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Join Ukrainian-born artist Iliya Mirochnik as he passes on a 250-year-old academic method preserved at the Repin Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia and seldom taught outside of the Academy and never before on camera.
The Russian Academic drawing and painting approaches were uninterrupted by the modern art movements that transformed representational art in the West, and as a result, they provide a unique and clear lineage to the greater art traditions of the past. As a powerful approach that is both constructive and depictive, it combines the two methods that prevail in contemporary representational art.
In these three drawing Courses, we have set out to condense the entire program, spanning over eight years into a logical, step-by-step procedure. We have made improvements and added resources and exercises to explicitly drive home the concepts that are required to work in this approach.
We have also structured the course so that it is not only useful for professional and experienced artists but also artists with no drawing experience whatsoever.
The first course: the Fundamentals is our most comprehensive beginner-level course to date, including everything you need to get started.
In this lesson, Iliya will break down one of the most vital skills in this method: measuring. Using a pair of knitting needles, you will learn how to take accurate angles from life and then apply it to your work. You will also learn how to use proportional measurement and how to work from flat photos.
The New Masters Academy Coaching Program directly supports this Course. If you enroll in the coaching program, you can request an artist trained in the Russian Academic Method including Iliya Mirochnik himself. Click here to enroll in the Coaching Program.
Materials
- Graphite pencils
- Kneaded and Hard Erasers
- Sanding Block
- Utility Knife
- Roll of Paper, Smooth Sketchbook paper
- Staples
- Staple gun
- Easel
- Light source
I’ve watched part 3 of this course 4 times and every time I choose to continue this course it throws me to part 3.
Firstly, thank you very much for your course. I am a beginner. The course is perfectly structured and your videos are always clear and up to point. This is exactly the course I was looking for.
I am a struggling to get my angles right. I do my drawing from different locations, having rather busy lifestyle and much travelling. I often have to position my object (box etc) at the side of my easel. So to measure angle i have to step to side, turn and so on. I think it becomes a problem for measuring angles as my own position is slightly changing while move out to measure and then back to the easel. Can this pose a problem and how can i improve it?
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Where are the photos for the measurnig from photograph assignment?
Edit: I found these in case you need it: https://www.nma.art/images/drawing-forms-the-cube-2/
I am happy to announce that we have added 29 images to this lesson’s reference area 😀
Aliz, that is some impressive detective work! I went ahead and added these to the reference area for convenience 😀
Yeah, I’m gonna need Iliya himself to show me how to do this cuz I’m at a complete loss!! Am I holding the sticks at a 90 degree angle? And how do I hold them while trying to mark the page? I completely lose my angles!! This is beyond confusing 😫😫
Also do we use the pictures for references even if they’ll be different sizes?
Yes you can use any reference you’d like, and scale appropriately.
If you’d like Iliya to teach you, you can sign up for the coaching program 🙂
https://www.nma.art/coaching/I mean I like my coach. I just wish the instructors were more accessible. If I only get to talk to my coach once a month, who else should I turn to for questions or support? The instructors should at least provide their emails or something so students can ask questions about lessons. Cuz I’m flying blind right now about how to move forward. I don’t know if I’m doing it right or not. And I really don’t want to develop bad habits that I’ll ultimately have to unlearn in the future, when I’m paying to learn the right way the first time.
Hi Brittney, I forwarded your message over to Natalie our coaching coordinator, so that your feed back is heard and considered moving forward.
I don’t know if you are aware, but we have a really great discord channel where thousands of students come together in chatrooms to discuss art, give critiques, and help each other out. Its free, you just have to create a username.This link might expire, so remind me to send another invite if it does. I hope to see you there
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