Drawing Techiniques

Strengthen your drawing skills through a classical approach using a step-by-step method. No experience necessary!

This six-week course is for beginner and intermediate students. It covers all the bases of drawing. Through demonstrations, drawing time, and individual critique, the instructor will focus on the fundamentals of proportion, gesture, abstract shapes, value, and rendering form (shading). Class will discuss the use of different materials and study master drawings to understand their strengths and the techniques and processes employed.

Students will express their sensibility and feelings through drawing, following skills in basic drawing: sketching, proportions, relationship, symmetry, perspective, decomposition of forms in geometric figures, color drawing, etc. and how to use the drawings elements such as line, point, shading, etc. to represent the world around them (Objects, landscape, portraits, architecture, etc.)

After mastering some drawing skills, students can use what they learned, articulate stories, express their inner world through drawing, and develop their representational efforts in the narrative of their images through visual vocabulary.

Drawings will be evaluated constantly during class, and the instructor will suggest exercises and assignments to practice during the week.

Classes breakdown:

Class 1

• Basics, materials, measuring and seeing, proportions, relationships, shapes, line and line weight, straights and curves, blind contour drawing.

Class 2

• Negative space, gesture, crosss contour drawing, notan, values.

Class 3

• Tone and rendering, form and cast shadows, hatching, cross-hatching, shadow shapes, soft and hard edges,

Class 4

• Composition, the grid, proportions, using a viewfinder

Class 5

• Portrait, proportions, features, symmetry, drawing from life.

Class 6

• Perspective, foreshortening 1 point perspective, 2 point perspective, aerial perspective in landscapes and interiors, and the human figure

Refund & Cancellation Policy: Attendees can request refunds up to 24 hours before their class start date. Classes must meet a minimum enrollment number to run.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Will McGaul has been a professional art instructor since 2011. Will has exhibited in California and Florida. He is a member of the Miami Watercolor Society and the Gold Coast Watercolor Society. He is also an avid urban sketcher and is a member of Urban Sketchers Miami. Will loves to share his passion for drawing and painting in his classes and workshops, and at the same time, simplifying the process and making it fun.