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Basic Training trains you to know exactly how to go about beginning a drawing, how to analyze a subject, how to measure and sight to establish the proper proportions of your subject. In a very short time you will understand how to translate what you see into drawings that look and feel three dimensional.
In Basic Training you will learn to master your drawing materials - how they work, what kind of marks they make, the proper way to maintain them and which materials work best for your desired outcome and you will have tons of fun and enjoyment along the way.
The second part of Beginning to Draw is Plasticity: Form & Structure. This 2-hour program begins with training you to draw single object and then proceeds to composing and drawing a multi-object still-life.
The third part is your 2-hour Introduction to Portrait Drawing.
No matter how far you decide to go, learning how to draw correctly from the start and developing a rock solid foundation based on time-tested principles is the key to your success.
The primary rule in drawing and painting is to always work from general to specific.
The general overall impression is called the arabesque (an other term for this is contour). The first skill that you need to acquire is being able to strike arabesque correctly in terms of proportion and shape. This is a drawing skill that needs to be taught to every artist when they begin to learn to draw.
Once the arabesque has been established the major landmarks of your subject are then placed. From there it is a matter of breaking down form in a logical succession.
Your First Step ...
Your first skill to be acquired is to be able to readily assess simple shape and proportion. Using the lessons and skill-building exercises in my Beginning to Draw Workshop you will be well on your way to mastering drawing. From sketching in the simple shape of the head it is only a matter of knowledge and experience (the knowledge I teach, the experience you gain by drawing) to get to a highly resolved drawing like this one which was done using sanguine conte.
This is how all of the masters begin a drawing or painting. The untrained artist will always begin with a detail, such as an eye, and proceed from there; and the result will usually be the same - an exercise in frustration.
This skill of sketching in the simple shape of an object or a portrait is called striking the arabesque and it is the singularly most important drawing skill you can acquire.
Once you have acquired the drawing skill of accurately striking an arabesque, whether it is for portrait drawing, still-life or landscape, etc., then the interior placement of the features, or landmarks, is a relatively straight forward endeavor.
There are no tricks, sleight of hand or dazzling short-cuts in learning how to draw and paint.
The traditional approach of learning how to draw is to train you to actually see what you are looking at and then applying what you see to paper. This is the surest method to building a solid foundation upon which you can grow as an artist. And every accomplished artist has undergone this training at some point in their career.
The workshop is accessible to everyone who wants to learn how to draw. It is a self-contained education designed for both home and class study. The content of Beginning to Draw is equal, and more!, to a 12-week college-level foundational art course at a fraction of the cost.
“About” – the Contents – A sneak Preview
An Historical Overview of Drawing
About Perception – Training your eye to see as you learn to draw
The Arabesque – The Beginning - Learn to Draw
Part 1: Proportion and sighting drawing exercises
Part 2: Drawing shape exercises
Basic Drawing tools – Learn to draw with the pencil for professional use
Modeling Form – Cross-hatching drawing exercises and development. Drawing skills and technique
Constructing a black box for drawing
Introduction to Developing Plastic Form – The illusion of three dimensional space on a flat plane – Learn to Draw - The Egg. Drawing skill development – Using a kneaded eraser in drawing
Drawing the Bottle – Learn to draw - the tonal approach to rendering form. The Figure/ Ground relationship. Learn to draw with Vine Charcoal. Drawing skill development – the Mahl Stick. Composition: Constructing a Golden Rectangle
A few notes on 1 and 2-point perspective in drawing
Learn to Draw the Still Life. A drawing demonstration in black conte. – Making and using a “viewfinder” as an aid to determining the pictorial field as you learn to draw – How to render multiple objects as a singularity vis-à-vis positive and interspace (negative space) as you learn to draw
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