What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
These How To Draw In 3-D ONGOING Weekly classes will launch your child’s awesome genius IMAGINATION! IMPORTANT NOTES: If my listed class times do not work for your schedule, feel free to request times that do! I will try and accommodate you! This ONGOING lesson is filled with drawing in 3-D ideas launching, brilliant brain building, creative confidence boosting FUN! The small class size offers extra personal time with me that will help your child’s drawing skill progress rapidly! I request my small group classes leave their microphone and cameras on throughout the entire lesson, enabling a much more real time conversational interactive learning experience. All classes are recorded and available to all students for make up sessions they miss, and for additional review and practice. Upcoming classes week of: January 9: Shading lessons January 16: Overlapping lessons January 23: Size lessons January 30: Foreshortening lessons All of my drawing classes emphasize what I term “The 12 Renaissance Words Of Drawing!”These fundamental drawing words/concepts have been developed and applied to create masterpiece artwork for over 500 years. In each of my classes, I will be introducing several of these 12 Renaissance words by teaching a series of three to four drawings. Each of these drawings requires the use of several Renaissance Words to successfully create the visual illusion of the third dimension. Our goal is to create the visual illusion that some objects in the drawing are closer to you, and some objects are farther away. We achieve this goal by mastering the skill of distortion. Learning how to squish, pull, push, and distort objects to create that fantastic illusion that they look like they are literally POPPING of the paper in 3-D! SUPPLIES: Paper and Pencil. That’s it! Nothing fancy or expensive! Easy peasy! After completing this class, your brilliant genius kids are going to be clamoring to draw MORE WITH MR. MARK! Yahoooo! In future lessons I’ll be recommending a few additional drawing supplies. A hardback spiral bound sketchbook, an HB 9mm Pencil, a blending paper stomp, a click eraser. I’ll list these in more detail in future class support material. Drawings: take a look at some of the drawings we will create in the class description image. Class Structure: After 40 years of teaching drawing to millions of students around the world (the last 2 years being exclusively LIVE VIRTUAL) I’m very comfortable and joyfully confident in my relaxed no stress humor filled teaching style. I enjoy engaging my students continuously throughout the drawing instruction. Ever since my decades of teaching on PBS television I’ve adhered to my 3 minute cycle of classroom engagement. I teach for 3 minutes, then engage the students to give me a response of one thumbs up or two thumbs up, text me 1-5 how is my pace, 5 is great, 1 is “Ohhhhh noooooo help me!!!!”. After each drawing, approximately every 12 minutes I have the students hold up their drawings for everyone to see. I spotlight several students cameras per drawing to celebrate their work. I try to spotlight each students drawing at least once per class session. The Drawing Success Wheel: After your students complete this lesson, encourage them to Draw! Draw! Draw! The more they practice, the more their drawing skill will improve! The more their drawing skill improves the more fun they will have! The more joy they have drawing the more motivated they are to Practice! This is my classroom “Drawing Success Wheel!” This is actually a wonderfully fun drawing lesson I will be teaching in a future class! In these ongoing classes your students will have the opportunity to draw wonderfully fun themes of drawing in 3-D…Daring Dragons! Space Ships And Robots! Alien Worlds Of Donuts! Sharks! Mermaids And Other Ocean Friends! Penguins, Polar Bears, And Glaciers of The Arctic! Animals of the Rain Forrest! Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and Mummies! It’s a Bugs World! Fluffy Bunny Rabbits and a giant Kitten! Awesome Australian Animals! Lions! Tigers! Elephants! Giraffes! Animals of Africa! Looking forward, we will be drawing adventures featuring my collaboration with NASA’s #DrawARTemis Mission To The Moon. I joined creative forces with Team ARTemis to create this exciting series of drawing lessons featuring components of this mission to the moon: The SLS Rocket, The Gateways Lunar Orbiting Space Station, The Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS Flight Suit), The Orion Space Capsule, The XeMU Lunar Exploration Space Suit, The SLS Launch Tower, The Kennedy Space Center Launch Plateform Crawler…and so much MORE!
Learning Goals
ALL students will learn how to draw in 3-D! Everyone will learn how to draw pictures that seem to POP off the paper in real life! Students will master The 12 Renaissance Words Of Drawing to create the visual illusion of depth. These very important terms/concepts of drawing have been developed and applied by great art masters and educators for over 500 years! I’ve taught millions of students around the world how to draw in 3-D, I will teach YOUR genius brilliant child too!
Other Details
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
I will be referring to lesson illustrations in my How-To-Draw books “You Can Draw In 30-Days!”, “You Can Draw In 30-Seconds!”, “Half Hour Of Pencil Power!”and “Drawing In 3-D!”. Over a million copies of my How-To-Draw books have taught students around the world. I’ll refer to specific illustrations in these books on camera to help clarify important fundamental drawing concepts. My books are published by Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, Hatchette Books, all are available online at Amazon.
Teacher expertise and credentials
My Promise To Parents: My goal is to enrich your child’s live through the joy and profound life inspiring power of the visual arts! Art does change, and inspire lives! Many of my former students and PBS Television viewers have been so inspired they have pursued their passion for drawing into amazing careers of animation, illustration, and graphic design. My former students have enjoyed successful careers with Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Paramount, HBO, Netflix, Marvel , Image, and DC Comics, and even NASA!
Thank you for considering enrolling your precious geniuses in my classes! We are going to have an absolute joy filled creativity inspiring imagination launching blast!
“You have inspired generations of artists!” Tom Bancroft, Animator, Director, Educator (Beauty And The Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan)
“My youngest daughter learned how to draw from Commander Mark years ago. Since than he has taught millions more the incredible joy of drawing!” William Foster, Human Spaceflight Ground Control NASA
“Your PBS television show, books, and LIVE webcasts have inspired millions important drawing skills, spanning multiple generations. What an awesome legacy!” Tim Decker, Proffessional Of Animation University of Chicago, Former Disney Animator, Tarzan, Alvin And The Chipmonks, The Simpsons.
“If it weren’t for Mark Kistler and his teachings I’m not sure I’d have the abilities I have today.” Dan Fraga, Artist, Director, Image Comics, DC and Marvel Comics including Spider-Man, Superman, Fantastic Four, Wolverine.
“Growing up drawing with Commandee Mark on PBS inspired me to become a proffesional artist!” Sam Ellis, Professor, Artist, Director, Disney, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Archer, Adventure Time)
“I love Mark Kistlers Drawing Classes!” Miley Cyrus , Disney’s Hannah Montana.
“Mark Kistler’s drawing lessons are so much FUN!” Livvy Stubenraunch, voice of young Anna in Disney’s Frozen and Eva Bella, voice of young Elsa in Frozen
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Live Group Class
$20
weekly1x per week
45 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
3-18 learners per class