AboutTeaching the digital painting class at SynStudio:
I’ve been teaching this class for 5 semesters. The focus is on the fundamentals of painting (values, composition, color, etc.) to incorporate into digital art. My purpose as a teacher is to “demystify” techniques and inspire intelligent practices to improve artistic skills over the duration of the course. Mentoring with the Jeunes Volontaires program: I act as a mentor to an aspiring writer/artist who wants to create a graphic novel about his perspective and experience with the student protests of 2012. My goal is to teach him how to draw within a year so as to complete his novel. I meet with him weekly after my class my SynStudio and we go over homework/exercices, etc. Private teaching (volunteer): I also teach another student (a tattoo artist that wants to improve his skills) at the same time. I meet with him weekly as well (at the same time as the other student) to go over homework/exercises, etc. Having both students who have different goals but starting with the same fundamentals creates an interesting dynamic where they both feed off each other. I’m doing this because I had somebody mentor and help me out tremendously when I was just starting off my career and he always encouraged me to pay it forward. |