Draftsmen

Latest Episodes:

How to Learn Perspective Nov 26, 2019

Show notes

Special thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast! Visit audible.com/draftsmen to get 3 months of Audible for just $6.95 a month.

How do you study perspective? Marshall breaks down the elements of perspective and how you’d go about learning it. Stan also challenges Marshall to draw some boxes and run them through his new Box AI BETA App that’s being developed in the Proko lab.

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph D'Amelio - https://amzn.to/35tW14M

Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Ralph Norling - https://amzn.to/2OhM0C4

How to Use Creative Perspective by Ernest William Watson - https://amzn.to/2DgYhAo

Kim Jung Gi - https://www.kimjunggius.com/products/omphalos

Perspective! for Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea - https://amzn.to/34kx0ZS

Framed Perspective Vol 1 by Marcos Mateu-Mestre - https://amzn.to/2OL0GbU

Framed Perspective Vol 2 by Marcos Mateu-Mestre - https://amzn.to/2pUhYuY

Glenn Vilppu - https://www.instagram.com/glennvilppu/

Marshall’s perspective course - http://marshallart.com/SHOP/all-products/all-videos/1994-perspective-drawing-series/

Box Checker AI Results

Box 1 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-1.jpg

Box 2 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-2.jpg

Box 3 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-3.jpg

Box 4 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-4.jpg

Box 5 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-5.jpg

Box 6 - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/marshall-boxes-tested-6.jpg

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having a Secret Identity as an Artist Nov 19, 2019

Show notes

An anonymous artist wants to know if it’s possible to draw “naughty” artwork and hold a job as an illustrator for children’s books. This results in a discussion on keeping secret identities and giving examples of artists who made their living doing polar opposite work. Marshall and Stan try to give advice to a frustrated teacher about his school’s art program.

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Doctor Seuss - https://amzn.to/2KA9y2Z

Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/37lznh4

Maurice Sendak - https://amzn.to/33ZpTWl

Shel Silverstein - https://amzn.to/2NZNAbE

Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein - https://amzn.to/2r3QpQ5

Rose O'Neill - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/rose-o-neill-art-s1e25.jpg

Kewpie dolls - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/kewpie-dolls-s1e25.jpg

Kim Jung Gi - https://youtu.be/OmLkBQmZQM8

Puddnhead - https://amzn.to/2Qy1l2P

Banksy - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/banksy-street-art-examples-s1e25.jpg

Robert Crumb - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/robert-crumb-art-genesis-comic-s1e25.jpg

Thomas Bowdler - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/thomas-bowdler-s1e25.jpg

William Steig - https://amzn.to/2Qrgu6e

Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature by Pamela Bedore - https://amzn.to/2pyODGe

Feed by Matthew Tobin Anderson - https://amzn.to/2Xs0G4C

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - https://amzn.to/2XqLbtw

Learn to Draw -www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff -www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko -instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Artists Should Know About Conventions Nov 12, 2019

Show notes

After getting back from the very first Lightbox Convention in LA, both Draftsmen give their thoughts on the value of these conventions for artists. Includes advice on networking, etiquette, note taking, selling work, and portfolios. We elaborate on a caller’s question about drawing from imagination and why you can’t start out drawing like Kim Jung Gi.

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

San Diego Comic-Con - https://www.comic-con.org/

Lightbox - https://www.instagram.com/lightboxexpo/?hl=en

Siggraph - https://s2019.siggraph.org/

Cutter Hayes - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/cutter-hays-artwork-s1e24.jpg

Jean Giraud (Moebius) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jean-giraud-moebius-artwork-s1e24.jpg

Bernie Wrightson - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/bernie-wrightson-artwork-s1e24.jpg

Alan Moore - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/alan-moore-s1e24.jpg

Wonder-Con - https://www.comic-con.org/wca

CTN - https://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/

Marshall’s Draftsmanship Recommendations: http://www.marshallart.com/reviews/draftsmanship/

Fun With A Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw - https://amzn.to/33ziqgC

Drawing the Head and Hands - https://amzn.to/2NDuXtW

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - https://amzn.to/2XbFJLe

Kim Jung Gi talk at Art Institute: https://youtu.be/VUFGe-4k6dU?t=1503

Winsor McCay - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/winsor-mccay-artwork-s1e24.jpg

Glenn Vilppu - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/glenn-vilpuu-artwork-s1e24.jpg

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff -www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Advice for Artists with Kids Nov 05, 2019

Show notes

How can you be a good parent and a successful artist? Is it even possible? We try to find answers to those questions and the ways you can incorporate art into your life while raising a child. We go through 3 voicemail questions including our opinion on painting before learning how to draw. Is Stan a mutant child of Chernobyl?

