Basics of Beginner Figure Drawing
Adult Course | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
The objective of this class is for students to learn how to see and understand form, and how to translate the world our eyes perceived from 2D into 3D on a flat surface by means of techniques and foundational principles: line, mass , dark, light, shade.
- Some basic experience/knowledge of drawing is helpful
- Newsprint pad 18 x 24
graphite pencils H,HB,2B preferably Staedtler brand
Box cutter
Sanding block
kneaded eraser
Tombow MONO eraser pen (for small details.)
Danid Karim Eid
Danid Karim Eid is a Venezuelan American artist based in Colorado. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Visual Arts. Danid Karim is classically trained following the Old Master’s style at the Real Academy of Art in Denver. Her artistic approach is representational art and Contemporary Realism. Although, she has worked with a variety of media, her primary medium is oils. She is also a member of Oil Painters of America.
Danid Karim believes art permeates all aspects of being. She is interested in the pursuit of beauty, the simple forms of daily life, nature, our planet and all in it. “It is beauty around us that inspires me to create paintings which reflect my perception of those artistic qualities.”