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Sketching Animal Portraits - 5 Exercises to Improve Your Drawing Techniques

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In this class we'll practice sketching animals from reference - and in future classes, we'll create some finished watercolor portraits - so if you're interested in learning some techniques, that can hopefully help you improve on the way you approach sketching, I hope you'll join me for this class.

In this class, we'll go through:

- How to check angles and proportions

- We'll practice this technique, by sketching a couple of animals.

- We'll sketch using different exercises/techniques, like sketching upside down and sketching with paint (you can use graphite, if you don't wish to use paint)

The goal is to improve on our ability to observe a subject, and copy what we see onto our paper.

This class is not about perfection - we're just going to have fun!

You can also check out my class on portrait sketching. Some of the techniques are the same - though I've approached it differently. And you may find this class useful, if you'd like more in depth practice when it comes to using angles and shapes to render your subject.

Hope you'll join me for this class! :)

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Supplies
  • Before we start; Checking Angles & Proportions
  • Gesture Sketches; Warm up Exercise
  • Shapes & Angles; Ladybird
  • Shapes & Angles; Frog
  • Upside Down; Sparrow
  • Sketching with Paint; Mouse
  • Sketching with Ink; King Fisher
  • Class Project & Final Study; Kitten

Taught by

Tanja Jensen

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