PORTRAIT DRAWING TRAINING

Portrait with life model This workshop is aimed to provide you the needed training for drawing life portrait. Every class will provide you a different life model, so you will get experience with different faces (age, gender, color skin, proportions, etc.). Besides, in this workshop you may work with graphite pencils and/or charcoal. Depending on your proficiency we can also go for chalk or pastels. But let's start simple: graphite pencils and charcoal. I will give you the tips you need for the material you work with. The given drawing advice will be based on Loomis, Bridgman and Nicolaides in regard to the structure and gesture of the head; while it will be based on the Great Masters of Baroque painting in regard to lightning-shading. Basic materials The materials we will use for sure are: - pen, - different B and H numbers of graphite pencils, - charcoal, and a few pastels. - Flexible rubber. - Normal paper A3, and eventually colored paper A3. Pay attention to the texture of the paper. If you work with graphite pencils a soft paper is ok, but if you work with charcoal a more textured and thick paper is better. Check the variety that your art store has. - Fixative in a spray. 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. (*) 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. Get ready! Only practice makes perfect.

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