Cooking with Idiot - SignUP

[Idiot Apathy]

This is the sign-up thread for the future episodes of Cooking with Idiot: A mentoring thread. This will hopefully allow me to keep better track

For Reference:
My Blog: http://www.crayonboxofdoom.blogspot.com
My Sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...ewpost&t=56810
My Demonstration Thread: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74478
Episode One: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=107208
Episode Two: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=116878

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If you are interested please sign up here and provide the following information:
1. Sketchbook and/or Blog link. Chances are I won't select anyone who doesn't have one or the either, so make one if you haven't already and get posting
2. What it is you think I can help you learn.
3. Will your schedule allow for weekly exercises?
4. What is your favorite kind of ice cream.

This is not a first come first serve basis. Please don't be offended if you aren't selected right away, I will be looking for specific things in order to facilitate my inadequacies in teaching. Each "episode" will continue for about a month and then I will pick new people for the next.

Thanks!

Edit:

Wow so much people signed up already... mind if one more joins?

As I wrote up above, this is not a first come first serve basis and indeed it doesn't guarantee anything. Please keep signing up if you are interested, I'm looking for a few specific things that I can work with. If I were a better teacher than perhaps that wouldn't be the case.

[ChaoticKnight]

1. Blog: http://ckantrim.blogspot.com/
SB: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...=45144&page=10

2. I really need to learn more about color and working with the digital medium. Also, maybe some composition help.

3. The next few weeks might be hectic, but I think I could do simple assignments, leading into more complex around May.

4. Either plain vanilla soft serve or Strawberry Shortcake.

[le capitan]

Hello, my name is Levi. I'm from Wisconsin and currently studying animation with an emphasis on illustration. I feel my digital skills are a bit lacking especially when it comes to environments and I want to improve on this area.

http://bluefiasco.blogspot.com there isn't a whole lot of stuff up there, but i'll be scanning several drawings sometime this week.

A stronger skillset with digital mediums and creating environments

In short, yes it will. I do have class, but I have enough time to do weekly exercises.

My favorite type of ice cream... I would say french vanilla, but I've been on a bit of a mint chocolate chip cycle lately.

Thanks and looking forward to working with you,

Levi

[Senira]

1. Sketchbook link: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73427
No blog, but I have my gallery website-- http://www.ajwart.com

2. I can see in your work a strong sense of the play between light and shadow, something I struggle with constantly. Also, your brush strokes are loose and painterly, something I've been wanting to practice with more and incorporate into my style.

3. Yes.

4. I don't eat ice cream. I believe this is the part where most people point at me and start screaming witch.

[Kaizer]

1) SB: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=121733
Main gallery: psychoemporess.deviantart.com

2) I need help with digital painting and light sources. I think you can help me to become better experienced in these things.

3) I'm pretty much free after 3pm Mountain Time. If I won't be able to make a session, you'll probably know in advanced.

4) Moose Tracks

[TJHunt]

1) http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=98439

2)I have a trouble with making the dark values to light some times, I can't seem to get things detailed enough for it to be as realistic as i want it to be. I really want to get better at digital coloring ,colors in general and landscapes.
3)Yes.

4) Mint chocolate

[Asatira]

1. Sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=86893 ; my blog (gets updated with most anything) http://asatira.blogspot.com

2. Color in general, digital coloring/painting specifically. Also, improving values.

3. Classes are wrapping up, so I'm beginning to be free most afternoons and evenings, except Monday night.

4. Generally, I like chocolate, but I really like cheesecake.

[Victor B]

1-http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=114062 just click on the link in my sig

2-Help with Enviornmenting. To be completely honest I'm not interested in being a Concept artist but using the skills towards world building for stories/comics. The skills of speed painting and enviornment design I think would be a usefull if I could get a workflow set up. Also though I would like to bridge that gap between just my work and "pro" work I see that some of the stuff for example on my skbk page could be considered middle stage images so I'm also interested in pushing something to a nice finished polish. I'm really looking to learn what I can from you.

3-I would make time

4-something with peanut butter, and or brownies

Just wanted to add thanks for the opportunity I've already learned alot just from your skbk and your videos. Also wanted to add Extra-thanks for the recent video w/ Alan Tew it was Tew-tastic

[Starr]

1. Sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=122458
my blog is http://www.starrstudios.blogspot.com/

2. I really need help with color theory and basically showing mass and volume with colors, and environments so that i can give my works more depth! i want to learn much about digital painting and speed painting.

3. well i draw every hour of every day and i paint in between those hours... im sure i could find time!

