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Price: £120
Refine your life drawing skills with this short intensive refresher course over 8 weeks.
- Capturing body proportion using gestural drawing
- Shading to create form
- Long poses, capturing proportion, foreshortening and shadows
- Long poses, capturing proportion, foreshortening and shadows
Details
- Members and non-members welcome
- Number of classes: 8
- Places are limited
- Paper, charcoal and pencils will be provided
About the tutor
Niall Deegan graduated from the National College of Art & Design in 2005 with a B.Ed in Art and Design Education. He started teaching in the UK in 2007 and currently works as an art coordinator at Tuke School in Peckham.
NB The below outline is intended to give a good indication of what material students can expect to cover during the course, but the exact content of the course may differ.
Week 1: Focus – Gestural drawing. Mapping the body. |
Week 2: Focus – line drawings, full figure, proportions |
Week 3: Focus – introduction to the male |
Week 4: Focus – introduction to the female |
Week 5: Incorporating hands and feet. Drawing the body and having the hands and feet also detailed in line. Fingers, toes etc |
Week 6: Introduction to the structure of the body in laying down/seated poses. Foreshortening |
Week 7: Focus – entire body drawing from a variety of poses using a variety of warm-up exercises initially to break any anxiety – opposite hand drawing, continuous line etc. |
Week 8: Collaboration of all skills at this final stage. |