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Art Lessons For MASSIVE Improvement
There seems to be a common wish going around FA. People want to improve their artwork. Whether they are just starting out, have been an on and off again artist or even regularly work but don't see the improvement they want. Many of these people work every week (some even every day) and see little to no improvement over the course of even a year. That's mainly because most people practice on their own with no instruction or guidance. That's where I come in.
What is the lesson plan?
I will hold a lesson once every week at an agreed upon time. It will include multiple students so I will work to find a good lesson time. We will go over core concepts such as form, light, value, composition and color. This will vary some depending on what the people are interested in (ie drawing/inking/painting) I will also offer red lines and paint overs for students as well as critique on your current and ongoing work.
What do you need?
You need skype, preferably a microphone, to understand English and have some way of letting me see your artwork. I am a digital painter but I am also very experienced with traditional mediums as well. As long as you can show me your work, I can give you direct feedback.
Are private (1 on 1) lessons available?
Yes, but for that it will cost $20/hr.
How do you know I'm good enough?
You can take a look at my portfolio and judge for yourself https://matthewmcentire.artstation.com/
Interested? Have questions?
Note me or leave a comment. I'm a professional freelance artist at the moment, meaning I work from home and have a fast response time.
What is the lesson plan?
I will hold a lesson once every week at an agreed upon time. It will include multiple students so I will work to find a good lesson time. We will go over core concepts such as form, light, value, composition and color. This will vary some depending on what the people are interested in (ie drawing/inking/painting) I will also offer red lines and paint overs for students as well as critique on your current and ongoing work.
What do you need?
You need skype, preferably a microphone, to understand English and have some way of letting me see your artwork. I am a digital painter but I am also very experienced with traditional mediums as well. As long as you can show me your work, I can give you direct feedback.
Are private (1 on 1) lessons available?
Yes, but for that it will cost $20/hr.
How do you know I'm good enough?
You can take a look at my portfolio and judge for yourself https://matthewmcentire.artstation.com/
Interested? Have questions?
Note me or leave a comment. I'm a professional freelance artist at the moment, meaning I work from home and have a fast response time.
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A freelance artist? I'm impressed. Is it alright if I spread the word? Although I'll keep this in mind for myself as well.
Although out of curiosity, what if I have a computer that i not very good for live-streaming my work during your sessions or forces itself to close skype or stop the stream?
Although out of curiosity, what if I have a computer that i not very good for live-streaming my work during your sessions or forces itself to close skype or stop the stream?
Sure, I'd really appreciate that! And as for those computer issues, you wouldn't really need to live stream your stuff. Basically I will share my screen on Skype so you can see what I'm doing, if we are talking about your work then you can just link me to it and I will pull it up on my screen. As for your Skype dropping then you should just be able to jump back into the call and I'll give you a recap if you missed something (depending on how long you would be out for).
Yeah, I get how that is. The lessons are an hour long so it shouldn't take up too much time. If your schedule is too busy or hectic to make a dedicated time for group lessons, then for $10 more there are always private lessons. Just something to think about. Thanks a lot for showing your interest in this!
Glad you think so! It's going to be an ongoing thing mostly. I'll cover certain topics on certain days for 1 hour each, probably offer some catchup days if a few people have to miss a lesson or two. As for when it will be, for group lessons I'm just waiting on a couple of people to sign on for sure then we'll decide on a good day and time for the weekly lesson. As for individual lessons, they can be pretty much any time at all (like I said, I'm freelance so I'm at home pretty much all the time). I'm in the EST time zone, which is 5 hours behind GMT. A good time difference but I doubt it would cause much of an issue (I can't see people deciding to make the lessons very late).
Oh that sounds great, so people could say drop in when they had the funds to do so? Eg coming along for a sketch lesson but having to skip out until you do a line art lesson again later down the track? That kind of idea?
I am rather interested in this as I have been trying to find some where or some one to learn digital painting from but I don't see my self being able to participate in something like this till the end of march, is it something you are hoping to offer for a while still?
Ah GMT-5 is reasonable enough to work with, I am in GMT+10 but its not to hard to work around.
And @___@ your 40k work is mad as hell haha!!
I am rather interested in this as I have been trying to find some where or some one to learn digital painting from but I don't see my self being able to participate in something like this till the end of march, is it something you are hoping to offer for a while still?
Ah GMT-5 is reasonable enough to work with, I am in GMT+10 but its not to hard to work around.
And @___@ your 40k work is mad as hell haha!!
