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      • The Elements of Drawing
      • Art and Anatomy in Early Modern Italy
      • Galileo and the Visual Arts - The Unity of Science and Design
    • Previous Courses >
      • 2017 >
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Sustained Life Drawing with Red, Black and White Chalk on Buff and Blue Coloured Paper
        • Painting the Nude - the limited palette approach
        • Portraiture and the Passions
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners at The Makery
        • Principles of Beginners Life Drawing Workshop
        • Artistic Anatomy for Beginners: In the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners – from Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Union of Art History and Practice: the Renaissance and the "Rebirth" of Art
      • 2018 >
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
        • Landscape Drawing Lessons from the Masters Weekend Workshop
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Drawing the Nude - 1 Day Intensive Sustained Pose
        • Pastels for Beginners and Intermediate
        • Portrait Drawing: Beginners to Advanced
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Oil Painting for Beginners
        • The Art of Competition: From the High Renaissance to the Baroque
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • Drawing the Animal Kingdom - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Drawing 101: A Beginner's Guide
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Learn to Draw with Pastels - Beginners & Beyond
        • Paradigms of the Baroque: The Art of Italy and the Dutch Golden Age
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
      • 2019 >
        • Drawing Essentials for Beginners - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Life Drawing for Beginners
        • The Sensual and the Sexual in the Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Political Artist: David, Delacroix and Courbet
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Drawing Animals Workshop
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The "Divine" Raphael
      • 2020 >
        • Drawing for Beginners
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalk Pencils on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • Drawing Portraits
        • Drawing Landscapes
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Figurative Compositions with Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Joseph Mallord William Turner - the Sun is God!
        • The Cultural Disconnect of “Contemporary Art” - How Did We Get Here?
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners (Online Class)
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • How to Compose a Still Life Composition (Online Taster Class)
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want (Online Taster Class)
        • Painting in Spain: From the Escorial to the Enlightenment (Online Class)
        • Goya - A Painter for his Age (Online Class)
        • Still Life & the Art of Composition (Online Class)
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media (Online Class)
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms (Online Class)
      • 2021 >
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • John Ruskin - Victorian Art Critic & Social Activist
        • William Morris - Socialism & the Egalitarian Values of Craftsmanship
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Art Of Joseph Lycett & John Lewin: A Visual Window into Aboriginal Cultures of NSW
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Nicolas Poussin: Poetic Truth and Antiquarian Patronage in Baroque Rome
        • Art & Classical Subject Matter
        • Women Artists - from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
        • Art and the Bible
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Mixed Media
        • The Elements of Drawing
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The French Rococo: From Charles de la Fosse to Fragonard
        • Art and the Saints
        • Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art
  • Short poses
  • Studies
  • Portraits
  • Istoria
  • My Collection
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Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
(Part 1 or Part 2)

Dominique Millar_Red and White Chalk, Male Nude Seated

COURSE OUTLINE

A new life short life drawing course. Over the first 4 weeks (Part 1 | weeks 1-4) complete beginners will gain an understanding of the human figure in terms of basic geometric shapes, the major masses of the body and the bony landmarks of the skeleton.
Then over the next 4 week (Part 2 | Weeks 5-8), this course will teach you three essential areas of competent figure drawing. In the first two weeks you will learn to draw a sustained pose from life. In week three a portrait study; concluding in week four with a class specifically devoted to drawing hands and feet.


Part 1

Week 1: We will employ short poses introducing beginners to life drawing and how basic geometric shapes and the figure are perceived within perspectival space.

Week 2: Your tutor will demonstrate to students how to break the figure down into simplified directional lines. We will also introduce the skeleton in more detail and the bony landmarks of the human figure.

Week 3: We will look at how we might build on more simplified directional lines in moving towards more subtle contours that began to describe the convexed musculature of the human figure.

Week 4: Students will be introduced to basic shading. This will include gaining an understanding of the roll of the shadows turning point (terminator) to describe form and volume.


Continuing to Part 2 for continuing and new students

Week 5: Students will learn the preliminary skills in drawing a sustained pose from life over two lessons. We will look at describing the weight of the pose; initially breaking the figure down into directional angular lines in order to establish proportion, then introducing convexed contours to describe muscular form, as well as studying the major masses and bony landmarks of the skeleton.

Week 6: While continuing to refine proportion and gain further knowledge of the skeleton, students will learn how to render the fall of light on the model along with a basic knowledge of some of the muscle groups of the figure.

