Learn Life Drawing for Beginners Tutored Workshop

Learn Life Drawing Course for Beginners

Saturday 30th March - 10:45 -14:30 - Friends Meeting House, Manchester

The Learn Life Drawing – A Foundational Course to Drawing the Human Body, teaches essential foundational life drawing and perception skills to make visually accurate figure drawings. This fully guided course covers topics such as:

Seeing shape: Translating the three-dimensional figure into a two-dimensional drawing.

Contour: Noticing the direction and rhythm in the contours of the human body.

Negative Spaces: Noticing the negative space that surround the body and using these to establish proportionally accurate drawings.

Seeing Tone: Understanding the variations of light and dark tonal values in the figure.

Mark-Making: Using line to describe direction, weight, rhythm, and speed.

Knowledge required:

• Beginner/First Timer friendly.

What we will provide:

• Table easels
• Drawing boards
• Paper
• A range of graphite pencils
• Charcoal
• Erasers and sharpeners

By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently produce personal, focused and responsive figure drawings.