FIGURE DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS WITH JOSHUA JACOBO
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Instructor: Joshua Jacobo
Class Duration: April 8th - May 27, 2018
Class Time: Sundays, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Art Mentors Studio: 16182 Gothard St Suite G, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
In-Person Access: $399
Difficulty: All Levels
Joshua Jacobo is the founder of New Masters Academy, a professional artist and an art educator. Joshua's training programs are used to teach figure drawing to independent artists, art studios and art schools around the world.
In this 8-week class, you will learn the foundations of the Constructive Drawing Approach, a powerful method for drawing the figure from imagination or reference. This way of drawing has its roots in the Western tradition of art going back to the Italian Renaissance and earlier while still leveraging more contemporary abstract and direct drawing concepts. The approach is style-agnostic in that it can be employed directly or with naturalistic rendering and can be applied to a vast range of drawing applications.
In this class, Joshua will be teaching figure drawing as if you have no experience with the subject matter whatsoever, assuming only basic drawing skills. If you are a total beginner to drawing, we recommend you take Joshua's Drawing Fundamentals before or in addition to this class. Joshua will lecture and demonstrate, as well as critique student drawings on their own drawing pads. Joshua's Demonstrations will be recorded and the videos will be made available for students to keep.
You will be working from the live model, and homework will be assigned along with high-quality reference images provided by DrawThis.com. This class is the perfect fit for students starting out with drawing the figure or even students who have drawn the figure for years but are looking for an alternate approach. This class is also a great primer for Charles Hu's Figure Drawing Construction Class, also offered during Spring Term.
This class is IN-PERSON ONLY at our studio in Huntington Beach, CA. There will be no video recordings of this class to purchase online. You can attend all 8 sessions of this class for $399.
Joshua Jacobo is a Californian fine artist, educator, activist, anatomist, writer, and entrepreneur. Joshua draws and sculpts, focusing primarily on the figure, portrait, and animals.
Joshua’s work is influenced by the High Renaissance masters, as well as the Mannerists, Dutch and Northern European Masters, and some Golden Age illustrators. Recently Joshua has begun more intensive studies of the works of Bauhaus and abstract expressionist artists.
Joshua is an anatomist, creating one of the most accurate three-dimensional sculptures of the anatomy of the human head and neck ever developed and is currently developing a full standing anatomy figure sculpture to be sold as a reference product for artists and medical professionals.
Joshua had his first one-person show featuring thirty drawings in Midland Texas in 2012, only one year after beginning his full-time study of art. In 2012 Joshua also founded the online art school, New Masters Academy as an effort to bring top-level professional art instruction to artists around the world at an affordable price. Today New Masters Academy has thousands of students and is followed by millions on social media. Joshua and New Masters Academy were prominently featured in the popular Penguin book, “The Automatic Customer” by John Warrilow.
Joshua was involved in the original “Occupy Wallstreet” political movement in New York in 2012 where he demonstrated and raised funds for supplies for the Zuccotti Park camp and reported on the police response for NationofChange. Joshua went on to organize with other political movements including End Dark Money, Strike Debt, End Koch Power, Black Lives Matter, and most recently Joshua spent time at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock, North Dakota for the resistance against the seizure of native lands by the oil industry. In 2013 Joshua led a campaign that raised $500,000 worth of distressed debt from students and poor American families and abolished it outright.
Today, Joshua manages several companies, in the art, education, and tech spaces and retains his board seat at NationofChange. Joshua is currently developing new artist pipelines for his large-scale sculptural work and teaches drawing for Art Mentors in Orange County California.
Sales are non-refundable, but in some cases we can switch a student’s enrollment in a class that has not yet started to another class of equal or lesser value. Art Mentors reserves the right to cancel, limit enrollment, substitute instructors or models, reschedule or modify a class with notice to enrolled students. If a class is canceled, enrolled students will be given a refund. If an instructor is unable to finish a class term, a refund will be given to students at a pro-rated amount.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Q. How Advanced Do I Need To Be To Take This Class?
A.In this class, Joshua will be teaching figure drawing as if you have no experience with the subject matter whatsoever, assuming only basic drawing skills. If you are a total beginner to drawing, we recommend you take Joshua’s Drawing Fundamentals before or in addition to this class. Joshua will lecture and demonstrate, as well as critique student drawings on their own drawing pads.
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Q.Is This Class Online Or In Person?
A.This class will be IN PERSON ONLY at our studio in Huntington Beach, CA.
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Q.Will I be able to get a refund if I change my mind?
A.Sales are non-refundable, but in some cases we can switch a student’s enrollment in a class that has not yet started to another class of equal or lesser value. Art Mentors reserves the right to cancel, limit enrollment, substitute instructors or models, reschedule or modify a class with notice to enrolled students. If a class is canceled, enrolled students will be given a refund. If an instructor is unable to finish a class term, a refund will be given to students at a pro-rated amount.
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Q.Will there be a video recording made of this class?
A.Portions of this class, specifically drawing demonstrations by Joshua will be recorded on video and made available to students.
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