Learn
TO draw
Anything

Learn professionally draw and develop your own artistic style. Suitable for complete beginners. Adults & Teens

Nearest start date:

Wednesday, 17 January

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The course lasts for 5 weeks and consists of 5 lessons

90% practice and 10% theory

Course program

First Lesson: “Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start…”

· Pre-instruction drawings—a valuable reminder for later in your progress
· Exercises to help you see—turning off the left brain, switching on the right.
· Volume drawing—chiaroscuro tonal zones. Build and hatch different geometric shapes: a cylinder, a ball, and a cube.

· Warm up exercises to aid in making the mental switch.
· Make a view finder—a visual aid that helps with placing objects in your drawings.
· Still life drawing—learn how to use a view finder and draw what is in front of you.

· Use the skills and techniques from the previous lessons to draw a landscape.
· Practice some mark-making techniques to inform your drawing.
· Landscape with bridge- understand and reinforce aerial perspective.

Second lesson: Still Life Drawing

Fourth lesson: Landscape Drawing

Third lesson: Interior Drawing

Fifth lesson: Self-portrait Drawing

· Upside down exercise to kickstart your right brain
· Chair in a space drawing—think of Van Gogh’s interior artworks.
· Using negative space to your advantage—drawing the space next to objects.

· Warm up exercises to get you in the right state of mind.
· Practice the basic rules for drawing portraits.
· Self-portrait—all the previous lessons and exercises have prepared you for this. Be prepared to surprise yourself.
· Compare your pre-instruction drawings with those you have made throughout the course. Can you see how far you have come?

What is included in the course:

Five 2h30 art sessions

All materials: paper, pencils, charcoal, rubber etc

A drink of your choice for every session

Time and Place:

DATE

TIME

January 17, Wednesday