Join lead artists as they create innovative content for these non-synchronous, all-ages, and free drawing sessions!
Online | Free
Building on SFAI’s history of offering free live model sessions on Friday afternoons since the 1950s, those drawing sessions are uploaded to give both beginners and advanced drawers exciting and engaging opportunities to explore drawing techniques and conceptual modes of artmaking.
This interactive online format allows participants to revisit the episodes again and again, creating a truly versatile and lasting tool for drawing the live model.
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#1 - Spooky Horror Drawing Show
Leave behind the void of zoom doom and walk through a portal into our online drawing studio! The ability to draw a figure that moves in 3 of the earthly dimensions is essential while honing your drawing skills. All of the slight movements that models may make add layers of depth perception, character and gravity that cannot be perceived in the same way when drawing from photographs. Train your hand-eye coordination while being immersed in a meditative, spooky and fun drawing practice! In this first session we cover some life drawing basics: essential tools, gesture drawing, and techniques for checking proportion.
#2 - Exploring Figure Drawing with a Range of Media
For this episode of SFAI’s (in collaboration with City Studio) Virtual Open Drawing Studio, Tom Colcord will demonstrate various media that he likes to sketch with. With help from the model Amayi Morales, several dramatic poses will be the source of inspiration. Tom will talk about all the different media he is using while giving tips on drawing from the model.
#3 - Drawing Activism
2020 has seen civic activism take a prominent role in response to injustice and systemic inequality in the U.S. For this figure drawing session we will focus on the different tactics and expressions used to stand up against this inequity. The different poses used in this session will recreate activism tactics from groups like Black Lives Matters to immigrant rights movements, highlighting the importance of these movements and the ongoing fight heading into 2021. See Sanctuary City, Collective Action Studio, and the artist/activist Alicia Cruz. More about Alicia’s most recent local protest here.
