Stephen
Missal
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About
Stephen:
Stephen
Missal is an instructor at the Art Institute of Phoenix,
and has been teaching at the college level since 1974. Listed
in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who
Among American Teachers, his artwork appears in many
private collections, including the late Frank Sinatra, Joshua
Logan, Itzhak Perlman, and Gary Owens. The New Britain Museum
of American Art has his art in its collection, and many
corporate entities display his work as well. He has done
art for Wizards of the Coast, Winchester Books, and other
publishers, and has done much commercial illustration, murals
and portraiture over his career. He is now an author with
Thomson Delmar Learning, and adjudicates art competitions
frequently. He is married with two children, and lives in
Scottsdale, Arizona. |
Behind Exploring
Drawing for Animation
Co-author
Kevin Hedgpeth and I decided that there was a void in the
relationship between drawing skills and animation in teaching
literature, and felt we could produce a work that would
fill that void. In the book, our own artwork is featured
and I was interested that the cover art, a painting of mine,
was chosen by Thomson Delmar Learning. Its genesis was difficult,
and took many preliminary drawings and much adjusting to
complete. Normally I don’t labor quite so much on
a painting. My favorite chapter is the one on character
development, probably because we both were able to play
a bit in the illustrations. A fun feature in the book is
the last chapter, in which we interview two of our colleagues
about animation techniques. Both were animators at Fox Studios.
This is a practical and “up-close” look at the
real world of animation. – Steve Missal
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