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Interview 01
Interview 01
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site, I download their work and begin my with Jason Seiler” and it will be an intense nine
critiques. For my critiques, I work on a PC weeks. I’ll mix traditional with digital and teach
tablet and in this way I can draw and paint right my approach to painting.
onto the screen and record the whole thing.
My critiques are usually 25-30 minutes long. So far the experience has been really great.
The students then download a video file of me The best part about teaching at Schoolism is
drawing and painting, sometimes over their work watching a student really grow and improve
and sometimes starting from scratch to teach as an artist. I take on every level of talent. I’ve
them how I would go about it. It’s a one-on-one had students who were already quite good
correspondence course. and others who could barely draw. I take each
student on personally and if I have to make
Most of the painting I cover in this first course adjustments in order for them to learn and
deals with values and the importance of grow, I do. I’ll sometimes change the course a
understanding values. I’m currently working bit for a particular student; it becomes personal
on a new course that will most likely start this this way. If the student works hard and pushes
coming fall. My new course will be “Painting themselves, they will hopefully come out of
my course with a publishable piece of art, communicates with me and shares their process In your blog you mention that you’re currently
or if not then they will certainly have a new - if they can be honest with themselves - they working on a sketching DVD. I imagine that’s
understanding of what it will take for them to be will improve and complete the course a much quite a full-on process; just how do you go about
able to do that. stronger artist. I’ve had many students who were making a DVD? Were you commissioned to
good, but now after taking the course they’re produce it, or is it a personal pursuit?
Wow that sounds intense! Do you have any really good and I couldn’t be more proud. The DVD is called Sketching with Jason
advice for potential students thinking of taking Seiler. It’s not an instructional DVD on how
one of your courses? Is there anything they can It’s why I continue to teach. It’s always good to to draw caricatures – although I do draw a
do in preparation to make sure they get the very humble yourself, become “teachable”. I’ve had lot of caricatures or portraits – it’s more of an
best out of their chosen course? some students who were talented, and knew inspirational DVD where I share my drawing
Sure, my advice would be to do more than they were, and because of this they thought they and sketching techniques. The DVD will cover
what I ask. If I assign two to three sketches of had nothing to learn and therefore didn’t grow shape and form, cross hatching, thumbnails and
a person, do ten sketches. Always do more, or improve at all. Other students, who may not their importance, digital painting and digital paint
push yourself to the limit as much as you can. have been quite so good, passed them towards sketching, ball point pen sketching, watercolor,
Really, if a person does the work and more and the end. and much, much more. I share a bit about
Creating the DVD was a huge deal. It was a lot of work and I did all of it on
my own. I’ve gotten many requests over the years to do a DVD and I felt
that a DVD on sketching would be the best thing to start with because as
I think it’s important to establish a strong foundation by nailing sketching
and drawing before you get too far into painting.
The DVD is high quality and two hours long, with a bonus video of me
flipping through some of my sketchbooks, as well as a painting gallery and
a sketchbook gallery. My friend Nathan makes music videos for bands and
we worked on the DVD for about three months, filming hundreds of hours
of drawing and painting. We then spent about two and a half weeks editing
it all together. Because I used to be in a number of bands and know a lot
of musicians, I was also able to get professional musician friends of mine
to write music for the DVD.
the film quality isn’t all that with a really top-notch look and great sound. The only thing that I’m not
great either. I told Nathan happy with is my own voice … I can’t stand the sound of it!
One final question before you go: if you could produce a caricature
of anyone in the world, to hang on their wall for all to see, who
would it be of, and why?
I don’t know … this is a hard one. I think maybe Conan O’Brian;
I think he’s hilarious, he’d be fun to paint and it would be cool
to know he enjoys a painting that I did of him.
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