Environment Sketching

Master class

Environment Sketching

Dates:

April 19th - June 16th, 2013 + 1 extra week for content review

Fees:

$599

Pre-reqs:

Dynamic Sketching 2 or good drawing foundation and a strong knowledge of perspective.

Materials:

Able computer, photoshop (any), wacom tablet or equivalent

Course Description:

This class will focus on creating and strengthening environmental sketching abilities. Foundation studies on designing while using perspective to create thumbnails and quick sketch visualizations.  Students will be exposed to the steps required to take an idea from script to thumbnail to rough to finished design.  This is a very important foundational class that is necessary for those students who want to pursue a career as a concept artist or digital painter. The ability to think, create and design quickly in a studio environment is of major importance.

Weekly individual feedback format: video critique.

Course Outline

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• Week 1: One point perspective foundation
  Creating a grid plane
  Grid Plane on hills
  Thumbnails
  Instructor Demo
  Reading a script – Assignment #1- Creating Thumbails
• Week 2: Sample uses of One Point Perspective
  Establishing foreground, underground and background separation
  HL placement
  Cone of vision
  Transferring Scale
  Proportional Division
  Drawing cubes on grid plane
  Instructor Demo
  Thumbnails continued – Assignment #2- Thumbnails studies, and large rough in 2 point perspective
  Drawing cubes
• Week 3: Two point perspective basics
  Two point perspective demo, finding Horizon Line, and Vanishing Points
  Establishing a grid plane
  Positioning the horizon line
  Establishing Vanish Points
  Moving Vanish points
  Instructor Demo
  Thumbnails continued – Assignment #3- Thumbnails, pick one and create a large rough
• Week 4: Three point perspective basics
  Samples of 3 Point Perspective
  Creating a grid plane in 3 Point Perspective
  Instructor Demo
  Assignment 4- Thumbnail studies, and rough in 3 Point Perspective
• Week 5: Traditional Techniques for quick sketching
  Col Erase Pencil
  Marker
  Vellum
  Rough to Line clean-up
  Thick and thin contour line
  Instructor Demo
  Assignment 5-Taking a rough to finished line
• Week 6: Perspective use of shadows & light
  Artificial light & natural
  Lighting studies
  Film ratio- TV, Animation, Film
  Assignment 6- Shadows in perspective –Thumbnail Lighting studies
• Week 7: Working in tone
  Understanding grade – 20, 40, 60, 80
  Avoiding black
  Area of contrast
  Tone for finished art
  Establishing mood
  Assignment 6 - Working in Tone
• Week 8: Presentation
  Creating a portfolio page
  Arrangement
  Finished Art
  Demonstrate the process you have completed
  Finishing piece in fill tone