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Realistic drawing L1
£145.00
Weekend course 2-days
The perfect place to start improving core drawing and observational skills to draw accurately and realistically from life. Learn new drawing practices that will improve your ability to draw with more realism and detail. Learn measuring techniques to observe proportions, angles and relationships with greater accuracy.
There is a strong focus on techniques for rendering with graphite pencils and an option to try colour pencils. Our subject matter takes inspiration from van Gogh and the Dutch masters. We will learn to render surface detail and material quality of different surfaces such as leather, fabric, glass, and fruit.
The course gives students new levels of drawing confidence and skills that will form the foundation upon which all future drawing and painting will be built on.
Suitable for:
Adult, beginners, improvers, returners
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 this session will help students develop greater flow and creative mark-making to support their developing observation skills.
Observation underpins creative vision
Session 4
Embracing colour in this final session will allow students the opportunity to put everything they have learnt into practice to create a well observed drawing that combines accuracy of observation with the emotive power of colour and expressive quality of creative marks-making. Students will be exploring the full creative potential of colour pencil crayons.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home feeling confident in their observation and technical skills, happy they have the skills to render accurately what they see, and excited to have the creative potential to create drawings infused with personality and self-expression.
Help + Guidance
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: 10-4pm, both days
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Returners
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.
Essential items to bring
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
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
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 this session will help students develop greater flow and creative mark-making to support their developing observation skills.
Observation underpins creative vision
Session 4
Embracing colour in this final session will allow students the opportunity to put everything they have learnt into practice to create a well observed drawing that combines accuracy of observation with the emotive power of colour and expressive quality of creative marks-making. Students will be exploring the full creative potential of colour pencil crayons.
By the end of the course…
Students will go home feeling confident in their observation and technical skills, happy they have the skills to render accurately what they see, and excited to have the creative potential to create drawings infused with personality and self-expression.
Help + Guidance
Days: Sat + Sun
Times: 10-4pm, both days
Materials: Includes most materials, other than the materials students are asked to bring
Suitable for: Adults
Teaching Level: Beginners, Improvers, Returners
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.
Essential items to bring
Fine Grain heavy weight drawing pad
200gsm
Medium Surface cartridge pad
220gsm
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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