INSTRUCTOR

Joann Harling Larsen

DESCRIPTION

Part of what makes an urban landscape so unique is the people, but drawing people can be intimidating.  Let’s “face” this, together!  This workshop will look at capturing people – not their specific appearance, but their energy and gestures.  As humans, we occupy space.  We have weight, form, and movement. In this workshop, you will engage in drawing exercises that focus on isolating each of these elements. How do we incorporate and capture these ideas into a drawing?  You will then use some Play-Doh modeling clay to help visualize heads and faces as forms in light, and study foreshortening by considering simplified facial features from different points of view.  You will then return to drawing, incorporating insights from each of the exercises into sketching people into your landscapes.

LEARNING GOALS:

In this workshop, participants will

• practice focusing on the content of the drawing rather than the subject;
• learn to capture the energy, gestures, and presence of people; and
• explore foreshortening of people and sketching people in a scene.

SUPPLY LIST

• Drawing materials of choice (for example: pencil, charcoal, inks, sketchbook)