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Intuitive Perspective

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2068-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

This course will focus on creating a sense of form within space on flat drawing and painting surfaces, without worrying about vanishing points or the measuring of space. We'll try to internalize the concepts of line (various types and weights), shape (positive and negative), edges (soft, hard, merging), value (range of lightness and darkness), color (and its elements of value and "temperature"), form and space. Topics will also include asymmetry vs. symmetry; overlap of shapes and forms; fragmenting of shapes within form; convergence of lines, shapes and forms, and clustering forms. We'll study montage and how to work with and from photographs. Human figures within their environments will be the basis of all lectures, demonstrations, exercises and home assignments.
NOTE: Please bring a "Biggie" sketchpad (14x17"), a tracing paper pad (9x12"), pencils and a kneaded eraser.

Instructor

Sal Amendola

Illustrator; writer; founder, SRV + 1. Formerly, editor, talent coordinator, illustrator, DC Comics; associate editor, Marvel Comics; illustrator, Archie Comics

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author:

Perspective for the Artist; Other Intelligences: A Sociopolitical View

Clients include:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.; PBS; McGraw-Hill; Little, Brown and Company; Maury Povich Show; Homeworld Press

Books illustrated include:

Witnessed; Batman: Black Egg of Atlantis; Left at East Gate; Streetwise; Pack of Trouble; Illustrated Comic Art Workshop, vol. I; Draw Comics with Dick Giordano; Tarzan of the Apes; Return of Tarzan

Publications include:

National Lampoon, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

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Drawing and Perspective

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2072-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

This course will take you from the basic principles of one-, two- and three-point perspective through placing figures in proper relationship within your picture, inclined planes, placing a specific number of windows in specific places on skyscrapers, spiral staircases, reflections in mirrors and wet pavement, to so-called "aerial perspective" (using value and color relationships to create the sense of form in space), and more. If you are in animation or cartooning, understanding these principles is a necessity. If you are in the fine arts or illustration, it will save you several years of compromising your visuals because you couldn't grasp how to make a figure look like it's "over here next to these buildings" while making others look like they're "over there in front of those mountains." Assignments are designed to prove the practical applications of the basic principles of perspective.

Instructor

Sal Amendola

Illustrator; writer; founder, SRV + 1. Formerly, editor, talent coordinator, illustrator, DC Comics; associate editor, Marvel Comics; illustrator, Archie Comics

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author:

Perspective for the Artist; Other Intelligences: A Sociopolitical View

Clients include:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.; PBS; McGraw-Hill; Little, Brown and Company; Maury Povich Show; Homeworld Press

Books illustrated include:

Witnessed; Batman: Black Egg of Atlantis; Left at East Gate; Streetwise; Pack of Trouble; Illustrated Comic Art Workshop, vol. I; Draw Comics with Dick Giordano; Tarzan of the Apes; Return of Tarzan

Publications include:

National Lampoon, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

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Drawing the Clothed Model

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-1033-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 90.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

Developing the line drawing is the focus of this course. The beginning of each session consists of five-minute poses, giving students a chance to warm up and to work on interpreting the clothed model in a spontaneous way. The session will then progress to 20-minute poses in order to achieve a more intimate connection with the work. Pencil and charcoal are the primary media. Oil pastel techniques will be introduced to create rough color studies, and students may elect to work in this medium. We will explore composition through the placement of the model within the confines of the page. Various clothing modes, such as fashion, street and historical (i.e., Roman togas) will be included. Individual attention and instruction will be given. The end result will be a body of work that reflects the ability to draw the model in a three-dimensional space.
NOTE: Please bring a white all-purpose drawing pad (18x24", 50 lbs.), graphite pencils (8B and 9B) and a kneaded eraser to the first session.

Instructor

John Ruggeri

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include:

School of Visual Arts

Group exhibitions include:

Fine Art Gallery Center for Music, Drama and Art, Lake Placid, NY

Publications include:

The New York Times Magazine, Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Self, Print, Rolling Stone, House & Garden

Award:

Distinguished Artist-Teacher Award, School of Visual Arts

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Illustration Basics

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2012-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

This course focuses on the needs of the illustration student, concentrating on the fundamentals of composition, color, media application and the basic elements of picture-making. Other issues covered in-depth include the acquisition and proper usage of reference materials, the development and visual expression of precise imagery, and the function of the sketch in the process and execution of the finished illustration. Excellence in design, drawing and presentation will be stressed throughout the course. Guest lecturers and slide presentations are included.
NOTE: Assignments vary each semester.

