Figure Drawing: the classical approach
Adult Course | Registration opens 11/4/2025 10:00 AM MDT
This class is about taking the skills of basic figure drawing and anatomy from prior classes, and developing them further by creating longer studies of the model over multiple sessions.
Over the course of 5 weeks, students will complete two drawings of the model (a 2-day study and a 3-day study) these longer poses allow deeper investigation into anatomy and form.
This class is a continuation of prior courses “the art of the block-in” and “figure drawing structure & anatomy” but it is NOT required to have taken those courses to sign up for this class. This course continues into “figure drawing: the art of the long pose.”
This class is ideal for those with some experience drawing from life looking to push their skills to the next level.
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/