Community Creative Center

Master draughtsman Sean Fitzgibbon will help you develop your eye and your hand as you learn fundamental figure drawing techniques such as expressive line, form and anatomy based on a live model. A undraped Male or Female model will be present in each class. Learn to loosen up and see the figure in all new ways!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

We will explore figure-drawing techniques utilizing various methods.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

1. Gain a fuller understanding of the basic fundamentals of figure drawing.

2. Develop technical proficiency.

3. Gain a deeper insight into the forms and interrelationships of the various partsof the figure.

4. Render the figure in a variety of poses using foreshortening.

POINTS TO DISCUSS

Introduction to Figure Drawing and discussion of the course. Understanding the proportions of the human figure. Gesture drawings of the figure from imagination and from model. Introduction to artistic anatomy and rendering the skeleton. Measuring and sighting angles. Brief study of the muscles. Gesture and contour exercises from the live model. Rendering the figure in value. Explore chiaroscuro rendering the figure with single light source.

COURSE OUTLINE

WEEK ONE• Introduction to Figure Drawing and discussion of the course. Introduction to artistic anatomy and rendering the skeleton. Begin gesture drawings of the figure from the model.

WEEK TWO• Measuring and sighting angles while drawing from the figure. Understanding the proportions of the human figure.

WEEK THREE• Anatomy continued with brief study of the muscles. Gesture and contour exercises continued from the live model. Understanding foreshortening.

WEEK FOUR• Rendering the skull and proportions of the face. Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Understanding negative space while rendering the figure. Rendering the figure in value. Explore chiaroscuro rendering the figure with single light source.

WEEK FIVE• Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Mapping shapes within the figure. Reductive drawing / explore chiaroscuro rendering of the figure with singlelight source continued.

WEEK SIX• Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Reductive drawing continued / explore chiaroscuro rendering of the figure with limited light source continued.

SUGGESTED READING

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

Complete Guide to Drawing From Life by George Bridgman Hogarth

Dynamic Figure Drawing. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1970

Atlas of Human Anatomy For the Artist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951

Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorche Approach. University Press of KS, 1990Sale, Betti

Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004. Goldstein

The Art of Responsive Drawing. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1973 Dodson

Keys to Drawing. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light, 1985.Wakeham, Mendelowitz

Mendelowitz’s Guied to Drawing. NY: CBS College Publishing, 1976