Drawing courses London

...engagement with it, as well as offer resources for working through common obstacles. We will also explore an enriching range of media and approaches to inspire new directions...

...This session offers you an opportunity to experience illustration, meet one of our illustration tutors and get advice and guidance on the many illustration courses offered at City Lit. You will be set an introductory drawing exercise and engage in a group crit of the work produced. An excellent...

...You will shown how other artists have used mixed media techniques in sketchbooks for generating ideas. You will be able to develop your drawing and printmaking...

...By building on our observational skills, we learn to look at the world more closely and doing so become more engaged with our own experience...

...take risks and reflect. • Incorporate the creative cycle to take a more explorative, open-minded approach to your artistic practice. • Using variety of...

...at throwing pots on the potter's wheel, learning how to centre clay on the wheel. You will have hands on experience of making your own finished pieces of pottery to take...

...aspects of portraiture and the figure. We will begin by learning methods for drawing heads and bodies including how to render volume and structure in facial features...

...themes or processes from visual material. • Composition - Studio work, completing a finished piece of work or series of related imagery. Demonstration...

...Draw portraits from a variety of view points Understand composition and apply it to your portraits Draw a head that looks three-dimensional Prepare a surface...

...This course guides you through the basic techniques of careful observation, pencil drawing and mixing colours to the more advanced skills ranging...

...and juxtaposition of found images and hand-rendered images to create meaningful personal narratives...

...have an expanded sense of paint handling and technique - begin to locate areas of personal interest and your own language and style - produce a painting...

...This course will introduce you to drawing with chalk pastels. You will explore some basic techniques giving you an insight into the many possibilities for making pastel sketches and finished drawings. Taking inspiration from artists such as Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon and Joan Eardley and exploring...

... and an examination of how books were designed and made in the ateliers, followed by hands-on experience of drawing and colouring a small illuminated design. In the first morning we will take a theoretical look at the history and development of page layout and illuminated decoration in books in the Islamic world...

...Record and develop your own creative ideas - Identify ways in which to take your creativity further. - How to start drawing - How to work with subjects...

...Explore a range of drawing and painting media and the richness of the imagination through a variety of practical methods and guided exercises. During the course we will explore ways of accessing the imagination and create drawings and paintings from a variety of sources of inspiration including...

...On this course you will get out and about looking at city life, through the lens as well as through drawing. You will focus on drawing and photographing people out and about and the architecture that surrounds them, looking at both figures and structure. You will then reconfigure your drawings...

...We will cover colour mixing both primary, secondary and tertiary with watercolours, acrylics, oil and soft pastels plus coloured pencils. We will...

...You will be introduced to Photoshop and gain an overview of its different functions. You will use Photoshop to create a digital collage illustration...

...Edit paths and shapes - Save your files in appropriate format. - The advantages of vector based artwork - An overview of the Illustrator cc interface...