Improvers Life Drawing Tutored Workshop

Improvers Life Drawing Course

Saturday 27th April - 10:30-14:30 - Friends Meeting House, Manchester

During this fully tutored life drawing course, you will discover how returning to the essential principles of drawing can help even the more experienced artist to express their ideas and observations more eloquently.

Guided by our tutor, you will be encouraged to explore line, movement, and proportion, using simple techniques and exercises that are designed to enhance your the skills, knowledge, and confidence in creating responsive figure drawings.

Suitable for even more experienced artists who would like to develop their skills and explore drawing further. This improvers course in life drawing is for those of an intermediate level, and will unite the skills of observation, expression and understanding in one coherent approach. Beginning with the key principles of observation, this course will give you a strong understanding of proportion and tonal value so that you can make well-observed, proportionally accurate drawings.

This fully guided course will teach you to observe and understand the influence of anatomical masses such as the skeletal-muscular systems by drawing your attention to key themes and ideas such as:

• Exploring the Proportions of the Human Body
• Understanding Movement and Weight DistributionSeeing shape
• Seeing Variations in Tone

Knowledge required:

Improvers/beginners level: This course is suitable for beginners or those with experience in drawing who would like to develop their skills and explore life drawing further

What we will provide:

• Table easels
• Paper & Drawing board
• A range of drawing pencils, charcoal sharpener and eraser
• Instructional Handbook

By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently produce personal, focused and responsive figure drawings.