Drawing Fundamentals: Getting Started

This beginner-friendly class will teach you essential techniques for drawing realistically. Understand the concepts of line quality, contour line, and mark making. You’ll also learn about the materials used in drawing and art so you’re not intimidated by the art store. And you’ll understand how to slow down and ‘see’ things to better draw them. Instructor Amy Wynne teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and exhibits her work nationally, winning numerous grants and awards.

In this class you’ll learn:

• The expressive potential of a variety of drawing media on varied surfaces
• How to build a connection between eye, mind and hand
• To practice sensitive line quality as it relates to mechanical versus organic motifs

By the end of the class, you’ll have created a series of contour drawings of organic and mechanical objects in varied materials.

• Class Introduction
• Materials
• Demo: Materials
• Line Quality: Blind Contour
• Blind Contour Portraits