Drawing for Beginners

Course Code: 4DB11A24

Start Date: 19/09/2024

Thursday

Session: Afternoon

Delivery method: Centre Only

Length in weeks: 11

Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm

Price: £

This course is suitable for complete beginners or those wishing to refresh their skills.
Demonstrations, examples and individual help will lead you through a carefully structured sequence of drawing exercises and subject matter. These will build the confidence to draw what you see.

Basic Materials for Drawing

Very little is needed to get started but the following will be useful:

• An A4 or larger pad of medium grain cartridge paper. This is sold in various weights, 130 gsm (grams per square metre) will be fine. 200 gsm would be more robust. The pads of paper come with a stiff cardboard back; this is usually sufficiently supportive.
• A few pencils of varying hardness will make it easy to make lighter or darker marks.  I suggest an HB, B, 4B or the even softer 6B.
• A pen that flows easily. A drawing pen, no smaller than 0.5 size, will make a more even mark than a biro.
• A rubber eraser. This can be cut into 2 pieces, one larger and one quite small.
• A 1ft ruler to help draw the edges of each picture the right size.