4. Chocolate chip cookie dough!!

thanks for taking the time out to teach

[angelo cordon]

1. Sketchbook and/or Blog link.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...=101053&page=3


2. What it is you think I can help you learn.
id love to learn a better concepting workflow.

3. Will your schedule allow for weekly exercises?
yes - otherwise, i will make time

4. What is your favorite kind of ice cream.
it's all about cookies 'n cream.

[Earendil]

1.Here is my SB

2. I think you can help guide me in my further studies of environments, atmospherics, hue/value/chroma, and form. Kinda general, but I'm just trying to "push it" more in my pieces. Every day, I'm having little epiphanies looking at the light/shadow systems in the sky, and how they relate. My pieces are improving, but I think you could help me understand these relations between object color, light, and shadow even more. I think you can help me learn more of what to look for when doing my studies and observing weather.

3. Yes.

4. Chocolate chip mint.

[Azalin]

Wow so much people signed up already... mind if one more joins?
1. My SB Link:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=119419

2. I´ve been always so amazed at your enviorments that´s one thing i really would like to learn from you, second would be Color / Digital Painting, i´ve been following some of your Peer Proj. Exercises. but i´m not finished yet with all. and third some anatomy training would come in handy if your got the time...

3. Weekly exercises was what i was expecting btw when does the mentoring starts? because i´m going to be out of town (with no computer, no scanner, no internet) until the 26 /27 of this month

4. Rum raisin and every ice cream with fruits flavors in it, specially Lemon.

Thanx for this chance

[loadedpencil]

1. my blogish link : http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112738 i dont update it as much because i dont really have anything worth showing. ive just been practicing anatomy lately.


2: i really need some actual teaching. especially in composiion, character in space. minor anatomy help. and perspective work wouldnt help. but ofcourse im up to learn anything i dont know.

3. i have class monday-wens. but even then, im serious about getting better and as quick as possible. im up for daily assignments if thats what i have to do.

4. vanilla with sprinkles and gummy bears ;]

[Weavel]

1) My sketchbook

2) I need some help with digital painting, and with the color theory. And some advice on composition would also be great.

3) Weekly exercises would be great, i have enough time and motivation

4) Amarene and citron icecream

[Dose206]

Idiot,


sweet.

Link to my sb is in my signature.

I, like ChaoticKnight, have trouble with colors, a little uncomfortable with the digital medium, and composition.

I am currently unemployed so yes, yes and yes, I can do weekly assignments.

Cookies and cream or Ben and Jerry's Fish Food. Hard to pick one or the other.


-Chris

[Shanemeh]

1. http://shane-meh.deviantart.com/ Though I need to post more sketches I have mostly paintings, and some 3d models.
2. I really need to get better generally in art. Nothing more too it.
3. I have all the time in the world for exercises. Basically 4-9pm on weekdays, and all days on the weekends unless I'm have something plans.
4. Cold Stone's Chocolate Devotion.. So damn good.

[SgtDirtbag]

1. My sketchbook

2. I'd love to be able to do speedpaintings for recreational purposes, something along those lines:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showpos...postcount=4596
http://conceptart.org/forums/showpos...postcount=4573
http://conceptart.org/forums/showpos...postcount=4549

I'm not aiming for doing any highly detailed and finished pieces right now, because honestly I know jack about choosing colors and values.
All in all, I'd like to learn a thing or two about how to choose colors that go along with each other and especially how to spot all those colors that are actually there.
I have to admit, the first time I heard skincolor is not just some random pink, but actually a crazy mixture of yellow, red, green, blue and who-knows-what-else, I felt like I've been blind all my life. xD

3. Yes, definately. 2h per week minimum, about 3h/week on average.

4. Stracciatella+peppermint owns them all! : D

[Idiot Apathy]

Wow so much people signed up already... mind if one more joins?

As I wrote up above, this is not a first come first serve basis and indeed it doesn't guarantee anything. Please keep signing up if you are interested, I'm looking for a few specific things that I can work with. If I were a better teacher than perhaps that wouldn't be the case.

[Homeless Foxman]

1.My Sketchbook
2. Anything and everything really. Foundation, color, textures, shades, whatever. I haven't had a whole lot of teaching so anything of that sort, or any other sort for that matter.
3. Of course! I would cram in daily excersizes if I had too. Not that hard for my to balance artwork and schoolwork. Although my artwork is the much heavier pile.
4. Butter Rum. That defeats all, but is soooooo hard to find!

