Drawing Skills
with Nataliya Zozulya
Drawing is the simplest and oldest art form. Whatever the tools, whether pencil, charcoal, ink or pastel, all drawings are executed either in line or tone, or both. Line drawings made purely in lines, whereas tone involves shading and degrees of light and dark.
Drawing is an activity that can be carried anywhere. It doesn’t need special equipment, like oils or watercolour.
The exercises during the sessions will develop awareness of the space around you and the scale of the objects. Students will continue to work from observation and produce drawings with different materials, exploring measurement, proportions, tone, volume and composition.
Materials required
Good quality A3 white cartridge paper for drawing
hardback sketchbook for sketching and notes
H to 6B pencils
box of thick charcoal sticks
hog brush No. 8
charcoal pencil
paper stumps
soft and hard erasers,
tube of white gouache
masking tape
a can of spray fixative
a metal ruler
small box of soft pastels
Stanley knife
box of baby wipes
apron to protect clothes
Drawing Skills 12-Week Programme Autumn 2024
1. Autumn still life in charcoal
Working on tone and proportions.
Establishing the basic structure, sight-size measurements of the composition, tone scale. A3 paper and pencils.
2. Musical instruments or still life with tools
composition, proportions, point of interest. A3 paper and pencils.
3. Musical instruments or still life with tools, Second session
checking mistakes, working on details, correcting the tone.
4. Still life: how to draw different textures– charcoal
Understanding how to use charcoal to express different textures. Each shape has light side and dark side, and in addition there is half -tone between light and shadow.
5. Plant drawing using soft pastel
Careful observation of different shapes, general masses and forms. Choice of details to crate an interest.
6. Interior drawing. Charcoal
Amazing rules of linear and aerial perspective. Light and shadow.
7. Human skull drawing - Pencils
Understanding structure, very careful drawing of shapes.
8. Plaster cast drawing - Pencils
Looking at the academic drawing of the great masters.
9. Plaster cast drawing - Pencils: Second session
10. Drawing of a human head (Model sitting) Pencils
11. Drawing of a human head. (Model sitting - second session).
12. Figure in the interior or landscape drawing.
Students choice of materials.
The tutor has the right to change the programme in case of unexpected circumstances