Will Weston Style Development in Animation & Game
Style development in animation & game design isn’t random or simply personal. It can indicate the age range of the viewers, the type of story being told, and even the physics of a film. Style also falls into general stylistic categories that can be mixed or used individually. Most importantly, animation or game styles are built around the story being told. In this 8-week (9 lessons) class, we start with a few exercises, then take a story, break it down and develop stylistic options and combinations that serve storytelling needs. I default to animation, but the skills and concepts are transferable so students can choose game design or even graphic novels if they wish. At the end of this class, students will have samples demonstrating their understanding of the visual development process. Most commercial media today is digital, but my students' interests are varied so students may work digitally, traditionally, or combine the two (this can produce interesting results). All my Drawing America classes involve lectures, presentations, and individual recorded critiques of student work every week.
Will Weston Figure Composition & Story
In this 6-week (7 lesson) workshop, students develop proficiencies through numerous exercises and a final story-telling project based on figure composition with limited props.
Will Weston Figure Drawing Spring 2021
In this 6-week (7 lesson) workshop, students will learn basic figure construction and then proceed through the figure focusing more in-depth on human anatomy.
Alex Hillkurtz 6 Week Live Watercolor Class from Paris (Winter)
In this 6 week live course, I’ll share some of my favorite Paris locations with you, and guide you through my process of creating evocative urban watercolor paintings.
Jennifer Gennari LIVE: Beginner
For students who have not oil painted before or consider themselves beginners.
Jennifer Gennari LIVE: Intermediate
For oil painting students with some oil painting experience; intermediate to advanced.
Will Weston Drawing for Composition (recorded)
This is a recorded version of Drawing for Composition, a 6-week class that I’ve taught in the US and in Europe. It gives students the object drawing skills needed to later excel at compositional techniques used by contemporary Illustrators, entertainment artists, and landscape artists. Students learn drawing methods that allow for differences in style, that cover a variety of objects and allow students to draw anything they may encounter in reference photography or out in the world.
Jennifer Gennari Paints The Sphinx Cat
Ms. Gennari paints and discusses every step of her painting process from start to finish.
Kevin Wueste – Drawing Heads and Portraits – Recorded
This class empowers beginners with new skills and techniques to draw natural-looking portraits; pushes intermediate artists to the next level and assists more advanced students with tools to open new pathways for their portrait work.
Principles of Color with Todd M. Casey
This class is for people who are interested in formally 'studying' color (beginner or intermediate).
Jennifer Gennari Paints Tilda
Jennifer Gennari paints an original oil painting of Tilda from start to finish.
Will Weston Costume Drawing
2-hour drawing session plus a 2-hour live lecture focused on costume drawing.
Will Weston Figure Drawing Class
Shot live on location in NYC this two-hour session begins with strategies for drawing the figure.
Will Weston Composition Lecture
This Lecture is great for multi-figure paintings, film design, animation, and entertainment arts.
Will Weston Figure Drawing Lecture
This High-Quality Video is a live illustrated-lecture by artist and educator Will Weston filmed live in New York City for Drawing New York.
Digital Painting for Photoshop (or Procreate)
Digital Painting is an excellent precursor to Style Development, the next class in the entertainment program at Drawing America.
Weston: Mad Science (Winter)
This drawing workshop uses old submarine interiors, steam cars, tanks, pre WW1 flying machines, and 19th century dental and medical equipment as references allowing drawing students to portray character-filled man-made lab equipment, creepy lab furniture, and environments. Students learn to draw everything using cylinders (pipes & pipe fittings), balls, boxes, wire and ropes, all exaggerated for clarity and expression. Students then scale and design a cutaway for a Mad Scientists laboratory allowing for staging and potential layouts.
Will Weston Figure Drawing Winter 2021
In this 6-week (7 lesson) workshop, students will learn basic figure construction and then proceed through the figure focusing more in-depth on human anatomy.
Jennifer Gennari LIVE: Beginner
For students who have not oil painted before or consider themselves beginners.
Jennifer Gennari LIVE: Intermediate
For oil painting students with some oil painting experience; intermediate to advanced.