Instructor

Joo Chung

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, Art Center College of Design

One-person exhibitions include:

University of California, Santa Cruz; Scope Gallery; Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Clients include:

Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Money, The New York Times, New York magazine, Adweek, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, RCA Records, Business Week, Elektra/Asylum Records, Doubleday, St. Martin's Press, Knopf, Scholastic Inc., Atlantic Monthly, Baltimore Opera, Paramount Pictures

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Drawing Workshop: Between the Lines

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2022-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Jul 02
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

From the fine to media arts, on canvas or digitally, the ability to draw anything, especially the human figure, as a believable thing in a believable space requires these three d's: discipline, desire and diligence. We will work through a series of proven practices that will enhance your drawing abilities no matter what your level and put you on a knowledge path about drawing that will give you the freedom to create into the future. The pencil and brush will be the primary tools to make investigative and effective line drawings that capture ideas of structural anatomy, rhythm and movement. We will work to tap into the powerful creative process to quickly combine observational response and archetypes of form. We will concentrate on 3- to10-minute poses, working with nude and clothed, male and female models to explore the in-class demonstrations and exercises that will give you a more comprehensive understanding of the human form as well as the variety of processes in drawings made from the past to the present. Based on a unique combination of ideas and practices derived from both academic and modern drawing principles, students will be taught to think of drawing the human body in a radically different, yet profoundly rooted way. While continually striving to improve observational and conceptual skills, students will learn to see that energy and rhythm-forces inherent to the living body-are useful and insightful means to approach other more fundamental aspects of drawing. The lessons that cover structural anatomy and the use of lines to create spatial and dynamic drawings are essential to the often inter-related fields of fine art, animation, cartooning and illustration. To see examples of class and student work, please visit: stephengaffney.tumblr.com.
NOTE: A supply list will be distributed upon registration.

Instructor

Stephen Gaffney

Fine artist, muralist, designer

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, New York Academy of Art

One-person exhibitions include:

Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta; First Street Gallery

Group exhibitions include:

Samson Fine Art; McKee Gallery; Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT; New York Academy of Art

Projects include:

Sogno Ristorante, Fairfield, CT (interior design); Church of St. Agnes (altarpiece); Marine Park Playground; Playground for All Children; P.S. 58 Library; Paul's Daughter (signs and design)

Clients include:

Hazelwood Foods, UK; New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Awards and honors include:

National Academy of Design, Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship

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Acryllustration

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2056-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

In this course, we'll choose a visual storytelling idea and take it through the stages toward one finished acrylic painting illustration. Sessions will include lectures, demonstrations and reviews of work. Major projects will be worked on outside of class. Topics will include creating and working with photo reference, live models, scale models and location drawing. We'll choose a color scheme (anywhere from monochrome to full color) and a working surface (the various boards or canvas), and strive to achieve a degree of realism-anywhere between photographic and impressionistic.
NOTE: Please bring a sketchbook or notebook and pencils to the first session. A complete supply list will be distributed at the beginning of class.

Instructor

Sal Amendola

Illustrator; writer; founder, SRV + 1. Formerly, editor, talent coordinator, illustrator, DC Comics; associate editor, Marvel Comics; illustrator, Archie Comics

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author:

Perspective for the Artist; Other Intelligences: A Sociopolitical View

Clients include:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.; PBS; McGraw-Hill; Little, Brown and Company; Maury Povich Show; Homeworld Press

Books illustrated include:

Witnessed; Batman: Black Egg of Atlantis; Left at East Gate; Streetwise; Pack of Trouble; Illustrated Comic Art Workshop, vol. I; Draw Comics with Dick Giordano; Tarzan of the Apes; Return of Tarzan

Publications include:

National Lampoon, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

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Inking Comics

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2114-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

In comics, after the pencil lines are erased, all that remains is the ink drawing-so it has to be done right. This course will present a variety of techniques (such as hatching, dry brush and wash) and tools (including quill pen, brush and technical pen). Inking can be demanding, and you will learn how to relax and enjoy the process while keeping an eye toward improvement. Emphasis will be placed on preparation, as well as pencilling styles that anticipate your inking technique.
NOTE: Please bring a sketchbook (11x14"), 2B pencils and samples of your work to the first session.

Instructor

Lauren R. Weinstein

Cartoonist, illustrator

Publications include:

Goddess of War, Stuck in the Middle, Best American Comics, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Inside Vineyland, The Great Women Cartoonists

Awards include:

Xeric Grant, Ignatz Award

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Watercolor Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2124-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

Watercolor can be bold or subtle. In this course, students will create their own Arcimboldo portraits, paint botanicals and plein air landscapes, as well as create sophisticated patterns while developing control and respect for this most spontaneous medium. We will begin with making paintbrushes, and students will be introduced to various weights of paper and qualities of pigment. Wet-on-wet techniques and other more controlled approaches will be explored, as well as figure painting from live models, still lifes and personal interpretations of interesting themes.
NOTE: A supply list will be distributed upon registration in this course.

Instructor

Ruth Marten

Fine artist, book and fashion illustrator, tattooist

Education:

Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Clients include:

Alfred A. Knopf; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; St. Martin’s Press; Doubleday; HarperCollins; Time; Sony; Bertelsmann; Vogue; Bergdorf Goodman; Ferragamo

One-person exhibitions include:

Hosfelt Gallery; Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Isis Gallery, London; Adam Baumgold Gallery; Littlejohn Contemporary

Group exhibitions include:

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

Collections include:

Saatchi Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Roger Thomas Collection

Author:

Histoire un-Naturelle; contributor, Bodies of Subversion; Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art; Tenderheaded

Publications include:

The New Yorker, Formes, Juxtapoz, Art in America, New York magazine

Awards and honors include:

Anonymous Was a Woman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal

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Digital Coloring for Illustrators and Comic Artists

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2149-A
  • Day(s) S
  • Dates Jun 08 - Aug 17
  • Hours 12:00PM - 03:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 600.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 23 Lexington Ave

Description

The use of color as applied through digital media is the focus of this course. Digital coloring techniques offer artists access to an unlimited palette and an often-daunting array of techniques. This palette allows artists as much of a personal voice as can be created with a brush and canvas, and with more immediate control over the final product. We will explore a variety of approaches, including digital painting and brushes, creating and using textures and organic forms, coloring comic books and other drawing techniques. This course takes students beyond formulaic approaches, and demonstrates how digital color is used for experimentation and exploration. PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: It is recommended that students have access to a computer with Adobe Photoshop for home assignments. Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Matt Rota

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, cum laude, Maryland Institute College of Art; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

The New York Times; McSweeney's; Nylon Guys; Utne Reader; LA Weekly, Russian Esquire; Philadelphia Weekly; Good But Cheap Eats: New York; Columbia Journalism Review; Science News; Ninja Tune Records; Time Out Chicago; City magazine; Isthmus; Wax Poetics; Feats Inc.; Soft Skull Press

Anthologies include:

Top Shelf 2.0, Gutter, Rabid Rabbit, Supertalk

Exhibitions include:

Society of Illustrators; Marte Contemporaneo, Semantica, San Salvador; Danger Danger Gallery, Philadelphia; Smash Gallery, Toronto; Visual Arts Gallery; Jonathan Frost Gallery, Rockland, ME; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Current Gallery, Baltimore; Copro Gallery, Los Angeles; Last Rites Gallery; Curly Tail Fine Arts, Chicago; The Whole Gallery, Baltimore; Conference Room Gallery, Los Angeles

Film projects include:

Resurrect Dead, The Silent Truth

Awards and honors include:

Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3x3, Creative Quarterly, Lürzer’s Archive

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The Draw Anything Class (Especially From Your Head)

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2156-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 08
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

This course is for anybody, to draw anything. Most people would like to draw from their heads, but don't. This course deals with the problems that stop people from drawing without copying. If you can draw from your head, you can draw anything, because everything is in there. The Draw Anything Class is for anyone who wants to draw without copying, right now. In-class exercises will explore different media and the problems the artist confronts when drawing without reference. Students will work at their own pace with individual instruction. You will be shown how to make up your own ideas, go through the sketch process, and on through the finished drawing. Finally, we will look at how to be objective about the results. The completed drawings become the basis for new ideas, new drawings and new information. You end up teaching yourself how to draw anything, especially from your head.
NOTE: Please bring 10 sheets of white paper (8.5x11") and a felt tip (black) pen or 5B pencil or ebony pencil to the first session.

