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Creative life drawing course
£290.00
Intensive course 4-days
Creative life drawing course:
This fully taught life drawing course teaches students core drawing techniques to help improve observation skills and drawing accuracy while developing a deeper clarity of vision.
Learn techniques to establish the structure and proportions of the human form within 3-dimensional space. Gain insights into why drawers make common perceptive errors and techniques to avoid them. Students will be guided through a series of experiential exercises while drawing directly from a variety of life models capturing movement and dynamism of the human form.
Embrace the humanity of drawing the human figure from life.
The intensive 4-day course runs over 4 consecutive days (Thurs-Sun).
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate, experienced
Course Structure
This 4-day fully taught life drawing course will lay important foundations to the practice of life drawing for beginners and more experienced drawers.
Beginners 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.
DAY 1
Session 1
The course begins with exercises to help us get to the root of creative mark-making and understanding the human figure within 3 dimensional space. Understand space as dynamic and interactive, not flat and ‘negative’ as is so often taught. We will also focus on improving hand-eye co-ordination which helps to improve our drawing accuracy.
Session 2
Explore the dynamics of the human form as it interacts with 3 dimensional space using tone to push and pull the visual space within our drawings.
DAY 2
Session 1
Learn a technique to measure the figure with both eyes open. Many artists close one eye to measure proportions by seeing the figure as a flat shape. Techniques taught this session will give students a more intuitive and dynamic approach to measuring, establishing scale, weight, and accurate proportions.
Session 2
Break free from an over-reliance of using line. Learn to draw with sensitive, self-expressive and dynamic lines that seek to describe the sculptural qualities of the 3-dimensional figure. Learn how to use line discerningly – when to rely on tone to describe the figure and when to rely on line.
DAY 3
Session 1
Learn to draw the human figure in motion capturing movement and energy. Learn to draw with longer expressive lines that capture the flow and connectedness that runs through the human form. Drawings will begin to express the elegance of the human form and move away from the habit of using stop-start/broken lines.
Session 2
Our knowledge and expectations can limit what we see. This session explores ways to hep students break through sight-limiting attitudes and enable them to observe ever more information and details when drawing, helping them to create engaging drawings that move beyond the ordinary and mundane.
DAY 4
Session 1
This session helps students understand why so many beginners tend to make exactly the same common drawing mistakes. Understanding brings awareness and exercises during this session will help students avoid these common errors and create drawings of personal integrity and honesty.
Session 2
A final long pose will allow students time to practice all the drawing techniques, new approaches, and attitudes to looking at the human form they have learnt over the course.
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
Days: 4 days
Options: Either 2 x weekends (Sat+Sun x 2), or 4 consecutive days (Thurs-Sun)
Times: 10-4pm, all days
Materials: Includes all materials
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: 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 8 – 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
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 Structure
This 4-day fully taught life drawing course will lay important foundations to the practice of life drawing for beginners and more experienced drawers.
Beginners 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.
DAY 1
Session 1
The course begins with exercises to help us get to the root of creative mark-making and understanding the human figure within 3 dimensional space. Understand space as dynamic and interactive, not flat and ‘negative’ as is so often taught. We will also focus on improving hand-eye co-ordination which helps to improve our drawing accuracy.
Session 2
Explore the dynamics of the human form as it interacts with 3 dimensional space using tone to push and pull the visual space within our drawings.
DAY 2
Session 1
Learn a technique to measure the figure with both eyes open. Many artists close one eye to measure proportions by seeing the figure as a flat shape. Techniques taught this session will give students a more intuitive and dynamic approach to measuring, establishing scale, weight, and accurate proportions.
Session 2
Break free from an over-reliance of using line. Learn to draw with sensitive, self-expressive and dynamic lines that seek to describe the sculptural qualities of the 3-dimensional figure. Learn how to use line discerningly – when to rely on tone to describe the figure and when to rely on line.
DAY 3
Session 1
Learn to draw the human figure in motion capturing movement and energy. Learn to draw with longer expressive lines that capture the flow and connectedness that runs through the human form. Drawings will begin to express the elegance of the human form and move away from the habit of using stop-start/broken lines.
Session 2
Our knowledge and expectations can limit what we see. This session explores ways to hep students break through sight-limiting attitudes and enable them to observe ever more information and details when drawing, helping them to create engaging drawings that move beyond the ordinary and mundane.
DAY 4
Session 1
This session helps students understand why so many beginners tend to make exactly the same common drawing mistakes. Understanding brings awareness and exercises during this session will help students avoid these common errors and create drawings of personal integrity and honesty.
Session 2
A final long pose will allow students time to practice all the drawing techniques, new approaches, and attitudes to looking at the human form they have learnt over the course.
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
Days: 4 days
Options: Either 2 x weekends (Sat+Sun x 2), or 4 consecutive days (Thurs-Sun)
Times: 10-4pm, all days
Materials: Includes all materials
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: 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 8 – 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
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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