Workshop Schedule

DAY 1

PAINTING PORTRAITS

May 21st, 10:00 -18:00

Known of his realistic and expressive portraits, Jason's work had been featured on numerous cover magazines, won prestigious awards and publications as People Magazine, The Rolling Stones, Adobe, Disney, Blizzard, and many more. and it's all down to mastery of the art.

In this workshop Jason will teach you his personal philosophy and techniques for painting portraits, the work process with various publishing comapnies and clients and how to create amazing portraits quickly and efficiently.

This workshop will include:

An artist's personal journey
Shapes, Negative spaces and the relationships that make up a face
Choosing the right color palette
The effects of brushwork
Features in the faces
How to convey a personand their personality
Establishing your own aesthetics style and mesage

DAY 2

May 22nd, 09:00-17:00

Creating a unique and accurate caricature one of the hardest things to draw effectively: We want to preserve the person we are drawing but to also add our own humor, ideas and messages in it. For this, we need to understand, know and employ the most powerful tool possible – The Truth.

In this workshop you will learn how to push forward the truth to capture the essence of a person,

how to play and think creatively with features and exaggeration, and to deliver a strong image with the most powerful message possible.

This Workshop will include:

The role of caricature in media and society
The importance of caricature in your art and design process
The essence of a person
Simplification vs. exaggeration
Designing your caricature
How to push a person's truth forward

CREATING CARICATURES

DAY 3

CHARACTER DESIGN &

PORTFOLIO REVIEW

This Day's workshop is where it all comes together !

In the first part of the day Jason will teach his approach to character design for concept art for animation and feature films.

The second part will include a live portfolio reviews:
Jason will explain how to build your portfolio to best cater to a client and get the job that you want, and will review attendees portfolio on stage.
This will allow you not only to get in depth portfolio review but to also learn learn from others!

This workshop will include:

Effective character design
Simplified shapes & exaggeration in your characters
From portrait to caricature to characters
How to create a better portfolio
Portfolio Review

*Instructions to submit your portfolio will be send in email after your registration.
*Number of portfolio reviews is limited

May 23rd, 10:00-18:00

Each day includes Lectures & Live Demos, assignments with audience partcipation , Q&A

90 minutes lunch break each day. lunch not encluded

All workshops are in the English language

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