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
Programme Structure
Courses Include:- Studies in basic proportion and Measuring
- Using environmental clues to reference the angles of the figure
- Expressive use of line, Contour and Mark making
- Studies in Anatomy (including heads, hands and Feet)
- Working with Colour
- Tonal Value and Working with Contrast
- Drawing the Figure in Motion and Dynamics
- Blocking in form
- The Figure in Perspective
- Using Negative Space and Silhouette
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 days
Start dates & application deadlines
The next start dates will be announced in April.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Painting & Drawing View 53 other Short Courses in Painting & Drawing in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
The course is aimed at students who have little or no previous experience of life drawing, or may have some experience and wish to consolidate their understanding.
You need:
- A1 good quality cartridge paper (white)
- A2 cartridge paper (white)
- Sugar paper
- Drawing board clips
- Drawing pencils 2B-6B
- Plastic type eraser
- Putty type eraser (preferably Lyra or Faber Castell)
- White and coloured chalk
- Charcoal sticks (various thicknesses)
- Soft graphite sticks/crayons
- Roll of masking tape
Tuition Fee
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International
339 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 339 GBP for the full programme during 2 days. -
National
339 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 339 GBP for the full programme during 2 days.
Living costs for Bournemouth
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.