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COURSE CURRICULUM

Portrait Foundations

Session 1: The Face - Understanding and Sketching Shape and Proportion

Learn about the head and face structure while doing drawing exercises. Anna will cover the basics of depth, shape, proportion, anatomy, perspective, foreshortening and the role of observing your subject. At the end of this class, you will have drawn the head from different views and comprehended how to place hair.

Session 2: The Face - Understanding and Sketching Depth and Value

Learn how to use watercolour washes to create and build up depth and value in your portrait painting while suggesting a realistic face structure. Anna will also show you how to establish a simple value scheme for portrait painting seen from different angles.

Session 3: The Eyes

Learn how to draw the proportions of the eye seen from different angles and how we can use watercolour washes to create and build up depth and value.

Session 4: The Nose and Mouth

Learn how to draw the proportions of the nose and the mouth from different angles and how we can use watercolour washes to build up depth and value to create a realistic depiction.

Session 5: The Ears and Hair

Learn how to establish the right shape and proportions of the ears and hair, and how we can use watercolour washes to build up depth and value to create a realistic ear, as well as suggest the hair around the ears and the face.

Session 6: Final Project - Painting a Full Portrait in Monochrome

From defining the drawing to the intricate details, in this class, you will paint a complete portrait in monochrome watercolour to bring together everything you have learned so far.

Figure Drawing Fundamentals Part 1

Session 1: Proportions of the human body

Learn how to visualise and sketch a human figure. By using simple sketching tools - paper, pencil, pen and ink- you will grasp the basic proportions and structure of the human body. By the end of this class, you'll be able to sketch simple figures and casual postures.

Session 2: Fleshing out the Body

Learn how to place body mass around your skeleton sketches. Discover the strong and weak spots of the body, their functions, and how that matters when sketching the shape of the human figure so that you learn by observing people around you. By the end of this class, you'll be able to confidently sketch a dynamic human figure of any size or proportion in different postures and actions, regardless of body type.

Session 3: Head and Expressions

Learn how to sketch human heads from different angles and with different expressions. By the end of this class, you'll be able to grasp and draw the shape of a head regardless of its angle while making it look alive and interactive with just a few quick lines.

Session 4: Hands and Gestural Expressions

Learn how to lay human hands on paper in different positions and actions. You will get familiar with a human hand's basic elements and articulations, filling them with volume and sketching them in any posture and at different distances/scales. By the end of this class, you'll be able to understand the connections and articulations within a human hand and represent them in different actions and postures.

Session 5: Bringing it All Together

Progress from the initial skeletons to sketching a full human figure with volume and expression. Practice different speeds of execution to challenge your comfort zone while tackling both resting and moving figures. In your sketches, you will experiment with a few shadows for extra volume and expression. By the end of this workshop, you'll be able to integrate body, head and hand expressions to create a lively human figure in a real-life setting.

Figure Drawing Fundamentals Part 2

Session 1: Creating Shape & Dimension with Watercolour

Learn how to create volume and shading in human figures with ink and watercolour. Bring out the essentials of a human figure by simplifying detail and investing in shape, volume and body expression. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to apply shading with hard edges and gradient watercolour washes effectively to create dynamic human figures.

Session 2: Clothing

Learn how to capture the shapes and shades of fabric in different clothing items, helping to convey movement and dynamism to your human figures. Familiarize yourself with simple but effective techniques, both with ink and with watercolour, that will level up your people sketching. By the end of this class, you will be able to draw and paint believable clothing items that will grant expression to your human figures.

Session 3: Hair

Learn how to portray the intricate details, textures and shading of hair using ink sketching and watercolour techniques. Build on your previously acquired knowledge of sketching heads and shading, and add hair variation and flow to your sketching toolkit. At the end of this class, you will be able to skillfully capture a variety of hairstyles and textures with different shapes, volumes and shading, using ink outlines and watercolour washes, creating a simplified yet believable portrayal of hair in your sketches.

Session 4: Making a Scene

Combine all the techniques and skills that you have learned throughout the course, and apply them to a single final exercise. Learn how to deal with many interacting characters in the same sketch, detailing them adequately according to scale, distance, body posture and expression. At the end of this class, you will be able to create an ink and watercolour scene with people interacting with each other and their environment, break down details to the strictly necessary, and convey human emotions and expressivity to the scene.

This courses are made of 4-6 sessions of 90 minutes each.

ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES

• Watercolour Paper

• Watercolours

• Watercolour Brushes

• Blowdryer

• Pencil

Reference photos, etc. will become available after the purchase.

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