Constructive Portrait Drawing

Constructive Portrait Drawing

Adult Online Art | Available

All Levels

4/29/2024-5/13/2024

10:00 AM-1:00 PM on Mon

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$315.00

$15.00

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Online on Zoom | 3 Mondays - Apr 29, May6 and 13 | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time)
This workshop is crafted to provide a comprehensive yet accessible experience for artists of all levels, whether you are a beginner looking to explore your creative potential or an experienced artist seeking to refine your portrait drawing techniques. This workshop is designed to meet you where you are on your artistic journey. It offers you a unique opportunity to learn from the artist himself. Oliver's expertise and passion for teaching will guide you through the process of creating stunning expressive portrait drawings. This workshop will help you to delve into the fundamentals of drawing portraits, focusing on essential knowledge of shapes, planes of heads, anatomy, value rendering, and more through a series of engaging exercises and step-by-step demonstrations from picture references that Oliver will provide. Students will learn the techniques of mastering expressive portraiture drawings with vine charcoal, and charcoal pencils on drawing papers. 

One of the highlights of this workshop is the chance to receive personalized feedback and guidance from Oliver. He has over 22 years of professional teaching experience at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. With his keen eye and constructive critique, you will have the opportunity to refine your portrait drawing skills and elevate your skills to new heights. Let‘s embark on a journey of creativity, self-discovery and unlock the artist within you. 

Sin, Oliver

Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. After he graduated in 1996, he started his art career as a computer game concept artist at LucasArts. He returned to the Academy to teach for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation in 2001. He was drawn to art even as a little boy, once recalling that he started drawing at the age of 3. Portraiture is his favorite form of expression which he constantly practices, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well. Since 2011, Oliver has been lucky enough to come across a few distinguished contemporary artists as mentors, ZhaoMing Wu, Henry Yan, and Chung-Wei Chien. Their tireless guidance has urged him to put greater efforts into capturing fleeting human expressions and paying more attention to precise composition in figurative portraits. Oliver's first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is published by the Rockport publisher in 2019 and the Spanish version was released in June 2021. Two of his portraits were commissioned and featured on the cover of the Time Magazine as part of their "100 Women of the Year" project, March 2020 issue. Vine charcoal portrait of his dad has won the First Place Drawing and People's Choice Awards of the International Portrait Society's portrait competition out of 2660 international entries on May 8, 2021. Samples of art can be reviewed at: https://www.instagram.com/oliversin/