Date: Fri - Sun April 14, 15, & 16, 2023
Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Cost: $650
Workshop Description
Artist, Zin Lim's Expressive Figure Drawing workshop will be a memorable and inspiring course. Coming all the way from South Korea, he will be instructing us on how to effectively measure, create accurate proportions and refine fine details. You will learn how to create good drawings that have emotion, rhythm, movement, and with your personal touch.
Instructor will share his unique direction of expressive figure drawing in lectures, presentations, and multiple demos from live model. You will experiment to find the way to use your inner voice and rhythm of your body, and make lots of short and long posed drawings.
This course is for any experienced level of artist-students.
Beginners will learn how to use charcoal medium, how to make interesting visual marks, and how to use those marks to create good figure drawings without full of anatomic detail.
Advanced artists will learn how to break their safe zone and shift drawing style from tight to loose.
After attending this course you will broaden perspective of figure drawing approaches, enjoy creating process more and get an idea for your own direction for the next drawing art.
Supply List
[Art Materials you will need]
Drawing pad: One from below.
- Strathmore Drawing Pad, 300 series, medium surface. 14x17 inch or larger.
- (Recycled) Strathmore drawing pad, 400 series, medium surface. 14x17 inch or larger.
- Strathmore drawing pad, 400 series, medium surface. 14x17 inch or larger.
* Can't find the above in your area? Charcoal drawing pads or any local brands of drawing pads (medium surface) are fine.
* No 'New Sprint', 'Bristol', or anything has a 'smooth' surface, They don't work well with charcoal.
HB charcoal pencil: General brand (if you don't have a 'General' brand, vine charcoal medium or hard (any brand) or Nitram hard is fine.
Willow or/and Vine charcoal (soft or extra-soft) sticks (General, Cortes, Winsor Newton, or any local brand)
Optional materials
Portable easel: Stand, table-top, or no easel is fine.
Drawing board: any wooden, plastic, or thick paper board for backing the drawing pad.
(Workable) Fixative: For in case you make works you like to carry home.
Sandpaper Block or any smooth Sandpaper
* Can't find the listed material in your town? No problem. Just bring anything you have.
* Material list is also available on the Q&A page.