Drawing Light & Form 2 (Online Course)

Instructor(s):
Devin Cecil-Wishing

Sundays – 11 AM – 2 PM ET – please adjust for your time zone
OR
Sundays 3 PM – 6 PM – please adjust for your time zone
January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2025
OR
Wednesdays 6 PM – 9 PM ET – please adjust for your time zone
January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 2025

12 weeks – Tuition: $540

Students must have completed Drawing Light & Form 1. Contact Admin to enroll.

Limit: 10-12 students

Take this class:

• if you’ve completed Drawing Light and Form 1
• if you’re interested in exploring ‘form’ concepts via the time honored tradition of cast drawing. 
• if you’re interested in closely adhering to the pace and curriculum of the GCA Core Program.

Is this class for me/ prerequisite?

• Drawing Light & Form 1 is a pre-requisite for this class. No exceptions.
• Students provide their own casts to work from.

Online tech needs:

• The class will be conducted on the Zoom platform and is a live online experience.
• Devin’s classes are recorded and made available so students can review demos and critiques after each live session. Recordings are distributed within 24 hours after the live class finishes. Recording access is for the duration of the course plus thirty days.
• This class also uses Google Classroom to distribute materials. Watch this video for more insight.
  Both of these services are free but require registration.
• It will be necessary for students to have access to a computer, tablet or smartphone. The recommended device is a laptop or desktop.

“Devin’s Light and Form is easily the best art class I have ever taken. I feel like it has completely transformed my handling of value transitions and understanding of modeling form. Devin is a clear, interesting, and very encouraging teacher.” – Suzanne

Download MaterialsContact Admin to Register ONLY if you meet the pre-requisite

Course Description

In part two of the Drawing Light and Form course, students will take the concepts discussed in parts one and two and really put them into practice. While working from life directly from plaster casts, students will refine their ability to model form and increasingly grow in their abilities to recreate the specific forms seen in the subject.  Time will be spent discussing how to approach complex subjects from a “form-based” mindset rather than falling back into optical habits when confronted with a challenge as well as how to utilize the sphere as a guide for modeling form, even when the subject is not particularly spherical.  We will also discuss how to approach reflected light and begin to refine our understanding of the “exponential drop” in light as we turn around a form.

This second section of the course is an important part of the overall process of incorporating the knowledge learned in part one and really learn to work with these concepts in our day-to-day studio practice.  By spending time practicing the skill of modeling form, the concepts will begin to move from a purely conceptual set of ideas into an integral part of our picture making process.

Students can repeat Drawing Light & Color 2 as many times as they wish to work on increasingly more challenging casts.
Students must provide their own casts.

Note: The class will be conducted on the Zoom platform and is a live online experience.
It will be necessary for students to have access to a computer, tablet or smartphone. The recommended device is a laptop or desktop.