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Freehand still life and architectural drawing sketching - traditional medium
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The freehand drawing is the first tool used in designing a building, the daily practice of the architectural design process. In the age of computers, despite its visibility has decreased, freehand drawings have become even more precious; the role of freehand drawing in communicating our ideas and thoughts gives us the opportunity to make use of the simplest intuitive connection between our mind and the hand through exercising our bidimensional skills in order to represent a tridimensional universe.

The class will be organised upon the traditional still life drawing technique in atelier/workshop. The student is placed at a distance from the still figure that allows them to place their easel and paper next to the object to be represented. The drawing and the object will be the same size, which allows for easier comparison of distances and angles carefully measured.
We will learn hatching technique used to create tonal or shading effects, and many other techniques of drawing elements of design: layer tinting, texturing and form lines.

The class includes advanced notions of perspective.
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The main medium is graphite pencils, but we will also learn how to use instruments like charcoal, ink, watercolor, inked brushes, various kinds of erasers.
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  • Sint-Jorisstraat, Elsene, Belgium
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Adults (18-64 years old)
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60 minutes
120 minutes
The class is taught in
English
French
Italian
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