Our Location
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Learn how to
skecth & paint people
Discover the joy of sketching and painting people with a loose, expressive touch using fine line and watercolour. In this class, you’ll learn how to capture the figure in simple, accurate proportions—along with essential features like faces, hair, hands, shoes, and clothing. We’ll explore how to simplify real-life references and turn those dear photos tucked away in your phone’s cloud into warm, personal art pieces you’ll treasure forever.
Course Outline
Materials needed: A4 sketchbook, pencil 2B, eraser, waterproof fine liner pens, watercolour /
gauche (black, white, red, blue, yellow), brushes round.
Warm-Up
Gesture sketches; exploring realistic, loose and expressive portrait styles.
Body Proportions
Basic head and body proportions; foreshortening arms, legs and torsos.
Composition
Placing figures in scenes; using light direction and contrast to guide the eye.
Topic-Focused Practice I
Facial features (eyes, noses, mouths), hair, expressions.
Topic-Focused Practice II
Hands, feet, clothing folds, capturing movement.
Final
Project
A figure or portrait study with line and watercolour.
Course Price Guide
The courses include drawing, fine liner sketching, watercolour and mixed media.
You will need pencil, watercolour sketchpad with thick 300gsm paper, medium fine liner,
watercolours (recommend Windsor & Newton 12 colour pan), round brush no. 8.
Foundation
$
90
Formation
$
180
Bundle
$
380