Yep, you can just let me know whenever you are able to. Depending on how many (if any) lessons you miss then you could either just jump in, we could do a private lesson for you specifically to catch up or I could organize a make-up session depending on how many lessons other people have missed. And thanks a lot, I'm really glad you like my work. Those are some of my favorite books so that helped a lot when I was working on the paintings.
There are certain things that art lessons offer that can be incredibly difficult to learn yourself. One of the big advantages that art lessons offer is to have a professional there to critique your work and offer insight into how you can improve. There are also many things self-taught people do not consider such as composition, edge quality, color composition and reflected light to name a few. If you want to get into painting then there is far more to learn as well such as reflected color, atmospheric perspective, texture and many other things. I would say the main benefit of lessons is that it helps you to break out of what you're comfortable with and helps you learn much faster.
To give you a personal example, about five months ago before I had decided to become a professional illustrator, my work looked a lot like this http://i.imgur.com/DOnkTho.jpg I then started taking lessons from some very talented professional freelancers and my last painting was this http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE.....oe-d8j3a9b.png
Being able to have somebody more knowledgeable around to critique your work, teach you fundamentals and help expose you to new ideas / aspects of art can help you improve immensely in a short amount of time. The difference between those two paintings I linked was 5 months yet I have improved more in those 5 months than I did in the last 4 years. I could have practiced on my own for well over a year and never come close to what I can do now. So I hope that helps. I am a digital painter, I noticed you tend to do sketches and inks which is fine. Inking was my concentration in AP art and Drawing was my major in college, so I can help with certain aspects of that. There is plenty that you can learn before we even talk about a medium and even then I can help with different aspects of whatever medium or technique you want.
To give you a personal example, about five months ago before I had decided to become a professional illustrator, my work looked a lot like this http://i.imgur.com/DOnkTho.jpg I then started taking lessons from some very talented professional freelancers and my last painting was this http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE.....oe-d8j3a9b.png
Being able to have somebody more knowledgeable around to critique your work, teach you fundamentals and help expose you to new ideas / aspects of art can help you improve immensely in a short amount of time. The difference between those two paintings I linked was 5 months yet I have improved more in those 5 months than I did in the last 4 years. I could have practiced on my own for well over a year and never come close to what I can do now. So I hope that helps. I am a digital painter, I noticed you tend to do sketches and inks which is fine. Inking was my concentration in AP art and Drawing was my major in college, so I can help with certain aspects of that. There is plenty that you can learn before we even talk about a medium and even then I can help with different aspects of whatever medium or technique you want.
This seems really interesting and intriguing. I really want to learn how to paint but each time I feel like I'm failing and colouring a sketch by painting seems so simple yet so hard to grasp. I'm an artist that's afraid to try new things I guess? I really want to learn how to paint though. I might take you up on this offer. When would be a time you could start the lesson?
Digital painting can be odd to start with but there are so many ways to do it that all you really need is to find the way that is comfortable for you. Despite being a drawing major, I found that the most comfortable way for me is to not sketch at all with my paintings. As for when a time would be, I need more people to say that they are for sure on board so I can start planning a time with them. Right now it's a lot of maybes and a few people waiting until the end of the month for some money to come through, so no time is really decided on yet. That's for group lessons anyway. If you are interested in private lessons ($20/lesson) then it would be whenever you want.
What I have found is that while when I paint on the worse surface in existence, Glass. I can get things so real horses, other animals, people or flowers and foliage, in most cases the viewing public tell all their friends and are waiting for everything to 'breathe' or for the wind to blow, the paintings come out so realistic.
However my computer aided drawing does not come up to the same par as what I can do on glass, and that is all one layer! (I paint in such a way as when a viewer looks at the same work from inside the glass it looks the same), my left hand is able to paint as well as my right since 65 feet up on top of a ladder I had to hang on with my right hand.
I was successful for about thirty years doing Christmas and Rodeo glass matte paintings and some billboard signs, that I sold from anywhere upwards of 125 dollars to 7500 dollars (in a wall sized mural). For some reason I have only a few computer aided drawing or full color works that I am satisfied with, the thing is this I have been drawing longer by an additional 15 years over the painting I did because I couldn't find a regular job, to pay the bills. I have been drawing since I was four, I am nearly completely self taught.
But I have not been able to change much in the last twenty years. I look at old faded paper drawings I've done and I am not much better.
My proportion and contrast and camera angles: (foreshortening), are good. I also do not have much of a problem with hiding those parts of the anatomy behind the figure or behind other subjects and do not have the problems concerning use of gravity or acrobatic poses. But shading, layers and definite lines seem to elude me. My works tend to look amateurish from the studies that I can do that are more professional. this is maddening. I have been using the ten thousand line method to create preliminary drawings or studies to work out a mural or glass matte painting to.
