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Ram Studios Comics ART SCHOOL Online

Welcome to Ram Studios Comics Art School Online!

Happy to announce that I will be hosting my courses here now https://ram-studios-comics-art-school.teachable.com
Not to worry if you are a student on the other platforms, I will still be taking care of you and adding new content. This new site will allow me to address certain needs that have come up time and time again.

For those of you that are new here, my name is Robert A. Marzullo and I have been creating online courses for over 7 years now and it has been an amazing journey. I have been able to help over 120,000 students from all over the world. I get to see their progress and offer feedback or encouragement where I can. I am extremely grateful to be doing this for a living.

I have been primarily using Udemy, Skillshare, and Gumroad to host my content. They are all great but they all have some major flaws as well. With Udemy and Skillshare I have to be careful how I communicate with the student. I cannot direct them off site for one. That can be a problem when I need to help the student but afraid to get a strike from the platform. Skillshare is pretty great overall but I can’t currently respond to students with any draw overs. Those are really helpful to show someone exactly what I mean in a response to their question.

What will I learn?

The main things you can expect to learn from this site are figure drawing, comic art, benefits of digital art programs and how to use them, traditional art techniques, creature design, and character design. I also want to help artists realize their potential at achieving success. It amazes me that so many talented people fail to achieve their goals when they have so many awesome opportunities these days.

The primary Art applications I use and teach are Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Photoshop, and Sketchbook Pro.

Here are some of the great features of the new site –

  1. Better lesson structure with comments + images attached to each lesson.
  2. Live-streaming options to be help students and offer mentor ship programs.
  3. More control for me to communicate with you properly without worrying.
  4. Specifically designed and focused on art education.
  5. Better overall student experience.

I will be uploading all my courses here in the next few days. I already have a couple of my most popular courses on there. Be sure to sign up for updates if you are interested in knowing more.

This should be a huge help for everyone involved. Feel free to give me any feedback you have or let me know if have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support and good luck with your art!

-Robert

Dynamic Anatomy for Artists – Drawing the Muscles of the Arm

As artists and especially as comic artists we have to have a good understanding of human anatomy. It is not an easy task but it is definitely worth the effort. You can immediately tell when an artist spends time doing their studies of the human body. From gesture and figure drawing to countless illustrations of the complex muscles and their relationships, nothing about it is simple but it truly transforms your art into something to be desired.

I avoided these studies for far too long in my own career. Even after hearing criticism from professional artists and editors that I admired. We have all been there or will hear it at some point, “You need to work on your anatomy! It is never fun to hear a comment like that but it is the cold hard truth. If you want to be a great character artist, you need to study anatomy.

So let’s stop avoiding what we know we need to learn. I created these lessons to help simplify the anatomy and make the drawing process easier to accomplish. In this first class we will focus upon the Arm Anatomy. Here is the class introduction to let you know what you can expect to gain from it –

Welcome to my class, “Dynamic Anatomy for Artists – Drawing the Muscles of Arm.”

Dynamic Anatomy of the Arm for Artists
Dynamic Anatomy of the Arm for Artists

I am extremely excited to bring you these lessons on drawing the muscles.  Learning anatomy isn’t easy but it will vastly improve your ability to draw impressive character designs and comic book superheroes.

What You Will Learn in This Class – 

  • How to Draw the Muscles
  • Basic Terminology
  • Visual Patterns
  • Form + Volume
  • Stylizing the Work
  • Efficient Ways to Improve

This class is designed to simplify the process of drawing the arm anatomy.  I will teach you the basic forms that I use to draw the arm from memory and you will get access to all the art files to study along with.  Including diagrams with all the terminology.

Don’t beat yourself up though!  Just try to improve a little each day and commit a muscle or two to memory here and there.  Consistency is the most effective way to improve in my opinion.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, right?! 😉

Dynamic Arm Anatomy Drawing
Dynamic Arm Anatomy Drawing

After you work through the anatomy breakdowns I will show you how to implement this into a few examples. We will work on these to help you transition your new skills into your own stylized version.

Signup for this class here on Skillshare – https://skl.sh/2REAuCA

or

Get the Lessons Here on Gumroad – https://gum.co/pXUkR

I am here if you have any questions and remember you can send your artwork for me to review by using my contact form here on the website. You can also submit your artwork as a project file on Skillshare as well. Next we will be covering Leg Anatomy so I hope you will join me for that class as well! 🙂

Sincerely,

Robert A. Marzullo

Ram Studios Comics

www.staging.ramstudioscomics.com


How to Draw Dynamic Superheroes – Start to Finish! Now on Udemy

How to Draw Dynamic Superheroes - Course
How to Draw Dynamic Superheroes – Course

How to Draw Dynamic Superheroes – Start to Finish

Get the Course here – https://www.udemy.com/how-to-draw-dynamic-comic-book-superheroes-start-to-finish/?couponCode=RAMSTUDIOSCOMICS

In this course, you will learn how to draw dynamic superheroes step by step. You will work along with me as we break down all the major components that comprise the superhero characters that we know and love. You will learn about proportions, anatomy, suit design, foreshortening, rendering, perspective, and how to draw dynamic poses from your imagination. These action poses are essential to creating powerful characters that can tell an amazing story!

If you want to improve your ability to draw a variety of characters effectively, then this course is for you. The techniques that I will teach you here can apply to all sorts of art styles. Everything from game art, comics, concept art, and even figure drawing. These methods will teach you how to draw imaginative bodies with confidence.

I am very confident you will find this course to be a valuable asset in your educational collection but if you find anything that would make this a better experience for you and the other students, please let me know.  I will be happy to improve the course content as well as add new lessons when needed.

You also get all the art files to work along with throughout this course.  Please share your artwork in the Q&A Section and I will give you any feedback that I can.

I thank you for viewing my course and good luck with your art!

Robert A. Marzullo

Ram Studios Comics

Learn to Draw Action Heroes – Available for Pre-Order

Learn to Draw Actions Heroes – Step by Step

Super excited to share that my new book, “Learn to Draw Action Heroes” is now available for Pre-Order on Amazon! I just received my advanced copies and the quality and page layouts are sweet. Impact Books does a tremendous job putting all this content together. The art isn’t half bad either. 😉

The actual book will be available on September 13th 2017. It is 144 page step by step guide to drawing superheroes. I tried my very best to make this extremely comprehensive and easy to follow along with. This should be a great beginner to intermediate guide for comic book artists.

I go through various parts of the body and show lots of break downs. I have always learned the most from these types of studies so I felt it made the most sense to teach others in this manner.

Here is a sample page to check out the look –

Learn to Draw Action Heroes Sample Page
Learn to Draw Action Heroes Sample Page

You can get your Pre-Order copy here on Amazon –

http://amzn.to/2soW3Yp

If you prefer a Digital Copy then you can get that now here on the

North light Store –  https://www.northlightshop.com/how-to-draw-comic-book-heroes-r4576

If you get a copy of the book I would love to know what you think!

Thank you for your support and good luck with your art.

Robert A. Marzullo

Ram Studios Comics