Date: Fri - Sun September 23, 24, & 25, 2022
Times: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
All Levels
Cost: $500
Workshop description
This workshop will help students to make competent portrait drawings, step by step demonstrations will help students to understand the structure of the face in terms of shapes, planes change, anatomy and value by using lines and value rendering. Students will learn the techniques of mastering expressive portraiture drawings with vine charcoal, charcoal pencils on drawing papers, and tonal papers. All levels are welcome.
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Supply list is provided upon sign up.
About the Instructor
I am an alumnus from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. Right after I graduated in 1996, I started my art career as a computer game concept artist at LucasArts. From 2001 until now, I have returned to my own school to be an art professor for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation. I have been so drawn to art even as a little boy, I once recalled that I have started drawing at the age of 3. Somehow, portraiture just seems to be my favorite form of expression which I constantly practice, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well. Since 2011, I have been lucky enough to come across a few distinguished contemporary artists as my mentors, ZhaoMing Wu, Henry Yan, and Chung-Wei Chien. Their tireless guidance has urged me to put greater efforts in capturing fleeting human expressions and paying more attention to precise composition in figurative portraits. Oliver’s first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is published by Rockport publisher in August 2019 and the Spanish version of this book was just released in June 2021. The vine charcoal portrait of his dad (image labeled as sin-o-A.jpeg) has won first place in the drawing award of the International Portrait Society's portrait competition out of 3000 international entries with the Portrait Society of America in April 2021. The vine charcoal portrait of Bob (image labeled as PSA2019.jpeg) has won second place in the drawing award of the International Portrait Society's portrait competition out of 4500 international entries with the Portrait Society of America in 2019. Two of his portrait drawings of Virginia Woolf and Emmy Noether were commissioned by Time Magazine for their “100 Women of the Year” project and they were published in the March 15, 2020 issue.