Beginner-level Figure Drawing Class: Intro to Mark Making and Gestures

This class includes a mix of :30 gestural drawings, 1 min, 5 min and 10 min poses followed by a final 20 min pose. The class has one model who will be nude during each pose. All phones will be collected at the start of the class and available during breaks.

Materials will be provided, which include:

• 14x17 Newsprint paper pad
• Lyra graphite crayons/sticks

Saturday, 9/28 from 3-5:30pm

Introduction to mark making and gestures

After this class you will have a better understanding of how lines create visual language and how lines express images. The narrative that lines make will be better understood by the student so that when they are looking at drawings they can understand why an artist chooses to use one line over another to depict their objective of the drawing.

Instruction topics: A quick overview on the history of mark making and the history of line as an element of visual language. Visual materials include cave drawings from Blombos, Lascaux and Altamira followed by a demo of drawing different kinds of lines, shapes, marks, etc and having an interactive discussion about how the differences in line can be interpreted and perceived, demonstrating how gestural line drawing is a visual starting point for drawing the figure as a whole.

The class includes a mix of :30 gestural drawings, :60, 5 min, 10 min poses and a final 20 min pose.

Host or Publisher Freddie Chavda