Contour Drawing and Gesture Drawing. These are two of the most essential exercises in the drawing cannon. 

The focus is to learn to draw by using senses other than sight. We will imagine using our sense of touch to draw in blind contour drawings. In Gesture drawings, we draw the human form and embody the feeling of acting out a pose in our drawings. 

Cross-contour and Potential Gesture Drawing, plus the ongoing contour and gesture drawings we will continue throughout the 9 weeks. 

Cross contour drawings have us imagine our subject as a topographical map. With Potential gesture, we draw the movement we THINK the model will do next. 

We continue to work on the exercises described in week 1 and 2, and learn about Flash Drawing.

Flash poses aid in building our visual memory by forcing us to memorize the pose before we try to draw it.

Bold three-dimensional drawings will come through this week as we learn the Modeled Drawing technique and Weight Drawing. 

You can choose to use a charcoal or penciler this fun, scribbly messy adventure in drawing.

Up your Memory in week 5 with a technique that will help you memorize what you see, developing your visual memory abilities. 

We will also build on what we’ve already learned with more practice using the past weeks’ techniques.

This week is going to be SO. FUN. The lesson is: Moving Drawing.We will be drawing from moving photos (Check out an example by clicking here) to learn how to better understand action. 

You’ll be guided step-by-step on how to do this in a fun, approachable way. We’ll also continue to build on our previous weeks learning.

7 weeks in, you won’t believe how capable you feel around a sketchbook. At this point you will see serious growth and have MUCH more accuracy in your drawings.

This week, we Draw with Ink. We’ll go over the same drawing lessons we’ve been doing, but with the new medium, you’ll feel them in a whole new way.

One purpose of this method is to give you the remarkable ability to understand the 3-D form of the subject you are drawing from different viewpoints. 

Right Angle Drawing, the method we gain this week, will challenge you to draw an object as if you were sitting at a 90 degree angle to the subject, instead of drawing directly what you see. Yes! It’s possible! And you’ll be amazed at how capable you are this far into the challenge.

Our Final week is a medley of all the incredible exercises we’ve practiced up until this point.

We will change the subject a bit and draw the head and Gestures of Features of the face. 

With this final challenge, you will have a STRONG grasp of how to draw all parts of the human form, and you’ll be able to apply these skills to anything you wish to draw.

Not to mention, your bragging rights will be well earned, and your sketchbook will be a thing of beauty to show off. There’s nothing like seeing a sketchbook begin with scribbles, and see beautiful drawings 9 weeks later.