Figure Sculpture
11 Week Class | Available
Employing the classical approach, students will develop their sculptural and observational skills in this course. Students will learn about armature building, materials and tools for sculpting. This course will follow a step-by-step approach to figure sculpting and will allow students to develop their skills while studying a specific body part at a time and the entire body. Students will work from direct observation using classical plaster casts of anatomical figures, the human skeleton, and then move to the life model. Each body part study will be broken down into simple stages of Mass conception and/or Ecorche (anatomy) with an emphasis on proportion, planar structure, bony landmarks, muscle groups and points of origin and insertion. This introductory level course is suitable for beginners and intermediate sculptors.
Notes:
- This course covers studies in the human figure; a nude or partially clothed model will be used.
- One class will be cancelled mid-term - date to be announced - course will be a total of 11wks.
Base Tuition: $495 + Model Fee: $125 + Material Fee: $55 = $675 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Armature Building
- Sculpting with clay: tools and techniques
- Human Proportions
- Sculpting the human form
- Simplifying the figure into geometric forms and structural planes
- Establishing bony landmarks and building up the Anatomy
- 3D gesture, flow and harmony
- Sculpting surface details
- All materials are provided and covered by the material fee.
- Students may wish to bring an apron and their own tools.
Florian Jacot
Florian is a visual artist who has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 2009. As well as instructing at TSA, Jacot has been teaching figure sculpture, artistic anatomy, and figurative drawing and painting since 2004 at such schools as Max the Mutt Animation School, Artist 25 Studio, Centennial College and Sheridan College.
Jacot works traditionally in fine arts and does freelance work digitally for the film and gaming industries. His work has been exhibited on several occasions in shows and galleries. In 1999, he received an award from The Sculpture Society of Canada for two of his sculptures.
2008 Digital Animation Diploma, Centennial College, Toronto
2001 Classical Animation Diploma , Classical Figurative Drawing and Painting, ARC Accredited Atelier, Max the Mutt Animation Inc, Toronto
1999 Academy of Realist Art (Michael John Angel Studio), Toronto
1999 Art Diploma, Interdisciplinary Art Program, Art Centre of Central Technical School, Toronto
1995 Post-Secondary Diploma, Preparatory Program for Medical Careers, & aux formations, Switzerland.