Painting school training courses in Ann Arbor, MI (public, in-house or online)

This course provides a thorough introduction to Pixologic’s ZBrush, the state-of-the-art sculpting and painting tool used by many movie and game studios. ZBrush enables you to sculpt geometry of over 10 million polygons and use intuitive sculpting techniques without the tedious vertex pushing of older 3D applications.

In this class, you’ll gain familiarity with ZBrush’s unique interface and learn human and creature anatomy sculpting techniques, costume creation and how to generate s...

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This course covers a number of painting techniques on a variety of surfaces. The aim of this course is to introduce students to various materials and techniques involved with this exciting craft.
This course is intended for any one interested in painting. It also helps individuals who are unable to travel, or have only limited time periods to dedicate to training.

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Learn about paints, stains, primers, and sealers and to understand their usage

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This painting course explores perceptual and conceptual approaches to painting both the representative figure and the abstract figure. Students will increase their competence in dynamic composition, color and expressive painting techniques.

This course is a classical approach to formal portraiture based on naturalism. Two approaches will be explored: e’bauche and demi-teinte

Students will address problems unique to the cityscape, including objects of transportation and structures. Students will learn the painting of people as objects or shapes within the painting, rather than as subjects. The principles of dramatic light and shadow, atmospheric perspective, focal point and perspective will be developed.