About this Event
Overview
Move beyond accuracy and explore expressive mark-making, character, and confidence in your own style working from a live model
Course Overview
This course builds on the foundations of portrait drawing and guides towards a more expressive and personal approach to portrait drawing.
Working from a live model, participants will explore mark-making, edge control, composition, and character. The emphasis moves from “getting it right” to developing confidence, fluency, and individuality in drawing.
Teaching Approach
Sessions are structured and allow great space for experimentation and interpretation. Short demonstrations introduce key concepts such as expressive line, variation of edges, and selective detail.
Participants are encouraged to:
- take risks in their mark-making
- simplify and suggest rather than describe
- develop a personal visual language
Individual feedback supports both technical refinement and creative exploration.
What You’ll Learn
You will:
- Use line and tone more expressively
- Develop confidence with looser, more fluid drawing
- Understand how to create focus through edges and contrast
- Capture character and presence rather than just likeness
- Explore a more personal approach to portraiture
Outcome
By the end of the course, you will have produced a body of more resolved and expressive portrait drawings, with greater confidence in your mark-making and decision-making.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 14.96
