Life Drawing provides sequenced instruction in one of the most challenging and compelling of all Western art traditions—drawing the human figure. The figure is one of the most complex natural forms, and serves well as a model of nature itself in drawing. 

The curriculum provides instruction in gesture, structure, visual relationships, and mark-making using observation from a live model each week. Traditional methods of analytical figure drawing are taught—gesture, anatomy, measurement and transparency. Students learn to use devices for perceptual development such as axis lines, the plumb line, head counts, surface landmarks, planar analysis, and ellipses. 

Throughout the year, these lessons accumulate to provide the perceptual, intellectual, and manual skills needed to make strong, lifelike figure drawings that embody a sense of personal vision through individual mark-making. Students have the option of taking Creative Practices and Responses in second semester, in place of Life Drawing II.

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Gary Geraths, Area Head for Foundation Life Drawing
See also: Gary Gerath's Animal Drawing website.
Beverly Bledsoe
Bill Eckert
Bill Fogg
Marjan Hormozi
Linda Hudson
Helena Min
Will Pupa
Chris Warner

Examples of Student Work