Today I taught my first class/workshop in the new Art + Design building...and it was for Figure Drawing! Jennifer Snyder put together the Art Teacher Professional Development Day up at APSU and I was able to jump in and help lead the drawing workshop today. It was great to get the chance to draw again - it's easy to get so lost in doing digital art that you don't take the time to do some longer life drawing.
I was lucky enough to sit on on some amazing figure drawing workshops back at DreamWorks. They were held over lunchtime and when I decided to make the leap to becoming an Animator I started attending - and it was intimidating as hell at first. Everyone was nice and welcoming...but the amount of talent in that room was staggering. It was out of my comfort zone, really pushed me, and I learned so much.
Most of the sessions were lead by Karl Gnass - who everyone should check out and is just an amazing talent and teacher. He's taught figure drawing at DreamWorks and Disney for decades. Gesture drawing was led by Dave Pimentel who was a great story artist that went on to becoming the Story Lead on Moana over at Disney. It was great going back and remembering what I learned from these sessions and lead one of my own!
And it has cemented my decision that this semester my animation students are going to be doing LOTS more drawing homework :)
