Portrait Drawing Course Term 1, Lesson 1: Seeing without prejudice

Welcome to week one of our portrait course! If you'd like to know more about the whole course visit the Draw Navigator HERE or pop me an email on info@draw-brighton.co.uk. 

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In this video

This video is Lesson 1 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson I'll introduce the course, show you how to make a blind drawing, explain the partial peek drawing process and discuss the marks in Egon Schiele's line drawings. To get full benefit from the course, watch one video per month, practicing for at least 2 hours per week over the course of that month, before moving on to the next lesson.

You will need:

• Paper

• A pen or pencil

• Optional: charcoal or compressed charcoal

Your assignments are:

• Make 7 blind contour drawings of 3+ mins each

• Make one or more partial peek drawing of 10+ mins

• Optional: Make a transcription of Egon Schiele's drawing of Lilly Steiner

Tip: If you're in a hurry, click on the settings wheel on the bottom right hand corner of the video to adjust the playback speed.

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Sharing the class

This first class is free and available to the public so feel free to share the link to this Patreon post with friends who might enjoy it - they don't have to be a Patreon supporter to view it. If would like to join the full course you can sign up to the Portrait, Life or Student tiers of the Patreon HERE - you pay a monthly membership fee for unlimited access to the course recordings as they are released and you can cancel, upgrade or downgrade at any time. If you have any questions just email me & Sara on info@draw-brighton.co.uk.

Sharing your work

If you post any work from the course on social media please do tag me (@jakespicerart) and Draw (@draw_brighton) so that I can see what you've made! You can also share your drawings to the Draw Brighton Community Notice Board on Facebook.

Practice

• Practice from a recorded online portrait drawing session for free HERE. Patrons on the Student, Life & Portrait Tier can search through our archive of 100+ recorded sittings HERE.

• Practice from Ariane's portrait photoset for free HERE. Patrons on the Student, Life & Portrait Tier can search through our archive or 15,000+ photos HERE.

• Come to Portrait Club or a live online or in-person session via our programme HERE!

Links

• Read more about Egon Schiele and Lilly Steiner

• Read more about John T. Freeman

• Find my books HERE

• See the Met Museum page for the Portrait of Lilly Steiner HERE

• Visit the course overview on Patreon HERE

• Visit the course page of the Draw Navigator HERE

Next week

>> Watch Term 1, Lesson 2: Horizons of the Face HERE 

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Practice images

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Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

• Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like

• Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge

• Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!

• Edit the screenshots as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

Please don't:

• Share these pictures with anybody else – they are between you and us

• Share the pictures themselves online – thanks for respecting our models’ privacy

• Edit the pictures themselves for artwork – we want to see original work you’ve made

Thanks!

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Having trouble viewing the video? You can watch it directly HERE