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spring 2021
interactive small classes once a week for 14 Weeks
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This Mentorship includes a FREE audit option.
Your class links and
orientation will be emailed to you within 24 hours. |
To audit without full mentorship $495 Click Here
If you need a payment plan there's PAYPAL Bill Me Later interest-free credit HERE |
*SmArt School teachers sometimes have to travel for professional reasons. If they must miss a class they will notify all students during class time and add a session. All Classes meet live and are not recorded due to proprietary content and teaching will not happen via email, teaching is only during class time
showcasing your style while working with established Characters
One of the key challenges of illustration and art is to give your vision to known characters. This is important in a wide range of situations, whether you are depicting superheroes, video game characters, movie and entertainment personalities, classic figures from history and literature, or interpreting photographs as a source for your personal art.
It is easy for one's artistic voice to get lost on projects that feature well established brands and imagery. There may be pressure to conform to a particular style, and it may be tempting to follow too closely in the footsteps of the art that has come before. This can be especially true in the field of genre art. Superheroes, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Suspense characters can feel stale and repetitive when the artist is confined to making safe and expected choices. With this class, David explores how to push outside of that safe zone and create work which is more personal, unexpected, memorable, and engaging. This could mean working to get a clearer picture of your own personal voice, or it could mean learning to apply a very outside-the-box aesthetic to well established markets.
The guest for this class will be Jennifer Wu, who served as the project manager for the 2020 Marvel Masterpieces series for which David created 135 original paintings of Marvel superheroes. She will join the class to review student work towards the end of the semester.
An artist should not be just a pair of hands following orders. You have something unique to bring to any project, and our goal will be working to develop that ability.
We are very excited to have David teach with us for the first time this semester.
After taking this class students will also receive a free profile on the Smarter Art Market
It is easy for one's artistic voice to get lost on projects that feature well established brands and imagery. There may be pressure to conform to a particular style, and it may be tempting to follow too closely in the footsteps of the art that has come before. This can be especially true in the field of genre art. Superheroes, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Suspense characters can feel stale and repetitive when the artist is confined to making safe and expected choices. With this class, David explores how to push outside of that safe zone and create work which is more personal, unexpected, memorable, and engaging. This could mean working to get a clearer picture of your own personal voice, or it could mean learning to apply a very outside-the-box aesthetic to well established markets.
The guest for this class will be Jennifer Wu, who served as the project manager for the 2020 Marvel Masterpieces series for which David created 135 original paintings of Marvel superheroes. She will join the class to review student work towards the end of the semester.
An artist should not be just a pair of hands following orders. You have something unique to bring to any project, and our goal will be working to develop that ability.
We are very excited to have David teach with us for the first time this semester.
After taking this class students will also receive a free profile on the Smarter Art Market
David Palumbo
David Palumbo's most recent project was the creation of the 135 original paintings that comprise the Marvel Masterpieces 2020 collection, published by Upper Deck Entertainment. He has worked extensively as an illustrator in the fantasy and science fiction genres, where he has painted cover art and interior art for dozens of books and magazines, as well as numerous illustrations for Magic: The Gathering. Palumbo has also been a regular contributor to Heavy Metal Magazine since 2008 as one of the creators involved in the Tarot feature. He has provided artwork for collectible card games, comic covers, album covers, film posters, magazine covers, advertisements, and film preproduction and his artwork has appeared in such publications as Spectrum, ImagineFX, and 2D Artist Magazine. Other clients include Marvel Comics, Tor.com, Lucasfilm, Night Shade Books, Pyr, and Road Runner Records. His client list also includes Acclaim Entertainment, Black Library, Riley Films, Science Fiction Book Club, and Solaris Books. Palumbo has also been showing personal works in fine art galleries since 2003, at galleries in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, London, and Paris.
