Sketchbooks - Idea Development, Process, and Personal Point of View Development -

[Jason Manley]

FOUNDATIONS | SKETCHBOOK with Ron Lemen & Sterling Hundley


As the birth place of artistic ideas, the sketchbook is where the creative person develops their own unique point of view. In this highly informative class, students begin to fine tune their ability to communicate through their art. The sketchbook class illustrates the importance of personal idea exploration, and provides a safe place to make mistakes and explore content, and, naturally, to practice their skills. This class is geared toward students who wish to have a wide variety of abilities to design, compose, and create from life, reference, and imagination. This is one of the single most important classes TAD offers and is mandatory for all students enrolled full-time.

Please note schedule changes


When: July 12 through December 10 2010. (classes start soon and will fill up, so sign up now!)
What day/time? Monday and Wednesdays 11:30-1:00 PM CDT (Austin Time)
Where: Right at your computer as long as you have at least a decent wi-fi connection. You can also study in the Austin, SF, Kansas City or Richmond POD's in person (studio fees apply).
How Much: See below!
Can I get an enrollment package and sign up? Yes absolutely - email us now. infoATtheartdeparmtent.org and Scott will help you personally.






About Ron Lemen: Ron is an award winning artist with a deep history teaching, creating video games, working in comics, and entertainment. He is one of the most renown teachers in entertainment and has been a professional speaker at a number of the International Art and Design Workshops and has brought foundations art and drawing to students around the world. Ron has a tremendous student following. His clients include Marvel, EA, Apple and more. Ron takes over for Brad Rigney and will be sharing his knowledge with you freely.





About Sterling Hundley: Sterling is the most award winning illustrator of the modern era. He is known for his ability to communicate, develop ideas, and reaches a worldwide audience through both style and substance in his art. His clients include Rolling Stone and other important publications.



All classes are available On Demand 24 hours a day and Live, this means you can attend even if you live in the farthest time zones or have work during the Live clas times. On Demand students will have the opportunity to get direct input from their faculty and professional reviewers as if they were right there with you and Live attendees can speak and interact directly with their instructors.


All other questions should be directed to infoATtheartdepartment.org


We are here to help you and are thankful for your interest in getting a great education. This is exactly the kind of information that students are not getting in art school, but should be and you will get your questions answered and all the information required to see results. Your work will improve. Your portfolio will improve. You will get the inspiration, and art knowledge you need.

We look forward to working with you. See you in class.


Jason Manley
President
The Art Department

[Hive_minD]

Really looking forward to this class.It´s deff gonna be late night for me this half a year! Just hope I get time to join as many classes as possible.

[Jason Manley]

I actually prefer to focus on art an such late at night. It is quiet and no one is bugging me with phone calls or emails or constant text messages. peace.

Looking forward to it Hive. See you soon.


Jason

[Jason Manley]

I actually prefer to focus on art an such late at night. It is quiet and no one is bugging me with phone calls or emails or constant text messages. peace.

Looking forward to it Hive. See you soon.


Jason

[RicardoGuimaraes]

Really looking forward to it!!! Thanks for putting together such an amazing team of instructors.
Hey Brad, great to have this opportunity to learn from you!
Best,
Ricardo.

[TAD Admissions: Scott Richeson]

schedule info updated in the top post.

Thanks!

[Aryess]

Is it possible to get more information on how the this course will work? especially in terms of assignements and/or student "follow-up" throughout the semester?
Thanks!

[Jason Manley]

There are lecture/presentation/demo days which are done live and On Demand. Assignments are given based on real professional projects and situations which will challenge your mind and skill. Homework is given, which can be done during class time on review days. Review days require viewing as well since you will learn as much or more from seeing what all the professionals say about others works and process. If you have to take the class On Demand then you will upload your homework to the system and leave your questions in your post. That way you can get the answers you need even if you have a schedule which requires On Demand only.

Demos/Presentations etc...are done with images, live video, recorded video, voice, paintover, and white boards....and webcam too. The tech allows for the instructor to work very closely with you. You can use your mic and speak directly with them, raise your hand and anything else you can do in a normal class.