[chaosrocks]

1. my SB http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...&goto=lastpost
2. Environmental design I have a huge project in hand and I would l,ove the opprtunity to discuss it with you and get your input. Plus I always wanna learn stuff

3. weekly! I could manage. daily ? probably not

4. home-made vanilla made with local organic cream frome cows whose names I know, and eggs from chickens my dog chases... with fresh fruit preferably just picked blackberries

[waronmars]

Hey idiot, I love your stuff and min's as well, I'd kill to get a push in that direction...look out guys :p

1. My sketchboob | siteboob
2. What it is you think I can help you learn. : Drunken crayon mashing! I want a hand with learning environmental speed painting, and the stuff that comes with it. I am pretty strong with pencil linework characters but I'd like to do enviros to put them in and I'm heading toward a conceptart job, so I wanna be stronger with enviros. My color selection and perspective can be a bit dodgy.
3. Will your schedule allow for weekly exercises? : Yep.
4. What is your favorite kind of ice cream. Cookiedough or like biscuit chunks. I had grey icecream in Japan too, it was good.

[ovolon]

1. http://ovolon.blogspot.com

I also have a deviantart at http://ovolon.deviantart.com

2. I'm trying to learn how to use the digital medium, trying to figure out the process -- how to move on from desaturated value studies to color, I am really unsure with this process, how to choose colors from scratch without looking at a photo reference.
And color theory -- warm/cool, colors of shadows, how does this work.

3. Yes! I will make the time, art is always a priority : )

4. Pistachio or Hazelnut.

[Gundersen]

1. Sketchbook, Blog, Portfolio
2. I think you can help me develop my environmental painting skills. I have been mentored by Adam Paquette for quite a while, and have taken several steps further. Now i was hopeing to learn more environment from another person, and i love the work you have done, and hope to learn from it one day.
3. Yes, I am currently at University, doing a Bachelor of Architecture. In my spear time I mentor myself on this forum, and work as Enviroment artist for a unpaid computer game.
4. My friends always laugh at me when i say its Vanilla

[serhc]

1. Sketchbook

2. i really love the way you paint, the values, colors and overall mood of each one - mostly, i'd like to learn to paint pictures with more dynamism and feel. every time i push out something involving values and colors, it feels dead to me

3. i'm a sophomore in college at the moment, with finals coming up in a month. still, it's not hard to make time...i'm bumming around all the time anyway.

4. stephen colbert's americone dream

[iamgale]

1. sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=120521

2. I'd like to learn more about color theory composition and environment pls.

3. yes. I can do weekly exercises. I have school 5 days/week, 8 hrs daily and I'm free after that.

4. Home made ice cream that we call Batangueño here in our country. Sold in the streets. Its cheap and really creamy. ~nyum

[Justin.]

1. Sketchbook and/or Blog link. Chances are I won't select anyone who doesn't have one or the either, so make one if you haven't already and get posting
http://justinoaksford.blogspot.com/
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...=79634&page=28

2. What it is you think I can help you learn.
Values, organization, composition, simplification, polish, edges

3. Will your schedule allow for weekly exercises?
Indeed sir.

4. What is your favorite kind of ice cream.
Old fashioned cookies and cream.

[Beelow]

I think you can show me a thing or 2.

1.sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...t=76562&page=6
blog:http://brycesmithconcepts.blogspot.com/

2. I mainly need to polish my understanding in composition and design and getting use to using textures and getting better with color. My paintings looks like skittles.

3. Yeah I can manage weekly assignments. Anything for you Tom.

4. Any flavor that is good I am down for. I am cutting back on the ice cream though. I don't want diabetes, I think that is how you spell that.

[Secret Sun]

1. Website

2. I'm majoring in animation but I LOVE illustration. My dream is to become a concept artist. I know it's insane but I want it. Bad. Ideally, I would like to work on digital illustration. This would include all the big stuff like character design and environment studies. I find a lot of my work is dictated by whim and I would really like more control. I think this would improve my compositions, color choice, and technical drawing.

In other words...I will obey. I'm really grateful to anyone who will take the time to teach. I think it's wonderful. And I'm not afraid of a crit or to return the favor.

3. Oh yeah, especially with summer coming around. I need deadlines.

4. One word: Chocolate.


Thanks for your time!

[Sept13]

1. Blog

2. What it is you think I can help you learn.
Composition, quick idea devolpment, handling colour, getting a right rhythm for painting, getting to know the right people, inspiration, enviroments and getting me off the bad habits I've managed to get.

3. Will your schedule allow for weekly exercises?
Yes.

4. What is your favorite kind of ice cream.
Banana-chocolate, yummy.

[BRINKMAN!]

1.Sketchbook
2.What you can help me learn:
I'd say quite a bit! Specifically I'd like to get better at environments, as it's plain to see that many of my characters exist in a vacuum. I also love how many of your digital works feature the mark/brushwork prominently while still effectively conveying form and light... That's also definitely something I'd like to work towards!
I also feel that having assignments is the best way for me to grow as an artist, I'm a deadlines man, that's for sure!
3. Yup, draw and paint every day!
4. I like butter pecan, which makes me the most geriatric 24 year old on the planet.