Drawing with Ryan Daffurn

Introduction

The basic concepts which make up our visual language we begin to discover by drawing. Being a more immediate and less complicated medium than painting, we can focus directly on those principles that interpret the visual world two-dimensionally.

Working from life: objects in front of us that have physical presence, we become sensetised to how we actually percieve the world and the logic which coherently recreates this experience on a page.

Our subjects are plaster casts/ sculptures, still life objects, basic forms as well as the skeleton and reference diagrams. Demonstrations are important to explain one particular idea at a time. Watching the processes of an experienced artist is often the most effective way to comprehend these new ideas.

Learning to see for aesthetic ends, takes some unlearning of how we habitually view the world. Objective drawing with the support of a teacher helps students take responsibility for what they create and is the beginning of a journey towards working confidently in your own unique pursuits.

Each of the below concepts / methods / media / subjects, I introduce with specific exercises. This gives us time to flesh out an idea in a focused project which we can relate, and add to in future projects.

Materials required for first lessons: 2B pencils, A2 paper, kneadable eraser

Basic Drawing:

• Using a pencil/ easel

• Methods for objective drawing

• 2D; observational accuracy
• 3D form; creating volume
• Relationship of 2D shape to inflect 3D forms
• Principals of Light
• Basic volumes/ Patterns of light

Intermediate Drawing:

• Linear construction; basis for building forms
• Form drawing: rendering, using tone and line
• Perspective; coherent sense of space
• Foreshortening
• Basic geometric forms/ compound/ organic

• Anatomy: basic head and figure construction

• Drapery studies

Advanced Drawing:

• Tonal drawing; local tone, creating light, atmosphere, and space

• Structural and detailed anatomy of head and figure

• Compositional approaches, principals, models

• Rendering techniques

• Memory and imaginative drawing

• Pen and ink / conte' / pastels/ charcoal

Enrol by notifying us that you would like to attend, via our online message form or call us.  Then come along to one of our scheduled classes.

Landscape painting with Ryan Daffurn

Please contact Ryan Daffurn for more information on classes and materials.