Life Drawing Sketchbook Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This inspiring short course is designed to help students begin, build upon and develop a regular life drawing practice. Students boost their skills in a supportive environment alongside learners with wide range of abilities.
During the course, students work in direct response to a life model, using a variety of dry materials, techniques and lengths of poses to build their confidence in communicating the proportions of the body, how light falls across the form and how to start drawing with intention.
Sessions will have a practical focus, supported by tutor demonstrations, opportunities for group discussion and reflection on the work made during the session. Students receive tailored 1:1 feedback and practical advice throughout the course to support their goals and development.
Who this course is for
This 5-week evening course is aimed at anyone who would like to give life drawing a go for the first time, develop a regular drawing practice, or build upon skills they have learnt previously in a friendly and supportive environment.
Drawing is a lifelong pursuit, and a process that learners from all ranges of experiences can benefit from re-engaging with and practicing. In every context and from every new model there is something to be learnt.
Key information
Topics covered
- Mapping out the body
- Building an Armature
- Exploring gesture
- Proportion
- Foreshortening
- Life drawing in relation to painting
- Life drawing in relation to sculpture
- The body in relation to interior
- Working with colour
Learning outcomes
- Build confidence in responding directly to the life model
- Have developed an understanding of key terms such as proportion and foreshortening and how to apply them practically to their drawings
- Be able to respond to the human form with a variety of different media
- Have a toolkit of techniques to start life drawing and possess the ability to be able to make an informed decision of which technique is suitable for their aspirations and the subject matter
- Have formed the foundation for a regular drawing practice
- Expanded their creative network with artists and practitioners from a variety of levels
- Developed their ability to discuss and reflect upon their drawings
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance.
Materials
Recommended materials:
- Charcoal
- Pencils
- Conte crayons
- Soft pastels
- Compressed charcoal
- Sketchbooks A3, A4 (one of each)
- A4 Sugar paper (various colours including grey and buff tones)
- A3 Sugar paper (various colours including grey and buff tones)
- Sugar paper - mid-tone (grey, buff)
- Erasers
- Sharpeners
- Biros
- Felt tip pens
- Masking tape
Tutor
Joe Richardson
Joe Richardson is a Cheltenham born multi-disciplinary artist working between painting, video, collage, audio and sculpture.
Richardson's works operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, the smashing of a glass, a character falling in a canal, a breakthrough in communication.
His works perform as double acts, facades, and stages 'that deconstruct everyday scenarios through repetition to the point of absurdity to produce purgatorial experiences of waiting, spaces of absurd nothingness, and the opportunity to navigate uncertainty'.
His recent projects include a solo exhibition at Cine-Window, Winsford, a duo show at FIVE YEARS, 'Pesaro Voeslauer' and a group show at London Lighthouse Gallery. Richardson also has a permanent display of video works available to view in the lobby of Universal Music, 4 Pancras Square (next to CSM).
Alongside his professional art practice, Richardson is a freelance tutor at UAL Short Courses and City Lit, teaching painting, drawing, and collage.
https://www.joerichardson.net/
https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/artists-in-their-residence-joe-richardson/
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