Life Drawing 2: The Figure & Foreshortening
6 Week Class | Available
This course is intended for those with some prior figure drawing experience. The focus will be on depicting human forms in deeper space than standing and more upright sitting poses. We will look at a variety of approaches that can help with better describing foreshortened body forms.
Base Tuition: $333 + Model Fee: $85 + Material Fee: $5 = $423 Total
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- What you Will Learn
- Approaches to sighting and measurement
- About the role negative shapes can play in helping place figure forms
- To use `shape envelopes’ on a macro and micro level to establish figure information
- To visualize figure forms as `simple volumes’
- To use `cross-contour’ mark-making to amplify the sense of volume in images
- To use `atmospheric’ or `aerial’ perspective to help convey depth
Thomas Hendry
Thomas is a Toronto-based artist, has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1996. Hendry has been active as an art instructor for over a decade, and he believes that learning art should be a positive discovery process. He practices this teaching philosophy beyond the Toronto School of Art at Sheridan College, The Haliburton School of Fine Arts, the AGO Gallery School, OCAD Outreach Program and the Toronto District School Board.
His drawings, shown in numerous exhibitions, use the means of traditional art to create contemporary images, images that address the beauty, mystery and complexity embodied in the human form.
1996 BA (Honours), University of Guelph
1994 Diploma (Honours), Ontario College of Art
1983 Arts; Sake Inc.