Instructor

Jerry Moriarty

Illustrator, painter, cartoonist, paintoonist

Education:

BFA, Pratt Institute

One-person exhibitions include:

Corridor Gallery, Kamikaze, Printed Matter, Visual Arts Museum, CUE Art Foundation

Group exhibitions include:

Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool; Lambiek Gallery, Amsterdam; University of Massachusetts; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Phoenix Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery

Author, illustrator:

Jack Survives, The Complete Jack Survives

Publications include:

Seventeen, Esquire, Eros, GQ, Raw, Sports Illustrated, Denver Post, Picture Story, El Vibora, The New Yorker, Kramers Ergot, Comic Art, Art Review, ARTnews, The Believer. Children's books for Scholastic, Young Scott

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, Society of Illustrators

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Painting From Your Head: Acrylics

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2158-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

Acrylic painting without using photographic references is the focus of this course. You will be shown methods that make painting and drawing from your head easier. There will be three assignments (four weeks each): one session for sketching followed by three sessions for painting. Each project will explore a different acrylic painting technique: gray painting with color overpainting, color painting direct to board, acrylic thinned out to act like watercolor. All work can be completed during class. Whatever your experience in painting, this course is for anyone who wants to paint in acrylics. Individual instruction will be given. The instructor's YouTube channel can be viewed at: youtube.com/amereillustrator74.
NOTE: Please bring at least 5 sheets of white paper (8.5x11") and a 5B pencil or a felt tip Flair pen to the first session.

Instructor

Jerry Moriarty

Illustrator, painter, cartoonist, paintoonist

Education:

BFA, Pratt Institute

One-person exhibitions include:

Corridor Gallery, Kamikaze, Printed Matter, Visual Arts Museum, CUE Art Foundation

Group exhibitions include:

Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool; Lambiek Gallery, Amsterdam; University of Massachusetts; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Phoenix Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery

Author, illustrator:

Jack Survives, The Complete Jack Survives

Publications include:

Seventeen, Esquire, Eros, GQ, Raw, Sports Illustrated, Denver Post, Picture Story, El Vibora, The New Yorker, Kramers Ergot, Comic Art, Art Review, ARTnews, The Believer. Children's books for Scholastic, Young Scott

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, Society of Illustrators

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Drawing New York City

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2184-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

Using various locations as our classroom, this course will focus on how to sketch different characters in their environments. The instructor will work with students on an individual basis, and you may choose to concentrate on a specific area of interest such as the figure, gesture, architecture or perspective. Students may work in any medium and instruction will be given for a variety of materials, including charcoal, pastel and pen-and-ink. Each session will end with an informal critique. In past semesters, locations have included Chinatown, South Street Seaport, night court and Grand Central Terminal.
NOTE: Please bring a white all-purpose drawing pad (18x24", 50 lbs.), graphite pencils (8B and 9B), and a kneaded eraser to the first session.

Instructor

John Ruggeri

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include:

School of Visual Arts

Group exhibitions include:

Fine Art Gallery Center for Music, Drama and Art, Lake Placid, NY

Publications include:

The New York Times Magazine, Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Self, Print, Rolling Stone, House & Garden

Award:

Distinguished Artist-Teacher Award, School of Visual Arts

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Crash Course for Artists, Illustrators and Cartoonists

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2448-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

The fundamentals of representational art will be the focus of this course. We will explore subjects that include: perspective and how to create believable form and space; the structure, proportion and anatomy of the human figure and head; drapery and the clothed figure; the principles of light and value; color theory and its practical application; abstract composition and narrative storytelling. Sessions will include lectures and in-class exercises, and there will be weekly home assignments. Resources for further study will be provided for each subject. Students from all levels are welcome.

Instructor

Tristan Elwell

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, with honors, School of Visual Arts

Book cover illustration clients include:

Penguin; Harcourt; Avon; Berkley Books; HarperCollins; Pocket Books; Henry Holt; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; St. Martin's Press; Random House; Tor Books; Scholastic. Other clients include: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Atlantic Monthly, American Kennel Club, Playboy, Upper Deck, Psychology Today, Boy Scouts of America, E.&J. Gallo Winery, Saatchi & Saatchi, Wizards of the Coast, Village Voice Media, Lifetime Networks

Exhibitions include:

Art Directors Club; Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica; Society of Illustrators; United Nations; Visual Arts Gallery

Awards include:

Society of Illustrators; Chesley Award, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists; Print; Spectrum; Communication Arts

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The Art of the Graphic Novel

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2473-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

Designed for students interested in the art of storytelling through graphic novels, the focus of this course will be for each student to create a mini-comic. Every phase of production will be explored extensively: composing a story, developing a pace through layout and composition, learning the fundamental tools of sequential illustration and then unifying the entire structure into a self-published piece. A historical perspective of the medium will be included. In addition, a group publication will be produced at the end of the course.

