This session was about giving teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class at Cambridge ArtWorks the opportunity to engage with still life drawing working large (A1). Students worked with soft graphite to create strong, bold and gestural work.
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Introducing Hester and providing an overview of how Hester sets up and facilitates a life class.
Getting started with life drawing and some simple warm-up exercises to help you become familiar with your drawing materials and the life model.
Hester provides some helpful advice along with a series of short drawing exercises, that will enable you to identify the essentials of a pose and successfully record the movement and gesture of the life model.
Drawing faces can be daunting, but Hester explains how you can tackle them successfully using simple and logical steps.
Hands and feet are tricky subjects and often get omitted because the forms seem too complicated to draw. Hester shares a secret shortcut to understanding and drawing these complex forms …think mittens and socks!
When drawing the life model, it can be difficult to process your view of a 3D form into a 2D representation. Hester explains clearly and concisely how to successfully achieve a foreshortened figure to create the illusion of space in your drawings.
Hester explains how to use tone effectively to give your drawings more definition and an increased sense of volume and suggests ways of using tone when drawing short poses, that will build your confidence and skills.
Pupils use AccessArt’s carnival mask template to create animal mask designs
Pupils make their animal mask designs 3D
Pupils put finishing touches on their animal masks using paint
Pupils work over several sessions to create their very own long legged animals with Modroc and sticks
Using wire to create articulated joints and moving beasts
Using pocket digital cameras to animate beasts
Simple engineering challenge using the competitive spirit and a bit of cardboard!
