Pretty Exciting Stuff!

It has taken me six months to get to this point, where I can now successfully create an instructional video that looks good and communicates the instruction in the manner that I wish it to. If you had told me back in March of this year that by the end of the year, I would be able to create a video that looks like the one below, I would have asked you what you had been smoking!

It seems like it would be easy to create an instructional video, but many variables go into creating a successful video. The first part is how you want to communicate what you are trying to teach. It was imperative for me that you can see what I am drawing and painting clearly and that you can also see the reference that I am looking at and zoom in on it and mark up the reference. I also wanted to include a picture in a picture of me when I am talking and painting classes a picture in a picture of my palette. I also wanted to make sure that I could add a graphic letting you know what pencil or brush I currently have in my hand. With that graphic is an audio indicator that I have changed my pencil or brush.

To say that I am proud of this would be an understatement. I sincerely believe that these recorded online courses will be the best way for me to share my knowledge with those who want to learn how to draw and paint. I believe it will be a game-changer with clear instructional videos and the ability to work from your own home and stop and start the video as needed. And the best part of these courses that I will be offering is that students will set up personal coaching portals where they can check in with progress images and receive feedback from me as they move through a course. By the end of 2022, I hope to have a complete instructional program designed and produced, starting with Drawing, then Oil Painting, Composition, and the business of art. Pretty exciting stuff!

And I can hear some of you right now… "You are not ending the Mentorship Studios, are you?" No, I will not be ending those; they are essential. As students move through different stages of learning how to draw and paint, they will need time to practice what they have just learned, and you will know when to move on to the next instructional phase. Again, pretty exciting stuff!

Below is Part-1 of adding the details to the fruit for exercise #5 of my Drawing Fundamentals course. All videos will have a max length of just over 20 mins; this is done to the instruction is "consumable" parts and the file size not being too large.

Thank you for taking the time to watch, and I would love to hear your feedback.