Life Drawing Basics

Life Drawing Basics

6 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-04-15 12:00 PM

Adult: Introduction-Intermediate
2025-07-22-2025-08-26
6:00 PM-9:00 PM on Tue
$423.00 CAD

Life Drawing Basics

6 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-04-15 12:00 PM

This course will guide the participants through a contemporary/classic approach to drawing the human figure, touching on the major foundations of the drawing process: gesture drawing, contour and mass drawing, measurement and proportion, and some consideration of light and tone.

Instruction consists of drawing from the model, supplemented by short lectures, demonstrations and handouts. Focus in this class will mostly be the undressed bodies of people, the exercises processes used can apply with equal relevance to most other observational drawing situations. Primary emphasis is on the overall figure. Detailed areas such as heads and faces are reviewed, but not in depth.

Base Tuition: $333 + Model Fee: $85 + Material Fee: $5 = $423 Total
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  • What You Will Learn:
    - Some major approaches to figure drawing: gesture drawing, contour drawing, blind contour, cross-contour, volume drawing modeled drawing
    - Developing free, expressive gesture studies

  • - Explore using a range of art materials: conte crayon, chalk, willow charcoal and compressed charcoal
    - Setting down light shadow shapes on the figure
    - Achieving reasonably accurate proportions, when desired
Hendry, Thomas
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.