Life Drawing - The Essential Techniques (Stage 1)

Overview

Key facts

Your tutor, Tom Winter (Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2010), will lead you through a structured programme of drawing skills. You will produce linear and tonal studies, record active poses and make more considered drawings, allowing you to gain confidence in your observational responses to the unclothed and clothed form.

This 10-week course will equip you with the drawing skills you need to unleash your inner creativity or enhance your existing capabilities.

Programme Overview

Tom will encourage you to be both personal and expressive in your work whilst exploring a variety of drawing materials. As well as working in the group setting, you will also be supported and encouraged by your tutor on an individual basis with feedback and suggestions to support and encourage your progress.

As your tutor guides you through the series of lessons, your skills of observation and draughtsmanship will develop. By the end of the course, you will have developed both your skills as an artist and a portfolio of fresh and inspiring work.

The Life Drawing - The Essential Techniques (Stage 1) course from Arts University Bournemouth aims to:

• Provide you with the observational skills to confidently draw the human form from life

• Enable you to further develop your own work through using different working methods and mediums

• Enhance the execution of your drawings through use of line, contrast and colour theory

• Provide you with a sound understanding of basic human anatomy to inform your drawings

• Encourage a working knowledge of negative shape and silhouette in your drawings

• Enable you to draw the figure in perspective

• Impart a self-critical approach to work, through regular group discussions with fellow students