6-Week Online
Visual Development Mentorship
with Ron Baird
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About Ron Baird
About Ron Baird
Ron Baird is an exceptionally great Visual Development artist and illustrator. He recently worked on an animated film, David, as a VidDev artist. He also worked on Disney's Locarna (Trading card game) as an art director, and he has worked as an illustrator in publishing and consumer products.
Ron's Instagram ID: ronbairdart
Website:https://ronbairdart.com/projects
Ron's Artworks
What You'll Learn during this mentorship?
In this class, we will go over environment and prop design for animated feature films. Specifically for an adventure-themed film. This class will have a strong focus on production art, but will also include pre-production exploration paintings. We will go over composition, colour, perspective, draftsmanship and design principles that are commonly used in a film production environment.
Course Goals
Students will have a much more complete understanding of the design principles used by professional vis dev artists.
Students will understand how to execute their own ideas and produce convincing andcompelling artwork for themselves.
Students will exit the course with one or two new portfolio-ready pieces.
Other Advantages
During this mentorship, Ron will share his own reference library and other study material, which a student can use throughout the program and later.
You'll get weekly assignments, on which you'll get one-on-one feedback.
MENTORSHIP CURRICULUM
Week1: Design Basics
Week1: Design Basics
Students will learn the basics of design principles. These easy and yet powerful principles help you throughout your design journey for drawing any complex props & environments.
Week 2: Box & Shack Drawing
Week 2: Box & Shack Drawing
Shacks are an integral part of any environment. In this module, Ron will help you out with how to develop different types of shacks from the real-environment references.
Week 3: Environment Study
Week 3: Environment Study
Using reference
Main character dwelling
Foliage and environment drawing
FEEDBACK
FEEDBACK
After completing every three classes, Ron will do one-on-one feedback on every student's work, this will be a recorded feedback with drawovers and improvement suggestions.
Week 4: Prop callouts
Week 4: Prop callouts
Prop callouts are basically the detailed, zoomed-in visual elements used in concept art, design, and technical drawing to highlight specific features, textures, materials, or functions of a complex object.
Week-5: Composition & Values
Week-5: Composition & Values
In this module, you'll learn the types of compositions used to design different types of environments. You'll learn the principles being used in feature films and how compositing and staging work in big production.
Week-6: Colours
Week-6: Colours
Colours play a vital part in every art project; here, you will learn a unique approch of implementing the colour and the colour theory. Ron will show a demo on colours on different types of props, foliage & clouds and the key elements that support any environment.
FINAL FEEDBACK
FINAL FEEDBACK
Final feedback on your final assignment after 6-weeks class.
Duration: 6 Weeks
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
Starting Date: 8th March 2026, every Sunday at 8:00 PM IST (Mumbai, India Timezone) onwards. Which is 8:30 PM MST.
Mode: Online (Platform Zoom)
TO REGISTER, DROP YOUR DETAILS AT:
Send an Email to Book your slot: kaustubh@yourworkshop.art
Or contact/whatsapp: +91-9740580425
6-week Mentorship Fee: 360$ or 33,000INR.
*STUDENT DISCOUNT: 5K INR (28K) & 55$ (305$) (Based on a valid student ID; we'll consider students till the 2025 batch).
*FELXI-PAYMENT MODE: We offer up to 3 months of easy instalments at the mentioned fee.
PAYMENT MODE
*The payment link will be sent to the participant's email address.
During our Introductory Workshop
PREVIOUS STUDENTS WORK IN 2024
This is Ron's second time with Your Workshop, in 2024 he has taught more than 25 students and everyone did a fantastic work, right after his first two classes and by the end of the mentorship, they had a solid piece of a whole new world, which they just made it in the 6-week class. Now, it's your chance to prove.
OTHER BENEFITS
SESSION RECORDINGS
DISCORD GROUP STUDY
ONE-ON-ONE FEEDBACK
E-CERTIFICATE ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE CLASS
SEE YOU IN THE MENTORSHIP:)
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