Big day: today begins the super “composition” class with Glenn Vilppu at vilppuacademy.com

Glenn Vilppu is not just any instructor: he has 50 years of experience under his belt, in painting, drawing, teaching, animation, comicbooks, storyboards, layouts and more.
He is the world most sought after teacher for drawing and regularly teaches at Disney, Pixar, Ghibli, Calart, UCLA, and any art school worth its salt has him come regularly to teach either the students… or the teachers!
No one can surpass him in experience, quality of his own work and most of all his teaching – the best artists go to him regularly for a “check up” or to study something they feel weak at.
Just don’t take my word for it, google him!

Here is is:

I was desperately trying (in vain) to improve my drawing a year ago (re: the banner of antonvon.com on the left side – that’s my best mars13, almost a years later (9 months) I drew the right side of the banner.
I has now been over a year that I’ve been studying at vilppuacademy.com, I’ve followed the basis class, head class, figure 1 and figure 2, and I’ve just redone figure 1 and head just because I have more to learn!
At first I was a bit sceptical about an online school: would it be the same as a real school? Answer: frankly it’s better! We can watch the lecture several time (impossible in the real world) we can ask our questions not only via email but also during the weekly video chat during which Glenn can draw for us either on the computer or now with his hand (google glass be thanked!!). He’s very very generous with his time for questions and demos.
But as I’ve said before the big game changer is the critics: we send Glenn our assignment each week and he comments it, overdraws on it – and that changes everything, he has such experience that he sees at once what you did wrong or rather what you “thought” wrong and tell you how to correct it. Work hard and the next week that problem is gone!
If you find the right side of my banner better than the left side, wait till you see what I do now.
The great thing about Glenn is also he doesn’t teach you a style, but lets you evolve and become yourself. The more time pass, the less my drawing looks like his! If he draws let’s say like a great master, then I am more and more drawing like a comic book artist – we’ll see where I’m going, I know he’ll help me find my own voice.

So the new class: composition class starts today!
It’s a brand new class, I’m in it because Glenn thought I was at the level for it (still recovering from that!).
It’s a class that’s never been done before: each week he will give us a “brief” like a normal client would (with only the difference that we choose if we do the brief for a comic book, illustration painting etc, that is our choice) week one we do the thumbnails and propose some ruffs (rough for those not linked to animation), second week we do a comp,third week we do a final at 50% bigger scale, like in the real world (same for digital if you choose digital as your media).
These assignments add up: week one: ruffs1, week2: ruffs2 plus comp1, week3: final1, comp2 and ruffs3!
It all last 10 weeks.
Shall I survive? shall I improve? I intend on sharing my experience here (central point being antonvon.com). so follow me if you want to see what happens (or what that vilppuacademy is all about).
Let the class begin!

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