this will be my first CA workshop. Anyone close by - Austin or San Antonio area planning on attending?

Jaybird216

March 1st, 2009, 10:49 AM

San Antonio here (for a couple more years, anyway). It'd be cool to meet some local artists with similar interests.

Austin folks, you know that there's a Dr. Sketchy up there too, right?

www.myspace.com/austinsketchy

I haven't gotten a chance to get to one yet, but it's on my to-do list.

Anyway, Howdy folks.

fox01313

March 1st, 2009, 09:57 PM

Located here in Irving (central DFW area) & putting my name on the list for who's where. Not sure where I'll be once I get out of college later 2009/2010, hoping to move farther south to the south Tx gaming studios at that point but hard to tell at this point.

Valadilene

March 26th, 2009, 10:35 AM

I didn't think there would be so many people from the Art vacuum that is San Antonio! Its nice to see! Ya'll should start a group as well. I'd participate, but I'm more on the photography end of things and less on the drawing and illustration.

However, Ill still see ya'll in Dallas this weekend! :lens:

LauraGarabedian

April 8th, 2009, 11:46 AM

Hello Everyone! I'm new and in Dallas! Anyone here still active in the Sketchgroup that meets at Half Price Books? Or Dr. Sketchy's? I'd love to start going to both! Also going to start with TSOFA classes soon I think...

tatiana

April 8th, 2009, 01:32 PM

Hi LauraGarabedian,

I think the Dallas Sketchgroup has been mostly abandoned, or at best lives on in little groups affliated with the SMU Guildhall or other schools. I talked with a few of the guys that I knew at the Reverie Workshop that used to be involved and that's the latest news they gave me. I've been posting random info over on the Dallas sketchgroup blog but I hadn't gone to the meetings in awhile myself.

However, Dr. Sketchy's is going pretty strong and meets at least once a month...this past week there was a free session on Wednesday I think over in the Bishops Art area, and then a regular session last weekend. There should be another one coming up in early May.

:)

LauraGarabedian

April 8th, 2009, 01:38 PM

Sad day. Would you (or any other DFW peep) be interested in meeting up and starting one or restarting the old one? I'd love to meet more of you guys. (Tatiana, were you at Reverie?)

I'll definitely have to start going to Dr. Sketchy (it's going to take remembering... once a month is hard to remember!) You know of any other cool DFW things to check out?

Thanks!

tatiana

April 8th, 2009, 02:10 PM

Tatiana, were you at Reverie?

Yup -- sure was! Got a major dose of inspiration and things to ponder...but I also managed to catch a major cold that has kept me down for the past week, bleh. But, I'm finally feeling much better -- yay! And I can finally talk, heh, and not just type.

Highly recommend Dr. Sketchy. :) You can sign up for a reminder email from Lisa over on their MySpace page.

LauraGarabedian

April 8th, 2009, 02:16 PM

Awww... sorry you got sick! That is pretty awful. Glad you are feeling better though. There weren't that many girls, I wonder if we met... :) Did you go to the womens brunch?

Once they have accepted me as a friend or however that works, (not a big myspace person) I'll definitely do that! Thanks for helping me out with answers, and if you ever get bored and want to hang just give a shout!

tatiana

April 8th, 2009, 03:00 PM

No, I missed the women's brunch. Boo. Did you go? You can see a bit of my profile in an image that Chaos posted from one of the group lunches I went to, and my nose is showing in one of the random group images from the Reverie group photo, heh.

I'm not in the downtown Dallas area much (well, at all unless it's for Dr Sketchy) since I work at home in the Lewisville/Coppell area, but maybe we can plan something like a visit to the Arboretum or the Dallas zoo or something toward the end of the month? That would be a fun sketch session I think. PM me and we can probably figure something out. :)

Edit: I sent you a PM with Lisa's email, but you can also visit their blog and maybe sign up that way (I think their MySpace site is updated more frequently). http://dallassketchy.blogspot.com/

LauraGarabedian

April 8th, 2009, 04:01 PM

Well I managed to successfully avoid the camera it seems! I did make it to the womens brunch though, and it was pretty great.

I'd love to meet you sometime and go to the zoo! That would be a blast. Honestly, if you don't mind me throwing in one more, my mom likes to go sketch and do photography too, she may want to drive out. I'll pm you next week (when I get a better idea of how my month is going).

