Kingston Class Supliments

  The Basics LD01.1 Develop your drawing skills in a range of ways exploring multiple techniques. Learn about how to control the way you see and think to enable you to reach you’re full potential with drawing and design. The more classes you can attend the better as they are designed to work together and compliment each other as well as supplement your own practice and learning. The Life drawing classes will not only improve your observational drawing but also your skills with design, composition, scale, colour and light as well as contextual art historical knowledge and professional practice all of which can feed in to your studio practice. Brief An introductory class for those that have not had a lot of experience with life drawing in the past or the particular methods of life drawing used at Kingston School of Art.   We will start from a basic level but the class is still useful for all levels of ability.   Using various techniques we look at how to increase your confidence with dra

  2020 Level 5 Kingston School of Art                                   Reportage CONTEXT   Reportage drawing or location drawing is an essential way of developing your own mark and visual language. This session is a way to cement a link between the process in the life room with the outside world, it’s a nudge out the door so to speak, to get you motoring and not think about what you do ‘’out there’’ to be separate to what you do ‘’in here’’. We will be attempting to look at a landscape in the same we look at a model in the life room.   Reportage illustration usually entails portraying a specific location to illustrate an aspect of that place, which is requires explaining by the brief – from a map for a tourist guide to an illustration about climate change it is an expansive area of work for illustrators.              BRIEF   The aim of this class is to capture with drawing, a location and the qualities that help to form a sense of place. This includes the inhabitants, their movement a