Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff are art instructors. If you love the arts, particularly the craft of drawing and painting and image-making… and you want to level up your skills or even make a living with your skills, we are here to answer your questions. We’re here to offer you advice, refer you to our resources, share your love of the craft and maybe inspire you! Learn to Draw - www.proko.com Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko For advertising opportunities please email [email protected] Link to survey: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4
Are You Ready to Become a Comics Professional? Marvel and Proko Collaboration
In this special SDCC panel, Stan is joined by Marvel artists and instructors from the course to share their personal journeys and offer advice for aspiring comic book artists. Learn what it takes to become a professional comic artist straight from the experts themselves. Find out how long it took them to get their break at Marvel, why they create comics, and get insider tips for getting a job in the industry.
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10/10/2023 • 42 minutes, 45 seconds
Draftsmen Podcast Call-In
Stan and Marshall took your calls live for Lightbox 2021! Here's the advice they had for listeners.
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9/14/2021 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 45 seconds
Live Call-in Show! June 30th 12pm PDT - Draftsmen Hangout
We're going live again and taking more questions from the community! This time we'll be taking live voice calls via Discord. We will start at 12pm PDT June 30th.
HOW IT WORKS:
Join the Draftsmen LIVE Discord
In Discord, post your question in the #questions channel and then hop into the #WaitingRoom voice channel.
If a mod likes your question, you will be moved to another channel to talk to a mod and make sure your audio is ready to go live.
You'll be moved to the #LIVE channel to ask your question on the show!
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6/29/2021 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
Going Live! May 31st 12pm PDT - Draftsmen Hang Out and Q&A
Submit Your Questions at https://proko.com/512! Marshall and I will be going live! Drop in and ask us questions while we hang out and celebrate the launch of Proko 2.0!
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5/31/2021 • 26 seconds
How to Get Useful Feedback and Learning to Self Critique
In the 2nd part of Marshall and Stan’s critique discussion, the two talk about getting useful feedback, the importance of being specific with your critique requests and the concept of the 6 thinking hats and how you can use them for self critique. If you missed the first part on how to give critiques, go check out the previous episode.
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11/3/2020 • 56 minutes, 9 seconds
Developing Your Art Critique Chops
Stan and Marshall return to the topic of art criticism to impart the secrets of giving and receiving the best critiques possible. They summarize why it’s good to critique people, what goals you should have when critiquing someone’s art, how to frame things positively for the person receiving the critique and more. This is only part 1 of the discussion. In part 2 they’ll change topics and focus on how to seek out good critiques and what makes someone “critiqueable”.
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Fear of Critiques and Attempting Photorealism - Draftsmen S1E01: https://proko.com/323
How to Draw Gesture: https://proko.com/30
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Liandro Roger - https://liandro.art/
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10/27/2020 • 54 minutes, 15 seconds
The 5 Sins Artists Should Be Aware of
Marshall talks to Stan about the different “corrupting” influences which can affect the purity of an art piece. Some problems affect the craft of your art, but others affect the spirit, undermining the meaning you are trying to convey in your work. These pitfalls, while hard to avoid, are something Marshall believes artists should be aware of as they pursue their careers. Learn how pandering, sentimentality, mannerism, frigidity, and didacticism can violate the spirit of art and how an artist battles between being commercially attractive to clients versus being considered a sellout and a hack.
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner - https://amzn.to/31m8ibS
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Norman Rockwell - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/norman-rockwell-paintings-s2e27.jpg
Ralph Bakshi - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/ralph-bakshi-fritz-the-cat-s2e27.jpg
James Gurney - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/james-gurney-painting-s2e27.jpg
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Karl Kopinski Interview: https://www.proko.com/how-to-be-popular-karl-kopinski-interview/
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10/20/2020 • 57 minutes, 36 seconds
Bad Teachers
Sometimes we’re stuck with bad teachers and when that happens, what do you do? Marshall and Stan address the frustration of one highschool art student that’s facing this problem by trying to provide them with workable solutions. They also answer a few additional voicemail questions on learning how to teach art, how to increase output for commissions and more.
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Draftsmen Playlist - Recreating Art School: proko.com/artschool
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky - https://amzn.to/34JtIAz
Stress and Coping: What Baboons Can Teach Us by Robert Sapolsky
William Stout - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/william-stout-dinosaur-artwork-s2e26.jpg
James Gurney - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/james-gurney-dinosaur-artwork-s2e26.jpg
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N.C. Wyeth - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/n-c-wyeth-paintings-s2e26.jpg
Auguste Rodin - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/auguste-rodin-various-artwork-s2e26.jpg
Honoré Daumier - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/honore-daumier-various-artwork-s2e26.jpg
George Bridgman - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/george-bridgman-artwork-s2e26.jpg
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Stephen Bauman - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/stephen-bauman-pencil-portrait-artwork-s2e26.jpg
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10/13/2020 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
How to Learn Composition
Composition is technical, creative, and incredibly subjective. Marshall teaches us how to learn composition and suggests artists and resources that will help you learn more about it. Marshall talks about breaking apart master paintings to learn how to compose, focal points, contrasts, metaphors, harmonic armatures like the golden ratio, among many other things. Marshall has years of experience teaching this subject so there's a lot to absorb and be inspired by when it comes to composition.
