Expressive life drawing
Develop your confidence in expressive drawing through a series of exercises working with a life model. You will explore how to use dry and wet media to draw and capture the dynamics of the female human form.
Ability: Intermediate/Advanced
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Intermediate/Advanced
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor Chris Gilvan-Cartwright and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Getting started
- Health and safety, tools, materials and set up requirements
- How do you approach expressive drawing?
Workshops
- Warm-up drawings – working vertically
- Sketching movement – working on a table
- Expressive drawing with ink – working on the floor
- Ideas going forward
- Additional notes and ideas
Course includes:
You will need:
Materials
Equipment
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Materials
- 9B graphite stick
- Compressed charcoal stick
- Willow charcoal, thin and thick
- Conte pastel stick - either orange, burnt sienna or pillarbox red
- 6 x A1 Newsprint paper
- A roll of wallpaper lining paper
- A1 Cartridge 130gsm paper
- Black Indian ink
- White acrylic or emulsion paint
- Selection of paint brushes – wide and thin
- Masking tape
- Rags or tissues
Equipment
- Three different work spaces:
- Easel - If you don’t have an easel at hand then work either on your wall (masking tape your paper up) or work on a drawing board and rest it/prop it up against a chair
- Table
- Flat floor area
- Water pot
- Water spray
- A1 drawing board
- Clips for holding paper on to drawing board (or you can use masking tape)
- Two bamboo canes (available from most garden centres)
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Tutor
Chris Gilvan-Cartwright
Course content
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