NEW Figure Drawing LIVESTREAM Experience - 'WUSHU: The Martial Way,’ - January 21, 2022

Master Drawing Japan Presents
'WUSHU: The Martial Way,’ A Figure Drawing Experience
 
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 Master Drawing Japan Presents
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'WUSHU: The Martial Way,’ A Figure Drawing Experience
A Figure Drawing Experience With Ki Creative Studio
Kiクリエイティブスタジオと「モーションストーリー（つながりのある動き）」の人物ドローイングを体験しましょう

Link: https://eventregistration.ctnadmin.com/event_details.php?id=418
 
 
TIMEZONES:
Friday, January 21, 2022, 6 pm - 8 pm, LOS ANGELES
Friday, January 21, 2022, 9 pm - 11 pm, NEW YORK 
Saturday, January 22, 2022, 11 am - 1 pm, JAPAN
Saturday, January 22, 2022, 7:30 am - 9:30 am, INDIA
Saturday, January 22, 2022, 10 am - 12 pm, CHINA
(Subject to Change)

As we launch into a new era of global creativity, collaboration and support for artists, CTN brings creative communities together from around the world to join hands to better help enrich artists in our combined communities. 
 
MASTER DRAWING JAPAN has exciting plans to share its amazing magic with CTN   supporting each other in a common language that connects artists on a level that all artists can connect on.
 
私たちは、世界的に新しいものを生み出すクリエイティブな活動やアーティストとのコラボレーション、アーティストをサポートする時代に突入した。CTNは、世界中のそれらに関するコミュニティを結集し、あらゆるアーティストの活動をより活発にするために協力します。
MASTER DRAWING JAPANはCTNと協力して、皆さんにあらゆるレベルのアーティストとつながることができる貴重な機会を提供いたします。

 
DESCRIPTION: 
This session entitled, WUSHU - The Martial Way, will present the spirit of Chinese Kung Fu through expressive and dramatic poses. Model: Keisuke Wakita (脇田圭佑),  a champion-level practitioner of Chinese Kung Fu systems known as Wushu and Tai Chi Chuan.   In Japan he is dedicated to spreading the art of Chinese martial arts through his instruction, demonstrations and stage performances.   More can be learned about him at:  https://wackey04.wixsite.com/mylife


 
The poses will be 1 minute, 5 minute, and 10 minute along with moving poses. We invite the global animation industry to come draw with our Ninja Sketch Warriors for 2 hours.

 
CTN ARTIST ENRICHMENT ART BOOK RAFFLE
At the end of this session, a lucky artist will be chosen at random to receive a surprise special art book. (NOTE: You must be present in this webinar to be eligible to participate in the art book raffle)



概要：
WUSHU - セッションは、武道の一種である中国カンフーの精神を、表現力豊かにドラマティックなポーズと共にお届けします。モデルは、脇田圭佑（Keisuke Wakita）氏です。武術太極拳や太極拳として知られる中国カンフーにおいてトップレベルの技術をもっており、日本でその技術の指導、デモンストレーション、舞台公演を通じて中国武術を広めることに専念しています。 詳しくはこちらをご覧ください。https://wackey04.wixsite.com/mylife
 
内容：
日本からのライブ配信による2時間のモーションストーリーです。
ポーズは動くポーズを含めて、1分、3分、5分、10分になります。
本イベントは、アニメーションの専門家が実施する技法（練習方法）を用いておりますが、どなたでもご参加できます。
セッションの合間に短い休憩があり、途中で15分の休憩が1回あります。


BONUS
抽選でアートブックをプレゼント！
このセッションの最後に、ご参加いただいた皆様の中から、抽選で特別なアートブックのプレゼントいたします。（注：アートブックの抽選に参加するには、このウェビナーに参加する必要があります）

 

Anatomy of a Fight 1: Fight of the Year

This animation short entitled, "A Warrior's Dream" by animation director Li Jing has been floating around for the past week.  Given it has two of my greatest passions animation and martial arts, I had to say something. 

Donnie Yen is one of the leading popular martial arts actors today.  Son of another famous martial arts master, Bow Sim Mark, Donnie has a long history in the martial arts world.  Recently he has been noted for his portrayal of the Wing Chun Kung Fu grandmaster, Ip Man. (Sometimes written as Yip Man)  Grandmaster Yip Man is greatly renown as Bruce Lee's first formal martial arts teacher. 

