Drawing: Learning Professional Techniques

If you’ve ever struggled to create a clear and interesting drawing from a physical subject or memories in your head, this workshop with master teacher and artist Tony Couch is just the lesson you need to increase confidence in your drawing skills. In this art instruction workshop, Couch discusses the importance of drawing as the basis for all other forms of two dimensional arts.

This lesson will enable you to expand your drawing vocabulary and provide you with a wealth of technique and advice on a variety of drawing topics. Couch will touch on topics like finding your motivation in a scene or subject, implementing different drawing styles, finding perspective, and several ways to apply the unique characteristics of the tools with which we draw.

Students of all levels will benefit from this introduction to contour and gesture drawing, paper textures, and bamboo brushes and inks. You’ll also enjoy Couch’s coaching sessions on the physical aspects of drawing, like how to properly grasp and hold your tools, and why you must use your whole arm when drawing. Through Couch’s patient, quiet teaching style, you’ll learn how to look for relationships between shapes and lines, why it’s important to work the entire paper, and how to draw quickly by creating the subject as a whole instead of in pieces.

You’ll also learn strategies for reducing subjects to their simplest shapes, how to work from general to specific details so that you can establish a scene quickly, and the benefits of considering different perspectives and viewpoints. Watching this workshop will give you the chance to grasp the highlights from a lifetime of drawing and painting experience.