Anyone from central tx or the ATX area?

[Whirligigs]

Is anyone from central tx or the ATX area going? Just curious... :-D

[Justin.]

I am, but I'm going home for the holidays and leaving from there, unfortunately, sorry. I'm in North Austin, Leander area (Just off 2243 if you know where that is)

[archstanton]

I went to the one they did here in Austin a few years back, it was pretty good.

-d

[Grooveholmes]

I'm in Austin, and I'll be there. :)

[dakmoden]

Not in Austin. But 4 of us from Gearbox in Dallas are goin

[Whirligigs]

Sweet! I'm glad I won't be the only one there :-) Are all of yall professionals?

[Danomight]

I'm in Austin, and I'll probably be going.

[Grooveholmes]

Sweet! I'm glad I won't be the only one there :-) Are all of yall professionals?

LOL, I guess I am. That depends on who you ask.

[Kaffinated]

I'm just a hour south from Austin in San Antonio and I shall be there. Aspiring professional coming to learn and have some fun.

[Whirligigs]

I'm just a hour south from Austin in San Antonio and I shall be there. Aspiring professional coming to learn and have some fun.

You don't happen to know a guy named Jon do you?

[Fuse06]

I'm just a hour south from Austin in San Antonio and I shall be there. Aspiring professional coming to learn and have some fun.

That's cool, I'm from San Antonio too, but obviously too young to afford, or go. lol.

[Kaffinated]

You don't happen to know a guy named Jon do you?

Depends on the last name. Plenty of Jon's travel in my circle of friends.

[Dkmaster]

But, unfortunately just moved out to AZ

[AmontilladoAg]

Power to the College Station, TX kids!.... wish i could go *pouty face*

[hp]

There is a group from Dallas going. ^^

[Benjamen Christ]

i was raised in a little town called Uvalde outside of San Antonio. im in hawaii right now. Really miss the rivers in Tx though.:(

Ben Christ

[dakmoden]

I'm the character artist on Borderlands at Gearbox software in Plano, TX and me and a buddy who does environment art here are both going to be there. Gearbox was actually cool enough to send us so we'll see ya there.

[Fedoruh]

Not going, but looking for people to draw with in the area if anyone's interested. I'm in central austin off mopac and beecaves/rolling wood (2222, I think)

[archstanton]

Sweet! I'm glad I won't be the only one there :-) Are all of yall professionals?

Yes, I guess thats what you call it.

[tanjaw68]

Fantastic workshop. Now if I can only apply some of it. How did you all enjoy the workshop ? Are any of you involved in any figure drawing around the Austin area ? I recently moved here from LA and would like to find a place locally where I can draw. BTW, I work as a concept artist for a local game studio.

tanjaw

[Grooveholmes]

What studio are you at tanjaw?

I've been going to Dr Sketchy sketchgroup but its really really bad. Garbage-in Garbage-out sorta thing.. I dont think i'll be going back to it for awhile after the workshop. That would be like eating at a five-star restraunt then having your next meal at taco bell.

I'm definitely interested in finding a good sketchgroup around here or possibly starting a new one with you guys and doing it right.

[Justin.]

I am sort of trying to start a sketchgroup, but it's way north.

Austin has a sketchgroup with a bunch of the Spacetime guys, guys from Liquid, and Sammy goes as well. It's at Genuine Joe's at 7PM on Wednesday evenings.

I am going to start attending the AVAA life drawings on Monday nights, if anyone cares to join me.

[Danomight]

tanjaw68 - The Austin Visual Arts Association holds life drawing Sundays from 2-5 pm and also Mondays from 7-10 pm. It's only 5 bucks per session and you don't have to be a member or anything, just show up and draw.

http://www.avaaonline.org/
They have a map on their site.

[arechiga_tony]

Hey guys!!!
Im from dallas...............i do some game stuff

hey i just want to let you guys know that there is going ot be a huge meet up between the 2 big texas sketchgroups......lotz of pros will be attending. Like guys from ID software, Ensemble Studios, Terminal Reality, and maybe a few from Gearbox.....(not to sure on the Gearbox Guy's) Also a few peeps from Austin will be going like guys from Vigil,and Nc Soft. Not to sure on the Austin peeps...........here is the INFORMATION link

Austin/Dallas Sketchgroup Get together! (http://dallassketchgroup.blogspot.com/2007/12/austindallas-sketchgroup-get-together.html)

i would like to see you guys there.

[Pheuronskeurts]

wish i was going to this, i fly back into austin on sunday!
Lots of people are coming from dallas, so i hope everyone has a great time =)
ill see the dallas sketchgroup the following weekend

[arechiga_tony]

Pheuronskeurts- yeah its going to be an awesome lil gt together..

[geminischooltexas]

For you austin area folks, we don't have drawing/sketching classes at the moment (we're expanding some space here, so may have something towards mid year)...but do have evening painting workshops. Students are all professionals...mostly from austin studios. If you're interested, more info is here:http://www.geminischool.com

Just click on the events link. We also host open houses/industry nights throughout the year. Usually with demos from local artists--fun--casual and good networking. If you want to get on that invite list, feel free to email me. cynthia@geminischool.com.

Nice to hear the feedback on sketching opps around town, our students sketch every morning, but I'll tell them to keep an eye out here too. thanks! Cynthia

[tanjaw68]

Great to hear of the opportunities for life drawing...thnx, all.

Did anybody get a chance to sit in on the Kevin Chen's lecture at Revelation? Kevin is an old friend and colleague of mine from Dreamworks Int. and EA-LA. I love the way he teaches figure drawing. If you haven't had a chance to take a workshop with him, I'd highly recommend it.

[Justin.]

Hey Cynthia, what would the possibilities be of having open figure drawing sessions at some point during the week- no instructors, just students, a volunteer moderator and a model, about 10 dollars per session? AVAA has one but you guys are way closer.

[geminischooltexas]

Funny, one of the Sony guys called last week asking about the same thing! Yes, once our new space is finished I'm sure we can work something out--I'm hoping by March. Right now we just don't have the room. If you want to shoot me an email (cynthia@geminischool.com) I'll let you know directly when we can host a group.

thanks!

[tatiana]

Fantastic workshop. Now if I can only apply some of it....I recently moved here from LA and would like to find a place locally where I can draw. BTW, I work as a concept artist for a local game studio.

tanjaw


Hi tanjaw68/tanjaw (is that Jon G.?)

Welcome back to Texas...?
I sent you a PM. :)

- Tanja W.
(tatiana)

[Wetterschneider]

The Wednesday night sketchfests have been a lot of fun. I get pretty shaky by the end of the evening from the too goo to be true "bottomless" cup that Joes serves.

The lineup of talented professionals who come out makes for quite the riot.