Instructor

Sungyoon Choi

Illustrator; comic book artist; production director, Rabid Rabbit

Education:

MFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

The New York Times, Art Asia Pacific, Playboy, Berlin Cameron United

Publications include:

American Widow, Rabid Rabbit Comic Anthology

Awards and honors include:

3x3, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration

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From Fantasy to Reality: Production/Concept Design

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2548-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

When one imagines a dramatic story in a remarkable setting, often the details are a bit fuzzy. This course will explore how to create concrete designs and plans of interior and exterior spaces that convey narrative content. After researching the design of different historical periods, basic drafting and perspective techniques will be covered, including multiple angles, elevations and prop details. Character and costume designs, as well as how to professionally present ideas and plans to prospective clients and collaborators will all be addressed. Each student will be assisted in choosing the best medium/applications (including Adobe Photoshop) to bring a project to completion. The techniques covered can be applied to areas of stage, screen, animation and gaming. Open to students at all levels.
NOTE: Please bring a vellum tracing pad (11x14" or larger), a sketchpad (11x14" or larger) and 2B pencils to the first session.

Instructor

Simona Migliotti Auerbach

Production/set designer

Education:

BA, Sapienza Universita Di Roma

Film projects include:

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, La Seconda Notte di Nozze, The Conquering Knights, Enchanted, Morning Glory

Television projects include:

Rome (HBO), Il Sicomoro, Strange Love, Tickling

Awards include:

Best Italian Production Design, Chioma di Berenice Award; Premio di Qualita Prize, Italian Ministry of Culture; Berlin Film Festival

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Graphic Novels for the Children's Market

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2562-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Graphic novels for children is a rapidly growing industry in the comics marketplace, and a new generation of kids is eager for the next Bone series or Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This course will explore new genres in comics for kids: memoirs, biographies and historical fiction. Students will develop a synopsis, a 10-page sample script, and five finished comic pages, which can be presented to publishers.

Instructor

Andres Vera Martinez

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Books include:

Babe Ruth: Before They Were Famous; Little White Duck: A Childhood in China; Breuckelen 1679

Awards include:

Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3x3

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Creating Children's Books

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2563-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Jun 24
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 145.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

Devoted to writing and illustrating picture books for young children, this is an introductory, refresher and advanced course all rolled into one. You will be immersed in developing your individual means of expression and style, as well as craftsmanship and practical bookmaking skills. Attention will be given to working on a personal book project and refining your portfolio. Discussions will include such subjects as materials and techniques, design considerations, publishing and the challenges of working in the field today. There will be guest speakers, in-class exercises and weekly home assignments. If you want inspiration and motivation, and enjoy lots of hard work, this course is for you.

Instructor

Monica Wellington

Illustrator, author

Education:

BFA, University of Michigan; School of Visual Arts

Author and illustrator:

More than 30 picture books, including Riki's Birdhouse, Zinnia's Flower Garden, All My Little Ducklings, Apple Farmer Annie, Night City, Squeaking of Art, Mr. Cookie Baker, Crêpes by Suzette, Pizza at Sally's, Truck Driver Tom

Clients include:

Penguin Group, Scholastic, Children's Television Workshop, Dover Publications

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Writing and Illustrating Children's Books

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2563-B
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Jul 23
  • Hours 06:30PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course is devoted to writing and illustrating children's books, and the understanding of how to succeed in the challenging children's book marketplace. Students will tailor their individual artistry into a book dummy, suitable for professional submission to an agency or editor. In-class sessions will focus on the essential components of story structure, illustration, design and creating age-appropriate, engaging characters to reach their target audience. Assignments will help develop a portfolio and book dummy for submission/presentation to an agent and/or editor. Guest lecturers will include authors, illustrators, editors and art directors. The history of children's books as well as the current children's book industry will be discussed.

