Introduction to Drawing
11 Week Class | Available
Students will be guided to explore line, texture, value, positive and negative space, light and shade, proportion, natural perspective, composition and mark making. Through weekly warm ups, presentations, demonstrations and exercises, you will be drawing from (natural) objects, views, images and imagination. You will explore a variety of dry and wet media and will be introduced to artists who use drawing in their art practice in an art historical and contemporary context. Group critiques and individual feedback will be part of each class.
Beginners and those with some drawing experience are welcome!
Base Tuition: $505 + Material Fee: $25 = $530 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Quality of Line
- Working with helplines to assess and amend proportions and perspective
- Creating textures
- Working with light and shade, tonal values
- Exploring negative and positive space
- Composition including cropping, close-ups and magnification
- Mark making
- Exploring wet and dry media and various grounds
- Presenting and discussing your work
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.