Liverpool Arts Bar: Life Drawing (10 Week Course)

This 10 week course will teach you to perfect the human figure across a programme of lessons developing your skills in life drawing, including accurate measuring, shading and drawing techniques.

***To avoid a booking fee and pay by card, cheque or cash, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 0176660***

Monday evenings starting 2nd October, from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.

£170 for 10 week course.

Suitable for both newcomers / beginners and for those continuing from previous courses, as the tutor will tailor the material to individual participants.

Programme:

The course is aimed at adults of any age, both beginners and the more advanced, who want to directly work from a human model or still life.

There will be a human model for most of the sessions, performing very short, short, and long poses giving the students a chance to practice drawing at various speeds. We also will make use of still life and/or sculpture as well as printed pictures to practice on specific skills.

The main method that is taught and practiced in the course is the traditional “stick measurement” and “sight-size drawing method”. However, the following topics will be covered throughout the course:

– The sight-size method versus the comparative method of drawing

– Using alignments, angles, relative proportions, and cross points in figure drawing

– Postural drawing and quick drawing

– Human body proportions

– Shades and values

– Foreshortening

– Using a grid

– Using a proportional divider

Tutor: Laleh Kamalian

As a member of Liver Sketching Club Liverpool from 2016 and a skilled artist, Laleh has a special interest in the human figure and portrait drawing. She has experience teaching drawing methods at various workshops and classes including dot-art life drawing course. “Being of an experimental mind I tend to research all the tools, skills and methods and have found great success with those I will teach you on this course.”

Dates:

Monday evenings 6:00pm – 8:00pm, starting 2nd October 2023

2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October

6th, 13th, 20th, 27th November

4th December

Venue:

Liverpool Arts Bar

22 Hop Street,

L1 9BY

Cost:

£170 for the 10-week course (full course must be booked in advance). It is possible to split this cost into two payments, please call 0345 017 6660 for more details.

Materials:

Essential

– Sketching paper, at least at A3 size, either in a hardback pad or as loose paper sheets. If you are getting loose paper sheets you will need a drawing board for support. You can find good quality pads at very reasonable prices in “The Works” and “Cass Art”.

– Selection of graphite pencils – H’s and B’s (eg. H2, HB, 2B, 6B)

– Masking tape for taping your paper onto the drawing board

– Rubber (soft – a kneadable eraser is preferable) and pencil sharpener

Recommended but not essential

– Portable easel

Important note: please don’t get a tabletop easel. It needs to be a standalone

– Drawing board

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Notes:

There are a maximum of 15 places available on the course, so early booking is essential.To avoid a booking fee and pay by card, cheque or cash, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660.

Cancellations / Refunds

Once you have made your course booking you are committed to it. This is because our courses have very small student numbers, and often sell-out and are unavailable to others. Therefore any cancellations may result in a place not being filled, or a course not being able to run.

Cancellations are permitted up to 30 days before the start of a course, and a full refund will be issued. Refunds will not be made for cancellations less than 30 days before the start of a course. If you are unable to attend due to illness, personal or professional commitments you do not have the right to a refund.If you wish to cancel your place on a course that has not yet started and you have a friend or colleague who can take your place we can accommodate this substitution.

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