Master the most soft and flexible art material - charcoal, create several portfolio-grade pieces with it (charcoal is required material for all art portfolios).
This camp will teach you:
- Assessing proportions
- Achieving likeness
- Perspective
- Various shading technique using charcoal
- Anatomy of a human face
- Representing various textures
- Working with values
Detailed Schedule
Day 1
9 am - 12 pm & 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm (All day students choose a different object or do multiple objects together)
Getting to know charcoal as a medium and learning to use it.
Different types of charcoal - vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, and charcoal pencil. Blending practice. Making a simple still life.
Day 2
9 am - 12 pm: Moody Landscapes
Drawing a moody landscape from a photo referenceExploring some different textures that we can make with charcoal- for example fog, smoke, foliage, tree bark, water, etc.
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Vintage Cars
Drawing a car in perspective, with an emphasis on glossy finish of metal, glass and other reflective surfaces.
Day 3
9 am - 12 pm: Human head.
Introduction to the head anatomy, learning to layer skin, hair and fabric.
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Animal Portrait
Understanding dog/ cat/ mammal anatomy, similarities and differences between human skull to another mammals skull.
Representing various types of fur.
Day 4
9 am - 12 pm: Master Copy of a Figure Drawing
We learn a lot when we ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’- so for the figure drawing assignment, studying the works of old masters.
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Master Copy of a Still Life (or set up still life)
Day 5
9 am - 12 pm & 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm (All day students work larger and choose more complex topics).
Free choice
- illustrate a dream you cannot forget
- A strong memory of your childhood
- Draw a self portrait of your inner self
