New! Figure Drawing - Structure and Anatomy C
Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
This course is a great transitional step for students who have taken figure drawing, and are looking to move into longer sessions with the model to understand form. In the course, students will be doing longer poses where they can slow down and investigate form and anatomy. The instructor will demonstrate and lecture on structural concepts to apply to interpreting the organic form of the model via planar and geometric constructions, as well as anatomical ideas and surface morphology.
- Students registering for this course should have basic figure drawing experience.
Learning Objectives:
Develop an 'x-ray vision' for the structure of the human figure, understanding basic anatomical landmarks, and planar conceptualizations of major muscle groups.
- Graphite Pencils: 3H, 2H, HB, 2B
Paper: Strathmore 400 series, 18x24 Drawing pad
Drawing Board
Erasers: 1 kneadable eraser, and 1 Hard gum eraser
Measuring tools: 1 knitting needle, the narrowest size available.
Various paper stumps in different sizes. NOT the tortillions.
Alexander Soukas
Alexander Soukas' serious training in the fine arts began upon attending the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five high schools in the United States dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts. Unsatisfied with his studies, and desiring to pursue a career as an artist, he began homeschooling as a way of earning his diploma while undertaking an apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins. Soukas studied traditional painting and drawing in Boston with Polins for 4 years, where he now visits as a guest instructor at Polins' atelier, The Boston School of Painting. Years later, Soukas studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to seek a more rigorous classical training at Studio Incamminati. While there, he worked for and studied under Nelson Shanks as one of his last apprentices. https://www.alexandersoukas.com/