Drawing for Absolute Beginners

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Drawing for Absolute Beginners
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Drawing for Absolute Beginners

Cost: $625.00

REGISTER ONLINE (Registration opens on January 3, 2024)

LOCATION: Cooper Union Campus

6 In-Person Sessions

Sundays, February 25–March 31, 2024

12:30 PM–4:30 PM

Everyone can learn to draw. Never taken a drawing class before? Feel rusty or simply lack confidence? This course is designed for you.

We will explore how imagination and observation combined with simple drawing techniques are the foundation to drawing with confidence and delight. We will use pencil, color pencil and pastel to practice the whole range of tonality within the grayscale and create realistic drawings, as well as how to use only lines for quick and effective drawings. We will draw directly from life, from references and from imagination, to develop our drawing intuition and an inspiring personal practice.

This class emphasizes clear instruction and accessible exercises to develop your skill each week, with the final goal of having a basic but strong understanding of drawing, so that you can enjoy it by yourself and have the option to continue to develop it at more advanced levels. Although this class is tailored toward the absolute beginner, all levels are welcome. You will receive personal, individualized feedback.

Material List:

  • Drawing 80 lb Pad, 70 Sheets 11" x 14"
  • Pencils: 7h, H, 7b (suggested: Derwent Graphic brand)
  • Pitt White Pastel Pencil Soft (medium is fine too)
  • Black Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencil
  • Hi-Polymer Eraser
  • Fine point eraser (suggested: Tombow Round)
  • Prismacolor Kneaded Eraser
  • Natural Artist Chamois (suggested: Pkg of 2 Approximately 5" x 7")
  • Pencil sharpener

Course Code: 117583

Instructor(s): Carlos Martinez

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.