Fantasy Scene Illustration
The aim of this course is for students to learn the fundamentals of drawing from imagination and using world building skills combined with traditional drawing techniques to create a fantasy scene in black and white.
During the course, students will have an opportunity to learn visual brainstorming and concepting techniques and combine this with drawing fundamentals such as composition, perspective and motifs to ultimately produce a finished fantasy illustration.
The final illustration will be fully imagined and designed by the student and will follow the commercial fantasy illustration process of thumbnails, concept sketching, rough drawing, finished pencil drawing and final inked illustration.
As well as the above mentioned skills and techniques, the course will essentially take the student through the core process that many professional fantasy artists would go through when working on a commission.
It’s an excellent opportunity for budding young artists to understand how commercial illustration works.
AGE: Suitable for ages 10 to 17
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: St Mary’s Primary School
STATUS: Places available
Check out the courses below that could be paired with this half-day course…
The aim of this course is for students to learn the fundamentals of drawing from imagination and using world building skills combined with traditional drawing techniques to create a fantasy scene in black and white.
During the course, students will have an opportunity to learn visual brainstorming and concepting techniques and combine this with drawing fundamentals such as composition, perspective and motifs to ultimately produce a finished fantasy illustration.
The final illustration will be fully imagined and designed by the student and will follow the commercial fantasy illustration process of thumbnails, concept sketching, rough drawing, finished pencil drawing and final inked illustration.
As well as the above mentioned skills and techniques, the course will essentially take the student through the core process that many professional fantasy artists would go through when working on a commission.
It’s an excellent opportunity for budding young artists to understand how commercial illustration works.
AGE: Suitable for ages 10 to 17
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: St Mary’s Primary School
STATUS: Places available
Check out the courses below that could be paired with this half-day course…
The aim of this course is for students to learn the fundamentals of drawing from imagination and using world building skills combined with traditional drawing techniques to create a fantasy scene in black and white.
During the course, students will have an opportunity to learn visual brainstorming and concepting techniques and combine this with drawing fundamentals such as composition, perspective and motifs to ultimately produce a finished fantasy illustration.
The final illustration will be fully imagined and designed by the student and will follow the commercial fantasy illustration process of thumbnails, concept sketching, rough drawing, finished pencil drawing and final inked illustration.
As well as the above mentioned skills and techniques, the course will essentially take the student through the core process that many professional fantasy artists would go through when working on a commission.
It’s an excellent opportunity for budding young artists to understand how commercial illustration works.
AGE: Suitable for ages 10 to 17
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: St Mary’s Primary School
STATUS: Places available
Check out the courses below that could be paired with this half-day course…
course info
Please read all course information below before purchasing tickets for this event.
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DAY ONE - Sketching
Starting the session with some fun warm-up sketching tasks and ice-breakers (get to know each other, etc).
Talking through some ideas and looking at established fantasy works for inspiration.
Start some visual brainstorming for our illustration.
DAY TWO - Concepting and Thumbnailing
Using thumbnails to work out your composition and try out lots of ideas quickly.
Looking at basic principles of concepting and having fun making stuff up.
Using found objects to inspire creativity in fantasy works.
DAY THREE - The Rough Drawing
Starting off with storytelling in illustration and world building.
Bringing all the techniques learnt so far into a loose rough illustration at A4 size.
Making design and world building choices is really important at this stage.
DAY FOUR - The Tight Drawing
Demonstration of pencilling techniques.
Using all our preparation to produce a tightly rendered pencil drawing ready for inking - A3 size
DAY FIVE - The Final Illustration
Demonstration of inking techniques.
Using everything we’ve learnt so far to fully illustrate our final piece - A3 size
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
A4 Sketchbook
2h Pencil
Ruler
Rubber
Fineliner Pens
Brush Pen (also available from tutor for $6)
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No experience required.
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Rich Sampson
Rich Sampson AKA NerdGore grew up in the South East of England on a steady diet of 2000AD comics and Warhammer.
Drawing from an early age, somewhere along the line he put the pencils away, only to revive them again when he moved to Australia. He was lucky enough to be commissioned by then up and coming Melbourne punk band Clowns and went on to illustrate t-shirts and album covers for over 100 punk and metal bands, including Municipal Waste, Gatecreeper and The Black Dahlia Murder.
From there, he did commissions for Santa Cruz Skateboards, The Moss Foundation and various toy companies until in 2018 he got the call from Holmgard Press to work on the revived Lone Wolf fantasy gamebook series.
At this point, he has completed over 300 fantasy illustrations for Lone Wolf and worked on numerous table-top roleplaying games carving out a niche as a traditional black and white illustrator in the vein of British fantasy artists from the 70’s and 80’s.
