5 Saturdays beginning October 14 2023
Learn key techniques and principles for more successful, enjoyable and meaningful painting.
10 Saturdays beginning February 24 2024
Learn key anatomy and life drawing concepts and skills to take your figure drawing to the next level
The complete Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course returns!
Do you struggle to make your figure drawings feel three dimensional - are they a bit flat?
Or are they unconvincing, just not seeming quite right?
Or do they lack dynamism? Perhaps a bit static and not so vital?
Perhaps you just want to learn more about rendering or shading the figure?
Classical Life Class with Scott Breton course covers these essential topics - with group demos as well as one on one tuition in this class working from the nude model
Suitable for beginners or more experienced drawers
Also included is the artistic anatomy course using the The Simplified Écorché Kit.
New term starting Saturday February 24th 2024, RQAS Studio, Petrie Terrace, Brisbane
Mornings: 10 sessions working through the The Simplified Écorché Kit
Afternoons: 8 core sessions plus 2 long pose sessions to apply the content to rendering a drawing
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Class is held in the beautiful upstairs studio at the Royal Queensland Art Society! Inner city Brisbane on Petrie Terrace.
Come and forget the outside world, and meditate on the magic of drawing the living human body in a supportive and enjoyable environment. I will guide you through a series of activities designed to familiarise you with or improve your mastery of the core elements of drawing the figure, there will be both group and one on one instruction/ demos.
Includes permanent access to the The Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course
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COURSE CONTENT
Block-in - Subforms - Prisms - Rounded prisms - Design Elements - Gesture - Line quality - Rendering
The content will be drawing from the model working through the Elements of Classical Figure Drawing from the Form, Gesture, Anatomy course.
We will cover the following main areas - both separately and then reintegrating them together.
Blocking in and accuracy - key landmarks, orienting masses in space in relation to each other, analysing form and gesture in essentials, in particular the torso
2. Thinking in Volumes - seeing/feeling and drawing the body as large masses, and constructing/ depicting subforms using only line.
3. Design principles in the human body (and nature generally) - S curves, C curves, and straight lines, line weight, harmony and variation, counterbalance, extending lines as far as possible, looking for a major line of design and related lines
4. Gesture and exaggeration - finding swing and rhythm to the line, taking the observed pose and exaggerating this slightly, telling a story with the body - making it move
5. Rendering - principles of rendering form in light and shade, types of rendering, points about rendering in different media, options for direction of linear rendering. The 10 week course includes a 2 week extended pose so you can apply all the previous topics and begin to render out your drawing
LOGISTICS/ PARKING
Enrolled students will be given a membership to the Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course online book (can be extended if desired by choosing one of the payment options). You may prepare for the class by following the activities in the notes, (particularly from the Fundamentals of Form sections). How to do this will be sent to you upon enrolment..
Upstairs workshop space, Royal Queensland Art Society
The door will be unlocked 30 minutes prior to class start or you can buzz or call me on the number pinned to the door.
To access student discount simply email me your proof of enrolment in a tertiary institution and I’ll send you the discount code to access student rates.
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