BERT DODSON

215 • ARTISTS BEWARE! THE MIND LIES!

215 • ARTISTS BEWARE! THE MIND LIES!

In this co-host lilDENNiS and I sit down and say Artists Beware! As we talk about how The Mind Lies.

Some of the topics covered on this one include:

Looking Over Your Old Art,
Drawing Negative Shapes,
The ‘Awareness’ Super Power,
OCD,
How Art Beautifully Represents Entanglement,
Why The Mind Lies during the Drawing Process,
Putting Yourself Out Of Your Comfort Zone,
Betty Edwards and The Mind,
Negatives Disguised as Positives,
Art Reveals That Reality Is An Illusion,
Learning New Skills,
Viewing Your Art With Fresh Eyes,
and Kitty Kisses :)

Hope you find this one useful.

154 • GESTURE AND POSE WITH IDA HEM PART 1 : AN ART BOOK ART-ICKLE

154 • GESTURE AND POSE WITH IDA HEM PART 1 : AN ART BOOK ART-ICKLE

What is Gesture? Let’s find out, as we look at an Art-ickle called ‘Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem’, from the Art Book ‘Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing’.

This is part one of two, and focuses on: What is Gesture? Squash and Stretch, and Building up from a Gesture. Next week we’ll be looking at the rest of this ickle Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem article, which covers Capturing Gestures, and Exploring Personality & Gesture.

Topics include:

What Do You Think Gesture Is?,
The Line of Action,
How We Don’t Like Stiffys,
How Gesture helps to create powerful Silhouettes,
How Shapes Tell Stories,
Bert Dodson and Trigger Words,
Becoming the Character by Physically Posing,
How Squashing and Stretching is like Pinching and Pulling,
Comparing Good and Bad Poses,
The process of Building Up From a Gesture,
lil Art Tip of Visualising String being Attached to your Characters,
Exaggeration is key for Dynamic Poses,
Facing Your Art Fears,
Body Language,
Shifting Characters Weight via Contrapposto (Counterpoise),
What Are T-Poses?
And there’s a click review of the book ‘The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho’.

I learnt a lot studying from this article, hope you do too :)

44 – STUDYING WITH SVSLEARN

44 – STUDYING WITH SVSLEARN

SVSLearn.com is the main topic for this weeks lil episode, as I talk about my experience studying with SVSLearn, the Society of Visual Storytelling. We also have the lil Art Tip, which is about creating Colour Palettes for Painting, the Book Book is Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson, and the Fascinating Fact is about something called Distributed Practice, which drastically increases Knowledge Retention when learning. I also tell a lil story at the end about a Meditation that resulted in an Orgasm, like you do lol Hope you like this one :)