Academic Training in Classical Drawing

Academic Training in Classical Drawing

Are you a beginning student and wish to improve your drawing skills? Or do you already have extensive experience with drawing and painting and wish to deepen your knowledge of classical drawing techniques? Then you are most welcome to participate in my program.

Like grandmasters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, we focus on model drawing. Indeed, the human body is one of the most complex subjects to master. It challenges us to study drawing concepts, such as the correct rendering of proportions and tonality, but also trains our perception. Lessons learned are universal and can later be applied to other genres, such as landscape or Still Life.

The direction “academic training in classical drawing” consists of two years: a first year (model drawing) and a second year (portrait drawing), each divided into three courses. Experience shows that students make the greatest progress when the course is completed in chronological order. However, if you wish to take only one section from the program, this is also possible (with the exception of the first two portrait courses).

Academic training in classical drawing: portrait part one

For the student who has completed the first year of model drawing, we offer a specialization, namely: the portrait. We learn a lot about the structure of the head, and how to draw a convincing portrait focusing on the likeness of our model. A step-by-step method, anatomy classes, working from observation, sculpture classes and a digital learning environment will help you do this, and teach you how to depict something true to nature.