From drawing the body to depicting the body
The life drawing workshop will aim to approach the live model through drawing, exploring all forms of graphic expression and using long poses to allow for the final formalization of the drawing. Sketching during quick poses will be a time for movement and experimentation. Long poses will allow participants to finalize their drawings by adjusting shadows and light, determining the volumes and rhythms of the composition, the details, and the focus of an element of the whole.

Drawing from the figure requires both an understanding of the gestures of drawing and the techniques essential to observing and reproducing the forms of living beings. Putting the hand that traces and reproduces what is visible into action before the eye thinks about the form is an essential way of enabling the eye to locate and read the body. The sketch will thus serve as a springboard for a more reasoned acquisition of tools in long-term poses.

The aim of the course will be to explore graphic and technical tools and analyze the constituent forms of the body. The aim will be to enable participants to understand the logic of their perception by allowing them to use drawing to finalize the shaping process.

The course will include technical demonstrations of drawing tools. There will also be explanatory diagrams of the morphology of the body’s elements. The aim will be to open the public’s eyes to how the internal form of the body determines what is visible. Finally, elements of geometry and construction will be used to help express everything that can give a sense of three-dimensional space in the drawing.

Materials to be provided by the student (list provided upon registration).

The course is taught in French.

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