Instructor

Katie Yamasaki

Illustrator, author

Education:

BA, Earlham College; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author, illustrator:

Fish for Jimmy

Illustrator:

Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs; Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars

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Fantasy, Animal and Creature Illustration

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2739-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 29
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

Want to use an animal or creature for your personal branding? Need to develop animals for a children's book? The depiction of animals and creatures is everywhere in today's media landscape. Whether in television advertising, animation, film, video games, children's books or other print media, animals are there to capture and captivate audiences. They have become permanent fixtures in our visual vocabulary. This course will give students the opportunity to explore a variety of styles in rendering animals and creatures. Everybody can be taught the skill to draw animals, whether in a cartooning style or a more realistic mode. Techniques, composition and subject matter will be discussed, and students will be given individual guidance.
NOTE: Please bring a vellum tracing pad (11x14" or larger) and a pad of two-ply bristol board (smooth or textured, at least 12x16") to the first session.

Instructor

Stanley Martucci

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

The Village Voice, Williams-Sonoma, Avon Books, Atlantic Monthly, Berkley-Penguin Publishing, Penthouse, HarperCollins, St. Martin's Press, Pocket Books, Condé Nast

Awards include:

Society of Illustrators, Graphis, AIGA, Spectrum, Society of Publication Designers

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Pop Surrealism

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2741-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Through studio exploration, guest lectures, screenings and discussion, this course will examine the historical context of the surrealist movement and Zeitgeist resurgence in the illustration and fine arts communities. Students will work on a serialized group of images. By experimenting with various methods, approaches and techniques, we will focus on redirecting, strengthening and uncovering new portals to discover each student's creative process. Dreams and the subconscious are wonderful sources from which to draw idiosyncratic, pictorial metaphors. Demonstrations and group critiques will be included.

Instructor

Joo Chung

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, Art Center College of Design

One-person exhibitions include:

University of California, Santa Cruz; Scope Gallery; Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Clients include:

Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Money, The New York Times, New York magazine, Adweek, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, RCA Records, Business Week, Elektra/Asylum Records, Doubleday, St. Martin's Press, Knopf, Scholastic Inc., Atlantic Monthly, Baltimore Opera, Paramount Pictures

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Anatomy of a Portrait: All About Faces

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2746-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

What makes a smile turn into a smirk? Understanding how the muscles of the corners of the mouth, the lids of the eyes, the nostrils of the nose move together to make facial expressions enables an artist not only to capture the subtleties of a likeness in a portrait but also to create images that express convincing emotions. Sessions will include drawing from the model, the study of human and animal skulls, working with personally derived photographic material and creating images from observation, information and imagination.
NOTE: Please bring drawing materials of your choice to the first session.

Instructor

Sherry Camhy

Illustrator, fine artist, author

Education:

BA, Adelphi University; MA, Columbia University; School of Visual Arts; New York University

One-person exhibitions include:

Pen and Brush Club, Pace University, National Arts Club

Group exhibitions include:

Arnot Museum of Fine Art; Hammond Museum; Salander-O'Reilly Gallery; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ridgefield, CT; Eleanor Etinger Gallery; Sherry French Gallery; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Evansville Museum of Art, IN

Collections include:

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art; Telfair Museum of Art; International Financial Group; New Orleans Museum of Fine Art; Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

Books include:

The Art of the Pencil

Publications include:

ARTnews; American Artist; Time Out New York; New York magazine; Penthouse; Fine Art Connoisseur; Linea: Journal of the Art Students League of New York. Contributor: The Nude in Contemporary Art, Classical Drawing

Awards include:

National Arts Club, Salmagundi Club, Hudson Valley Art Association, Audubon Artists, The Art Students League

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Illustration as Design as Illustration

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2756-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

It is very important for anyone in the field of Illustration or graphic design to be sensitive to the overall look and feel of a design, and the relationship between images, decorative elements and text. This course will explore many ways in which illustration can be incorporated into a design, allowing the artist to create the whole package. Working in a variety of styles inspired by artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, students will make food labels, maps, book covers and interiors, magazine illustrations, posters, shopping bags, and more. Work will be done using many different mediums including gouache (with a demonstration), colored pencil, pen-and-ink (another demo) and watercolor. Students are encouraged to work traditionally. Traditional methods and digital methods may be combined. Beginners to advanced students are welcome. Please visit my website to view a video of the course.
NOTE: Assignments vary each semester. Students are asked to bring samples of their work to the first class and some sketching materials.

