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This class is made up of several specific exercises that build step by step, as well as a final project.

Don't be tempted to skip to the end - you need to do all of the work.

Every class I teach is very clear about the requirement of practice. Make a commitment to improving and developing your art through these useful exercises. These exercises should take hours, even days, weeks... Revisit them months from now. Create habits from them. I have.

First Exercise:

- Marks vocabulary and tool exploration: Gathering your drawing tools - pens, pencils, markers, crayons, etc. - we will build a confidence and playfulness to your mark making. You're going to make a Scribble Map, and I want you to make one as a warm up every time you sit down to work. You will also begin to know which tools you favour for creativity rather than comfort zone tools.

Second Exercise:

You will learn to draw based on feel and expression. You will make marks that "speak and feel" using specific words as triggers for your mark making. Your marks will convey emotion. This will help you recognise and use the right line to best communicate a drawing.

Third Exercise:

- Drawing what you see and feel: Using simple objects gathered from around your home (or using reference photos I provide in the download) you'll create pages of "learning" drawings before moving into stylising them - giving them a soul.

Using marks that speak and feel from the previous exercise, draw your learned object in new ways, fully exploring materials and line style. You should have pages and pages of practice by this point and spent hours on the exercises - perhaps over days.

Final Project:

- Find your line: Using a still life (build your own or use the provided reference photos), follow the steps used in the second exercise before committing to a series of interpretations of the subject.

Meaning: do your "learning" drawings first, then practice several line styles (several drawings) with the still life to find the right lines to capture the feeling of the objects but also what feels most natural to you now.

At this point, you should have some new marks and tools which feel "right" to you - new ways of working discovered and developed through the class.

What you're learning in this class is like going to a fast-paced foundation art school class. What we cover here is the equivalent of weeks of study. Pause and come back to this class after you're certain you've done enough work in each section to graduate. ;)

Keep experimenting and show us your exercises and final projects in the projects section. Show your ugly stuff too - it all counts.

I can't wait to see your work.

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Carolynn Ryan

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