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

View show images at https://proko.com/361

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Delegation, Staying Organized & Line Quality Oct 29, 2019

Show notes

Marshall goes full on Walter Cronkite and does some investigative journalism, asking all about the inner workings of Proko. The system we use to prioritize tasks and stay organized, the importance of delegation - Walt Disney built an empire by being a diligent delegator. Stan describes the exercise that improved his line quality while he was a student at Watts Atelier!

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

*Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Dorian Iten - https://www.instagram.com/dorianvisuals/

Ivan Loginov - https://www.instagram.com/loginovart/

Aaron Westerberg - https://www.instagram.com/westerberg/

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - https://amzn.to/2pYMh39

Online Scrum resources - https://www.scrum.org/resources/scrum-guide & https://scrumguides.org/

Fresh movie - https://amzn.to/2WiKMZO

How to Hold and Control Your Pencil - https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill - https://amzn.to/2BQC8rX

Jeff Watts - https://www.instagram.com/jeffreywattsart/

Jacob de Gheyn II - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Jacob-de-Gheyn-II-Art-S1E22.jpg

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Guercino-Art-S1E22.jpg

Albrecht Dürer - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Albrecht-Durer-Art-S1E22.jpg

Meditation for Artists - The Automatic Drawing Technique - https://youtu.be/MJYGFwGhHnA

Draw Using Reilly Rhythms - https://youtu.be/StRohW0Og3w

Gesture Quicksketch with Live Model - Tim Gula Part 1 - https://youtu.be/SvB3bnj63oc

How to Use YOUR Pencil for Dynamic Life Drawing - Tim Gula Part 2 - https://youtu.be/ZRnQcwKU9DE

Learning Gesture with Tim Gula - Part 3 - https://youtu.be/ECpZcgR1bgY

How to play Durak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durak

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff -www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko -instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Becoming More Creative Oct 22, 2019

Show notes

Thinking of creative ideas is actually not that hard, but executing them, bring them to fruition, and solving real problems is much harder and requires creative skill. We’ll define what it means to be creative and some ways you can stimulate and improve your own creative abilities. A listener asks how he can increase his passion for art and Stan shows off some drawings he bought from Steven Bauman.

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Marshall’s Dad - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Marshalls-Dad-S1E21.jpg

Steve Anderson’s photo of Marshall - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Marshalls-portrait-S1E21.jpg

Stan’s Stephen Bauman drawings - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Stephen-Bauman-Art-S1E21.jpg

Sterling Clinton Hundley’s Ideation Course - https://courses.svslearn.com/courses/IDEADEVELOPMENT

Steven Sondheim - Finishing the Hat - https://amzn.to/2P6Sbtz

Steven Sondheim - Look, I Made a Hat - https://amzn.to/2MAjFX1

Steve Anderson photography - https://www.steveandersonphotography.com

Brad Holland - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Brad-Holland-Art-S1E21.jpg

Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/The-Creation-of-Adam-S1E21.jpg

Step by Step Graphics magazine - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Graphics-Magazine-S1E21.jpg

Vance Kovacs - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Vance-Kovacs-Art-S1E21.jpg

Bob Mankoff - The Naked Cartoonist - https://amzn.to/33HM5UC

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Psychologist - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Mihaly-S1E21.jpg

John Gardner - The Art of Fiction - https://amzn.to/31FAxzW

Gabriele Rico - Writing the natural way - https://amzn.to/2MYelM1

Robert Rodriguez - Rebel Without a Crew - https://amzn.to/2J9o0yc

Robert Sapolsky - Being Human lectures - https://amzn.to/2p1rD2i

Stephen Bauman - https://www.instagram.com/stephenbaumanartwork/

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows - https://amzn.to/2P4ezng

Buster Keaton - https://amzn.to/35UKYTi

Lon Cheney - https://amzn.to/2P7eb7N

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff -www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko -instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DRUGS Oct 15, 2019

Show notes

The Breaking Bad movie just released on Netflix and because Stan is a huge fan, we’re redecorating the whole set, putting on costumes, and dedicating the episode to Drugs! We talk about our past experiences with drugs, if they can hinder or help an artist and some drug alternatives that you should look at to get those creative juices flowing. A caller asks what abstract artists should study.

