Drawing Impressions

“Every object that you see has a structure or form based on either the cube, the cylinder, the cone, or the sphere.”

Learn and strengthen your skills through a classical approach to drawing. Through a basic method learn how to draw any object based on one or any combination of these four geometric solids: Cubes, Cylinders, Cones, and Spheres.

This course is for the absolute beginner to intermediate student, it covers all the basics of drawing and learning representational techniques. Demonstrations, drawing time, and individual critique will focus on the fundamentals of proportion, comparison, shapes, value, and rendering. We’ll discuss materials and study master drawings to understand their strengths and technical processes.

Participants will be guided based on their individual skills and will have constant evaluation while drawing. Individual instruction will be provided according to how they are developing through the proposed exercises.

Course Breakdown:

First class: Basic structure of objects
● Introduction
● Execute line eye control
● The Four basic geometric solid shapes
● Different angles and views.
● Eye level: Foundation of Perspective
● Different type of positions
● The Horizon Plane

Second class: Cubic objects
● Cubic forms in everyday forms
● Searching for lines
● Layout and Visualizing
● Handling Details
● Eye level: Foundation of Perspective

Third class: Cylindrical objects
● Drawing Curved Lines
● Observing Cylindrical Forms
● Rendering Cylindrical Objects
● Proportions, comparison,
● Symmetry, High and width, measurements
● Ellipses and Perspective

Fourth class: Spherical & Conic Objects
● Departure from the Geometric Shapes
● Drawing Spherical Objects
● Depth & the Sphere
● Drawing Conical Objects
● Symmetry in the cone
● Putting Basic Forms Together
● Tridimensional geometric objects in perspective

About the Instructor
Pablo Contrisciani earned his Masters in Fine Arts, Painting at Facultad de Bellas Artes, National University of La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. His work forms part of public and corporate collections from USA, Latin America and Europe. Pablo is an Oolite Arts alumnus (1998-2006 and 2010-2015) and works as a painting instructor since 1998.