The human figure manifests its actual and potential movements. It is its balance that convinces us first and its direction that leads our attention. How to observe the life model in order to discover those key aspects? This workshop helps in developing the skills to work on the structure, proportions, and movements of the human figure. The given drawing advice is based on Loomis, Bridgman and Nicolaides.
My goal is to wake up in you some crucial skills for drawing a human figure. For example:
- to capture the situation of the entire body in 5 seconds.
- to get a fresh drawing that can depict the movement and balance of the body.
- to get the right proportions of the body.
- to discover the uniqueness of your line.
- 1 sketchbook A2.
- soft graphite pencils, like B6-9 / and or / soft charcoal pencils
- A middle tone of natural charcoal (not too thin, not too thick).
- Flexible rubber (I recommend Faber Castell).
- Fixative in a spray.
- Board to hold your paper (it can be whatever).
- Masking tape (to fix the paper on the board).
- Cotton.
- Something to protect the table (newspaper, plastic tablecloth, etc.)
(*I will bring the easels for tables)
As you know, this course counts on a life model. Maybe you know the required formalities of it, but it is my responsibility to inform them all before starting:
- The door stays closed while the model is posing: Due to issues such as temperature, respect to the model and possible curious people outside, it is important to keep the door closed. This means that the hours of the class should be more respected than in any other course. For instance, if the class starts at 19h, we can spend the first 15 minutes in arriving to the room and arranging our place, and start at 19h15 to work properly. We can define that moment as we prefer, it can be 19h15 or 19h20 or as the group decide but after defining it, it should be respected. Then, 45 minutes later, we can make a break to let the model rest a bit and recover (some positions are difficult to maintain) so we can open the door again for going to the toilet, buying drinks, etc.
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No picture is allowed: For respect to the model, no picture is allowed. Even for me. I can take pictures of you while drawing, but never to the person that is posing. Whatever the case, the model has to approve the picture.
Requirements
Do you need any specific knowledge to enroll?
No, you don´t need a specific knowledge or a long career in visual arts. However you might have a
purpose to enroll happily in this class.
What do you want to learn?
Drawing (and even more painting) is a very complex skill with thousands of issues to learn. A module is just an instance in which you can practice of all of them but only 2 hours a week are insufficient to help you in a real progress. Therefore, you need to maximize those 2 hours by choosing your focus. "I would like to enroll in this course because I have problems with the structure of the volumes"... "with the proportions of the figure"... "with the identification of values"... and so on.
How to apply then?
Write an email to vero.aris@gmail.com to save your place in the class you want. In that email, give the following information:
- Name
- Phone number (Nobody will call you, it is only a COVID-19 safety measure).
- Indicate your acknowledgment of the COVID-19 life style.
- Indicate the artistic issue you would like to master during the module.
- Attach a picture of one of your works that can illustrate your problems in regard to that issue.
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Don´t be afraid of it. I am here to help you as much as I can in resolving your drawing problems. It is not the case that there is someone on earth without problems. We all have them. We are all at some level in which there are people more experienced than us as well as less experienced than us. It is a chain of knowledge. Nothing to be ashamed of. The only thing is if you want to be part of that chain or not.
What if you don´t have any experience in visual arts and you would like to try a module anyway, but you are not in the position to know what you would like to master?
Check on "News" when I give a SAMPLE CLASS for possible new students. In a SAMPLE class I provide some experience in drawing. This way, you will learn which are those artistic issues at play in the practice of drawing and their pertaining framework for improvement, in such a way that you will discover the beauty of what you will investigate in case you enroll in a module.
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