Following on from the Introduction to Drawing course. Practise the skills of observational drawing to produce a study of a woman's hand, mouth and nose in graphite pencil.
Open to intermediates.
Ages 15 to 99.
*This workshop is recorded (you will receive the video link in 3 to 5 business days after the workshop).
Part 1: Grid and positioning the design
This study will consolidate your skills of observation and precision in rendering shapes, angles, empty spaces and values, with the aim of achieving an increasingly accurate and skilful rendering of graphite drawings.
Part 2: Adding colour and shade
Use of tools, erasers, pencils, blotters and grey scale to make the drawing as realistic as possible. We will work with sanguine pencils in oil, white and a mixture of charcoal and graphite to render the values and tones, thus approaching the style of sanguine drawing by using greasy rather than powdery pencils.
Part 3: The finish and details
The model will allow us to work on the subtlety of values and contrasts (blurred and sharp) as well as attention to detail, while getting closer to more realistic flesh tones.
List of materials to bring:
✓ Drawing book Strathmore toned tan, 9X12
✓ HB graphite pencils
✓ Sanguine pencils in oil, faber-castell pitt
✓ Polychrome white pencils, faber-castell
✓ Mars lumograph black set by steadler
✓ Breadcrumb eraser
✓ Tombow mono zero eraser
✓ Paper erasers
✓ Grayscale scale
✓ 30 cm ruler
✓ Reference photo and grid
