Drawing Workshop

I enjoy teaching the “Drawing for Beginners” class at work, but didn’t have time this summer for a full six week class. I proposed two workshops: Absolute Basics, a three hour crash course, and Mammals, about. . .mammals. No one signed up for the latter, so it’s been cancelled. But we did run the first one, Absolute Basics.

So it turns out three hours in the evening, after working, is really brutal. Ha. But the students were engaged, asking questions, participating in the activities. We worked on breaking a picture of a cat down into shapes, and drawing it. They all did good. Then I introduced viewfinders, and they used them on a picture of a herd of sheep. Their sheep were so good! I don’t know why the viewfinder made such a difference, but it did.

Some of my own sketches from the workshop: