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Marshall's Teaching Credentials


 Marshall Vandruff
Laguna Niguel, California


I am a teacher of classic drawing, painting, storytelling and pictorial arts.

I've taught part-time at Fullerton College for 24 years (1984-2008).

My classes have included:

  • Anatomy for Artists (13 semesters)
  • Perspective & Rendering (5 semesters)
  • Drawing from the Masters (19 semesters)
  • Illustration (9 semesters)
  • Watercolor Painting (16 semesters)

In 1996, Don Lagerberg hired me to teach at California State University Fullerton.

My classes at CSUF have been:

  • Life Drawing (7 semesters)
  • Animal Drawing (14 semesters)
  • Sequential Art (14 semesters)

Since 1997 I've taught various classes for the Laguna College of Art and Design, including:

  • Animal Drawing
  • Watercolor
  • Artistic Anatomy
  • Visual Thinking
  • Comic Book Illustration
  • Children's Book Illustration
  • Sequential Art (17 semesters)
  • Directing for Animation (co-taught with Aubry Mintz)

I made my living as an illustrator for about twenty years, and learned how to draw by teaching classic draftsmanship in colleges. I love learning and working in classrooms when the students love the subject.

Since 1999, I have taught 31 semesters of Sequential Art in universities as well as at LAAFA and Blizzard Entertainment.

I do seminars and itinerant teaching all over Southern California, and I teach regularly at the LA Academy of Figurative Art. I've also taught Composition and Anatomy in the following corporate art departments:

  • Interplay Corporation
  • Insomniac Games
  • Rockstar Games
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • A large, famous entertainment empire in Anaheim that had me sign an agreement not to use their name to promote my teaching. But it went well.

 

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