But it is way too cold outside and the economy is terrible for sign and mural painters, since the current flock of politicians are anti-new businesses. I am currently attempting a BA in graphic design and am finishing up the AA portion before I go to a State college next year.
I want another avenue to sell in, IE hospitals, colleges and high schools with a need for full wall murals since the business area is dead under Obama's hatred of all small businesses. A BA in graphic Design would appeal to a teacher or administrator more, than normal ability to actually get the job done or the end result of artistic expertise.
Alternately if I can get my computer aided skill set higher i won't have to leave the house and do everything all online instead. for at the present I can only charge about 25 dollars for what I do now, I would like to get at least five times that to get a good or better following from my ability to see the end result on a piece of glass before I even start the painting. I would like to be able to do this same method of painting the painting before I paint the painting, like I do on glass, a one sided sign or mural.
However my computer aided drawing does not come up to the same par as what I can do on glass, and that is all one layer! (I paint in such a way as when a viewer looks at the same work from inside the glass it looks the same), my left hand is able to paint as well as my right since 65 feet up on top of a ladder I had to hang on with my right hand.
I was successful for about thirty years doing Christmas and Rodeo glass matte paintings and some billboard signs, that I sold from anywhere upwards of 125 dollars to 7500 dollars (in a wall sized mural). For some reason I have only a few computer aided drawing or full color works that I am satisfied with, the thing is this I have been drawing longer by an additional 15 years over the painting I did because I couldn't find a regular job, to pay the bills. I have been drawing since I was four, I am nearly completely self taught.
But I have not been able to change much in the last twenty years. I look at old faded paper drawings I've done and I am not much better.
My proportion and contrast and camera angles: (foreshortening), are good. I also do not have much of a problem with hiding those parts of the anatomy behind the figure or behind other subjects and do not have the problems concerning use of gravity or acrobatic poses. But shading, layers and definite lines seem to elude me. My works tend to look amateurish from the studies that I can do that are more professional. this is maddening. I have been using the ten thousand line method to create preliminary drawings or studies to work out a mural or glass matte painting to.
But it is way too cold outside and the economy is terrible for sign and mural painters, since the current flock of politicians are anti-new businesses. I am currently attempting a BA in graphic design and am finishing up the AA portion before I go to a State college next year.
I want another avenue to sell in, IE hospitals, colleges and high schools with a need for full wall murals since the business area is dead under Obama's hatred of all small businesses. A BA in graphic Design would appeal to a teacher or administrator more, than normal ability to actually get the job done or the end result of artistic expertise.
Alternately if I can get my computer aided skill set higher i won't have to leave the house and do everything all online instead. for at the present I can only charge about 25 dollars for what I do now, I would like to get at least five times that to get a good or better following from my ability to see the end result on a piece of glass before I even start the painting. I would like to be able to do this same method of painting the painting before I paint the painting, like I do on glass, a one sided sign or mural.
Going from traditional to digital can be a pretty rough transition. It's such a diverse medium and can allow for so much variety that you have to do a lot of experimentation with it in order to find out what works. Before I started painting, I had been entirely pencil and paper (some ink work for AP art) and could never get a style that worked well digitally. I finally got comfortable with it when I took some lessons from a freelance illustrator who didn't draw at all, just kept blocking everything out with color until something came from it. I feel like emulating that broke me out of my drawing mindset and got me to finally start trying new techniques and treat digital work as an entirely new medium rather than trying to make it adhere to what I already knew.
Yeah, I've been banging my head against that particular rock for a while trying to force the programs to come out like I was using a physical brush or pencil. I have paint tool sai, photoshop 7 since it works on vista, and photoshop cs1. I have a link to maybe get the adobe cloud but my laptop is terrible to try an draw anything on, so I like the old xps tower I use at at home. It works on the internet through a lan here. My laptop I'll probably only use at class with a maybe to get an apple sometime in the future since it already works best with all the programs in class.
So when do you want to create a class and go from there? unless of course YOU want to trade I can use Indesign now! that is for making books plus I have a photographic memory.
So when do you want to create a class and go from there? unless of course YOU want to trade I can use Indesign now! that is for making books plus I have a photographic memory.
I'm waiting on some more people to sign on for sure before we discuss a meeting time for the group lessons. Unless you wanted private lessons (just you) which I do for $20/lesson instead of $10. If you were interested in the group lessons then I just need to know if you for sure want to do it so I can start to organize it.
