Classes
All in-person classes take place at TheDrawingStudio in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. Online classes take place over synchronous zooming. Upon registration, a class Letter of Engagement with detailed information on the class is sent via email to each student. While classes are structured by curriculum they transform with each cohort's spirit and direction. Please contact classes@thedrawingstudio.info with any questions about our classes.
Life Drawing
$400
Gesture, contour, cross contour, shading, compositional moves, animating touch, clothed form, anatomical form, form in motion...
This is a series of 6 small-sized classes focusing on drawing from the human body. Most often we'll draw from a live model, clothed and in the nude, but at other times we'll draw from other animals and beings. Sometimes we'll even draw from inanimate forms, because if drawing is about nothing else it's about endowing any thing with being, including the page on which we draw! We'll work on how we compose figure on the page, how we draw a still and moving figure, how we grab attitude and spirit, how we break down parts so as not to be overwhlemed by the body's form, and we'll take on many more approaches to seeing, along with technical and material approaches. This class is for every level of experience, and will aim to be challenging and at once keep people at ease while we study being in the body.
DrawingStudentDrawing, Jade Jwa, 2024
Sunday 4-5:30 pm
6 classes per/session
Begins Oct 27, 2025
Online Introduction to Drawing for Adults
$300
Contour Line, Sketch Method, Line as Value, Continuous Tone, Linear Perspective, Color as Tone, and Drawing with Style.
Open to everyone from total beginners to experienced artists, this class is for students who want to learn to draw what they see before them. We’ll take on different ways of seeing, shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and build up a toolbox of techniques and approaches using multiple drawing mediums. We’ll build a greater understanding of the specificity of our own respective ways of seeing as we draw from varied subjects.
Edge of Light Drawing, Yvonne Liao, 2023
Individualized Drawing Instruction
$500
Drawing instruction that is personalized due to particular interests, an artistic goal, a current project, expanding ones practice, a portfolio in design or art, or simply because one-on-one is a better fit for the student.
After an initial meeting, a 6-class curiculum is crafted to fit the student's goals and interests, focusing on techniques and approaches along with conceptual challenges designed to broaden and advance their development. Curiculums are supple and student and instructor continue to shape them together.
Driving Studies, Ava Hakakha, 2023
Online Drawing for Adults II
$350
Color Studies, Gesture Drawing, Drawing transparency, Compositional games, and Drawing with Style.
This class explores composition, new approaches to the page and frame, color theory, and drawing styles. We'll anchor ourselves in observational drawing techniques, stressing different ways of seeing and shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and try out various mediums while doing so, but we'll also let ourselves wander into the realm of the minds eye, looking to spawn a dialogue between intuition, intention, and imagination. We’ll work on our specific drawing voices, and study how each one comes to be.
Human Trace Drawing, Soo Jung, 2023
Saturdays 4–6 pm
6 classes per/session
Begins January, 2025
Observational Drawing for Adults
$350
Contour Line, Sketch Method, Line as Value, Continuous Tone, Linear Perspective, Color as Tone, and Drawing with Style.
Open to everyone from total beginners to experienced artists, this in-studio class is for students who want to learn to draw what they see before them. We’ll take on different ways of seeing, shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and build up a toolbox of techniques and approaches using multiple drawing mediums. We’ll build a greater understanding of the specificity of our own respective ways of seeing as we draw from varied subjects.
TP Drawing, Briah Sosa, 2024
Thursdays 4:30–6pm
5 classes per/session
TBD
Beginning a Drawing Portfolio for High School Students
$250
Class time is responsive to the cohort’s needs and interests, and will range in activities from writing about our own and one another’s work, researching artists that connect to students’ inquiry, engaging in group and individual review and projects, improve documentation skills and, above all, expressing ourselves with specifity on the page.
This class is specifically for high school students who are looking to build an art portfolio. Through collaborative group projects as well as individual ones, and with guidance from the instructor, students develop a series of drawings that represent their distinct point of view, technical command, and style. We’ll build an environment in which we intensify and clarify one another’s vision, hone skills, verbalize our messages, and are all rooting for one another.
Raki Inspired Drawing of Classmates, Iza Max, 2023
Drawing for Glass Artists
$250
Each class explores a mode of drawing that aims to be useful to artists whose primary meidum is glass.
This class runs a gamut of ways that drawing could be incorporated into one's practice using glass, and share the ways it already is put to use in the group. Our group will draw transparent objects using varying approaches, we'll draw in chalk as one does in a hot shop floor, we'll draw out a narrative of our life with glass, and work on installation drawings for how glass objects come into being in exhibition and other spaces. Time will be spent on practicing fast loose but clear ideation on the spot, for when working in a hot or cold shop or in front of a flame. The class leaves room for the individual ways in which drawing can clarify or enhance current practices. We'll join together in a drawing studio with glass in our minds and hearts.
5 class session
Begins Winter 2025
Poetry Drawing
$300
A class in which we respond to poems by drawing, exploring various mediums and typography.
In this 5 session class we'll work from selected poems by various poets to create personal and responsive drawings. We'll study how drawing is a kind of writing and visa versa, and the bridge that poetry can play between them. In this way typography becomes a player in the class, but in the drawn sense. We'll explore multiple drawing mediums like chalk, oil pastel, charcoal, graphite and gouache and we'll play with various techniques including collage and frottage while we also hone compositional intention. This class is for students 18 and up, and there is no need to have experience with poetry, or even drawing for that matter!
Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Drawing, Danielle Yang, 2024
5 class session
Begins Winter 2025
Experimental Drawing
$300
Drawing as Celebration, Poetry Drawing, 3D Drawing, Diagram Drawing, Drawing as Meditation, The Frames the Image, Drawing Scores
This is a course of drawing exploration and inquiry for students looking to expand their scope of drawing, and for college level students looking to enhance their portfolio work. We'll ask what constitutes drawing, what drawing is for, and how it can change the way we imagine ourselves and the world around us. We’ll work on technique and the skills needed to express ourselves clearly, and at the same time we’ll disorient ourselves to what we know drawing to be.
Poetry Drawing, Mikayel Mikayelyan, 2024
Saturday 4:30–6 pm
6 classes per/session
Begins September 7, 2024
Parent/T(w)een Class
$500 per family
Observational Drawing with Twists....
This class is for the middle/highschool-student and their parent/caregiver-student. In this multigenerational class we'll learn several techniques and approaches for observational drawing, but we'll also flavor what we see with our individual angle on the world. We'll build an understanding of how specific and rich each of those angles are, while we cultivate concentration and focus on the raw and boundless IRL world before us.
Drawing Student Drawing by Max Sarkisian, 2024
Past & Proposed
Here are some ideas in mind for future classes.
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Diagramming Your Life
We'll organize and reorganize and compose and recompose aspects of our lives by representing them in multiple forms of diagram.
Chalk Drawing
Working with chalk drawing on multiple surfaces, like paper, walls, and concrete. We'll study how we can use chalk to make murals, interventions, and street art.
Chalk Intervention by Elyse Bouchard
Time-Based Drawing for Portfolio
We'll work on how to create and include drawn gifs and other drawings-which-unfold-over-time into a compelling portfolio
Kevin's Dance
Your Ideas
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