These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was named “Chocolate Bar Drawings” by an earlier class, because the conte was used on it’s side instead of on it’s end, as if we were dragging a chocolate bar across the newsprint (yum). Another day we focused on weight and balance. Still another day we did large soft mass shapes, countered by intricate contour lines. I love to look at these drawings. They so beautifully capture each moment.
A drawing is a record of your focus.
Beginning Figure Drawing starts Sunday, and this fall I’ll add a Level 2 class for people who collected gold points and an extra life in Level 1. If you’ve taken figure drawing at least once and want to step it up a little, this is the place to go.
Next Friday starts a special class on Hands & Feet: 5 weeks to focus on the complicated bits of figure drawing. When I was fresh out of art school and holding a certificate that said I could draw, I could sketch a figure, but never felt like I could get the hands and feet. I wasn’t comfortable drawing either until I did a series on them, and now I’m a lot more comfortable. My drawings don’t have empty spots, or fiddled hashes where the hands go.
In the first week of August is a specially requested class: Intensive Figure Drawing Teen Camp. The prerequisite is any time spent drawing, whether in class or on your own. If you want to learn how to draw better, but you’re not interested in being treated like a child, take this class. I’ll teach you all the same drawing lessons I teach in adult classes. This is an excellent portfolio builder for anyone with an interest in art.
Second week of August has a class no one asked for, but I am certain will make a big difference. “Heads” is a teen camp to teach how to draw in 3Dimensions, same as the adult class. It’s fantastic to see how fun and effective this class is.
Christians often depict Jesus as coming into their own culture, in their present time. The Italians, whose visual language was predominant during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, featured an Italian Jesus in Renaissance times, and they did it so often and so well that when you think “Nativity,” you probably think of the church art …
Among his monotype and pastel works, Degas did a series featuring a young model bathing in private interior scenes, many with the light coming in from a window. The model appears to be caught midway into a movement, making triangles with her body. While the bathing models make a variety of shapes in various …
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This post is from Barry Berridge, a returning student who is currently in my beginning drawing class. Advice from a beginning drawing student I wanted to share an observational drawing habit I started this month that might also help other beginners: There’s a coffee shop super close to my apartment with lots of cool plants …
33 Figure Drawings
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Lucy Garnett
These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was named “Chocolate Bar Drawings” by an earlier class, because the conte was used on it’s side instead of on it’s end, as if we were dragging a chocolate bar across the newsprint (yum). Another day we focused on weight and balance. Still another day we did large soft mass shapes, countered by intricate contour lines. I love to look at these drawings. They so beautifully capture each moment.
Beginning Figure Drawing starts Sunday, and this fall I’ll add a Level 2 class for people who collected gold points and an extra life in Level 1. If you’ve taken figure drawing at least once and want to step it up a little, this is the place to go.
Next Friday starts a special class on Hands & Feet: 5 weeks to focus on the complicated bits of figure drawing. When I was fresh out of art school and holding a certificate that said I could draw, I could sketch a figure, but never felt like I could get the hands and feet. I wasn’t comfortable drawing either until I did a series on them, and now I’m a lot more comfortable. My drawings don’t have empty spots, or fiddled hashes where the hands go.
In the first week of August is a specially requested class: Intensive Figure Drawing Teen Camp. The prerequisite is any time spent drawing, whether in class or on your own. If you want to learn how to draw better, but you’re not interested in being treated like a child, take this class. I’ll teach you all the same drawing lessons I teach in adult classes. This is an excellent portfolio builder for anyone with an interest in art.
Second week of August has a class no one asked for, but I am certain will make a big difference. “Heads” is a teen camp to teach how to draw in 3Dimensions, same as the adult class. It’s fantastic to see how fun and effective this class is.
Enjoy the drawings.
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