Off-perspective drawing

In this seminar, I talk about landscape drawing and painting from an unusual perspective.

SUCCESS, WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED MORE TIME!!!!

Well well well, just when I thought the axe was gonna fall... the Livestream staff came along and SAAAAVED the day! Earlier, my account was in jeopardy because I'd had so much video-on-demand content bandwidth usage of both storage and viewing had pushed me way over the limit of a free account.

But in an ironic twist, that same crazy overuse of bandwidth was probably what drew attention from Livestream staff, and they felt the channel was popular enough to offer a partnership account! No small amount of credit for this serendipitous happening goes to YOU, my viewers!

TL;DR what does this mean?

oh god I am so hungry I will finish this post after a snack
Until then, stay tuned for a more official press release.

Livestream videos going down on Sept. 1st

Livestream will be enforcing their 10GB limit for free users on Sept. 1st. I'm over that limit by 65.24 GB.

So I'm gonna have to delete a big chunk of those videos by Sept. 1st.

There's way too much footage for me to bother dealing with moving it over to Youtube, so you might as well watch what you can before I take it down.

- Mark

Tinychat

Livestream's turned out to be only good if I'm doing focused lectures where I'm the only guy working, but it's not so good for critiques and collaborations. And besides that, I've finally got enough of my story worked out that I can actually start working on some designs for story elements.

TL;DR: I'm gonna be broadcasting from early in the morning around 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM at night, Except for Tuesdays when I go out for life drawing.

http://tinychat.com/moatdd

I might do livestream sessions if I have a particular lecture or subject to cover

livestream

Getting kind of tired of posting Youtube videos since each time I record a video, it eats up a few gigs of hard drive space, takes a while to convert, a while to post, etc. etc. etc...

So now I'm using livestream and teaching people interactively, etc.

I hold broadcasts at random times of the day and don't stick to any particular schedule.

You can view everything RIGHT HERE by hitting the "On-Demand" button on the player below to see past recordings. This is also where you can chat with me or others during live broadcasts (or while others are viewing the prerecorded On-Demand stuff) When I'm on, I'll show up in the chat as "moatdd".

DISCLAIMER: these are totally unscripted chats, and some content/language will offend the easily offended. There's drawn nudity, some sexual themes and stuff I'd consider only suitable for 18+ audiences.

Next Live Session April 11th, 2009 at 20:00 EDT

The next LIVE TUTORIAL will occur next Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 20:00 EDT(Eastern Daylight Savings Time)

Find out when that is in your time zone HERE!


Based on the current poll, the lecture topic will be: "Animation and making stuff move!"

If it doesn't change by show-time, that's what we'll go with. If you'd like something different, then VOTE!


All you need is a Flash browser plugin to join in. You don't even need to sign up for an account on ustream.tv (unless you want a custom username to show up).

Thanks to everyone who showed up! If you missed out, don't sweat it, the recorded sessions are posted on this blog.

Live session: Expression, action, acting, animation & physics

Live video by Ustream

Next Live Session April 4th, 2009 at 20:00 EDT

The next LIVE TUTORIAL will occur next Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 20:00 EDT(Eastern Daylight Savings Time)

Find out when that is in your time zone HERE!


Based on the current poll, the lecture topic will be: "Expression, Action, Acting, Animation & Physics"

If it doesn't change by show-time, that's what we'll go with. If you'd like something different, then VOTE!


All you need is a Flash browser plugin to join in. You don't even need to sign up for an account on ustream.tv (unless you want a custom username to show up).

Thanks to everyone who showed up on April 1st! If you missed out, don't sweat it.

Here's the recorded session

Art Rage Live Session

Thanks to everyone who attended the April 1st Art Rage live session!

In case you missed it, don't worry, I recorded it.

Video streaming by Ustream

Live tutorials on UStream.tv

The next LIVE TUTORIAL will occur Wednesday, APRIL 1st 20:00EST

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/moatddtutorials

And that's no April Fools' joke!

I'll be going over some of my ArtRage techniques (for working from photo ref), and anything else by popular demand.

All you need is a Flash browser plugin to join in. You don't even need to sign up for an account on ustream.tv (unless you want a custom username to show up).

I finally found an actual use for Twitter that isn't along the lines of telling you when I manage to pop a zit on my butt, and that's to tell you all when live tutorial sessions will start.

I also have occasional impromptu sessions, and I'll post those on Twitter as well, in case you happen to be around to catch one. (like that first ever session)

http://twitter.com/le_mec

Cloth and Fabric

Introduction to Landscapes

The Basics: what they mean

Instrument Handling & Coilframe Diagram

Firearm Concept Art

Modern Art Vs. Production Art...

Behind The Scenes

Seven Common Beliefs about Drawing and Painting

"Anatomy of a Story" and "Applied Exercises"

How to write Stories