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🏫 Classroom Feedback, Comments and Bugs (Master Thread)
** (Dec 11) I'm going through the entire classroom now ** Please post any and all comments related to the classroom and courses here. Include: 1. general comments and questions about videos 2. bugs, missing videos, etc 3. feedback, video requests etc.
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🎥 How to See/Make Beauty in Masses (Raw video)
A quick lesson on beauty and how to make your masses more beautiful. I've been really inspired since meeting @Takeshi Takama . I want to do more about beauty and aesthetics since it's not really talked about and I care about it so much! I hope you guys don't mind :) We will still talk about drawing and painting craft too, don't worry ✍️. I truly believe my life mission is restoring beauty in this ugly world. That will be as an artist and speaker/trainer. You guys are a big part of that obviously.
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Some tips about lay-ins
I made a short, quick, and dirty explanation about how I approach lay-ins for a different forum. I'll post it here in case someone here will find it useful (or will be able to point to problems with this approach). Here are the pointers: - Use light, thin lines - A good lay-in already has the sense of 3d without any tone - Avoid continuous contours, always look for overlaps - Draw through the form - Think in 3d (study the skull, the Loomis method, whatever else helps) - Make sure the outline has the same feeling as the original (I failed at this step here) - Center lines are your friends - Always check and re-check alignments and basic proportions
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Daily Work, Dec 2025, Week 4
(Dec 20) Plein-air yesterday in Bangkok. I can see the Nathan Fowkes' abstraction influence coming through! This experience makes me want to use a huge flat brush next time. The story. I had in mind was "Receiving the light of God". The bowl in full light under a canopy of trees was a perfect metaphor I think. I'm not sure if my intention comes through in the final painting. But it's close. And having a story in mind, definitely gave me a lot of guidance in simplifying all those little details :) Check out the photo of the scene. How would you design/simplify this scene? The painting on the easel is what I did on site, about 2 hours. I finished at home. The tonal comp sketch I also did when I got home because I knew the composition was not quite right and I needed to think through how to best design the picture to get the story and read I wanted.
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Crit, Sergey, 12-18-25
@Sergey B. Very nice figures, I would focus on relationships more and trying to connect all forms. Think of the human body as one unit
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