Intro to Figure Drawing: Structure and Anatomy
Adult Course | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
This course is a great transitional step for students of figure drawing, who are looking to move into longer sessions with the model to understand form.
In the course, students will learn the major bones and muscle groups of the human figure.
Each class will begin with the instructor demonstrating and lecturing on a specific area of the body, going over bones, muscles, origins and insertions, as well as canons of proportions and methods for measuring.
Form analogies and planar conceptualizations will also be covered to give students tools to interpret the surface morphology of the figure.
This course is intended as a follow up to my class, “introduction to figure drawing: the block-in” but it is not required to have taken that course prior in order to attend this class.
Drawing board
18x24 Strathmore 400 series drawing pad
Pencils, 2H, H, HB
Kneadable eraser
Knitting needle (14” thin)
Xacto knife
Sanding block for sharpening pencils
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/