Hope that answers the question...


Jason

[mllemia]

I just signed up for this class and am very excited to be taking part! Thought I'd ask here-- do you know if the instructors will be providing a different materials list than the full supplies list required for full-time TAD students?

[Jason Manley]

Yes. Sketchbooks will require the following to start.

Sketchbook
Pencils
Eraser (kneaded and white plastic eraser"
Razor Blade (flat kind)
Pencil Sharpener
Moleskin or similar sketchbook. Carry size...not too small not too big.
Photoshop or Painter 11 and 6x8 or 9x12 Wacom Intuos (any version)- Laptop preferred but not required as digital painting on site is a joy.
Digital Camera to shoot your work and even document what you have been out sketching.



Other media may come up for use, but those are the minimums for this class

[mllemia]

thanks for the list, Jason. I have an old version of photoshop - will that suffice for this class, or do I need to go for a newer version?

[Jason Manley]

Yes that will suffice.

[ron lemen]

Hello Everyone, Ron Lemen here. Just wanted to give a heads up that I will be taking over for Brad Rigney as he has other obligations to take care of currently. I am looking forward to teaching this class and working with all you talented young future artists. Here are a couple images to view, I am not very organized currently, and cant show a good number of recent works, but I hope these will satisfy for now.
I have been teaching a lot, working with WOW, Marvel, Apple, EA and a lot of other great things I can't wait to chat about in the near future.
Thanks for having me along with TAD and I am really looking forward to all the learning.
See you on the 12th.

Ron

[Jason Manley]

Welcome Ron! I will be adding you up top of CA if you are not already. I am absolutely honored to have you with us. There are few who have such deep teaching capacity and love for the art of it, and I am looking forward to learning from you. You will have an email this evening.


Jason

[Jason Manley]

Hey Ron, where can I find that painting of Hellboy you did a while back?

[Thyname]

It certainly is sad to hear that Brad had prior obligations but I want to extend my thanks to Ron for filling in on such short notice.

This class looks amazing and I cannot wait to get started.

-Evan Norman

[Sterling Hundley]

Ron,

Welcome to the team!

[John English]

Ron-

Welcome and thanks for joining the team!

I have several students that have attended your classes and speak highly of their experience. One student in particular, Jane Radstrom has gone on to become one of the premier Academy graduates.

We are proud to have made the connection and look forward to and long and fruitful future!

John

[ConCrete]

Ron, your head tutorial here on CA.org has been bookmarked on every computer I have ever owned. Super happy to see you added to the instructor list.

[Arshes Nei]

Ron so awesome to see you fill in!

I was just looking at the Imagine FX issue of Anatomy and was happy to see you discuss different ways of constructing a figure - specially when you went into Reilly's method. You were definitely one of my most abused "here's a tutorial to help you out" pointers with your various sites on art instruction.

[ron lemen]

Sterling, John, and everyone else. Thank you for having me. This is a great group of instructors, and we, Vanessa and I feel honored to be in this pit crew.
Jane is an awesome person, I hope she goes far with her art. I am glad you had the chance to work with her.
Thanks again everyone and I will try and post more stuff later. I have to scan a lot.

[rusalka]

Does anyone have the link to the thread where we post assignments for this class? Or is this thread it?

[Hive_minD]

Don´t think jason has made the thread yet, I am guessing he would then send us via email a link. Though scan in your assignment, and we can show it on the Wednesday class

[Brock]

conceptart.org/vlp

this is the student forum

[Streetz]

Hi I wanted to sign up for this class, But I just wanted to verify that Ron Lemen and sterling Hundley are still going o be the teachers.

Any feedback from current students would also be great.

Thanks in advance.

[Sterling Hundley]

Streetz- Yes, Ron and I will still be the instructors for this course. Looking forward to having you join us!

[bilallucky]

Looking forward to this class.Its deff gonna be late night for me this half a year! Just hope I get time to join as many classes as possible.