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**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO:
This workshop explores portrait drawing through both academic construction and material experimentation. Working from observation, we will examine the fundamentals of proportion, structure, perspective and anatomy while also exploring how different materials and tools can shape expression, texture and rhythm within the drawing.
Using graphite, vine charcoal, charcoal pencil, conté, charcoal dust, sponges, erasers and subtractive techniques, the workshop will investigate how surface, gesture and mark-making contribute to the construction of a portrait beyond mere likeness.
Demonstrations will focus on balancing structural clarity with sensitivity of atmosphere, allowing drawing to move between precise observation and expressive interpretation.
Week 1: Proportion and structure
Week 2: The Block-in- fundamentals of values and unity of shades. Designing focal points
Week 3: Edges, harmony and rhythm- variation of refined edge work. Editing and review allocation of major shapes and the flow
Vine charcoal
Charcoal pencil
Conte
Putty rubber
Mechanical rubber (or a sharp hard rubber)
Heavy weight cartridge paper (230mg or thicker)
Stanley knife or scalpel
Sanding block
Soft graphite (6B or darker)
Drawing sponge
Pastel sponge
Make up sponge
Masking tape
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO:
This workshop explores portrait drawing through both academic construction and material experimentation. Working from observation, we will examine the fundamentals of proportion, structure, perspective and anatomy while also exploring how different materials and tools can shape expression, texture and rhythm within the drawing.
Using graphite, vine charcoal, charcoal pencil, conté, charcoal dust, sponges, erasers and subtractive techniques, the workshop will investigate how surface, gesture and mark-making contribute to the construction of a portrait beyond mere likeness.
Demonstrations will focus on balancing structural clarity with sensitivity of atmosphere, allowing drawing to move between precise observation and expressive interpretation.
Week 1: Proportion and structure
Week 2: The Block-in- fundamentals of values and unity of shades. Designing focal points
Week 3: Edges, harmony and rhythm- variation of refined edge work. Editing and review allocation of major shapes and the flow
Vine charcoal
Charcoal pencil
Conte
Putty rubber
Mechanical rubber (or a sharp hard rubber)
Heavy weight cartridge paper (230mg or thicker)
Stanley knife or scalpel
Sanding block
Soft graphite (6B or darker)
Drawing sponge
Pastel sponge
Make up sponge
Masking tape