Week 7: Portraiture – in this week we will look in more detail at how to conceptualize the structure of the human head. Students will learn the fundamental proportions of the head and how it can be related to basic geometric forms.

Week 8: Drawing hands and feet – students will gain some fundamental skills that make drawing hands and feet easy! Learn how to conceive of these forms in relation to basic geometric forms and the substructure of the skeleton.


Suitable for anyone from enthusiastic beginners to more experienced artists. Beginners are encouraged to attend Part 1, while more experienced artists can refresh their skills in Part 1 or skip to Part 2.


MATERIALS LIST

  • 2H, H, F or HB pencil OR Sanguine red or black chalk oil-based pencil
  • Eraser
  • Stanley knife or pencil sharpener
  • A3 sketchbook


When:
PART 1   (Weeks 1 -4)

Wednesday 8 May - 29 May 2019
6.30 PM - 9.00 PM

PART 1   (Weeks 1 -4)
Friday 10 May - 31 May 2019
10.00 AM - 12.30 PM


PART 2   (Weeks 5 -8)
Wednesday 5 June - 3 July 2019
6.30 PM - 9.00 PM


PART 2   (Weeks 5 -8)
Friday 7 June - 5 July 2019
10.00 AM - 12.30 PM


Where:
Art Est. Art School (Main Studios)
Unit 4/67-69 Lords Road, Leichhardt 2040


Previous Feedback:


'I felt Dominique provided an excellent introduction to drawing. Dominique was very supportive and helpful.'


  • Home
  • About
  • Teaching
    • Current / Upcoming Courses >
      • Drawing for Beginners - 2 Day Workshop
      • Still Life & the Art of Composition
      • The Golden Age of British Landscape Painting
      • The Elements of Drawing
      • Art and Anatomy in Early Modern Italy
      • Galileo and the Visual Arts - The Unity of Science and Design
    • Previous Courses >
      • 2017 >
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Sustained Life Drawing with Red, Black and White Chalk on Buff and Blue Coloured Paper
        • Painting the Nude - the limited palette approach
        • Portraiture and the Passions
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners at The Makery
        • Principles of Beginners Life Drawing Workshop
        • Artistic Anatomy for Beginners: In the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners – from Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Union of Art History and Practice: the Renaissance and the "Rebirth" of Art
      • 2018 >
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
        • Landscape Drawing Lessons from the Masters Weekend Workshop
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Drawing the Nude - 1 Day Intensive Sustained Pose
        • Pastels for Beginners and Intermediate
        • Portrait Drawing: Beginners to Advanced
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Oil Painting for Beginners
        • The Art of Competition: From the High Renaissance to the Baroque
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • Drawing the Animal Kingdom - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Drawing 101: A Beginner's Guide
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Learn to Draw with Pastels - Beginners & Beyond
        • Paradigms of the Baroque: The Art of Italy and the Dutch Golden Age
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
      • 2019 >
        • Drawing Essentials for Beginners - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Life Drawing for Beginners
        • The Sensual and the Sexual in the Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Political Artist: David, Delacroix and Courbet
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Drawing Animals Workshop
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The "Divine" Raphael
      • 2020 >
        • Drawing for Beginners
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalk Pencils on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • Drawing Portraits
        • Drawing Landscapes
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Figurative Compositions with Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Joseph Mallord William Turner - the Sun is God!
        • The Cultural Disconnect of “Contemporary Art” - How Did We Get Here?
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners (Online Class)
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • How to Compose a Still Life Composition (Online Taster Class)
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want (Online Taster Class)
        • Painting in Spain: From the Escorial to the Enlightenment (Online Class)
        • Goya - A Painter for his Age (Online Class)
        • Still Life & the Art of Composition (Online Class)
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media (Online Class)
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms (Online Class)
      • 2021 >
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • John Ruskin - Victorian Art Critic & Social Activist
        • William Morris - Socialism & the Egalitarian Values of Craftsmanship
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Art Of Joseph Lycett & John Lewin: A Visual Window into Aboriginal Cultures of NSW
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Nicolas Poussin: Poetic Truth and Antiquarian Patronage in Baroque Rome
        • Art & Classical Subject Matter
        • Women Artists - from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
        • Art and the Bible
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Mixed Media
        • The Elements of Drawing
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The French Rococo: From Charles de la Fosse to Fragonard
        • Art and the Saints
        • Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art
  • Short poses
  • Studies
  • Portraits
  • Istoria
  • My Collection
  • Contact