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Creative Life Drawing Foundations
£237.00 – £395.00
* Thursday morning 10-session course
* 3-day Weekend intensive course
– all materials included
Creative Life Drawing Foundations
A structured course teaching a holistic self-expressive approach to life drawing rooted in empirical observation. The Creative Life Drawing Foundations course offers beginners and more experienced drawers a deeply transformative life drawing experience teaching foundational skills to drawing, perception and creativity.
Creative Life Drawing Foundations is a fully taught tutor-led course that teaches the fundamentals of figure drawing via a variety of experiential exercises. Techniques, ideas, and approaches learnt on this course will form the foundations upon which to build all future drawing skills.
While being guided step-by-step, students will improve their observation skills, drawing accuracy, and attention to detail while developing a deeper clarity of vision of the model in 3-dimensional space.
Embrace the humanity of drawing the human figure from life.
Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
Course Outline
Students just beginning life drawing will benefit from learning a host of techniques to help them draw more accurately and avoid many common drawing errors.
For more experienced drawers, the course will offer an opportunity to reconnect with new ways of thinking about creativity, perception, and what it means to create life drawings that capture the essential life-force and movement of the human form.
This is an expressive and creative life drawing course – not a traditional ‘academic-realist’ course.
Course structure
The Creative Life Drawing Foundations course teaches essential foundational life drawing and perception skills inspired by the approach written about by Heather Spears in her book The Creative Eye (published 2011). The fully guided course covers topics such as;
Understanding the dynamics of the life model in space
Seeing the figure as a whole
Movement, flow and connection
Avoiding common perceptive errors
3-day Weekend Intensive
The 3-day version of this course selects the essential core information from the full 10-session course. It is taught over a 3-day weekend to enable as many people as possible to experience the insights and approaches that have the power to transform drawing and perception.
Ideal for those with limited time, work commitments, and drawers travelling to Manchester.
Is this course for me?
This course is suitable for students of all abilities, from beginners to more experienced drawers. Everyone will be encouraged to stretch themselves and develop their artistic abilities and attitudes towards drawing and creativity, while being offered lots of creative support, 1:1 guidance and group critiques within a friendly, supportive and welcoming studio environment.
The course is inspired by the book The Creative Eye, by Heather Spears.
Read my review> of The Creative Eye book and check it out on Amazon>>
By the end of the course
Students will have created close to 100 drawings each, learning to observe and draw the life model ever more keenly and accurately capturing the flow and movement of the human form. Students will have created drawings of sensitivity and understanding and will leave with a toolbox of techniques, deeper understanding of the creative drawing process and inspiration to propel their practice of life drawing forward.
Help + Guidance
OPTION 1
Days: Thursday morning x 10 sessions
Times: 10-12.30
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
OPTION 2
Days: 3 days (Fri-Sun)
Times: 10-4pm, all days
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adults, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
Attendance: Each exercise builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend every session to avoid gaps in knowledge, although I will do my best to fill in the gaps if students do miss a session.
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
All materials included
We will be drawing with charcoal on newsprint paper
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.
Level 1: Beginner
For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.
Level 2: Improver
For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students with creative experience who feel confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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Course Outline
Students just beginning life drawing will benefit from learning a host of techniques to help them draw more accurately and avoid many common drawing errors.
For more experienced drawers, the course will offer an opportunity to reconnect with new ways of thinking about creativity, perception, and what it means to create life drawings that capture the essential life-force and movement of the human form.
This is an expressive and creative life drawing course – not a traditional ‘academic-realist’ course.
Course structure
The Creative Life Drawing Foundations course teaches essential foundational life drawing and perception skills inspired by the approach written about by Heather Spears in her book The Creative Eye (published 2011). The fully guided course covers topics such as;
Understanding the dynamics of the life model in space
Seeing the figure as a whole
Movement, flow and connection
Avoiding common perceptive errors
3-day Weekend Intensive
The 3-day version of this course selects the essential core information from the full 10-session course. It is taught over a 3-day weekend to enable as many people as possible to experience the insights and approaches that have the power to transform drawing and perception.
Ideal for those with limited time, work commitments, and drawers travelling to Manchester.
Is this course for me?
This course is suitable for students of all abilities, from beginners to more experienced drawers. Everyone will be encouraged to stretch themselves and develop their artistic abilities and attitudes towards drawing and creativity, while being offered lots of creative support, 1:1 guidance and group critiques within a friendly, supportive and welcoming studio environment.
The course is inspired by the book The Creative Eye, by Heather Spears.
Read my review> of The Creative Eye book and check it out on Amazon>>
By the end of the course
Students will have created close to 100 drawings each, learning to observe and draw the life model ever more keenly and accurately capturing the flow and movement of the human form. Students will have created drawings of sensitivity and understanding and will leave with a toolbox of techniques, deeper understanding of the creative drawing process and inspiration to propel their practice of life drawing forward.
Help + Guidance
OPTION 1
Days: Thursday morning x 10 sessions
Times: 10-12.30
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
OPTION 2
Days: 3 days (Fri-Sun)
Times: 10-4pm, all days
Materials: Includes all materials + model fees
Suitable for: Adults, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate
Attendance: Each exercise builds carefully on the next, so it is important to attend every session to avoid gaps in knowledge, although I will do my best to fill in the gaps if students do miss a session.
Group Size: Min 6 – Max 10
Your tutor: Brian Raymond biography >
Refreshments:
Course includes tea, coffee & biscuits. Please provide your own lunch on full day courses, workshops and classes.
All materials included
We will be drawing with charcoal on newsprint paper
Optional items to bring
Cloth for cleaning your hands
Rag (old cloth) for smudging charcoal or paint
Wear old clothes or bring an apron
Pen and notebook for taking notes
To help you answer the question,
“What level course is right for me?”
To help you decide what level course is most suited, you will see Teaching Levels explained within the Course Info tab.
Students will always benefit from clear instructions, lots of one-to-one tuition, guidance and supportive encouragement on all of my courses.
Level 0: Absolute-beginner
For absolute-beginners to start learning art for the first time. Teaching focuses on core skills with step-by-step instructions.
Level 1: Beginner
For beginners looking to establish, refresh and gain confidence in fundamental core techniques.
Level 2: Improver
For improvers who already have the basics and wish to develop and enhance their skills and techniques further.
Level 3: Intermediate
For those students with a growing, but limited, amount of art experience who feel confident in their art knowledge and skills yet recognise the need for further creative learning to take their art to the next level.
Level 4: Experienced
For those students with creative experience who feel confident in their abilities and techniques, who are looking to challenge themselves further, to create a coherent body of work, possibly to exhibit and sell.
To help you answer the question,
“What course should I do next?”
There are 2 approaches to deciding what to do next.
All my courses can be booked as single stand-alone courses on whichever topic takes your interest.
Just book whichever course you want when it suits you.
These courses are suggestions that will help you develop and progress your art in a more focused direction.
Whichever approach you choose, remember to check the Teaching Levels to decide if the course is appropriate for you. Contact me if you’re not sure and I’ll be happy to help.
Student Quotes
More reviews >
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