This course is offered in partnership with the Florence Classical Arts Academy.
The program offers more than sixty video tutorials, supporting files with images and references which you will get access to in the course of 24 weeks. You will receive weekly feedback of the professors through our e-learning platform. And monthly Zoom group meetings will help you to grow and get inspiration from your peers.
You will learn about constructive and tonal drawing, composition, hatching, and sketching techniques, all according to the traditional academic method.
The course will unfold from drawing simple geometrical shapes to still life all the way to portraiture with live model. You will learn about volume, 3D and creating a realistic image in various techniques and using different art materials.
This course is offered through the Florence Classical Arts Academy.
Successful completion of a FCAA course can be credited toward an Arts Atelier 146 program area.
- Materials for drawing
- “Setting” the hand
- The Hatches
- Hatching technique (line and stroke)
- How to measure objects
- Building volume with tone
- How to sketch
- The perspective in drawing
- The construction of a cube in perspective with cast shadow
- The construction of a circle in perspective
- Shadow line. Building volume with tone. Cast shadow
- Big form. Plain-analysis method. Constructing 3 objects
- Linear-constructive drawing of a household object
- Linear – constructive drawing of mixed group of objects
- Constructive still live with 4 objects
- The tonal drawing of the sphere
- Tonal drawing of the cube
- Still life of cast geometric figures with a light tone
- Drawing still life with tone
- The scheme of the skull
- Drawing scheme of the eye, nose and lips
- Tonal drawing of the eye, nose, lips
- Portraiture Drawing