Expressive Figure Drawing
10 Week Class | Available
This course focuses on capturing life, energy and emotion in figure-drawing by teaching students gesture drawing skills, a fundamental skill that can be used for a variety of subjects including people, animals, still-life set-ups, outdoor environments and more!
Strong gesture drawing focuses specifically on capturing the essential form of your subject, it's position in space, and movement, absent of surface detail. Using live models and primarily short poses, we’ll work on capturing the gesture through a variety of exercises including emphasis on line of action, major direction of the pose, how masses in the body control the movement and how to emphasize different expressions. We'll introduce colour to further enhance emotion in our drawings and focus on proportion, negative shape studies and comparative measurements. All skill levels are welcome!
Classes will include live demo drawings, student critiques, and handouts. Optional homework assignments will be offered each week and reviewed as a class. Homework exercises will include; gesture drawings of hands, pets, and objects around your home.
Note: There will be no class on Monday, February 17th due to the Family Day Holiday
Base Tuition: $480 + Model Fee: $115 + Material Fee: $10 = $605 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How to draw the line-of-action
- How to draw the figure in motion
- How to make your figure drawings feel life-like and expressive
- How to express weight and pressure in a pose
- How to draw the masses of the body in three-dimensions
- Basic Proportion Skills
Lindsey Rosenow
Lindsey is a Toronto-based Artist who has been teaching in Toronto for the last 6 years.
She has taught film making, stop motion and classical animation, script writing, camera editing and video game design at the Toronto International Film Festival. And at the Animation Portfolio Workshop, topics included Gesture Drawing, Structure Drawing, Anatomy, Character Design, Perspective, Layout Design, Composition, Animation for beginners, and Storyboarding. Currently, Lindsey is working freelance with a focus on design jobs for animation as a layout artist and prop designer.
Lindsey is a big believer in progressive learning - she values transferable skills over singular assignments, making sure that all lessons work cohesively with one another.