{"id":10644,"date":"2021-11-30T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:39:44","slug":"drawfest-is-back-by-popular-demand-december-18-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/drawfest-is-back-by-popular-demand-december-18-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawfest is back by popular demand, December 18 – 19"},"content":{"rendered":"Drawfest 2<\/a>, the hands-on, live streaming event featuring multiple drawing related programs is back by popular demand, following the success of the original Drawfest held earlier this year. Streaming live on YouTube, December 18 and 19, the event consists of online workshops and lectures held by an assortment of internationally recognized illustrators and animators. Everyone interested in drawing and keen on learning from professional content creators is welcome to join. The event will offer simultaneous interpretation in both Japanese and English so that people from numerous regions will be able to participate in the festival.\n\nThe first Drawfest, held May 22 \u2013 24 of this year, was viewed by approximately 10,000 artists worldwide with a watch time of more than 20,000 hours, of which approximately 65% were from outside of Japan. More than 1,000 people were in the Drawfest Discord voice servers at all times. Up to 300 people were streaming their drawing processes at any given time, so the participants were fully engaged and they came away from the event feeling inspired.\n\nWhile pre-registration was required for last May\u2019s event, Drawfest 2 organizers have decided to give everyone a chance to be able to participate and is opening up the online event to anyone who wants to jump in without pre-registering. However, please note that those who pre-register will have access to various gifts provided by the emceeing artists and sponsors.\n

Drawfest 2 Event Information<\/h3>\n\u30fbDate & Time: Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 8:30 AM Pacific to Sunday, December 19 at 01:00 AM Pacific\n\n\u30fbLanguages: Japanese, English, partially Chinese (Simultaneous translation)\n\n\u30fbNumber of Programs: 7 slots\n\n\u30fbEvent Location: YouTube Live Public Livestream\n\n\u30fbParticipation Fee: Free of charge (Free pre-registration with gifts available)\n\n\u30fbEvent Details and Pre-registration here.<\/a>\n

Drawfest 2 Schedule<\/h3>\n8:30 - 10:00 [PST]\n\n[Draw all together] Drawing your dream holiday with James Chapman.\n\nEmcee Artist: James Chapman\n\nArt Tool Sponsor: POSCA\n\nJames Chapman, an artist, specializing in a water-based paint marker brand \"POSCA,\" will be drawing exotic holiday scenes with a range of color schemes and answering questions along the way.\n\n11:00 - 12:30 [PST]\n\n[Draw all together] How to tell stories in your illustrations.\n\nEmcee Artist: Kevin Hong\n\nThe program will focus on how to draw a scene and tell a story within an illustration. It will explore generating and brainstorming ideas for storytelling and using techniques like composition and color to build a narrative between characters and their environments.\n\n13:30 - 15:00 [PST]\n\n[Lecture] Color and shade long beautiful hair with Rosuuri.\n\nEmcee Artist: Rosuuri\n\nRosuuri walks through her method for coloring and shading long and lovely hair. We start with assessing the character within a scene that includes mixed sources of shadows. She demonstrates how to choose the right colors and tools to quickly and beautifully bring the hair to life.\n\n16:00 - 17:30 [PST]\n\n[Lecture] Expression of light and space in artworks from an architectural point of view.\n\nEmcee Artists: Shougo Kawata (teamLab) x Yutaka Kikuchi\n\nArchitects who have been involved in various museums, public architectures, and events around the world will provide expert advice on essential lighting theories for staging scenes, such as a relationship between locations (daylighting) and cultures.\n\n18:30 - 20:00 [PST]\n\n[Art Battle] Art Battle: Defeat Zeen Chin.\n\nEmcee Artist: Zeen Chin\n\npixiv will bring you 3 themes for the art battle. Draw your best artworks to compete with Zeen Chin.\n\n21:00 - 22:30 [PST]\n\n[Lecture] The Legend of Hei - Behind the scenes of anime production.\n\nEmcee Artist: XRiverN\n\nContent Sponsor: Legend of Hei\n\nAn animator of a Chinese smash hit anime film \"The Legend of Hei\" will take the session to share the front line of its animation production process.\n\n23:30 - 01:00 [PST]\n\n[Lecture] First ever 3-language-rendition (Chinese, Japanese, English)! \u201cKK Magic School\u201d is coming to Drawfest.\n\nEmcee Artist: Krenz\n\nKrenz will lecture on basic techniques to draw accurate and convincing perspectives. This is his first class ever to hold not only in Chinese but Japanese and English as well.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2318,2317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25954746,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions\/25954746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}