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Picture of our set - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/breaking-bad-set-S1E20.jpg

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - https://youtu.be/1JLUn2DFW4w

Robert McKee’s TV Series GENRE Days - https://mckeestory.com/seminars/genre/#tv-day

Timothy Leary - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Timothy-Leary-S1E20.jpg

Reefer Madness - https://amzn.to/2OMD601

Heinrich Kley - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Heinrich-Kley-Art-S1E20.jpg

Salvador Dali - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Salvador-Dali-Paintings-S1E20.jpg

Tim Gula Meditation for Artists - The Automatic Drawing Technique - https://youtu.be/MJYGFwGhHnA

Axe Cop - https://amzn.to/2Mei48Q

Kim Jung Gi - How to Become a Master - https://youtu.be/aoqu5SEFqRI

Sir Francis Bacon - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Sir-Francis-Bacon-Art-S1E20.jpg

Egon Schiele - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Egon-Schiele-Paintings-S1E20.jpg

Wallace Smith - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Wallace-Smith-Art-S1E20.jpg

Christoph Niemann’s Abstract-o-meter - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Abstract-O-Meter-S1E20.jpg

Piet Mondrian - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Piet-Mondrian-Art-S1E20.jpg

Viktor Hartmann - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Viktor-Hartmann-S1E20.jpg

The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Carnival-of-Animals-S1E20.jpg

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Pictures-at-an-Exhibition-S1E20.jpg

Franz Schubert - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Timothy-Leary-S1E20.jpg

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - https://amzn.to/2OMxjYl

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://amzn.to/2ovwQPL

Great Courses - How to Make Stress Work for You - https://amzn.to/32i4abk

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracing, Cheating, and Imposter Syndrome Oct 08, 2019

Show notes

Does copying from photo reference make you a fake artist? Is tracing considered cheating? Do you even have an art license?! We share our opinions about photobashing, tracing, and drawing from photos. We also discuss the debilitating effects of imposter syndrome and how it might sometimes be a good thing. Stan’s thang brings back childhood memories :)

Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Andrew Loomis - Fun with a Pencil - https://amzn.to/2Vitr2G

Photobashing examples: David Kirk, Helio Frazao - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Photobashing-Examples-S1E19.jpg

Maxfield Parrish - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Maxfield-Parrish-Art-S1E19.jpg

Clare Torry - Great Gig in the Sky - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd - https://amzn.to/2ATdvuq

Jessica Nguyen - @Jessketchin

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Too Old to Start Drawing? Cosplay Fashion Design? Voicemail Marathon!! Oct 01, 2019

Show notes

It’s a voicemail marathon! We answer a bunch of questions from listeners of the podcast. Topics include the fear of being too old to be a professional artist, cosplay fashion design, and knowing when a painting is finished. Stan paid Karl Kopinski to do an original painting on his book cover. If you have a question for us, make sure to call and leave us a voicemail at 1-858-609-9453.

Questions in this episode:

How do you know when a painting is finished?

What are the fundamentals for cosplay fashion design?

Am I too old to become a professional artist?

How do you deal with people that want you to help them with their big idea?

How do you balance fun and work when working for a client?

Will there be a Skelly app with muscles?

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Megatrends by John Naisbitt

William Stout

Berni Wrightson: A Look Back by Christopher Zavisa (Editor), Berni Wrightson (Illustrator)

Barron Storey

Claire Wendling

A History of Costume (Dover Fashion and Costumes) by Carl Kohler -

Shel Silverstein

New Yorker comics

Writing For Comics by Alan Moore

My Adventures as an Illustrator by Norman Rockwell

Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

To Think that I saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr Seuss

The Big Kopinski by Karl Kopinski

Fullerton College Children’s Book Illustration Certificate

William Steig

Beatrix Potter

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making Money as an Artist Sep 24, 2019

Show notes

Time to make those dolla’ dolla’ bills fly yo! Marshall and I talk about various ways artists make money such as freelancing, getting a job, and starting your own business. We also dive into our own stories about how we made money and answer a voicemail question about taking commissions. And Kim Jung Gi drew an unflattering portrait of Stan.

Some show links contain affiliate links to amazon.com

Linchpin by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/2m84HMZ

Tribes by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/2mgWypn

Rembrandt - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Rembrandt-Paintings-s1e17.jpg

William Blake - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/William-Blake-Paintings-s1e17.jpg

Vincent van Gogh - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Vincent-van-Gogh-Painting-s1e17.jpg

John Singer Sargent - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/John-Singer-Sargent-Paintings-s1e17.jpg

Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk - https://amzn.to/2kGp43y

Neil Gaiman's speech, “Make Good Art” - https://amzn.to/2l9BSzt

Marshall’s Artistic Development Workshop - https://www.curaoc.com/turningartpro

Kim Jung Gi drawing of Stan - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Kim-Jung-Gi-Stan-Prokopenko-Drawing-s1e17.jpg

Learn to Draw -