I’ve just finished uploading a Sketching Workshop to my online classroom and it’s open and ready for students! The workshop was inspired by the members of my drawing club who wanted to know more about sketching from life. Originally, I was just going to do a “talk” at the club about sketching, but the thing kept growing as I added more techniques and demonstrations until it was clear it needed to be a full-fledged class.
The topics are:
- How to Hold A Pencil (Four different sketching grips.)
- Introduction to Hatching and Expressive Line
- Hatching Types
- Simple Nature Hatches Part One
- Simple Nature Hatches Part Two
- Expressive Line
- Putting It All Together – Combining Line and Hatching
- Finding Subjects and Composing With a Viewfinder
There are quite a few videos in the class (six of them) and I think they help explain the topics in ways that normal text and illustration can’t. Seeing how I use a viewfinder to find a composition, for instance, is so much more instructive than just reading about it. I enjoyed making the videos, too. My husband was my camera man most of the time, but I was able to set up and shoot two of videos by myself. Now that I know how easy they are to make, I’ll be using videos much more in my future classes.
Hope to be drawing with you soon!
Carol
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