Glenn Vilppu Drawing Seminars in Tokyo - SEPTEMBER 2026 グレン・ビルプ先生 東京ドローイングセミナー

Learn Figure Drawing from a Master

Glenn Vilppu, one of the most influential drawing instructors of the past 50 years, will lead a two-day seminar in Shinjuku, Tokyo on September 19–20, 2026.

A former layout artist for Disney, Warner Bros., and Marvel Productions, and long-time instructor at Walt Disney Animation Studios and DreamWorks, Vilppu has shaped generations of professional artists. In this intensive seminar he will share his clear, practical approach to figure drawing—focusing on gesture, anatomy, and composition.

Open to artists of every level. Every participant receives direct feedback and personal critique.

A rare chance to study with a true industry legend.

マスターから人物デッサンを学ぶ

過去50年で最も影響力のある絵画講師の一人、グレン・
ビルプー氏、2026年9月19日・20日に東京・新宿で2日間の集中セミナーを開催致します。

ディズニー、ワーナー・ブラザース、マーベル・プロダクションズでレイアウトアーティストとして活躍し、ウォルト・ディズニー・アニメーション・スタジオやドリームワークスで長年指導してきたヴィルプー氏は、数多くのプロフェッショナルを育ててきました。

このセミナーでは、ジェスチャー、解剖学、構図を中心に、明確で実践的な人物デッサンの方法をレクチャーします。

初心者からプロまで、あらゆるレベルの方が対象です。 参加者全員に直接のフィードバックと個別講評を行います。

業界の真のレジェンドから直接学べる、貴重なチャンスです。

Event Overview

Dates: September 19 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2026 | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Duration: 360 minutes (including breaks)

Capacity: 35 participants

Format: Hands-on

*Japanese interpretation provided

Venue: NT Goburin [Shinjuku-sanchome] – 5-10-14 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022

Price: 35,000 JPY (excl. tax)

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Learn Gesture Drawing and Quick Sketching from a Master

Glenn Vilppu, one of the most influential drawing instructors of the past 50 years, will lead a one day seminar in Shinjuku, Tokyo on September 27, 2026.

A former layout artist for Disney, Warner Bros., and Marvel Productions, and long-time instructor at Walt Disney Animation Studios and DreamWorks, Vilppu has shaped generations of professional artists.

In this seminar he will share his clear, practical approach to gesture drawing and how to draw human figures quickly and effectively that tells a story.

Open to artists of every level. Every participant receives direct feedback and personal critique.

A rare chance to study with a true industry legend.

巨匠から学ぶジェスチャー・ドローイングとクイック・スケッチ

過去50年間で最も影響力のあるドローイング講師の一人、グレン・ヴィルプ（Glenn Vilppu）氏が、2026年9月27日に東京・新宿で1日セミナーを開催します。

ディズニー、ワーナー・ブラザース、マーベル・プロダクションズでレイアウト・アーティストとして活躍し、ウォルト・ディズニー・アニメーション・スタジオやドリームワークスで長年にわたり指導を行ってきたヴィルプ氏は、数多くのプロのアーティストを育成してきました。

本セミナーでは、ジェスチャー・ドローイングに対する明快かつ実践的なアプローチに加え、ストーリー性を感じさせる人物画を素早く効果的に描く方法を学びます。

あらゆるレベルのアーティストが参加可能です。参加者全員が、直接フィードバックや個人的な講評を受けることができます。

業界の真のレジェンドから直接学べる貴重な機会です。

Event Overview
Dates: September 27 (Sun), 2026 | 12:00 – 18:00
Duration: 360 minutes (including breaks)
Capacity: 35 participants
Format: Hands-on
*Japanese interpretation provided
Venue: NT Goburin [Shinjuku-sanchome] – 5-10-14 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022
Price: 17,500 JPY (excl. tax)

開催概要
開催日：2026年9月 27（日） 12:00 – 18:00
講義時間：360分　※休憩も含みます
定員：35席
講座スタイル：ハンズオン
※日本語通訳あり
開催場所：エヌティGoburin【新宿三丁目】- 〒160-0022東京都新宿区新宿5丁目10−14２０
価格：17,500円（税抜）

See Master Drawing Japan to Reserve / 予約

SPECIAL OFFER:  

Register Today and include the Discount Code:  KICSTUDIO26 and Receive a 10% discount!   

This discount code expires August 17, 2026

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今すぐご登録いただき、割引コード KICSTUDIO26 をご入力ください。

10%オフになります！

割引コードの有効期限は 2026年8月17日 までです。

 

Glenn Vilppu Drawing Seminars in Tokyo - MARCH / APRIL 2025 グレン・ビルプ先生 東京ドローイングセミナー

Glenn Vilppu will return to Tokyo for a two weekend drawing seminar March 29th, 30th and April 5th and 6th.    Glenn Vilppu has been a drawing teacher for over 50 years. He is considered one of the world's leading art instructors in draftsmanship. He has taught at the Disney Animation Studio, Dreamworks and Warner Bros. animation studios and many other leading animation studios. He is still sought by students and professionals today and considered the best drawing instructor in the industry of animation or graphic arts.  


