Drawing FUN-dementals is an eight-week course focusing on the bare bones of drawing. The series of workshops is designed to help beginners and those looking to improve their art no matter their skill-level, both. The course will help in providing tools to make drawing easier and guide on how we can take the next steps in art!

Each session is carefully designed with simple introductions to the topic, explanations, demonstration, drawing time, peer critique, all while we also have fun with it!

Join us for the free Open House for the course on June 13 where we'll have a brief introduction to the course and learn the basics of graphical representation!

📅 Saturdays from 20 June - 8 August
⏳ 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
🎟️ Rs 14,000/- for the course
🎟️ Rs 2000/- per session

Schedule of the Course

Week 1: Automatic Drawing - 20 June

An introduction to Automatic Drawing! We’ll practice our drawing technique by loosening our wrists & shoulders. We’ll then move ahead to doodles, making lines, and boxes to get better at the movements.

Week 2: Perspective - 27 June

An introduction to Perspective! We’ll discuss different perspectives and practice working with 1-point, 2-point & 3-point perspectives

Week 3: Composition - 4 July

An introduction to Composition! We’ll go over the basic rules of composition and how placement of objects on paper can create different meanings.

Week 4: Facial Proportions - 11 July

An introduction to facial proportions through the Loomis Head Method We’ll explore characterization through the method, how to use it and also the aspects that the method doesn’t cover and practice how we can tweak the technique to account for those [eg. racial & ethnic features].

Week 5: Drawing Skulls - 18 July

An introduction to Skulls! We’ll draw from the previous session, discuss why are they important to know, and how we can simplify the process of making them.

Week 6: Anatomy - 25 July

An introduction to Human Anatomy! We’ll start off with gesture drawings giving 30 seconds to each pose and then explore the eight-heads model of human proportions. We’ll go over the Bridgemen & Loomis methods and have a disucssion about how different artists approach anatomy

Week 7: Muscle & Bones - 1 August

A deeper dive into Human Anatomy! We’ll cover human manikin structures that take on the form of muscles. We’ll then explore overview of muscles and how we can learn to draw them on the go.

Week 8: Drawing the Hand - 8 August

Tackling how to draw The Hand! Often thought of as one of the bigger challenges when it comes to drawing. We’ll explore different approaches to drawing hands and how we can simplify the process for ourselves.

📌Center for Arts-based Methodologies & Wellbeing
50/3 Maqboolabad Society, Sharfabad, Bahadurabad, Karachi