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- Watch Video Lessons at Your Own Pace
- Assignments Included
- One-Time Purchase
- Unlimited Course Access for Life
- Peer Feedback
- Access to Schoolism Webinar Archives
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- Watch Video Lessons with a Planned Curriculum
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- Personalized Paint-Overs and Real-Time Feedback From The Instructors
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- Ability to Contact Instructor with Questions
- Digital Certificate of Completion
- Weekly Class Meetings LIVE on Zoom
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Course Description
Being an artist is not just a career-it's a way of life. Legendary artist and visual storyteller Iain McCaig demonstrates some of the artistic workouts he uses to sharpen his skills and imagination, as well as how to stay inspired and fearless in a face-off with the empty page.
Exercises include:
- warm-up games
- designing icons
- capturing emotions
- creating archetypes, old and new
- leading the eye
- ways to sharpen and stock your visual memory
McCaig's artistic life-skills can be practiced alone or with others, quarantined in your studio or talking on the phone. For anyone who can hold a pencil or a stylus, on paper or a screen!
- Adobe Photoshop
Lesson Plan
LESSON 1Fill the Page
LESSON 2Grow A Tree
LESSON 3Rethinking Icons
LESSON 4Using Watercolor
LESSON 5Prophet Faces
LESSON 6Drawn from Nature
LESSON 7Leading The Eye
LESSON 8Revealing the Image
LESSON 9Pass the Pencil
LESSON 10Draw from Memory
LESSON 11Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle
LESSON 12Raven
LESSON 13Fruit Bat
LESSON 14Drawing Charades
LESSON 15The Beast
LESSON 16Cafe Drawing
LESSON 17Bodies In Motion
LESSON 18Draw in the Dark, Learn from Life
LESSON 19Transforming Ideas
LESSON 20BONUS! - Turning Into Frankenstein
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Iain McCaig
Iain McCaig divides his energies between a lifelong love of storytelling, and a passionate belief that everyone in the world can learn to draw. McCaig is best known for his cover art for Jethro Tull's 'Broadsword and the Beast' and for his Star Wars designs for Queen Amidala and Darth Maul. His film work includes 'Interview With the Vampire', 'Dracula', 'Terminator 2', 'Hook', 'Peter Pan', 'Charlotte's Web', 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'The Avengers', 'Guardians of the Galaxy', and 'Star Wars Episode VII'. He is also a Chesley nominated illustrator, having illustrated books ranging from 'Fighting Fantasy' to J.R.R.Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'.
In October 2008, Palace Press International published 'Shadowline - the Art of Iain McCaig', a 28 year retrospective of his film and publishing work. In May 2014, Spectrum Fantastic Art honored him with their lifetime achievement 'Grand Master' Award.