"Anyone can draw if they are given the right instructions.” - Marcel Desbiens, Master Artist and Principal Tutor
Marcel has designed learning pathways to give students structure as they develop from novice to advanced artist.
If you have limited or no experience with Drawing, then we recommend you start with Isabella Allis who will help you learn the basics of Drawing in a friendly and supportive environment.
Once you have built your confidence in Drawing, it's time to develop and broaden your skills with a weekend workshop run by a guest artist, covering a range of subjects. We recommend you try Patrick J Jones.
About this workshop Rapidly improve your drawing skills through this 8-week structured course. Initially, we will focus on the fundamentals of drawing technique and then progress to explore and observe the true nature of your subject including reflections, shadows and transparency. Learn charcoal and drawing techniques you can add to your artistic repertoire and apply to your personal style. Developing your drawing technique will also improve the quality of your paintings. Isabella...
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$595Limited
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Drawing Fundamentals and More | Isabella Allis
<h4>About this workshop</h4>
<p>Rapidly improve your drawing skills through this 8-week structured course. Initially, we will focus on the fundamentals of drawing technique and then progress to
About this workshop Take your drawing skills to the next level, through regular, mentored studio practice in this 8-week course. Experiment with ways to make your drawings really pop! Understand how light interacts with objects to create the feeling of 3-dimensional form. Master pushing and pulling values to create greater drama and contrast. Look at the treatment of edges (sharp, lost-and-found or soft) and how this will bring greater realism to your work. Develop your own drawing...
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$595Limited
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Drawing Practice | Isabella Allis
<h4>About this workshop</h4>
<p>Take your drawing skills to the next level, through regular, <strong>mentored studio practice</strong> in this 8-week course.</p>
The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed figure drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to drawing figures with style. In this weekend figure-drawing course, Patrick will introduce you to the forgotten secrets of the old masters and share his exciting and accessible figure drawing methods and formulas developed over decades of presenting Masterclasses. h3. What will I learn?...
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$395Limited
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Anatomy of Style | Life Drawing for Beginners | Patrick J Jones
<p>The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed figure drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key
You can purchase all the materials you will need, pre-packed, for just $30. Order your kit at the checkout. Life Model fee is included in the workshop fee.
The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed head drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to drawing figures with style. In this weekend head-drawing workshop, Patrick will introduce you to the forgotten secrets of the old masters and share his exciting and accessible head drawing methods and formulas developed over decades of presenting Masterclasses. What will I learn? Day one:...
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$395Limited
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Anatomy of Style - Head | Patrick J Jones
<p>The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed head drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to
You can purchase all the materials you will need, pre-packed, for just $30. Order your kit at the checkout. Life Model fee is included in the workshop fee.
The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed figure drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to drawing figures with style. In this weekend masterclass, Patrick will explore in greater depth more of his exciting and accessible methods and formulas for drawing human figures with style and grace. h3. What will I learn? Through a combination of demonstrations, your own practice, and...
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$395Limited
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Anatomy of Style (Intermediate) | Patrick J Jones
<p>The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed figure drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key
You can purchase all the materials you will need, pre-packed, for just $40. Order your kit at the checkout. Life Model fee is included in the workshop fee.
Learn from Brisbane Portrait Prize finalist, Scott Breton. This workshop condenses the form and figure drawing section of the Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course through a series of carefully designed sequential activities and drills. Many of the key elements from the anatomy section are covered, though we won’t be using sculpture activities due to time constraints. Nonetheless, the complementary access to the online notes will give you full access to the anatomy section. His online...
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$420Limited
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Classical Figure Drawing: Core Elements | Scott Breton
<p>Learn from Brisbane Portrait Prize finalist, Scott Breton.</p><p>This workshop condenses the form and figure drawing section of the Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course through a series of carefully
Experience the wonderful world of pencil drawing using the portrait as your subject. In this 1 day workshop, Lyn will take you through the basic skills of portrait drawing showing how to gain a good likeness and sculpt the planes of the face. You will work from your own photo reference. What will I learn? Through demonstrations and a series of ‘hands-on’ exercises, you will learn easy methods for drawing portraits in pencil. Who is this course suitable for? This workshop is...
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$195Limited
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Portrait Drawing in Graphite | Lyn Diefenbach
<p>Experience the wonderful world of pencil drawing using the portrait as your subject. In this 1 day workshop, Lyn will take you through the basic skills of portrait drawing showing how to gain a
Stunning portraits can be created by using a very limited palette of 3 or 4 values. Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a colour. Since we see objects and understand objects because of how dark or light they are, value is incredibly important - it is the key to the illusion of light. What will I learn? In this workshop, we will be concentrating on the importance of values to create form and will use a very limited palette of Pastel pencils and white charcoal to achieve...
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$195Limited
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Value Plus Portrait Drawing | Lyn Diefenbach
<p>Stunning portraits can be created by using a very limited palette of 3 or 4 values.</p>
<p>Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a colour. Since we see objects and understand objects
About this Workshop This is a 1-day event where we take you through all the fundamental aspects of understanding and drawing a picture in perspective. We will assume you have little to no experience with how perspectives work and therefore we start from the beginning. The idea will be to quickly move through some historic examples and simple exercises. The hope will be to develop your understanding for perspective with a series of worked examples (paper and soft pencils – not...
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$195Limited
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Workshop Perspective | Szczepan Urbanowicz
<h3>About this Workshop</h3>
<p>This is a 1-day event where we take you through all the fundamental aspects of understanding and drawing a picture in perspective.</p>
Drawing Fundamentals About this class Rapidly improve your drawing skills through this structured course in the fundamentals of art. Learn charcoal and drawing techniques you can add to your artistic repertoire and apply to your personal style. Developing your drawing technique will also improve the quality of your paintings. Isabella will discuss the various materials, drawing mediums and types of paper used. What will I learn? The course will focus on the fundamentals of drawing...
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