Workshops

You are only as good as you draw. In fact, there is NOTHING beyond drawing. Since drawing is the top, everything else, artistically speaking, is subjected to it. Regardless of how well you paint, you are only as good as you draw. In light of these truths, I have designed this class to unpack my 35-year approach to drawing using classical instruction, a hint of caricature and exaggeration fused with passion, and an ever increasing, intense love for drawing.

“Listening to you was like catching a flame…you were burning!” - Ralf Ricker

I’ve drawn for everyone from Mad Magazine to Time Magazine, The New York Times to Disney. I also teach drawing and painting classes online for Schoolism.com. Teaching is a natural extension of who I am and what I do. When I teach these workshops, it’s ultimately an opportunity for us to interact and revel in the wonders, the difficulties and the joys of drawing.

We all want to get to the next level and that’s what this drawing and painting workshops are all about.

Come and join me as we help build each other up in the love of drawing and painting, catch the flame and combust together!

After all, it’s so stinkin’ cool to be alive and drawing and painting!

UPCOMING workshops

HOW I Draw: First ever Online Workshop

Saturday and Sunday, November 1 - 2, 2025
ONLINE in my studio 10:00 am - 2:00 pm | Central timezone

A 2-day drawing workshop of total Drawing Madness. Super pumped to unpack How I draw and How I think and How I move through a drawing. Questions I seek to crush are… How do I get a likeness? How do I exaggerate? What do I exaggerate? How do I begin a drawing? WHat is Blind Contour Not really? How do I get to the next level? Why is drawing the tops? How do I get great? Those questions and more I will address.

I share with you my 40+ years of experience and work with you where you are as an artist. The main emphasis of this workshop is to help you think and learn how to make a drawing that’s ALIVE!

I will also unpack my classical education side as well going over form, value and Wonk: Yes, Wonk is the new official classical skillset.

Day One: Meet up and I unpack my drawing concepts. Here’s a few.