Instructor

Melanie Marder Parks

Illustrator, calligrapher, designer

Education:

BFA, The Cooper Union; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Clients include:

Rodale; Martha Stewart Living; Time; Money; Random House; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Penguin USA; Hyperion (Disney); Travel + Leisure; Klutz; Vogue; The New York Times; Seventeen; St. Martin's Press; Rizzoli USA; Disney World

Publications include:

Watercolor, Print, American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3x3 Annual

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Collage Improv

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-3422-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Aug 07
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

The act of transmuting surplus and spent material into artistic expression not only has environmental impact, but is also an excellent exercise of one's creative abilities as well. This course will have two areas of focus: We will consider the potential of materials and their creative application, and we will explore working methods that emphasize improvisation. Students will create projects with a minimum of planning: no rough sketches or preliminary layouts. The development of spontaneity, problem solving and resourcefulness is the goal. Projects will be executed and completed in class-one assignment per session with a final artwork that will extend over three weeks. Typical assignments include: working from the live model, a portrait of oneself as an opposite, employing a few random phrases that will serve as the basis for an illustration, working from a grab bag of supplied materials. A wide range of techniques will be explored, using materials that include (but are not limited to) all kinds of paper, 3D objects, matte medium, an assortment of glues, drawings, photographs, and other things that occur to us along the way.

Instructor

Stephen Byram

Art director, graphic designer, illustrator

Clients include:

Sony Music, Time Warner, MTV, Blue Note Records, EMI Music, Universal Music, MTA, Rolling Stone, Winter & Winter

Publications include:

Eye; 100 Best Album Covers; Cover Art By: New Music Graphics

Awards include:

Silver Award, Broadcast Design Association; Silver Award, Art Directors Club; AIGA; Society of Illustrators

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Exploring Career Opportunities for Illustrators: A Drawing Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-3596-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 13 - Aug 08
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 2.50
  • Cost 335.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

This course is for students who would like to explore drawing through a variety of forms, including editorial illustration, storyboarding (film/music video/advertising), cartooning and comics (narrative art), drawing from life and from your head, and portraiture. In-class exercises, lectures and replicated job assignments will broaden your sense of what is possible through drawing. Graphite, ink (pen and brush) and gouache will be the primary mediums. With individual guidance and personalized projects, students can concentrate on specific drawing techniques and styles. How to find clients and present your work will be discussed.

Instructor

Grant Shaffer

Illustrator, storyboard artist, cartoonist, fine artist

Represented by:

Warshaw Blumenthal Inc., Storyboards Inc., La MaMa Gallery

Professional experience includes:

Storyboard artist, Ogilvy and Mather; storyboard artist, Young & Rubicam; resident portrait artist, The Lure

Clients include:

Editorial, The New Yorker, Variety, The New York Times, Interview, Out, Bust; advertising, Hershey’s, Calvin Klein, FedEx, Poland Springs, Motorola, Pfizer, Visa, Walt Disney Co.

One-person exhibitions include:

Half Gallery, La MaMa Gallery, The Future Perfect, Gallery 220

Group exhibitions include:

NurtureArt Gallery; Tokyo Photo Art Fair, Japan; Milk Gallery; New York Bienniale Art

Comic strips:

N.Y. See, The Pier, Castillo Del Lago, Bazooka Joe, 30 Kinds of Passion

Film credits include:

Angels in America, Zoolander, Closer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Meet The Parents, Wall Street 2, Charlie Wilson’s War, Little Children, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Music videos include:

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé

Honor:

The Best American Comics 2008

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Advanced Narrative Painting Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-3698-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates May 28 - Jul 30
  • Hours 12:00PM - 05:50PM
  • Ceus 4.50
  • Cost 535.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

This course is an excellent opportunity for painters to hone their figurative technique and narrative pictorial skills while elevating the conceptual level of their imagery. Taught by five prominent innovators in the areas of fantasy and fine art, sessions will be conducted through open assignments, intensive critiques and handson demonstrations to help each student develop a cohesive and personal body of work; and be that much closer to preparation for professional gallery walls. Note: A portfolio review is required for acceptance to this program. Participants will have access to a semi-private studio space for the duration of the program. This course may be taken for undergraduate credit. Please refer to ILD-3698-A in the credit courses section of the website for details.

