Constructive Figure Drawing

Greg Follender

Workshop Description

MARCH 16 –20
Monday – Friday
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: $460
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list 

Learning to draw without the trepidation of constant internal criticism can be both incredibly liberating and beneficial to the working artist. In this workshop,students will learn how to trust their own instincts and quiet the internal critic that often hampers successful gesture drawing.Short, timed sketching sessions will allow participants to quickly turn the figure in deep space and represent the nude form in more dramatic and challenging poses, while longer drawings will encourage the expression of volume and weight in the subject.These exercises are designed to establish easy-to-follow anatomical formulas and increased recognition of important body landmarks. The sketch sessions will build confidence exponentially until students find that they can document the nude figure in dramatically less time than before, enabling them to concentrate more on the fluid expression of their marks on paper instead of the simple reportage of their subject.

About the Instructor

Greg Follender is a New York based artist/illustrator who has been teaching drawing, painting, and sculpting classes at the American Museum of Natural History for over two decades. His passionate pursuit of rendering the human form has taken him from the wondrous world of book illustration and graphic novels, to character design and costume fabrication in the industry of film and television. With the classes and workshops he instructs at the Art Students League of New York, Greg returns to the roots of his work… the dynamic figure-drawing basics that inspire his personal narrative imagery.

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