The Drawing Club

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all of my drawing teachers who

unselfishly shared their knowledge and wisdom with me:

Dick Sangalli, Alonson Appleton, Dennis Nolan, Richard

Heidsieck, Joe Price, Paul Sousa, Mary Vartikian, Vincent

Robbins, Craig Nelson, Vernon Wilson, Lori Madden, Harry

Carmean, Mark Strickland, Steve Miller, Peter Liashkov,

James Griffith, Burne Hogarth, and Jack Leynnwood.

Thanks to my old Art Center department chairman, Phil Hays,

for inspiring me to always think on a grand scale.

Special thanks to my mom and dad for letting me study art,

thus allowing me to leave my dual career as a gas station

attendant and food-service employee.

I would like to thank my loving wife, Traci, for letting me stay

out late every Thursday night to be at The Drawing Club.

Thank you, Jill von Hartman, for designing this book—beautiful!

Thanks to Emily Wong for generously spending too much time

scanning the images for this book.

I would like to thank Mary Ann Hall and Laura Putre for their

patience and understanding in helping this first-time author

put this book together.

Thank you, Tony Liu, for your brilliance in designing all the

different Drawing Club websites over the years.

Thank you, Nancy Lilly, for helping me book models, and to all

of the amazing models we have here in Los Angeles! I wish I

had more room in this book for model photographs. I’m sorry I

couldn’t get more of you into the book.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me set up, clean up, and

construct stuff: Erik Olson, Steve Huston, Joe Ceballos,

Rich Tuzon, Ronald Kurniawan, John Puglisi, Danelle Davenport,

Frank Stockton, Josh Cochran, Mike Neumann, Forrest Card,

Stacey Aoyama, Lizzie Nichols, Tiffany Jiles, Mauricio Abril,

Erin Althea, Mike Bertino, Eryn Stinzel, and Emily Wong.

I’d like to thank Mark Ryden, who convinced me that I had to

do this workshop after checking out the space for the first time

with me and to FSY Architects for generously subletting to us

since 2002. Sorry for making such a mess every week.

To everyone who has come to draw at The Drawing Club:

You are The Drawing Club, and to all of you who have found

us on the Internet and follow what we do, you are The

Drawing Club, too!

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