グレン・ビルプ氏は、3月29日、30日、4月5 , 6日 の2週間の週末の描画セミナーのために東京に戻ります。グレン・ビルプ氏は50年以上にわたり、ドローイングを教えています。優れた指導者として知られる彼は、ウォルト・ディズニー・アニメーション・スタジオ、ドリームワークス、ワーナー・ブラザースをはじめ、大手アニメーションスタジオで指導をしてきました。ビルプ先生の人気は高く、学生、プロを問わず教えを求める人が数多くいます。また、アニメーションやグラフィックアートの業界では最高の指導者のひとりとされています。    #アニメーション　#animation #セミナー　#Tokyo

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3/15 人物クロッキー会 @ 創形美術学校​ - 3/15 MARCH Drawing Workshops at Sokei Academy of Art and Design

 

March 15th  from 1:00PM to 4:00PM , I will be giving figure drawing instruction at the Sokei Academy of Fine Art and Design!  This figure drawing class is open to EVERYONE.  Attendees range from students, illustrators, animators, instructors and even beginners.  Please come and join me for a fun drawing session! Please see https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawing for details! 

We are excited to have YAWAKIN-CHAN as our guest model! 

3月15日（土）午後1時から4時まで、創形美術学校にてフィギュアドローイングの講師を務めさせていただきます。イベントはどなたでも参加できますので、是非ご参加ください。以下 https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawing 

#デッサン　#イラスト　#クロッキー　#スケッチ　#漫画　#東京　#Kicstudio #クロッキー会

KICStudio Drawing Hacks#200：全部を描き切らなくてOK！ 焦らずにジェチャーをとらえましょう

 

2/1 人物クロッキー会 @ 創形美術学校​ - 2/1 FEBRUARY Drawing Workshops at Sokei Academy of Art and Design

 

February 1st  from 1:00PM to 4:00PM , I will be giving figure drawing instruction at the Sokei Academy of Fine Art and Design!  This figure drawing class is open to EVERYONE.  Attendees range from students, illustrators, animators, instructors and even beginners.  Please come and join me for a fun drawing session! Please see https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawing for details! 

We are excited to have MISTRESS SYOKO as our guest model! 

2月1日（土）午後1時から4時まで、創形美術学校にてフィギュアドローイングの講師を務めさせていただきます。イベントはどなたでも参加できますので、是非ご参加ください。以下 https://www.sokeiabroad.com/figuredrawing 

#デッサン　#イラスト　#クロッキー　#スケッチ　#漫画　#東京　#Kicstudio #クロッキー会

Jules Feiffer 1929 - 2025, Cartoonist, Writer, Civil Rights Activist, Good White Liberal

It was announced that Jules Feiffer passed away on January 17th 2025.   His great career spanned over 70 years and he will be remembered for being one of America's most insightful cartoonists and satirists. He worked under  legendary cartoonist Will Eisner, illustrated numerous literary works such as The Phantom Tollbooth,  was a  staff cartoonist for the Village Voice and was even a Hollywood screenwriter for Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge as well as Robert Altman's film adaptation of Popeye. 

Feiffer had a great sense of cartoon design that conveyed  much about a character with very simple and clear line.   World renown drawing instructor, Glenn Vilppu has referred to Fieffer's use of line in his lectures on more than one occasion.  

Feiffer's contribution to the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s truly deserves to be noted.  

Feiffer was quoted in the August 25, 2014 issue of Comics Journal, " That [The Vietnam War]  and the civil rights revolution were basically the two political acts that essentially defined my career as a political cartoonist.

Civil rights leader,  and advisor to the Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Bayard Rustin said the Jules Feiffer was a pioneer in defining the "white liberal".   

In 1966 the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith published a collection of Feiffer's civil rights themed cartoons into a book titled,  "Feiffer on Civil Rights".  Inside Feiffer takes aim at not just the brutish ignorant white racist, but also the casually racist white liberal who also suffers from a type of ignorance.  Blacks who wear their identity like a costume in order to be accepted, or blacks who use civil rights as a money hustle are also pointed out. 

Feiffer, a self-proclaimed liberal, seemed to be capable of a very important quality: self-criticism and the ability to humorously point out his side's own hypocrisies.  Not just pointing the finger at the ones you disagree with but also yourself.    A trait that seems to be lacking in liberals today, as well as conservatives.   This might be part of the reason for the current generations' hyper-reactivity to the slightest form of criticism. 

"Civil rights used to be so much more tolerable before Negroes got into it." , a very insightful punchline from a Feiffer cartoon.  Pointing one of the greatest stereotypical white liberal hypocrisies: Expressing moral vanity about blacks without ever having to actually live with them as your equal. 

My mother Doris Funnye Innis, editor of the Congress of Racial Equality publication, Rights and Reviews corresponded with Jules Feiffer in 1966 and persuaded  him to contribute one of his political cartoons to the civil rights organization.   The cartoon satirized the sordid symbotic relationship between the Black Power movement and the forces of white supremacy.  Like a destructive Yin and Yang, one always enabling the other. 

Jules Feiffer was a not a good but a great white liberal in that, he expressed himself in his work earnestly  as possible,  pointed out the faults of those he felt opposed to without savagery, and being fully honest about where his side is falling short. 

Feiffer roasted human nature itself.  A fault in our character we all share. 

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