Distance Learning Art Courses

life drawing course

Life Drawing & Painting Course (C3)

Tutored by Alan Dedman BA, RAS, PGCE

Course Overview
The human form is the basis of much art. Learn the basics of anatomy and proportions, experiment with foreshortening and movement, and develop your own style. Work with different media.

In fact, once you've completed the course and mastered the techniques needed, you'll have gained both the understanding and the confidence to really make the most of drawing and sketching people from life. Ideally you will need to find a local model to pose for you on a few occasions at least to get the best out of this course. It is possible to do some of the work using your own image in the mirror or working from photographs. However many students find friends and family very co-operative when asked to sit.

Course Prices
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Critiques
If you have scanning / photography facilities, students are able to upload their artwork to the Artwork Submission Area on our website. Each student is given a unique username and password on enrolment for their own private section in this area. Students can upload their artwork to this area for the tutor to collect and critique. The tutor will then upload feedback for the student to download or read.

Critiques via Regular Mail
If you do not have any facilities to upload your artwork, you can send your work in the normal way to the tutors centre and receive your artwork back with your critique. It is essential you label all packages/artwork your student number.

Support
All our courses are written to be complete in themselves. However we realise that students may appreciate being able to get clarification about various things as they work through their programme as well wanting reassurance that they are putting techniques into practice effectively. The tutors provide the technical support to deal with relevant queries.

Most courses have their own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. The student is encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique. The student's work will be returned together with the tutor's personal critique. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for any award of a letter, certificate or diploma.

Duration
The expected duration of this course is approximately 1 year although the college allows students up to two years to complete their studies.

Overview
This course is suitable for all students. The following is an overview of some of the areas that are covered in the course.

Media: Equipment used
Subject: Areas covered
Techniques: Skills developed
Pencils / graphite stick
Pastels
Watercolours
Oils
Life
Anatomy
Male & Female Comparison
Heads
Hands
Feet
Legs
Using the Mediums
Proportion
Perspective
Composition
Foreshortening

Samples pages from this course - click to enlarge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Samples images from this course

 

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