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Figure Narrative: From Gesture to Story with Iliya Mirochnik
📆 Tuesdays @ 9 am PT | Starting Oct 7th

  • Join NMA instructor Iliya Mirochnik for an 8-week Live Class that takes you from the first thumbnails to a refined narrative illustration. You will learn to design a clear narrative read through the human figure using time-tested illustration methods. Sessions cover composition studies, focal hierarchy, gestures that communicate intent, and selecting the exact story moment. From there, you'll refine readability with facial expressions and head angles, costuming and fold families, disciplined value planning, simple environments with purposeful props, and intentional edge control. You will complete at least one finished tonal illustration that reads at a glance and rewards close viewing.

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15 tokens for the full 8 weeks.

Library, Library+, or new to NMA, you can join this class in real time without changing plans.

Note: If you already have Live access through being a Program Student, a Live Plan, or Legacy Plan, you do not need to enroll with tokens.

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Iliya Mirochnik, originally from Odesa, Ukraine, earned his MFA from Russia's esteemed Repin Academic Institute in 2013. His art masterfully blends Russian aesthetics with American nuances. Among numerous accolades, he secured the “First Place” in the American Portrait Society’s competition. With exhibitions spanning from New York to Austria and a significant design for Miami's Icon Bay Residences, Mirochnik has been a dedicated professor at the Ringling College of Art and Design since 2018.