Overview
This Digital Studio session will focus on close looking at the surface of the face, exploring the texture and structure of skin rather than traditional portrait shading. Working from very close views of the model, we will examine the small asymmetries, lines and irregularities that give a face its character.
Rather than drawing the whole head in a conventional portrait format, students will concentrate on fragments of the face — studying wrinkles, folds, pores and subtle shifts in form. The face is approached almost like a landscape, where lines and marks describe its unique topography.
Using a ballpoint pen, students will build drawings through mark-making, using line to map the texture of the skin. The session encourages careful observation and experimentation with how marks can record the complexity of the face’s surface.
Each Digital Studio session makes use of the School's multi-camera digital studio to create drawing-from-observation opportunities that are only possible online. Tutors offer guidance throughout to help students approach different poses and get the most out of each session.
Please note: online models will not pose nude. Models in this series will be semi-clothed.
Our classes are not recorded and made available to watch later.
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