CAN: Cincinnati Animation Network

Open Session  QUICKDRAW Two open hours of short poses, to develop speed and capture energy! Thursday, December 4th, 7-9 pm (tonight!) Join us for a high-energy evening of OPEN, uninstructed gesture and short-pose figure drawing. Practice capturing movement and hone your intuitive sense of anatomy in a session of life drawing focused on multiple poses and gesture drawing. The session will begin with poses ranging from 30 seconds to two minutes, and later move on to 5 to 15 minute poses. Participants must provide their own materials. At: Manifest's Drawing Center Studios  in Madisonville 4905 Whetsel Avenue ( second floor ) Go  here  for more information or to register online (can also register at the door) Cost: $12 ($6 for college and high school students) (participants still must register in advance or upon arriving at the Drawing Center) 

Life drawing by Glen Keane. Sigh. Just a quick reminder that the Manifest Drawing Studio's Quickdraw session is tomorrow Saturday 6/7/14 from 11am-2pm.  Come and draw if you need to capture motion, have accurate anatomy, and to be able to capture life in your drawings! I'm pretty sure since we're all animation artists that this is needed by everyone.  Also, College and High School students get a discount! You can register online or do so when you arrive- I am already signed up and so are some others so let's show them that we want this and that they need to do this again in the future! Support by attending! Here is the  Manifest site  for more info/registering. The drawing studio is at 4905 whetsel avenue, floor 2, madisonville, ohio. See you there!

Hi guys! The folks at the Manifest Drawing Studio are so cool- I emailed them to see if they would be down for hosting a gesture life drawing session that is good for animators- short poses no longer than 10 or 15 minutes as well as short ones, mere minutes (or less!). And they are totally doing it! Since we animators have such a volume of drawings to get through its really beneficial to be able to draw quickly and capture motion quickly- and this is how you develop that skill. SO! Come to the session! Show them that animators need access to short poses! Saturday  June 7 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Cost: $20 ($10 for college and high school students) (participants still must register in advance or upon arriving at the Drawing Center)  For info or to register visit the Manifest website!

I just wanted to point out that we have a new events section of this blog- there are a couple of google calendars in there that you may want to be aware of.  There are: 1) Events that CAN will be planning as a group 2) Events that are going on in Cincy, Columbus, and anywhere even remotely near here that we may not be going to as a group but that you still may want to check out anyway 3) A second calendar of the schedule of Life Drawing classes at the Manifest drawing studio, for those of you who need to do life drawing which is everyone ever. Also a link to their details. Because these are nifty google calendars, if you use gmail you can integrate them with your own google calendar so they will automatically show up! As I add stuff it will automatically be added to yours too!  We live in the future! This technology is why my calendar is a stuffed mess because I know everything that is going on at all times. Enjoy!

Posemaniacs - I went to Christina Wald's class at NKU last week and had a nice time- we were talking about drawing and gesture drawing and one of the students mentioned this website- I checked it out and it looks pretty useful. There are timed poses that you can use to practice gesture drawing at home, and the figures are flayed so you can see their musculature. Also you are able to rotate the figure as needed to understand better why certain things look the way they do-  and enable or disable a grid overlaying the image. Very cool! Do you have any drawing reference sites that you like to use? www.posemaniacs.com PIXELovely - this site has a timed setting as well as the option to choose nude or clothed figures, and it also has a section on animals!  The site is also working on getting enough donated to start a section based on practicing hands and feet, which would be great as well. http://artists.pixelovely.com/ Figure Drawing Reference on Tumblr - ...