Constructive Figure Drawing: Action, Structure, and Design
Brenno Kenji
$600
January 20 - March 23
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6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
All Levels
In this hands-on 10-week class you will learn a reliable 3-stage process to drawing the human figure that will empower you to draw with confidence and authority from life, reference, as well as from imagination.
Drawing from a variety of photographic references and masterworks, we will start with a simple gestural lay-in built around the landmarks of the body, allowing us to capture the action of the pose quickly and effectively. We will then break down the figure into simple shapes that will give the figure presence and structure. We will tie everything together with special attention to how each part flows into the next following the rhythms of anatomy guided by the orchestration of shape design.
Class will include demonstrations, lectures, drawing time, and plenty of hands-on individual feedback. All levels are welcome.
Topics covered include:
- gesture as a connective strategy
- figure construction and the dynamics of action
- the general model vs. the unique individual
- theories and techniques of form modeling
- light logic, shape design, and form analysis
- line quality and expressive mark-making
- active functional anatomy and the rhythms of the human body
- foreshortening and the illusion of depth Photographic reference of poses will be provided to students in order emulate the experience of drawing the model from life. We will, however, take advantage of the fact the course is online in order to also explore more dynamic poses that would be impossible to be held with a live model.
