"Fantasy Illustration" with Kekai Kotaki on Nov. 12~!!

*** Update - Currently full, but accepting waiting list for any last minute cancellations. ***

Here are some more samples of Kekai's recent artworks:

Demos & Photos from Gouache Landscape Painting Workshop - Fall 2011

Day 1, in door slide lecture:

Day 2 photos from Vasquez Rocks:
On site demos:

Day 3, Laguna Beach photos:
On site Demo:
(Photos by Sherwin Abesamis & Fred Palacio)

CDA Live Demos at Bluecanvas Launch Event~!!

Hi Everyone,

This Thursday (Oct. 13), Radford Sechrist and Kevin Chen will be doing live demos at the Bluecanvas live event from 6~11PM. This is a free event in junction with the LA Art Walk in Downtown Los Angeles. For more information, visit Bluecanvas website for event details:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/launch-event

Hope to see you there~!!

(Update - Bellow are the photos from the event. Enjoy~!!)

Second floor - Live demo room:

Our Models for the event, Tiffany & Larva:

Rad doing some great story sketches inspired by the poses:

Kevin's figure quick sketches:

Artworks displays from the 1st floor art gallery:


Thanks to everyone that came by and hope you all had a great time~!! :)

"Gouache Landscape Painting" with Mike Hernandez

Hi Everyone,

Mike Hernandez will be returning to CDA for a 3 day landscape painting workshop on Oct 21, 22 and 23.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn from one of the best teachers on this subject.

To sign up, please contact the school at contact@conceptdesignacad.com
or 818-669-4657.

Thanks for your time :)

"LASCAPES" - Vol. 1

Our good friend and CDA student, Jason Elvrom just released his new book "LASCAPES - Vol. 1".

It's a wonderful book showing beautiful paintings of locations in LA that we often don't get a chance to slow down and appreciate the charm. A great coffee table book for landscape lovers and for budding landscape artists looking for fun places to explore.

For sale now on the Blurb website. Check it out~!! :)

"Landscape Painting" with Leighton Hickman

"Story Development for Animation" with Rad Sechrist

Click on the image bellow to check out Rad's story sequence from the movie, "Megamind":
To view some more of Rad's storyboard samples, you can check out his hilarious short story his did for his friend, "Francesco goes to Hollywood~!!":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
You can also find some great story structure notes on his "Rad's How To" blog:
Basic Story Structure Notes

Enjoy your visit~!!