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Master Drawing Japan Presents 'WUSHU: The Martial Way,’ A Figure Drawing Experience   Join us virtually from anywhere! Open to Teens, College Students, Recent Grads, and Professionals 世界中どこからでも参加できます！ 学生でも専門家の方でもどなたでも参加できます！   Master Drawing Japan Presents マスタードローイングジャパン提供 'WUSHU: The Martial Way,’ A Figure Drawing Experience A Figure Drawing Experience With Ki Creative Studio Kiクリエイティブスタジオと「モーションストーリー（つながりのある動き）」の人物ドローイングを体験しましょう Link: https://eventregistration.ctnadmin.com/event_details.php?id=418     TIMEZONES: Friday, January 21, 2022, 6 pm - 8 pm, LOS ANGELES Friday, January 21, 2022, 9 pm - 11 pm, NEW YORK  Saturday, January 22, 2022, 11 am - 1 pm, JAPAN Saturday, January 22, 2022, 7:30 am - 9:30 am, INDIA Saturday, January 22, 2022, 10 am - 12 pm, CHINA (Subject to Change) As we launch into a new era of global creativity, collaboration and support for artists,  CTN  brings creative communities together from around the world to join hands to...

KI CREATIVE STUDIO will hold a special drawing class January 29th at Sokei Academy of Art and Design! ​ Very special posing guest will be amazing art model  CHICA   !   https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawing KI CREATIVE STUDIOは1 月29日（土）に創形美術学院と共同でドローイングクラスを開 講します！ 😍 人物クロッキー会のご案内 (Figure Drawing information) ＊すでに予約済みの方は内容が重複しますがご了承ください。 1月29 日（土）13:00-16:00　開催決定！ Next class will be the 29th of January(Sat) 13:00-16:00 クイックポーズを多めにダイナミックな動きのあるポーズを描きます。 3分、5分、10分のポーズを予定 We will draw many Dynamic gesture poses. 13:00-13:30  講師KI によるドローイング ・レクチャー お時間がある方はぜひ13:00までにお越しください。 Mr. Ki Innis will give us a drawing lecture at 13:00. 13:30-16:00 モデルさんのポーズ Model posing will start at 13:30. 定員がありますので、ご予約がまだの方はお早めにお願いします。 A capacity is limited, please make a booking as soon as possible. https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawingbooking  

  ​Master Drawing Japan Presents 'Pose and Performance’  Figure Drawing Experience ポーズ・アンド・パフォーマンス   Join us virtually from anywhere! Open to Teens, College Students, Recent Grads, and Professionals 世界中どこからでも参加できます！ 学生でも専門家の方でもどなたでも参加できます！   Master Drawing Japan Presents マスタードローイングジャパン提供 'Pose and Performance’  Figure Drawing Experience  With Ki Creative Studio Kiクリエイティブスタジオと「モーションストーリー（つながりのある動き）」の人物ドローイングを体験しましょう Friday, July 16, 　7 pm - 9 pm, LOS ANGELES time Saturday, July 17, 　11 am - 1 pm, JAPAN time   ADDITIONAL TIMEZONES: Friday, July 16, 10 pm - midnight, NEW YORK time  Saturday, July 17, 4:30 am - 6:30 am, INDIA time Saturday, July 17, 6 am - 8 am, CHINA time (Subject to Change)   As we launch into a new era of global creativity, collaboration and support for artists, CTN brings creative communities together from around the world to join hands to better help enrich artists in our combined communities.    MASTER DRAWING JAP...

"The animator must be a keen observer of action and must understand and remember it, for he never knows when we will find in it the inspiration for the entertainment he puts on screen."  - Eric Larson "The first and most important things for an animator to know is how to draw."  -Walt Disney This June, Disney veteran animator  Ron Husband , (otherwise known as "Huz" to those close to him) will be coming to Tokyo,  touring and giving a series of seminars on quick sketching, and traditional hand drawn animation.   Ron Husband was part of the first generation of animation artists to be passed down the torch of animation by Disney's greatest animation directors, sometimes known as  Disney's Nine Old Men.   Ron learned from some of Disney's best, such as Eric Larson and assisted legendary animator, Frank Thomas.    Ron started with Disney in its training program in 1975 as many of the artists who established modern American animation as we know it...