Bruce Lee of course needs no introduction.  Founder of the Jeet Kune Do philosophy,  greatest influence on modern martial arts in the 20th Century.  Forever the king of martial arts motion pictures.  Period.  

The film does fall a bit short with some of the nuance that gives animation sparkle and true life.   Some performances copied rather than acted and a lack of "cushioning" or "easing out" that should be there no matter how fast or precise these martial arts legends are.  With a larger budget or more time, I'm very confident that would not be the case. 

All THAT said, this was amazing to watch and obviously there was a lot of love and hard work behind it.  Martial arts in films are basically special effects.  Without a story behind it becomes boring or meaningless quite quickly.   In this case, however, it's an exception. 

Bruce Lee and Hanna Barbera Animation Deal?

 

 I was rummaging through my old martial arts reference books.  Many of which are related to Chinese martial arts.  One of my favorite historical references is a comprehensive collection of Bruce Lee's letters to his family, friends, martial arts and film colleagues:   Bruce Lee:  Letters of the Dragon, Correspondence, 1958 - 1973. edited by John Little.  

The last letter written by Bruce Lee on the last day of his life, July 20, 1973 leaped out at me:

41, Cumberland Rd. 

Kowloon, H.K.

July 20, 1973.

Adrian Marshall
Suite 920, Century City
10100 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, Calif. 90067
U.S.A.


Dear Adrian,

Will be arriving Los Angeles on Aug. 3rd, would like to sit down and hope you can leave open the weekend of Aug. 4th and 5th to discuss the followings:
1/ the deal with Hana Barbera
2/ Warner's proposition
3/ Titanas from Italy
4/ Andy's proposition from H.K. which I will explain to you when I see you in person
All in all, it will be a hectic schedule with television shows, United Press interview, etc., spending one week in L.S. and leaving on Aug. 18th to New York for another week of publicity, maybe Johnny Carson Show and so forth etc. And then, my publicity tour will officially end on Aug. 24th and on Aug. 25th I will meet Linda at L.A., ready to come back to H.K. hopefully in one piece.
In the meantime, if there is any preliminary discussions that you can start without my presence, go right ahead. However, I would prefer you and I sit down first and discuss the whole plan of the income tax situation before we proceed on. Also, I would like to meet with you first before meeting with Raymond Chow and then both of us will hear him out. By the way, there are also other propositions of books, clothings, endorsements, etc. At any rate, I will talk to you personally when I see you.

Take care my friend,
Very truly yours, 


Bruce 

PS: Looking forward to a sincere opened and honest relationship between you and I to really do something fair and square. By the way, SY Weintraub had just called and will be flying here to H.K., supposedly to have devised a super plan for me. At any rate , I won't sign anything until I and then maybe Raymond and/or SY sit down and we all talked. So get prepared!! See you soon. 



At the top of the list  Bruce Lee wanted to discuss with his attorney, Adrian Marshall was a "deal" with the animation studio Hanna-Barbera, which in 1973 was exploding with made for TV animation content.  Hanna-Barbera's other Chinese themed cartoon, "The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan" had already run its one season course.  However the faces we were seeing on television slowly but surely were becoming more ethnically diverse.  It's doubtful that Bruce would have landed a whole animated TV series this at this point in his Hollywood career.  But it's likely he could have been slated as an animated guest on "The New Scooby-Doo Movies"  which featured both real and fictitious popular personalities such as Cass Elliot, Davy Jones, and Batman and Robin. 

 

 In 1973, the "Kung Fu" TV-Series was doing well, and Bruce Lee, (the man who fathered the idea of that show) was about to bombshell western pop-culture with his re-introduction to American audiences in "Enter the Dragon".  The film, which even 40 years later is still the bar for all martial arts films to live up to. 

 If this deal with Hanna-Barbera was already greenlit, it's a no-brainer that the studio's animation great Iwao Takamoto would have overseen the project.  Iwao Takamoto, former assistant to Disney's Milt Kahl was a world-class draftsman.  Would have loved to see his model sheets interpreting Bruce Lee for animation.