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Sketching 101 Art Camp (Ages 8-12)

Art School of SF Bay

4.8 5 reviews

Unlock the art of visual storytelling in this engaging camp designed for young artists who love comics and animation. Develop your skills in both digital and traditional media while learning to create dynamic characters and compelling scenes. Whether you're a beginner or already crafting your own comics, professional guidance will help you take your artwork to the next level.

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8 - 12 years old
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1601 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
32 hours & 30 minutes over 5 sessions

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Description

Sketching is a very important way to develop your drawing and observation skills, it helps you to draw freely and can be a basis for your final work or be considered as a work of art on their own.

In this course, we will study different techniques and talk about composition and color theory to master your sketching skills.

This camp will teach you:

Sketching & shading.
Perspective: drawing architecture.
Representing textures of nature.
Human and animal anatomy.
Gesture drawing.
Anatomy of a human head.
Portrat. Achieving likeness.
Working with pastels.

Detailed Schedule

Day 1:

9:00am - 12:00pm: Getting to know the material: Introduction. Techniques (using shapes of your pastel effectively, shading, blending, powder painting, stencils, and more). Landscape. Underpainting technique.
12:30pm - 3:30pm: Flowers. Mixed media (watercolor, acrylic, soft pastel on craft paper).

Day 2:

9:00am - 12:00pm: Sketching simple everyday objects. Learning about representation of 2D objects on 3D surfaces. Graphite pencils, charcoals.
12:30pm - 3:30pm: Aerial and linear perspective. Sketching architecture. Graphite and color pencils, liners.

Day 3:

9:00am - 12:00pm: Basics of facial anatomy. Sketches of facial features. Sketches of human and faces in various projections. Pencil, soft pastels.
12:30pm - 3:30pm: Basics of animal head and body anatomy. Quick sketches of animals. Pencil, soft pastels.

Day 4:

9:00am - 12:00pm: Master copy of a portrait. Learning to draw people alike. Soft pastels.
12:30pm - 3:30pm: Human proportions and body anatomy. Sketching people. Coloring pencils and markers.

Day 5:

9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Final project of a choice. Drawing your favorite landscape, object, person, or pet. Material of a choice.

Refund Policy

We do not provide refunds for ongoing classes tuition, courses or camps payments.

However, full credit towards future booking or transfer to another camp/course will be offered for any cancellations made up to 2 business days before the camp or course starts.
Ongoing classes can be canceled with a 31 business days prior notice.

You can make up a missed class on another day when we offer the same age/skill group class. The make-up class should be arranged in advance, no drop-ins. Limit 2 make-up classes per month. Make-up classes are subject to the availability of space in a similar class. We reserve the right not to provide make-up classes or terminate the class enrollment for repeating truancy.

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Art School of SF Bay

The Art School of SF Bay offers creative and approachable classes in representational drawing from nature for kids and adults. Their skilled artists teach traditional disciplines and techniques to help students fully express themselves through art.

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