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To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, shape-making is the common denominator between all kinds of art. His goal is always to present interesting shapes--shapes that might not look like anything specific up close but then you back up a few steps and, lo and behold, it's a tree on a coastline. That's the reward of art!ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONhttps://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Epic Games 3D Character Artist, Matt Thorup, started his art career by jumping in with both feet. In this interview, he talks about the amazing things that he launched into with enthusiasm -- in his career and in his life -- and how that made all the difference.ART EDUCATIONhttps://www.schoolism.comMATT THORUPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_redbeardBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Bobby starts off Part 7 of this mini series by posing a question to veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes: if contrast is what controls the eye, why don't great artists ever use the entire value range from white to black? To explain, Nathan shares an exercise taught to him by his mentor, Paul Lasaine, that helped him get to the core of contrast.ENVIRONMENT DESIGNhttps://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=26NATHAN FOWKEShttps://www.instagram.com/nathanfowkesartBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

As a kid, Brittany Myers was an artist in secret. At first, no one knew of her passion, not even her dad. And certainly no one knew how good she was for her age, not even Brittany herself. In this interview, she talks to Bobby about how, even as a kid, she had a very adult art-training regimen and how GOING FOR IT made all the difference in the world.ART EDUCATION https://www.schoolism.com BRITTANY MYERS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittmyersart BOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, the gestation cycle of a painting starts with drawing, then value, then color. However, at every stage of this process, he considers design and composition--the contrast, value structure, shapes, even the brushstrokes! In Part 8 of this mini series, John explains what goes into the outstanding design and composition of a painting.ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONhttps://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Ahmed Aldoori has been out of the studio life for the last few years, choosing instead to build up his social media brand and support himself through Patreon. In this interview, he tells Bobby how he tamed the various monsters on this journey: anxiety, insecurity, procrastination, and the apex predator of them all, the social media monster, coming out the other side and succeeding on his own terms.ART EDUCATIONhttps://www.schoolism.comAHMED ALDOORIWebsite: https://ahmedaldoori.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/revolutions34BOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Scenes often take place against a backdrop of chaos. If you were the artist in charge, how would you handle it? In Part 6 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, gets to the core of managing complexities using some of his recent work as an example and gives invaluable tips from his Schoolism classes.ENVIRONMENT DESIGNhttps://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=26NATHAN FOWKEShttps://www.instagram.com/nathanfowkesartBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Alena Wooten was the artistic outlier in her family. Like Bobby, she studied business in college because she didn't know art was a career option. Then all her fidgeting with Super Sculpey paid off. In this interview, she shares her origin story, how character designers can make 3D modeling easier, and her essential advice for new sculptors.ART EDUCATION https://www.schoolism.com ALENA WOOTEN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alenawooten BOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, painting is about creating the illusion of depth, which is what atmospheric perspective is. In Part 7 of this mini series, he talks about the things to consider when communicating distance and how to avoid the peril of painting what you THINK instead of what you OBSERVE.ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

You've probably seen Sophie Diao's art before -- and probably multiple times -- even if you don't realize it. Sophie is a Doodler at Google and in this interview she tells Bobby what it's like to be an illustrator at the #1 website in the world, reaching billions of eyeballs with every piece of artwork.ART EDUCATIONhttps://www.schoolism.comSOPHIE DIAOInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/snowpeasnowBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

How would you paint atmosphere in the mountains or in space where there is little to no literal atmosphere? In Part 5 of this mini series, Bobby poses this question to veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, who gets to the core of atmosphere with an exercise that he teaches in his Schoolism classes.DESIGNING WITH COLOR AND LIGHThttps://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=22NATHAN FOWKEShttps://www.instagram.com/nathanfowkesartBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

The great thing about art is that your interest in and passion for other, unrelated things can only improve your work. In this interview, Claire Hummel, Art Director at Campo Santo, tells Bobby how her upbringing and varied interests made her art unique and gave her a niche.ART EDUCATIONhttps://www.schoolism.comCLAIRE HUMMELInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shoomlahBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

When award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, sits down to paint, he analyzes what he's looking at by going over his mental checklist: 1) shape, 2) value, and 3) temperature. In Part 6 of this mini series, he talks about an exercise he teaches that will help you understand color temperature in your paintings.ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Russell Dongjun Lu has an engineering degree that he didn't want and has never used. He got it out of social obligation but what he REALLY studied and worked on was his art. Since then, in the face of every challenge in his career, he let his art do the talking.ART EDUCATION https://www.schoolism.com LIGHTBOX EXPO https://www.lightboxexpo.com RUSSELL DONGJUN LU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russell_dongjun BOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Is it naturally ingrained in us to associate certain feelings with certain colors? In Part 4 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, gets to the core of the relationship between emotion and color and issues a challenge to help you exercise your color chops.DESIGNING WITH COLOR AND LIGHThttps://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=22NATHAN FOWKEShttps://www.instagram.com/nathanfowkesartBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

For Loic Zimmermann, it has been a long climb from a life of manual labor in Champagne to becoming a designer for Hollywood blockbusters to filmmaker. In this interview, he traces the connections and reactions that make up his colorful career and speculates on what's next.ART EDUCATIONhttps://www.schoolism.comLOIC ZIMMERMANNInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/loic_zimmermannBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

Award-winning plein air painter, John Burton's contention is, there is almost no pure black or white, which makes what we interpret as black or white in a painting a kind of optical illusion. In Part 5 of this mini series, he explains how you can use this knowledge to go to where color lives and paint more vividly and realistically. ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONhttps://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

LightBox Expo tickets on sale now at https://www.lightboxexpo.com! Davison Carvalho didn't go to art school; he learned art through passion and grind, improving out of necessity in order to scrape out work as a teen in Brazil, too young to legally earn a wage. Now he's a Lead UI Artist at 343 Industries. This is his wild journey.ART EDUCATION https://www.schoolism.com DAVISON CARVALHO Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_colorblindmess BOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

In Part 3 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes breaks down one of the assignments from his course, "Designing with Color & Light", using the same environment and creating 5 different thumbnails each with its own color harmonies. DESIGNING WITH COLOR AND LIGHThttps://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=22NATHAN FOWKEShttps://www.instagram.com/nathanfowkesartBOBBY CHIU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert

In Part 4 of this mini series, award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, explains how the color you see isn't really the color you THINK you're seeing, which is why color is vital for authentic art.ENVIRONMENT AND LIGHT https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=47JOHN BURTONhttps://www.instagram.com/johnburtonartBOBBY CHIUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalbobert