Overview
In this festive live online class, you’ll take inspiration from The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s much-loved Christmas ballet. Using its characters, music and atmosphere as your starting point, you’ll explore how to bring this magical story to life.
Working from a live model and elaborate studio sets, the tutor Elizabeth McCarten will guide you through drawing exercises designed to help you capture mood and narrative. You’ll experiment with different media and expressive mark-making to create drawings that suggest dance and emotion.
Expect joyful setups full of riotous colour, a strong narrative journey, and an introduction to a variety of drawing techniques and creative challenges. By the end of the class, you’ll have a series of drawings that together tell your own illustrated Nutcracker story. All levels welcome.
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.
