Hi, I'm Mike Hendley

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Great question! Here is a short description for every single class:

Part 1: Bare Basics

Session 1: Proportions of the human body

Learn how to visualise and sketch a human figure, starting with stick figures. 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 simple shading 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.

Part 2: Bringing Your Figure to Life

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 watercolor 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, and 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.

We're planning for each class to go for about one to two hours.

Pretty much, yes. The teacher will do a live stream for every class. All audio will be live, but the art-making portion is pre-recorded to ensure the best quality with minimum technical issues. 

You will be able to participate live through the chat function. The teacher and the host will address all your questions and pause the video if needed.

After each live session, the recording will be available for replay.

During the course, the teacher will also address questions from participants on the Etchr website.

At the end of the courses (end of Part 1 and Part 2), we will do a fully live Feedback session with the teacher. You'll be able to participate via chat, ask all your questions, and get feedback on your final assignment.

No Problem! Each week has an assigned class. You are welcome to join the Live class and watch the class with other participants or watch the recording of the class at your own time during the week.

We also have a recorded video for each homework that we will upload right after the Live Class takes place.

The teacher will be present for every single class, available to answer any questions.

Each class will present you with a new challenge assignment. If you submit it on the Etchr website asking for critique, you will get feedback from the teacher and other group members.

At the end of the course, the teacher will also provide feedback on your final piece in a Live Feedback Session.

However, it is worth noting that this feedback will be at a high level; something to guide your next steps. This is also reflective of the price being charged for the course, plus the support and feedback provided along the way.

Here's the complete list of supplies:

PART 1: Bare Basics

• Pencil (preferably 2B)

• Pigment fineliner, fountain pen or rollerball pen

• Sketchbook or sketchpad (suggested: 120-180g)

Find everything you need for this course in this PDF.

PART 2: Bringing Your Figure to Life

• Pencil (preferably 2B)

• Pigment fineliner, fountain pen or rollerball pen

• Watercolour sketchbook or sketchpad (suggested: 180-300g)

• Water cup

• Paper tissue

• A set of watercolors, although we'll only use one color (recommended colors: indigo, payne's gray, neutral tint, sepia)

• A couple of round brushes (medium sized - size 8-12 is good)

Find everything you need for this course in this PDF.

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