Sketching Animals

In this session we will explore how animals are shaped: we’ll start by understanding their shapes as simplifications of round or rectangular forms with protruding legs, heads and tails…We will then draw an animal head and change its proportions and positions of the eyes and discover how this will change the type of animal…., and making us understand how the heads of dog, or a horse or giraffe are different from each other…We’ll also compare whole body shapes, by changing the relationships between rib cage, pelvis, skull and their orientation in space. It is deeply fascinating to discover how living creatures are built by drawing and reflecting about them.

Please, be aware that in this course, we do not copy photographs of animals but work from a deeper understanding of body shape and its design in regard to how the animal moves.

Please bring:

A4 paper or larger for drawing – normal photocopying paper is good enough)

Hard backing board (does not have to be a ‘proper’ drawing board’) for putting your drawing paper on

Sabine will offer learners to buy A2 size cartridge paper, 25 p per sheet, that can be cut or torn to size and is a good quality

Pencils (HB and 4B)

Pencil sharpener

Rubber

We have trestles and large drawing boards in the Guild that some learners might want to use.