Basic Drawing (Online)

Adult Summer Online | This program is completed

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

6/21/2022-7/26/2022

6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT on Tue

$195.00

$175.00

To assist you in preparing for this class, we have provided a link to the setup / test pages from the conference provider. If you have never used this conference service before please click on the link below so that your PC or device will be ready to participate in this class.

This online class will teach you how to observe and draw objects from life in a realistic style, a fundamental skill for working in any media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Using pencil and charcoal and working from still life and photographs, you will learn several types of line and tonal drawing as well as key concepts such as negative shape, relative measuring, and perspective. Each class features a directed drawing exercise to teach a specific skill and these skills build on one another.

What you will learn:
1. Make accurate contour line drawing of real objects
2. Create volumetric drawing using light and dark
3. Create 3-dimensional space in drawings
4. Handle complicated subjects and correctly place groups of objects
5. Begin to develop an understanding of picture composition

  • This is an online class hosted through Zoom. We recommend that you download the free Zoom application on your computer, phone, or tablet in advance of the first class. You will receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the course via Zoom. The same link will be used each week.
  • • A Sketch Pad Size 9x12 or 11x14
  • • Drawing pencils HB, 2B, 4B, 8B
  • • Painters Masking Tape (Blue)
  • • kneaded eraser
  • • Staedtler eraser
  • • Q tips
  • • 2” brush or similar size
  • • Small plastic container for trash
  • • Ruler
  • • Mechanic pencil
  • • Prismacolor Colored Pencils (box of 24 pencils)
  • • 1 Charcoal Pencil Black
  • • 1 Charcoal Pencil White Tracing Paper Pad 9x12in. Strathmore
  • • Black Sharpie Ultra Fine Point
  • A Printer machine is required for this class (students will be asked to make photocopies of templates and preparatory drawing schemes sent every week by the instructor)