Classical Life Drawing
Classical Figure/Life Drawing
This 4.5-hour workshop aims to introduce students to techniques, methods, and styles of classical figure drawing. The online nature of this course provides the rare opportunity for students to follow the instructor's demonstration while drawing from the same perspective.
Why is it important?
Live models in these life drawing sessions make 10 different poses in 10 minutes. When you make multiple 10 quick sketches within 1 minute each, it trains your brain to comprehend and draw different angles of the head/face. This is definitely a good exercise for drawing head/face/human figures.
What is it about life drawing?
The human figure is an unforgiving subject - it allows no error in the way a landscape or an abstract work does. This will eventually train your brain to see your mistakes easily and correct them quickly.
How does this work?
Short poses
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Short poses are a great way to warm up the sketching. (Example: 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes poses)
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The essence of these shorter poses is just to capture quick gestures and movements of the model.
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Details are not of focus here.
Long poses
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These are poses are longer than 10 minutes.
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This gives you time to capture details of the pose.
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You may use watercolors or charcoal or graphite and start adding tonal values to differentiate highlights and shadows
Course Structure:
Overview
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Basics of life drawing (line, plane, forms, images, composition, light, gravity)
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Interpreting and Translating a 3D figure to a 2D drawing
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Establishing the initial form and shape of the human figure
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Tonal Rendering (Study of Light)
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Understanding a few old master’s drawings as reference
Day 1
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Capture gesture and essence: Timed short anatomy nude poses (5 X 2-minute poses 4 X 5-minute poses)
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Recreate any old master's work of your choice (from the folder that will be shared)
Day 2
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Tonal rendering (the study of light) (1 long pose 30 minutes)
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I'll review all the work and provide constructive criticism
Important: We'll be working from reference images/videos.
Class Etiquette (in case of a live model)
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Never ask, even politely, that a model consider continuing for longer
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Assume photography or screenshot is not allowed
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It is fine to direct the model back to the exact pose after they've had a break/stretch
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Time:
Day 1: 10:30 am to 01:00 pm IST
Day 2: 11:00 am to 01:00 pm IST
Price: INR 2200/- (Early Bird INR 1900/- for the first 5 students/ bookings before Feb 24, whichever first)
Workshop Type: Online sessions will be conducted via Zoom.
Materials required:
Pencils, Eraser, Paper, Sharpener
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Graphite pencils: HB, 2B, 4B or charcoal
Sharper/Sand Paper