Kids Portraiture (ages 7-10)
60 minutes
Saturdays 10-11am
This NEW Advanced Drawing Class will focus on introducing representational drawing of people through basic drawing techniques. Students will use observational drawing to improve their realistic drawing skills with the main goal of learning how to draw more realistic people.
The focus of the class will be to help students learn to see the outlines of facial features and simple bodies, learn to draw features independently as well as on a figure, learn to pay close attention to the fine details of facial features, and realizing that improvement comes with practice; practice will help all students learn to draw. Students will work on self-portraits, portraits, cartoons, and caricatures in this class. Students will be introduced to basic shading techniques in graphite, colored pencil, and charcoal. We will explore various drawing techniques with many drawing mediums such as with graphite, pen and ink, colored pencils, charcoal and many others.
The focus of the class will be to help students learn to see the outlines of facial features and simple bodies, learn to draw features independently as well as on a figure, learn to pay close attention to the fine details of facial features, and realizing that improvement comes with practice; practice will help all students learn to draw. Students will work on self-portraits, portraits, cartoons, and caricatures in this class. Students will be introduced to basic shading techniques in graphite, colored pencil, and charcoal. We will explore various drawing techniques with many drawing mediums such as with graphite, pen and ink, colored pencils, charcoal and many others.
