This ComicCon Panel, with Bob Kato, Karl Gnass, Mark McDonnell and Dan Cooper, continues the discussion from WonderCon on the values of drawing skills in the animation industry today. This talk should be important for anyone entering professional animation today. The panel’s moderator is Susan Karlin. The footage is provided by Gnass Studios and Ron Velasco.

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An informal talk and demonstration on drawing procedures that work. The lecture takes place at Karl Gnass’ book signing, hosted by Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA. The new book is: Spirit and Force in Figure Drawing, and it is now available for purchase.

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This WonderCon Panel, a panel of 4, Bob Kato, Karl Gnass, Mark McDonnell and Dan Cooper, discusses the values of drawing skills in the animation industry today. This talk should be important for anyone entering professional animation today. The panel’s moderator is Susan Karlin. The footage is provided by Gnass Studios with special thanks to Mouseinfo.com for the alternate view inserts.

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Continuing with the lesson (How to Draw Form with Line and Tone), we will take two major drawing concepts of light and tone to describe the three dimensional surfaces of form. We will cover how they are used in Classical Figure Drawing and Painting.

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(Part 3) To continue with the last lesson (How to Draw with a Pencil), we will take this drawing lesson into descriptions of form using line and tone to deal with fundamental questions that arise in the figure drawing process.

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(Part 2) Now that the artist is pencil ready to cover some drawing techniques—we will develop a drawing from a figure gesture using soft lines, hard lines, and some subtle descriptions of form.

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You may not believe this, but how you sharpen your pencil could mean the difference between a good drawing and a great drawing. This pencil sharpening lesson (Part 1) prepares the student or artist for various challenges that arise in the figure drawing process. The student will be pencil ready to cover a range of techniques—from drawing soft lines to hard lines, from drawing subtle descriptions of form to drawing more graphic and dramatic forms.

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Lecture on weight, density and buoyancy in drawing figures with authentic animation and movement. Attention to the internal skeletal structure when drawing figures with mass. The differences between multi-tasking and doing different things that have a common single goal.

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Karl Gnass does a 4 minute quick sketch life drawing from an art model starting with a figure gesture then designing with anatomy, tone and rhythm.

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Car talk is a spontaneous preparation for a lecture at CTN animation eXpo 2012 discussing the issues between personal creativity and art versus creativity in the professional environment and marketplace.

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