:)

tatiana

April 8th, 2009, 04:06 PM

The more, the merrier -- bring on the mom! :)

LauraGarabedian

April 8th, 2009, 04:10 PM

Will do! She's pretty cool. We're going down to Scarborough Faire this weekend, (bringing the sketchbooks of course). :)

IanE

May 4th, 2009, 07:38 PM

Hey all.

I'll be moving to Austin this summer to continue school there and am looking for a new place of residence.

I'm 21, don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs. What more could you want?

Know of any great deals or good places to live?
Need a roommate?
Let me know!

LauraGarabedian

May 4th, 2009, 07:52 PM

passed the message on to my artistically minded friend in Austin :) Good Luck!

IanE

May 4th, 2009, 08:15 PM

Wicked :)

Téa_Passer

May 5th, 2009, 05:18 PM

Hi, I'm in San Antonio, and I'd really like to meet artists here! I've never been to any artist meetings/sketch groups, but I'd like to help organize one. If there is one already, I'd like to join you guys!

mchammer75040

May 6th, 2009, 11:43 PM

Hi everyone I'm here in Garland, Tx, I'm definitely planning on going to Dr. sketchy at some point..but if there is anyone in the area who wants to join up to motivate one another...etc. that would be great!

Téa_Passer

May 8th, 2009, 01:16 PM

Closed art even in San Antonio, for Realtors and their children: http://www.realty-art.com/index.html

My mom is a Realtor, so I'm gonna be there.

tatiana

May 12th, 2009, 12:50 AM

I am actually moving out of Texas in the next couple of weeks, so I'll be missing future Dallas Dr. Sketchy's. :(

Wish you all the best!

t

Surzsha

May 23rd, 2009, 11:13 PM

Gonna move to the city of Big D later this year to attend the Art Institute. Dr.Sketchy's sounds pretty interesting. I'm hoping to start attending groups and getting more into the social life (of course, while focusing on my education).

AustenFM

May 26th, 2009, 09:33 PM

Surprised I never found this until now.

Name's Austen , reporting in from Houston.

Hopefully I can meet up with y'all someday!

tatiana

June 16th, 2009, 11:27 PM

I was really looking forward to seeing his presentation...but I moved out of Texas, darn it, and I can't make the trip back down there right now. Here's the info in case there are any Texas artists here on CA interested in checking this out (or anyone willing to make the trip there, heh); it's through the sponsorship of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrator's North Texas Chapter:

North Central/North East Texas SCBWI
Presents:

Stephen Hickman
Award Winning Fantasy Artist, Illustrator, Writer & Sculptor

June 27th, 2009, 1-4 pm

First United Methodist Church, 313 North Center Street, Arlington, Texas
SCBWI Members = $5.00, non-members = $10.00

Stephen Hickman has been illustrating science fiction and fantasy book covers for over 30 years and includes over 400 titles for Ace, Baen, Ballantine, Bantam, Berkley, Dell, Del Rey and Tor to name a few. His book covers include works of Robert A. Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton and Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars series. He earned a Hugo Award in 1994 for the United States Postal Service Space Fantasy Commemorative Booklet of stamps, 5 Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists and 2 gold awards from the Spectrum Anthology.

His astounding works combine powerful and arresting imagery that are reminiscent of the techniques of the old masters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer as well as more contemporary artists Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth and others. His color palettes and compositions are indeed otherworldly and create an atmosphere that draws the reader into the works and leads to endless contemplation of the subject matter. His works fuse the natural realm of the possible with the impossible, the juxtaposition of heroic creatures and sentient machines.

He is also a writer: his The Lemurian Stone (Ace Books, 1988 ) formed the basis for his Pharazar Mythos Illustration series, The Lion Pavilion being one example featured in the 1994 edition of Spectrum. An overview of his career and collected works can be found in The Fantasy Art of Stephen Hickman, and can be viewed at www.stephenhickman.com.

Please join us for what will be an interesting insight into the nature of writing, illustration and the visual interpretation of classic and contemporary sci-fi and fantasy literature from an outstanding and inventive artist!

Hickman's website:
http://www.stephenhickman.com/

http://www.northtexasscbwi.org/hickman.html

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