Faces Figures and Portraits Workshop (Grades levels 3 - 12, Adult)
This workshop helps students to focus on and learn some of the fundamentals of drawing the human figure. The techniques presented in this workshop can be used in storytelling for school newsletters, newspapers, illustrating student stories and articles.
This workshop focus’s on using faces, figures and portraits to tell a story. Students will be given an article, poem, or story piece to illustrate using the techniques from this workshop.
Students will be shown different ways to design the page or the canvas. How to use familiar places to make their figures feel comfortable on the page. They will also find out about using emotion to give life to the subject in their picture.
We will touch on using light and shadow for dramatic effect. Using color to help pull your viewer into the picture. Using color schemes to help convey mood. Students will learn different ways to show motion and action in their pictures.