Community Creative Center

A six-week studio course focusing on projects dealing with the materials and techniques of drawing, including basic concepts of line, perspective and value as well as figure drawing.

1. Contour & Cross Contour Line Drawing: Learn to perceive the edges of things as they really are and capture the edges and details that we overlook. Contour drawing is commonly defined as ‘the outline of a figure or body.' Contour line drawing has a three-dimensional quality and indicates the thickness, length and width of the form it surrounds. Cross-contour drawing describe form and volume. An object is viewed from a particular angle and represented in a linear fashion so that it appears threedimensional on paper.

2. Hatching, Cross-Hatching, and Basic Forms: Render basic forms and still life and create value using hatching and cross-hatching. Much like cross contour drawing, HATCHING uses parallel lines drawn closely together to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing. CROSSHATCHING is the drawing of two layers of hatching at right-angles to create a mesh-like pattern. Multiple layers in varying directions can be used to create textures.

3. Value Studies: Basic Forms Through Observation (Still Life):  Render basic forms and still life using full range, blended value. Value is essentially how light or dark something is on a scale of white to black. Blend, or create smooth gradations of value, by adjusting the amount of pressure applied to the medium or by using a blending tool, such a blending stump.

4. Perspective: Explore rendering space using one-and two-point perspective. We’ll explore atmospheric perspective as well.

5. Figure Drawing: We will explore gesture and contour figure-drawing techniques utilizing various methods drawing from imagination, the skeleton, and the model. We will also explore measuring and sighting angles.

6. Figure Drawing (Continued): We will continue exploring gesture and contour figure-drawing techniques. We will also explore measuring and signing angles as well as proportions of the human figure. We will have a very brief study of musculature.

Suggested Reading:

Sale/ Betti. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004.

Bert Dodson. Keys to Drawing. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light, 1985.

Loomis, Andrew. Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth, Titan Books, 2011.

Hampton, Michael. Figure Drawing: Design and InvenAon M. Hampton, 2009.

Bridgman,George. Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, Union Square, 2009.

Materials included. Ages 18+.