Life Drawing Basics
8 Week Class | This course is currently not open for registration.
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: $406 + Model Fee: $100 + Material Fee: $5 = $511 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
Thomas Hendry
For over 40 years, Thomas' passion has been drawing. His art depicts human figures with sensitivity, character and honesty. Teaching at the TSA since 1996, his courses provide the building blocks for students to develop their own drawing practice. He believes that learning art should be a positive discovery process in a supportive environment. Thomas has also been faculty at Sheridan College, and taught at the AGO Gallery School and the OCADU Outreach Program.
University of Guelph, BA, 1996 Ontario College of Art, Diploma, 1994