Drawing for Beginners 2021 "All About the Body"

This fun short course will introduce the beginner to drawing focusing on the body with a a skeleton and a live model. This is also a great course  for those wanting to re-discover figure drawing.

Each session will include quick, fun exercises and then a focused, longer drawing. The focus will be on cultivating skill and improving technique as well as exploring the possibilities in terms of materials, and making work in a fine art or illustrative style or individual creative approach.

• Lesson 1: Composition and Negative Space with the skeleton
• Lesson 2: Drawing a Portrait
  
• Lesson 3: Anatomy & Proportion from the model and the skeleton
• Lesson 4: A creative drawing from the model

Materials to be supplied by the student
4 x A2 Newsprint; Soft Compressed Charcoal; Medium Woodless charcoal; Putty Rubber, 2 x A2 Cartridge and 2 x A2 Cape Liner       

Lecturer 

Silver Mackenzie

4 lessons totaling 8 hours