What to Expect - Graphite Basics Course
What to Bring:
NEW: Parental Supervision No Longer Required
- Bring your phone: a smartphone is a great tool, especially when drawing from a reference.
- Bring a cardigan/jacket: weather permitting, class may be held outside.
- A sketchpad will be provided for each participant.
- Bring your FaBd art toolkit to each class.
- Toolkits are available for purchase online, in our shop, and on the first night of the class.
- To make the most of the course, we advise you purchase a FaBd toolkit, as the course is built around the specific types high-quality artist's pencils included in the kit. A materials list is available upon request.
- A bag, preferably waterproof (in case of rain) to carry your brand new sketch-pad home in.
Class Format:
- The first ten minutes of each class is for getting settled in, think freeform Q&A. In your first lesson you can expect your instructor to run through a quick list of basics for artists. At subsequent classes, this time is a great chance to share what you did with the techniques you aquired in previous lessons.
- As the first ten minutes are primarily a grace period, for participants running late, your instructor may choose to start as soon as everyone is present.
- Each class will also have a twenty minute break midway through.
- The first four classes will also focus on one or more specific items in your toolkit.
Class Outline:
Class 1: Introduction to your tool-kit, Mastering the basics, plotting & technique
Class 2: Shadow, shading & light, Solid, straight or bendy?
Class 3: Subject mapping. Light, Layering & Blending
Class 4: Proportion, Perspective & Balance
Class 5: Free-form Drawing - Honing & Using the Techniques Learned Prt: 1
Class 6: Free-form Drawing - Honing & Using the Techniques Learned Part: 2 + Class Graduation