Reply To: Online painting classes – anyone?

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@elromanozo – *you* wouldn’t need the high-end cameras; I didn’t imagine an online, live, video thing. From what I understand (I’m only getting bits of info from my wife about how her classes will be run, but they sound interesting) it’d be more like “here’s this week’s topic” (for us it might be faces, armour, weapons or whatever). “Here’s how you can make this effect look good” then “off you go, practice and send in your results”.

The students take photos of their own work and email the tutor – the real-time video stuff is less about showing what you’ve been working on; each student does this individually with the tutor throughout the week, to get feedback and instruction. Students share their work for each other to see online, but this doesn’t form part of the tuition (let’s be honest, when people who don’t really know what they’re doing either try to give criticism, without being able to correct it, it can be dispiriting).

So students would need a decent-enough camera to take photos of their minis, but I’d expect the tutor to be receiving and responding to emails more than anything – although the whole thing could be moved onto a (private) online forum? (email is just an example of non-realtime means of feedback, a forum somewhere on this site might be just the thing…)