Sketching 101 Art Camp (Ages 8-12)

Sketching is a very important way to develop your drawing and observation skills, it helps you to draw freely and can be a basis for your final work or be considered as a work of art on their own.

In this course, we will study different techniques and talk about composition and color theory to master your sketching skills.

This camp will teach you:

• Sketching & shading.
• Perspective: drawing architecture.
• Representing textures of nature.
• Human and animal anatomy.
• Gesture drawing.
• Anatomy of a human head. 
• Portrat. Achieving likeness.
• Working with pastels.

Day 1:

• 9:00am - 12:00pm: Getting to know the material:  Introduction. Techniques (using shapes of your pastel effectively, shading, blending, powder painting, stencils, and more). Landscape. Underpainting technique.
• 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Flowers. Mixed media (watercolor, acrylic, soft pastel on craft paper).

Day 2:

• 9:00am - 12:00pm: Sketching simple everyday objects. Learning about representation of 2D objects on 3D surfaces. Graphite pencils, charcoals.
• 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Aerial and linear perspective. Sketching architecture. Graphite and color pencils, liners.

Day 3:

• 9:00am - 12:00pm: Basics of facial anatomy. Sketches of facial features. Sketches of human and faces in various projections. Pencil, soft pastels.
• 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Basics of animal head and body anatomy. Quick sketches of animals. Pencil, soft pastels.

Day 4:

• 9:00am - 12:00pm: Master copy of a portrait. Learning to draw people alike. Soft pastels.
• 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Human proportions and body anatomy. Sketching people. Coloring pencils and markers.

Day 5:

• 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:30pm - 3:30pm: Final project of a choice. Drawing your favorite landscape, object, person, or pet. Material of a choice.