Johnny's Art Journey

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 10:58am
Written by AW

It's a great feeling when as a student you're able to impress the teacher. One of Justin BUA's art students sent him this portrait drawing - which if you notice is made up entirely of hundreds (thousands?) of the little "BUA"s. Incredible! BUA posted the picture from his Facebook page, where it's gotten a ton of feedback and positive praise from people all over the world. We reached out to the artist, who's been studying how to draw with BUA's online art lessons for a couple months now, and we're very excited to showcase him in our latest edition of "Profiles in Online Learning."

justin bua portrait by johnny utah

AW: How old are you and what should we call you?

JU: My name is Johnny Utah and Yikes I’m 36!

AW: Where are you from?

JU: Born in Seoul, Korea and moved out to the US in 1981. I have been living in La Habra, California since then.

 

It's a great feeling when as a student you're able to impress the teacher. One of Justin BUA's art students sent him this portrait drawing - which if you notice is made up entirely of hundreds (thousands?) of the little "BUA"s. Incredible! BUA posted the picture from his Facebook page, where it's gotten a ton of feedback and positive praise from people all over the world. We reached out to the artist, who's been studying how to draw with BUA's online art lessons for a couple months now, and we're very excited to showcase him in our latest edition of "Profiles in Online Learning."

justin bua portrait by johnny utah

AW: How old are you and what should we call you?

JU: My name is Johnny Utah and Yikes I’m 36!

AW: Where are you from?

JU: Born in Seoul, Korea and moved out to the US in 1981. I have been living in La Habra, California since then.

Learning How to Draw Online - A Student's Perspective

Wed, 08/21/2013 - 11:01am
Written by AW

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Check out this great blog from one of our art students who's been learning how to draw online with Justin BUA. She's written about her experience taking BUA's online art lessons, check it out by clicking on the image or visit her website at www.celestinepaints.com. Bottom line: she's just 3 weeks in and already noticing a difference, how awesome is that!

We love hearing from students about their online learning experiences at ArtistWorks. So if you have something to say don't be shy... Email us at customerservice@artistworks.com for any feedback you have, whatever the case may be. Or if you have your own website and want to write about us, be sure to let us know so we can link to it!

How To Draw Caricatures

Wed, 07/17/2013 - 7:42pm
Written by JustinBua

"How to draw caricatures" is one of the most commonly asked questions that I get (be sure to also check out my interview with ArtistWorks all about caricatures here). This is important stuff for sure, because if you master how to draw caricatures you are also practicing the fundamentals of excellent distortion. Excellent distortion is really a profound exploration of the sitter's soul. If you dial into the essence of the person, into their inner self, you will see their life on written into their features. Rugged crows feet tell stories not only of ones age but of struggles, experiences and journeys. The direction of wrinkles reveals the attitude and outlook on life. When you think about how to draw caricatures, it's not just an exploration of funny features but a look into the heart and soul of the sitter.

Yes, if someone has a bizarrely big nose you probably want to exaggerate that feature but you should also ask why the nose is big. Is it cartilage growing after years of aging? Is it because they had it broken 6 times because they were an underground bare-knuckle fighter? Make sure there is a rhyme and reason for the distortion!!! That will make your voyage of how to draw caricatures more clear and emotional.

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Justin BUA Now Teaching How To Draw Online

Tue, 07/16/2013 - 12:24pm
Written by AW
Topics: art, bua

how to draw with Justin BUA now open! Today is a big day for us over here at ArtistWorks, we've just opened the doors to the Online Art School with Justin BUA and we're very excited. It's the first time we're teaching people how to draw online as opposed to our other online learning schools which focus on music. Adding online art lessons felt natural for us, because the concept of what we do is essentially the same - visually teaching something through the exchange of videos works for any visually taught subject. So with the Online Art School, there's an online curriculum containing video art lessons which students go through at their own pace, and there's a master teacher available to guide the students through the curriculum and give them feedback when they submit videos. 

BUA is the perfect art teacher for this - not only because he's a world renowned artist and former USC art instructor, but because he understands art on a fundamental level from his own experience of learning how to draw both in and out of the classroom.  It's out of his own passion for art that BUA is able to articulate exactly what it takes for anyone to learn how to draw with his online art lessons. Welcome aboard to all the new art students! 

To put ArtistWorks' transition from online music lessons to online art lessons into perspective, we asked Launch Manager and Director of Media John Graves what he thinks:

"It's been really interesting working on these art lessons. I wasn't sure what exactly to expect before we started, since everything we'd done had been around music [and singing] lessons, but as soon as we started filming it was clear that we were onto something big.