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Show Links (some contain affiliate links):
Erik Gist - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/erik-gist-drawings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Steelyard Composition blogpost: https://www.samuelearp.com/new-blog/2019/7/16/5-composition-ideas-to-improve-your-landscape-painting
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Rembrandt - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/rembrandt-paintings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
John Constable - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/john-constable-yarmouth-pier-paintings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
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Alphonse Mucha - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/alphonse-mucha-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Frank Frazetta - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/frank-frazetta-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Francisco Goya - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/francisco-goya-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Howard Pyle - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/howard-pyle-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Rachel Morales’ tonal studies (2 tone and 3 tone) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/rachel-morales-tonal-studies-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
Jessica Nguyen’s tonal studies of Harvey Dunn and Howard Pyle - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jessica-nguyens-tonal-studies-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
John Singer Sargent - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/john-singer-sargent-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg
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7/28/2020 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Going All In on Art, Breaking Rules to Create Style, How to Ask Good Questions
Marshall and Stan answer questions about networking, cross training, royalties, breaking rules to create a unique art style, going all in vs having a backup, and studying multiple things at once. Also, Marshall gives advice on how to ask good questions!
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Questions in episode
What do you think of David Ross’s Book on Figure Drawing?
How do you network while you’re training online?
Do you charge for book covers? Do you receive royalties on sales of the book? How do you price digital artwork?
Is it better to become specialized or cross train multiple subjects?
Is it essential to violate compositional rules to create a unique style?
How to ask better questions
The Abstraction Ladder
Is it better to go all in on my passion or get a degree in a backup career that is safer to make money?
Should I study one thing at a time, or multiple things at once?
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7/7/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 9 seconds
If You’re Going to Art School, Listen to This
After wrapping up the Recreating Art School series, we cap things off with an episode entirely devoted to getting the most value if you decide to attend art school. Marshall and I cover how to choose the best school you’ll like, how big of a workload you should take on, the mentality you should have when attending class, personal life stories and insights from our time attending art schools, and what you can expect after graduating (post grad depression and debt-pression).
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6/9/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 7 seconds
DIY Art School Part 4 (Community)
A good community makes learning enjoyable and can have a huge impact on your development, but how do you create one? We continue our series on recreating art school by discussing the elements that make a community beneficial to learning. That includes how to overcome the problem of not being in the physical proximity of a community, the attitude you should adopt when participating in one and stories of individuals who have crafted and benefited from them.
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Show Links (some contain affiliate links):
Steve Martin Masterclass - https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy
Tim Ferriss Bob Iger Interview - https://tim.blog/2020/01/16/bob-iger/
Painting Competitions blog - http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2010/01/painting-competitions-daily-exercise/
Power Causes Brain Damage article - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/
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Howard Pyle - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/howard-pyle-art-s2e07.jpg
Jama Jurabaev - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jama-jurabaev-artwork-s2e07.jpg
Jon Foster - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jon-foster-art-s2e07.jpg
Justin Sweet - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/justin-sweet-artwork-s2e07.jpg
NC Wyeth - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/nc-wyeth-artwork-s2e07.jpg
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Steve Huston - https://www.proko.com/growing-as-an-artist-steve-huston-interview/
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Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com
Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko
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5/26/2020 • 49 minutes, 45 seconds
8 Benefits of Going to Art School
Why do art schools still exist? What are the pros of going to one? Who could benefit from enrolling? These questions and more are answered by Marshall and Stan in the first real episode of season 2. Stay tuned for the next series of videos where we cover topics surrounding art schools and how students can recreate that experience from home.
Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453
Show Links (some contain affiliate links):
Jim Carrey - http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/info/arts.html
Noah Bradley - Don’t go to art school - https://noahbradley.com/blogs/blog/dont-go-to-art-school
The Daily Show - http://www.cc.com/video-clips/q35d99/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-stay-out-of-school
Albrecht Durer - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Albrecht-Durer-artwork-s2e01.jpg
Art School Confidential movie - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B001Q51DSQ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
What Color is Your Parachute - Richard Nelson Bolles
Rebel without a Crew - Robert Rodrigues
Laurel and Hardy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy
Learn to Draw - www.proko.com
Marshall Vandruff -www.marshallart.com
Stan Prokopenko -instagram.com/stanprokopenko
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