LESSONS FROM DISNEY:
What Painting Ducks Taught Me About Art

If Leonardo painted Minnie Mouse, the same rules of rendering would still apply!
That's what I've learned from painting over 200 oil portraits of Disney Characters in famous paintings.

Purchase the workshop recording to hear entertaining stories, see interesting art, and try your hand at drawing like an Imagineer. 

Skills you'll learn in the workshop:

Capturing the spirit of a subject is less about features and more about story and gesture

  • How to keep a sense of play in your work

  • Why knowing your central story is so important 

  • Character starts with the simplest gesture

  • Nothing is too precious to be changed or even scrapped

Unique stories you'll hear:

How the "character police" at the company take their jobs very, very seriously

  • What I learned about the true psychology of Goofy

  • Details on Ursula's arm fat

  • How even a skeptic (like me) can learn to appreciate these characters

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