SUN – JR Digital Artist 13 – 17 yrs (Fall 2021)
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
SAT – ONLINE JR Digital Artist (Fall 2021)
Saturdays JR Art Lab workshops will be dedicated to our Online students. Welcome all of you who have asked for classes from the USA and Further afield in Canada. And welcome back to the few of you who moved out of Toronto but missed our workshops and digital creative community.
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
THURS – JR Digital Artist 13 – 17 yrs (Fall 2021)
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
WED – JR Digital Artist 8 – 12 yrs (Fall 2021)
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
TUE – JR Digital Artist 13 – 17 yrs (Fall 2021)
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
MON – JR Digital Artist 8 – 12 yrs (Fall 2021)
This term will be focused on studying the creatures of earth. Animals, plants, sea creatures and birds. We will look into the anatomy of various animals skeletons and muscles and study how they exist. Realism will be our goal this term. Studies of light and materials will help us achieve this. Students will start with studying fundamentals including form and lights before moving on with a new understanding and more developed artists eye. After students are comfortable with their observational skills and software command we will move onto personally motivated projects on the topic.
Texturelicious – Digital Painting
Ok so we are all going to be stuck inside for a few more weeks. So lets get a box of cookies and some candies to gobble down while we learn all about how to paint digital textures.. This workshop will run for the week of the holidays and is all online. We will talk and learn all about gloss materials, matte materials, translucent materials and study a whole bunch of delicious textures just like below. If you want to do this with some candies or ice-cream on hand all the better. You will be so contented to be at home you might forget your in lock down.. shh I won’t mention it again. SO! come join us and paint some delicious treats together.. You’re welcome to use Sketchbook (free), Affinity Photo or Procreate.
Week 8 ~ Anatomy of a Hero
Do you love Heroes & Heroines? Would you like to improve your figure drawing? In this summer camp we will do an intensive study of a Superhero’s and his/her poses. This camp will start off with an introduction to anatomy. We will learn some of the time tested proportions and tricks to remember the body shapes and structure. After this students will take turns pretending to be their favourite super hero in a pose while other students draw them. We will also learn to draw a short animation sequence and discuss the principles of animation.
Humans are key to drawing characters and designing costumes or fashion. Learning this skill is a vital part of many art carers including animation. This is also a great reason to spend a whole week drawing and mastering your favourite hero. Once you get one down it will be a hop and a skip to abstract those ideas onto other characters.. Working with superheroes is a great way to get the traditional figure drawing art skills across to kids using their favourite characters.
Week 7 ~ Gary The Garden Gnome
If you are looking for a creative way to enhance the quality of your photos, this camp is for you!
It’s now easier than ever to sculpt in Blender. Blender has grown into a huge collection of high-end 3D tools to rival the likes of Maya and Zbrush. The developers have added some amazing sculpting functionality in earlier versions and that has only grown with the addition of Dyntopo sculpting to give you more resolution only when you need it. We will cover all this in our workshop while sculpting our cool little Garden Gnome Character. Once the sculpting is done we will learn how to export the model for 3D printing before moving onto vertex painting while we wait for the prints. Vertex Painting is a fast way to block out your ideas and very often it is the first step towards a color & texture design.
Week 6 ~ Vintage Collage & Memes
he main feature of digital collage illustrations is that you don’t attribute them to a particular design style. Everything depends on the assets you use and the idea you finally come to, what gives freedom and passion for creating. Just try searching ‘digital collage’ on Google, and you’ll discover an endless flow of fascinating pieces, embracing brutalist, Scandi, Art Deco, polygonal art and many other genres.
In this summer camp we will work with vintage photos, storybook illustrations and all manner of imagery found and created to compose our own little collection of digital collage illustrations. This genre of creative is open to everyone and is a great place to start if you are looking to express yourself quickly or communicate and idea.
We will study a few digital collages and also take a look at Memes which may fall into the same genre of collage. Communicating something humorous or ironic to the viewer. A good collage can be worth a thousand words.
