Beginning Drawing - Draw What You See! Improve Drawing Skills! Self-Paced

 This week, we'll be exploring a fun technique called upside-down drawing! By flipping our artwork, we challenge the left brain's focus on recognizing objects and activate the right brain's creativity. This allows us to focus on shapes, lines, and relationships between elements, potentially leading to more surprising and expressive drawings. 

 Unleash your inner artist this week with two exciting drawing techniques! We'll be diving into blind contour drawing, where you focus on capturing the lines and movement of your subject without looking at your paper. This fun challenge encourages a more intuitive approach. Then, we'll explore value drawing, where we focus on light and shadow using a range of tones. By combining these techniques, you'll gain a deeper understanding of form and create captivating artwork! 

 This week, we'll be exploring the magic of positive and negative space! Imagine a puzzle - the positive space is the image you're building, like a cat, while the negative space is the leftover area around it. By learning to see and use both spaces effectively, you can create more interesting drawings! 

 We're getting loose this week with gesture and figure drawing! We'll start by capturing the essence of a pose through quick, flowing lines (gesture drawing).  Then, we'll use these gestures as a foundation to build more detailed figures, focusing on capturing movement and form.