Beginning Portrait Drawing

Beginning Portrait Drawing

Class | This program is completed

Beginner

4/10/2023-6/12/2023

9:30 AM-12:30 PM PDT on Mon

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$504.00

$453.60

$10.00

Master the art of capturing a likeness. Working from portrait models, you will study the essential techniques and concepts of proportion, line, value, volume, and structure. Our focus will be on visual processing—translating what you see into a compelling portrait.

No class on Monday, May 29th.

  • We recommend that everyone registered for an in-person program at Gage Academy of Art receives full COVID-19 vaccination. Gage leaves the use of face coverings when indoors at the facility up to each individual as masks are not required. 


  • Supports and paper:
    •Drawing board 18” x 24"
    •Strathmore 500 series white charcoal paper 18” x 24"
    •Rough Newsprint 18” x 24” (to pad your drawing paper, gestures and thumbnails)
    •Strathmore 500 series Blue Grey or Smoke Grey charcoal drawing paper 18”x 24” or larger (1 or 2 sheets).
    •1 or 2 sheets of dark charcoal paper, such as Canson Ingres paper - Stygian black or Dark blue, Canson Mi Teintes paper - Indigo Blue #140, Black #425, Fabriano Tiziano paper - Indigo blue #39, Blue night #42, or Black #31, Daler Rowney Canford paper, Plum, Royal blue, Navy blue or Jet Black.

    Drawing Materials:
    •General’s Charcoal pencils (several HB’s & one 2B)
    •General’s White charcoal pencil
    •Conte Crayon pencil, white
    •Conte Crayon stick, white
    •Kneaded eraser
    •White eraser
    •Blending Stumps (not the spiral wound ones)
    •Willow Charcoal (Med. Sticks 5-6 mm)
    •Chamois
    •Small Snap knife from hardware store
    •Sandpaper (one piece of 150 sandpaper is all you’ll need)
    •2 bull dog clips
    •Wooden skewer
    •Dividers
    •View finder
    •Optional Tombow Zero Refillable Round Eraser (VERY useful)"