Instructors

Stephen Ellis

Painter, illustrator

Education:

BFA, with honors, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

Harvard Art Appreciation Group, David LaChappelle, Elton John, Ray Dowd, Soho House, Valentine Group, Miramax, V2 London, Workman Publishing, John Charles Publishing, Van Wyke Events, Jet Set, Zoo York, Plus et Plus, Segan Animation, Paul's Motors, Viacom, Warner Brothers, Fisher Price, Duggal

exhibitions include:

Basement A.I.R.E.; The Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, FL; Clampart; CBGB's Gallery; Brooklyn Front; American Fine Arts; Fuse Gallery; Gallery Nine5

Publications include:

St. Petersburg Times, Flaunt, HOW

Awards include:

Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement, School of Visual Arts; Kitchinn Artist Award

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Donato Giancola

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, summa cum laude, Syracuse University

Clients include:

National Geographic; Milton Bradley; Microsoft; DC Comics; Penguin; Random House; Hasbro; Sci Fi Channel; Scholastic; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; The Village Voice; Tor Books; CNN; United Nations; U.S. Postal Service

Exhibitions include:

New York Hall of Science; Society of Illustrators; International Comic-Con, San Diego; Andrea Rosen Gallery; New York Academy of Sciences

Awards include:

Gold and silver medals, Spectrum; Chairman’s Choice Award, Art Renewal Center; Chesley Award, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists; Society of Illustrators; Readers’ Award, Asimov’s Science Fiction; Hugo Award, World Science Fiction Convention; Hamilton King Award, Society of Illustrators

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Illustration and Cartooning for the Hispanic Artist in the U.S.

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-3954-S
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

In this course, students will learn about opportunities available in the national, Hispanic and bilingual markets in the United States and how to break into them. A variety of accomplished Hispanic artists and illustrators will be studied to understand the roles they have played in their creative fields. We will talk about current opportunities-from children's books to printed media and animation- and about how to make effective use of humor and your cultural heritage as elements to enrich your work. We will explore strategies to present and market your artwork, including online promotion, preparing your images and portfolio, resume, copyright, pricing and the "dos" and "don'ts" of the business. We will complete several pieces for portfolio inclusion.
NOTE: This is a bilingual course and requires fluency in the Spanish language. Please refer to the ¿Hablas Diseño? courses that begin on page 24 of this bulletin for a complete listing of course offerings conducted in Spanish.

Instructor

Felipe Galindo

Cartoonist, illustrator, animator, painter

Education:

BFA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Clients include:

The New Yorker, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Narrative, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, MAD, The Spectator, Newsday, Barron's, Nickelodeon

books include:

No Man is a Desert Island, Manhatitlan, Cats Will Be Cats

books illustrated include:

The Big Book of How, My Teacher Can Teach Anything

Animated projects include:

The Manhatitlan Chronicles, Feggorama, Manhatitlan Codex

Awards include:

Puffin Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts; US/Mexico Fund for Culture, Rockefeller Foundation; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; National Association of Latino Arts and Culture; Porto Cartoon Festival, Portugal; United Nationas Correspondents Association; Greek Ministry of Culture; San Antonio Cine Festival

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Illustration Portfolio

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-4011-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

Brush up or start your portfolio. Stretch out and try something new or work on that children's book you've been dreaming of. Discover your personal style, and work on concepts and execution. Centered on the individual student and his or her unique talent, this course is designed to develop and solidify personal style, strong concepts and clear execution of ideas. How to approach an illustration job with an understanding of the type of work you want to create will be explored, as well as business aspects such as finding illustration markets, contracts, negotiations, subsidiary rights and reps, copyrights, promotion and self-marketing. Assignments will touch on various sectors of the illustration market, including publishing, editorial, licensing and corporate. Students will be encouraged to broadly interpret the assignments: an assignment about time can become a science-fiction piece, a conceptual illustration, or a wonderful children's book. Color, value, concept, execution and medium will be covered. Assignments vary each semester.
NOTE: Please bring samples of your work and sketching materials to the first session.

Instructor

Elizabeth Sayles

Illustrator

Education:

University of the Arts, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

Henry Holt; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Clarion Books; Pleasant Company; Random House; Delta Airlines; National Geographic; T. Rowe Price; Lands' End

Children's books illustrated include:

Moon Child; In the Night Garden; The Goldfish Yawned; Five Little Kittens; Not in the House, Newton!; The Little Black Truck; I Already Know I Love You; The Very Little Princess

Group exhibitions include:

Society of Illustrators; Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA; Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

Awards include:

New York Public Library 100 Best Books; American Booksellers; Best Seller, Picture Book, The New York Times; Best Children’s Book, Bank Street College; Best Children's Book, Junior Library Guild Selection

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