Time and Location:
We plan to have a human body figure drawing workshop starting on Oct 4th (Sunday). It is a weekly class from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm and total 9 weeks, . The location is at Mars Meeting Center (9400 Activity Rd, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92126). Plenty free parking lots.
Teacher:
Blair Thornley is a nationally known illustrator, painter, and animator. Her gestural characters have appeared in New York Times, LA Times, Neiman Marcus, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Raygun, Herman Miller, etc, and locally in San Diego Home and Garden, her biography and portfolio is here!
Course Description:
This class will provide students with some fundamental tools for drawing nude models.We will work from short and long poses, and will cover a few basic ways to approach life drawing, such as capturing intent and gesture, measuring proportion, understanding and clearly drawing the perspective within a human form, editing and what to focus on. We will work with line as well as with shapes of value (light and dark). If you can draw the human form, I am convinced you can draw anything else. Students should also have a sketchbook to work in outside of class. Keep practicing what you learn in class, and keep drawing from life (observation). From time to time I will ask you to do an assignment at home to augment what we do in class. If you want to really improve your drawing, draw something every day.
Week 1 GESTURE, CONTOUR LINE Line Quality, contour, cross contour charcoal, newsprint, white paper
Week 2 SIGHTING TECHNIQUES Looking for relationships, measuring by comparison charcoal, newsprint, white paper
Week 3 SIGHTING Same as week 2
Week 4 STRUCTURE Seeing structure, direction, dimension of model in space charcoal, newsprint, white paper Using boxes practice contour line and overlapping based on lines which mimic box edges/directions
week 5 STRUCTURE same as week 4, plus hands
week 6 VALUEBreaking it down to 3-4 shapes of tone 6B pencil, white eraser, sketch bookusing photographic reference
week 7 VALUE 6B pencil, sketchbook, 18×24 white paper,Breaking it down to 4-5 shapes of tone graphite, charcoal contour line, editing, dark/light contrast, hard and soft edges
week 8 PORTRAIT Focusing on face Proportions based on sighting Any medium
Week 9 CLOTHED Model with clothing Any medium
Weekly lesson plans are all subject to change, based on needs of the class. Please bringall materials to each class.
Materials:
- 18×24 Newsprint (Rough)
- 18×24 White Paper
- 11×17 Strathmore Drawing Pad
- Drawing Board (not smaller than 18″*24″)
- Soft Vine Charcoal
- Graphite Sticks: 2B, 4B, 6B
- 9×12 or 11×14 Sketchbook (I recommend Strathmore Sketch 400 Series)
- 6B Pencil, White Eraser, Sharpener
Fee:
$180 for 9 classes. We also could help you buy materials at a lower price than the market!
Human Figure Drawing Workshop Trial (Sep 27 6:30 pm-9:30 pm)
We will introduce our human figure drawing class (begin on Oct 4th) and also invite one model to show some positions. You are welcome to have a warm-up sketch activity here. The teacher Ms. Blair Thornley is still in the east and could only give us some instructions by email. She will be in SD on the end of Sep.
Your age must be above 21 to attend this seminar. Each person will be charged for $5 for the model fee. The time is Sep 27, Sunday 6:30 pm-8:30 pm. Location is 9400 Activity Rd, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92126. General paper and pencils provided. Please click HERE to pay and reserve the seat. All attendance must reserve!