"A figure is not done well unless action appears it in it that expresses a state of mind."   -   Leonardo DiVinci  "If you don't have the gesture and the action, you literally don't have anything."   - Glenn Vilppu World renown Disney, Dreamworks and UCLA drawing instructor  Glenn Vilppu   is returning to Tokyo again for his second drawing masterclass with Master Drawing Japan.   It will be a four day drawing seminar on November 7th, 8th and 14th and 15th. One of the most coveted drawing instructors in the animation and production art industry, Vilppu has taught the art of figure drawing for over 40 years in workshops around the world teaching principles and techniques professionals in the animation industry such as Disney, Dreamworks and Warner Bros.    Vilppu will help participants master techniques of drawing the human figure in the first session and teach a special class on the human head in the second session..     He...

It was really an honor organize our first masterclass with Greg Broadmore from Weta Workshop yesterday at Akiba Hall.  180 artists, students and professional came in attendance.   Greg for four hours discussed about his work journey in concept art which led him to Weta Workshop, the amazing projects he has worked on - some of which has never been seen by the public before----- and what he has planned for the future with Magic Leap.  An additional bonus, Greg  created an on-the-spot digital painting of an outer world monster for the audience.  Japan is on the cusp of changing it's approach towards concept art.  Due to the changing landscapes of our world culture, Japan is moving towards a more "western" approach towards art education for production art and animation. Big changes are coming. It was an amazing and informative show and most of all it was fun. Big thanks Greg!

How do these movie titles make you feel?  King Kong (2005), Godzilla (2014), The Chronicles of Narnia, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Adventures of Tintin and the Academy Award nominated for Best Picture film, District 9.   If you are at all familiar with the outstanding visual effects of these films, you might know that they were all designed under Peter Jackson's award winning special effects company:   Weta Workshop .   You should also know that all these films were all designed in part or directly under the creative direction of  Greg Broadmore .   Sunday, October 17th, 2015, for ONE (1) day only next month, Greg Broadmore will be coming to Tokyo, Japan to conduct a concept design masterclass at Akiba Hall.  At the event Greg Broadmore will discuss working as a concept designer on major blockbuster films,  his experience with Weta Workshop and do a live demonstration of for all the attendees.  The event is being produced by Japan's  Born Di...

First the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and now THIS!  What news to wake up to!!   It's official, the Snoopy Museum Tokyo will open in Tokyo's Roppongi district in March of 2016! More details to come!  https://schulzmuseum.org/explore/exhibits/upcoming-exhibitions/snoopy-museum-tokyo/

"No rules just tools."  - Glenn Vilppu Internationally renown Disney, Dreamworks and UCLA drawing instructor Glenn Vilppu will be giving a two day drawing seminar in Tokyo on August 16 th and 17 th .     As a premier drawing instructor to the studios in Hollywood, Vilppu has taught the art of figure drawing for over 40 years and has done workshops around the world teaching principles and techniques of drawing to professionals in the animation industry such as Disney, Dreamworks and Warner Bros.   In each 6-hour seminar, Vilppu will teach participants the master techniques of drawing the human figure as well as anatomy.    It will be an opportunity to receive instruction and feedback from a drawing master whose instruction has been coveted globally by artists and illustrators for generations. Vilppu does not teach a style but teaches the tools to master drawing so that the artist to use them in any direction he or she wishes.   The event w...

These are the paraphrased words of Antoni Gaudi that will greet you entering the Mori Art Exhibition:: Takehiko Inoue Interprets Gaudi's Universe.   It would be plain to say the works of both Gaudi and Takahiro Inoue's were impressive and compelling. The greater thing to come away with from exhibition is the consideration of  artistic creation and expression come from.   We are moved and compelled by what we observe. Nature served a great part in influencing Gaudi's hand.  As for Inoue-san it seems that Gaudi, the man himself has compelled his hand rather than his expressive voice.  Indeed he has interpreted Gaudi in his own way -- interpreting his work with Gaudi's voice would be of course, just copying. "The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create, he discovers.  Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.  Copiers do not collaborate.  Because of ...

