The Practice of Life Drawing with Ron Krouk

A demonstration of some approaches to developing and improving drawing skills.

1.  10 minutes:  Brief Introduction about practicing and sharpening observation skills vs “making art”, and about why life drawing, since at least the Renaissance, has been part of studio training.

2.  15-30 minutes:  Gesture Drawing. What goes on in a 30 second drawing and why practice this.  What happens as you add more time. 

3.  15-30 minutes:   Drawing with straight lines, what and why.  

4.  10-15 minutes:  Outline and Contour.    5 minutes of the time will be for people in the audience to do a blind contour drawing of their hand after I demo the process.

5. 15-20 minutes: Notan and Composition. Large thumbnails for planning a composition.

6.  Drawing for painting (what’s different from drawing for it’s own sake).  

See Ron’s work:  ronkrouk.com