Visual Arts Planning: Life Drawing

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Adapting AccessArt: Stories and Faces

Introducing life drawing to children

Children create layered portraits of people in a daycare centre inspired by the Exploring Identity pathway.

life drawing for children

Introducing life drawing to children

Children select their own props and take it in turns to model and draw.

Drawing cartoon characters

Inventing and drawing comic book characters

An exciting resource using life drawings to create cartoon characters.

Where The Wild Things Are

Drawing inspired by the book Where The Wild Things Are

This resource forms part of a series which enable primary-aged children to explore drawing and making inspired by Maurice Sendak’s 'Where the Wild Things Are'.

Drawing inspired by Quentin Blake

Drawing in the style of Quentin Blake

Taking Quentin Blake’s drawings as a starting point for three simple exercises.

Introducing drawing from life

Introducing drawing from life techniques

Introduce students to the first steps of drawing from life in a series of short exercises or ‘studies’.

Life Drawing- getting it right

Getting life drawing right

A resource to help students practice their life drawing skills.

Dance and Drawing

Drawing in the style of Quentin Blake

Professional dancer Belinda Chapman shows how she draws the moving figure.

How to measure proportions

Drawing in proportion

A workshop that explains the ‘Sighting Method’ to enable students to draw in proportion from a live model.

Teenagers Draw A Dog

Drawing a live dog

Pupil's are challenged to draw a live subject that keeps moving!

Drawing someone drawing something

Developing sketchbook practice

This exciting project explores the idea that sketchbooks can be used as a tool to generate sketches and gather visual ideas for later use.

Drawing with wire

Drawing with wire

A creative session that encourages students not to concentrate on how their bodies look, but to visualise how they feel.

Repetative Life drawing exercise

Inspired by Henri Matisse, this workshop encourages students to challenge pre-conceived ideas of what a drawing should be.

Inspired by Henri Matisse, this workshop encourages students to challenge pre-conceived ideas of what a drawing should be.

drawing from a life model

Drawing a life model

Artist Hester Berry has created a set of inspirational resources to help students get to grips with this very rewarding activity.

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