Course Structure

Drawing methodology

Session 1
In depth tuition to will enable students to improve their technical skills and learn a structured approach to drawing.  Students will increase their confidence in drawing even the most complex of subject matter and gain a deeper appreciation of the process of drawing. Graphite pencils are used during the first day.

Measuring techniques

Session 2
Students will learn a variety of measuring techniques to ensure accuracy of vision, scale, proportion, and perspective to create naturalistic convincing looking drawings. Adopting a materials-led approach will help students unleash the descriptive and creative potential of graphite pencil. This session enables students to learn more skills and techniques to enhance their drawings with tone and line.

Draw more – see more

Session 3
Learning to observe details is about training the artistic eye to develop a higher level of critical vision to enable even more details to be recorded than first thought possible. ‘Learning through drawing’ is what being an artist is all about. Exercises during this session will help students develop greater flow and creative mark-making to support their developing observation skills.

Observation underpins creative vision

Session 4
Students have the option to embrace colour in this final session or continue to develop graphite pencil skills. This is an opportunity to put everything they have learnt into practice to create a well observed realistic drawing that combines accuracy of observation, high levels of detail, with the expressive power of tone or colour.

By the end of the course…

Students will go home feeling confident in their observation and technical skills, happy they have the skills to draw and render accurately and realistically what they observe. Students will leave excited to have the creative potential to create drawings infused with personality and self-expression.