Glenn Vilppu on Mastering Fundamentals and Developing Your Artistic Voice

Draftsmen

Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff

Visual Arts, Design, Arts

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Legendary artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu sits down for an intimate discussion on his artistic journey, sharing wisdom and advice for mastering fundamentals like gesture drawing and developing your own artistic voice. Vilppu explains his training under old master artists and transition from painting to animation, emphasizing imagination over imitation. He provides tips on how to study classical techniques, use anatomical references, and avoid common mistakes like stiff gestures. Glenn Vilppu - vilppuacademy.com/ Learn to Draw - www.proko.com Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, drafts people. To help fill the void and the lack of episodes in your draftsman
0:05.3	feed, we're rewinding back to five Proco Classic interviews and one new one. You're listening
0:12.4	to this new miniseries where we take a deep dive into the lives, journeys, and minds of some
0:18.4	of the most fascinating artists and instructors from fine art
0:21.8	masters to comic legends.
0:24.3	This next interview is very special to me.
0:26.9	Glenn Vilpoo was the first artist I interviewed for Proko back in 2013.
0:32.5	He was nice enough to invite me to his home to interview him back when I had no right interviewing such
0:38.8	big legends like him. He had a huge impact on my artistic path. My high school teacher
0:44.0	would show his VHS tapes in class and throughout my full-time student years, I would constantly
0:50.8	reference his figure drawing manual. His wisdom from this interview rings as true as it ever
0:56.5	did. It's a pleasure to bring back this interview with Glenn Vilpooh.
1:05.9	It's dressing show. Yeah.
1:12.1	Welcome to Proko.
1:17.3	My name is Stan, and we have a very, very special guest, one of my heroes, Mr. Glenn
1:17.7	Villaput.
1:20.1	Thank you so much for letting me come to your studio.
1:21.0	Oh, you're welcome.
1:25.2	Before we start into some of the questions that people submitted, I want to tell you how much of an honor it is to be here.
1:27.3	You were one of the first instructors that I was exposed to as a kid.
1:31.4	In my animation class in high school as a freshman, one of the first videos that my animation
1:37.8	teacher played was one of your VHS tapes back 13 years ago.
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