Drawing Class - Beginner to Advanced

Service Description

In these structured art classes, students will be taught exercises to help develop their drawing skills, such as still life, landscape, or portraiture. The outcome of the beginner class will give the students an understanding of proportion, form, and space. The advanced class will help students to develop skills in drawing the human figure, learn about the realistic depiction of human anatomy and experience life drawing sessions. Sketch for Beginners • Line and texture • Proportion and composition • Tone, shape, and shading • Negative space and perspective • Contour and volume Portrait Drawing • Geometric equivalents of the head, neck and shoulders • Cranial masses and their influences on the appearance of the head and face • Monochromatic colour and colour temperature • Light and shadows to create 3D forms • Characteristics of the features and how to observe them in all faces • Adding more power in a portrait by drawing hands interacting with the head and face and more Advanced – Life Drawing • techniques used to represent or reflect the human form • human physiology and anatomy relevant to figure drawing • sources for more information and ideas • techniques used in observational drawing • how tools, media and techniques can be used to achieve effects in drawing • aspects of historical and contemporary observational drawing