This is a great way to start off, then. Haven't had the time to develop bad habits and can start off with an understanding of artistic fundamentals. Group or private? (private is $20/lesson but just you there) Let me know and let me know what times you are available, day and time. Remember to include your time zone, please.
Group for now. I want to see how the whole process goes before I think about spending more.
I'm a college student so my times are always in great flux depending on the work assigned to me but I'm generally available after 2:00 P.M. Mountain Time on every day except weekends. I use those days to perform catchup on my work. If I had to select though, best days for me are Tues/ Thurs.
I'm a college student so my times are always in great flux depending on the work assigned to me but I'm generally available after 2:00 P.M. Mountain Time on every day except weekends. I use those days to perform catchup on my work. If I had to select though, best days for me are Tues/ Thurs.
I've started learning to draw as a "new years resolution" that i HAVE been devoting a fair amount of my time to upholding and pursuing. But i have absolutely no direction as to what i need to begin with, improve before moving onto something else. It would be very nice to have some direction on what i need to do, where i need to start, and how to proceed from there.
Might you be able to give me a bit of an example as to how you would proceed with a lesson?
Might you be able to give me a bit of an example as to how you would proceed with a lesson?
Thanks a lot for showing interest in this.
For group lessons I'll be going over fundamentals so you can break things down easier and improve various aspects. Form, value, color, light, etc are just a few examples. We'll also probably go over certain things like gesture drawing to help people with anatomy and trying to keep people's work from having a stiff feeling. I'll also do things like paint overs and red lines for people and critiques for your work so you can see how to improve your current work. I'll take a look at everybody's work and see if there are common issues that people are having as well. As the group lessons go on we'll be able to get more specific with certain things such as textures and some techniques but not quite as specific as we could get in private lessons.
Obviously for private lessons it would be much more personalized so I could spend more time focusing in on what you need to improve the most. We would still go over fundamentals but could cater more to what you need to focus on the most and could take it a bit slower or faster depending on how quickly your work improves. Technique can also vary a lot more here, I majored in drawing but have done a lot of work with ink before, some work with traditional Acrylic paint and a lot of work with digital painting.
I hope I explained that well. Group lessons are great for more general lessons so you can learn fundamentals and get some critiques for your work while private lessons are much more specific to you and will help you improve the fastest. Either way you should be able to learn a lot. So, if you are interested then just let me know. If you would prefer group lessons, let me know what days and times you are available (remember to include your time zone as well) or if you want to jump into private lessons then you can just note me your Skype and we can do lessons whenever is good for you.
For group lessons I'll be going over fundamentals so you can break things down easier and improve various aspects. Form, value, color, light, etc are just a few examples. We'll also probably go over certain things like gesture drawing to help people with anatomy and trying to keep people's work from having a stiff feeling. I'll also do things like paint overs and red lines for people and critiques for your work so you can see how to improve your current work. I'll take a look at everybody's work and see if there are common issues that people are having as well. As the group lessons go on we'll be able to get more specific with certain things such as textures and some techniques but not quite as specific as we could get in private lessons.
Obviously for private lessons it would be much more personalized so I could spend more time focusing in on what you need to improve the most. We would still go over fundamentals but could cater more to what you need to focus on the most and could take it a bit slower or faster depending on how quickly your work improves. Technique can also vary a lot more here, I majored in drawing but have done a lot of work with ink before, some work with traditional Acrylic paint and a lot of work with digital painting.
I hope I explained that well. Group lessons are great for more general lessons so you can learn fundamentals and get some critiques for your work while private lessons are much more specific to you and will help you improve the fastest. Either way you should be able to learn a lot. So, if you are interested then just let me know. If you would prefer group lessons, let me know what days and times you are available (remember to include your time zone as well) or if you want to jump into private lessons then you can just note me your Skype and we can do lessons whenever is good for you.
This is very interesting... I'm still debating whether I should invest in this opportunity... various factors that I dont wish to really get into are leaving me on the fence. I'll toss you a watch regardless. I enjoyed looking over you portfolio and will take some time to think things over.
I can understand that. But the lessons still have to be worth the artist's time. Anyway, when you have 'child like' drawings it's mainly because you don't know fundamentals. Need to practice form, value, light etc. A lot of it goes hand in hand but if you can't afford lessons then just study shapes. You can make anything out of shapes and understanding how light works with different shapes will let you draw just about anything. Can worry about texture and reflectivity later.
AP in highschool, 2 years of drawing as my major in school (quit after I finished all my drawing courses because they decided to add another 2 years onto my major of only filler classes like printmaking and wood shop), a bit of self taught then studying under a very skilled freelancer (since become a good friend).
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