Portrait Drawing - Fast But Finished

This class acts as a way for students to learn about the complete process of portrait drawing/painting loosely and quickly in a painterly way, helping them see the whole process play out organically over a short period of time. It also allows students who have done portraits before to sharpen their skills under a time crunch and work more intuitively and organically, blending stages together that they already know. 

Students will spend the first three weeks of the term learning how to do portrait block ins; Finding the general shape, proportion, placement of features, and shadows shapes, as well as teaching students comparative measurement. For the following nine weeks, students will do a series of three week long portraits. 

To aid in this fast and loose approach, students will work with any and all tools: blending stumps, our fingers, pencil erasers, charcoal, and a range of pencils. 

Throughout the class, a heavy emphasis will be put on the structure of a portrait from an anatomical standpoint and how this relates to form, giving students an understanding of what they are looking at. This will include the structure of the skull, the planes of the face, and the shape and structure of the features of the face.

John’s method includes one on one critiques and demos. 

Saturdays, Jan 9th - March 27th

Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm