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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