ONLINE: Life Drawing Basics: Volumes, Shapes and Shading

This ONLINE class is an introductory level class in life drawing. it's also a great follow-up to 008 ONLINE: Life Drawing Basics Gesture and Line.

Give your drawings more impact and dimensionality with this 6-week online course that will focus on the volumes of the human form, and methods to show their sculptural volumes through line and through values (lights and darks).

Classes will involve instructor demos, support material and lots of drawing time. Working through a series of guided exercises, we will consider the masses and surface volumes of people (we will work with models online via Zoom). We will investigate cross-contour and contour hatching. Shading approaches using conte crayon and charcoal will also be explored. 

Each class will be a springboard for recommended at-home exercises, to be shared at the start of the following class.

It is recommended that students have had some prior figure drawing/gesture drawing experience, or at least an introduction to drawing basics as this course is not recommended for absolute drawing beginners.

Note: This course will be offered as a 'Hybrid' model course where a limited number of students will be in-person at TSA drawing from the model, while those who enrol in this ONLINE version of this course, will have the course delivered online. If you are interested in the in-person (HYBRID version) of this course please see 225 Hybrid: Life Drawing Basics Volume Shape & Shading (in the In-Person calendar, same dates and times).

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Winter 2021: 5 Weeks: Tuition: $235 + Model fee: $60 = $295

TSA will deliver this course using ZOOM. Prior to the course session, you will receive an invitation for the session(s) via email. You'll need a laptop, desktop or tablet, internet connection with good bandwidth and headset (either wired or wireless). We recommend that you set up a free ZOOM account and be familiar with ZOOM prior to the class beginning.  Here is a link to help you get started: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697

Notes: Instructor Thomas Hendry, is a Toronto-based artist and has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1996. His drawings, shown in numerous exhibitions, use the means of traditional art to create contemporary images, images that address the beauty, mystery and complexity embodied in the human form. In addition to teaching at TSA, Thomas is an instructor at Sheridan College and has taught at The Haliburton School of Fine Arts, the AGO Gallery School, through the TDSB and OCAD Outreach Program.