Another inspiring exhibition is about to hit Tokyo.   Takahiko Inoue ( 井上雄彦)   artist of the hugely popular Japanese manga titles "Slam Dunk" and "Vagabond" apparently has has been admirer of modernist architect Antoni Gaudi for some time.  So much so that it inspired him to tour Spain and record his travel memoirs, in his art book, "Pepita:  Inoue Meets Gaudi" . This tribute to  Gaudi, Spain and its people resulted in Inoue being awarded the honor of becoming Spain's goodwill ambassador.   All this is culminating in a final celebration of the 400th Anniversary of diplomacy between Japan and Spain. (400?!)   An exhibition at the Mori Arts Center in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills:  Takehiko Inoue Interprets Gaudi's Universe   will start July 12.   100 art pieces and works comprising of rough sketches, models and architectural designs related to Gaudi will be brought from Spain to Japan, along with 40 original illustrations by Inoue himself....

A recent graphic design assignment has availed me to discover and rediscover some great artists in graphic design.  Shigeo Fukuda being one of them.  Victory 1945 is perhaps one of his best known works.  Awesome, simple and effective commentary. Fukuda has a very stark and compelling sense of design that could make someone say, "a Japanese Saul Bass"  but Fukuda takes it one step further. Using planes that are clearly flat and 2D with subjects which had undeniable weight and volume make them greatly appealing. Some his work compels the eye to travel so well the images border on being animated. Fukuda was quoted, " I believe that in design, 30% dignity, 20% beauty, and 50% absurdity are necessary.  Rather than catering to the design sensitivity of the general public, there is advancement in design if people are left to feel satisfied with their own superiority, by entrapping them with an optical illusion." 

Just a local Japanese female I enjoyed drawing the other day.

By my estimates there are two generations in the USA that have no idea what it's like to get a movie program at a theater. It's simple, give your audience something extra and they can take home and they will appreciate you for it.  In this age of virtual media, the value of tangible mementos is increasing as they become more and more scarce everyday. Going to the movies at one time was on par with going to a theatrical stage performance.  It was an experience.   It was a company presentation , complete with ushers standing in aisles (not just the ticket door), theater programs and even in some cases, intermissions.  Anyone remember those? Now that films are accessible on demand, literally in your pocket, downloadable to watch anywhere, there can be no argument its magical aspect has been lost.  Movies are cheap in terms of long term emotional value. The paper industry in Japan still has a considerable amount of power and leverage.  (Which is why Kindles and...

Japanese Wildlife:  OL: (Pinkimus Collarius)  Otherwise known as the shokuba no hana ( 職場 の花)  or 'Office Flower'.   The Japanese term for a female office worker is "OL" or 'office lady'.  Life Expectancy:  4 - 6 years....or marriage.

A quick doodle of what I saw on the street by Takashimaya  yesterday.  Priceless. 

Was the father of graffiti Japanese?   Arguable, but it's pretty much accepted that modern urban graffiti art started with the graffiti artist Taki 183.  Despite a Japanese sounding name, Taki was in fact a Greek-American youth in the late 1960's who tagged his name all over the NYC landscape, setting in motion the underground culture which has snowballed to a global level.   Near my Japan residence, the Tamagawa Bridge has it's fair share of graffiti art.  It's doubtful my neighbors have the same fascination as I do since I can remember graffiti in it's early days in 1970's New York.   Graffiti in Japan is just as expressive, urban, rebellious and rhythmic as anything on the NYC subway trains before technology destroyed subway art culture literally overnight by the late 1980's.  Despite that, graffiti art has survived and grown exponentially since then. There are tag names, graffiti characters to be sure, but the use of Japanese kanji, katakana or hiragana...