❁ Kalevel's mentor thread ❁ no slots

[The One and Only Kal]

❁ intro ❁
Hello, folks. Welcome to my mentor thread. I've had the fortune to go to an art-oriented highschool in my area, which I've attended for the past three years (I graduate in May). I have -

¤ One year of Digital Arts
¤ Three years of Drawing
¤ Three years of Costume Design (focus on 2D media)
¤ Two years of Life Drawing
¤ A year and a half of Life-Drawing outside of school (over sixty hours)

❁ other info ❁
Over the summer I went to Columbus College of Art and Design's College Preview program, where I majored in animation and won an award for Digital Media. I am one of fifteen students accepted to the pre-illustration program at the university (public, not art school) I intend to go to.

❁ links ❁
Mah deviantART - ConceptART Sketchbook Thread - Art Shop
I included my art shop link because it has some art that I haven't posted elsewhere, and some of the posts there are WIPs.

❁ timezone and being online ❁
I'm on MST and am usually online after 2:30, but not every day, because I've got homework, art projects, etc.... But at least three times a week. I will be gone (as in, offline, on vacation) May 31st through June 19th this year.

❁ what I'm best at (teaching) ❁
¤ anatomy, posing, referencing from photographs, and the related tricks
¤ proportions, some design
¤ drawing from life (still life, life-drawing)
¤ preliminary stuff: thumbs, planning a piece
¤ Photoshop, the GIMP, Adobe Illustrator
¤ watercolor
¤ charcoal rendering
¤ inking with pen and ink
¤ inking digitally with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
¤ character design
¤ costume design (2D media)
¤ comics

❁ what I'm frankly not so good at ❁
¤ color (I'm basically stumbling around in the dark here)
¤ acrylic and oil media
¤ Corel Painter
¤ graphite rendering
¤ stylization (I'm lousy at cartooning, believe me.)
¤ realistic color/painted backdrops
¤ and so many other little things :P

❁ level of mentee ❁
My only criteria is that you want to learn something from me and that you take critique gracefully. If you consider yourself beginning or on the cusp of intermediate, it works.

❁ mentees ❁
Only two at a time right now. I think there will be some general mentoring in this thread but the majority will take place via PM
¤ Aalagon
¤ laurieneth  

[The One and Only Kal]

❁ resources & tutorials ❁

❁ books available online ❁
¤ Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
¤ Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis
¤ Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis
¤ Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis
¤ Bridgeman's Constructive Anatomy

❁ other online resources ❁
¤ Posemaniacs.com - Thirty Second Drawing

❁ books worth finding ❁
¤ Gottfried Bammes - Der Nackte Mensch
¤ Andrew Loomis - Fun with a Pencil
¤ Bridgeman - The Human Machine
¤ Harold Speed - The Practice & Science of Drawing

❁ artists you ought to look into ❁
¤ Jean-Léon Gérôme
¤ Edward Burne-Jones
¤ Lord Frederick Leighton
¤ William Bouguereau
¤ John Singer Sargent
 

[The One and Only Kal]

❁ mentee info ❁

❁ how to apply ❁
¤ you may either post the application here, or PM it to me.
¤ be fairly specific with what you want. I will treat mentoring as if I were your teacher, come up with a "lesson plan", post assignments, etc... all for you. :P

❁ mentee application ❁

username.
what you want to learn. Look at what I'm good at teaching, and list a couple things that interest you. (Also look at my gallery for more ideas.)
gallery or art. I need to see something you've done recently to get an idea of where your skill level is at.
where you're going. What do you want out of this, ultimately? A portfolio for art school, the skill to take Gaia commissions?
time. How long do you want to be mentored? How much time can you put into learning?

 

[Maricrism]

username. mcm_Maricrism
what you want to learn. I want to learn coloring a sketches...
gallery or art. My journal
where you're going. I want to learn so I can offer in my shop a colored arts... Please help me with that?
time. As long as I already knows how to...
Please PM me...  

[The One and Only Kal]

I'm full at the moment. :)  

[Maricrism]

Ok.. Thank you so much redface

 

[The One and Only Kal]

When I'm back in July, I'll take on another student. Feel free to apply in the meantime, anyone who's interested.  

[Kitsyu]

username. jazzr
what you want to learn. I'd like to go for a more realistic style...I'm getting there I think...also help with anatomy and more complex poses, and colouring/shading techniques.
gallery or art. http://afia.deviantart.com (most of these pics are drawn with mouse but if you want to see pencil drawings I can upload them)
where you're going. I'd like to create my own comics. Failing that, I want to create one-off fantasy/scifi paintings. I have no plans to make art into a career (but if I can earn money as well that would be a nice bonus).
time. July and August, mainly. September I'm in spain and after that I start uni again so things will be busy...  

[laurieneth]

username. Laurieneth
what you want to learn. I really admire your work on DA and I hope you can spare some time to pass some knowledge on to me! I would like to learn about anatomy, drawing from life, character design and inking digitally
gallery or art. http://sa55y.deviantart.com
where you're going. I do a lot of gaia commissions to motivate me to practice but I'm realizing it's only helping me to develop a style and not improve fundamentally. I want work as a freelance artist or concept artist. My dream is to work for a pc game or tcg game company!
time. I am free 5 hours a night and on weekends to draw. I don't know how long I want to be mentored smile  

[The Titanium Spork]

It says you have mentees already, but the title says you have a slot open, so I figured I'd try out anyway...

username. the titanium spork
what you want to learn. anatomy (muscles especially), composition/planning, watercolors
gallery or art. gallery
where you're going. umm... I'm still a sophomore, but I want to be able to get into art school.
time. indefinitely would be awesome, realistically, though, a couple of months would be pretty cool as well. I'm usually on gaia a couple of hours every day.  

[The One and Only Kal]

The Titanium Spork - My resources & tutorials section is a good way to get started. :] You could easily look through those books, draw from them, study them, etc....

That said, mentees tend to drop off, so I'm sure I'll have slots (but I do need time as well as slots. That's pretty limited right now.) Feel free to PM me with specific questions until August 16th. :)

jazzr - I'm starting up university this Fall.. and I'm taking a class right now. But my resources & tutorials section is a good place to start. Feel free to PM me with specific questions until August 16th. :)  

[Kitsyu]

Kalevel

The Titanium Spork - My resources & tutorials section is a good way to get started. :] You could easily look through those books, draw from them, study them, etc....

That said, mentees tend to drop off, so I'm sure I'll have slots (but I do need time as well as slots. That's pretty limited right now.) Feel free to PM me with specific questions until August 16th. :)

jazzr - I'm starting up university this Fall.. and I'm taking a class right now. But my resources & tutorials section is a good place to start. Feel free to PM me with specific questions until August 16th. :)

Ok thanks for replying, if anything comes up I will do smile thank you  

[The One and Only Kal]

Made a tutorial.

Digital Painting, my method.  

[The Titanium Spork]

Whoo! Tutorial!
*bookmarks*