Drawing: Finding Your Line

Not a style you choose. One you find.

About This Course

Anyone can copy a style. This course is about finding your own. Through a full term of sustained work on one idea, pushed further than a single-session piece ever could go.

What You'll Create

  • A folio of drawings produced across the term, minimum one per week.
  • One or two exhibition-ready pieces selected by the student.
  • A brief written or verbal statement about their process.

Course Details

Age Range
15-18
Term
Term 1
Schedule
Mondays, 5:30pm
Duration
10 weeks
Price
$480
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What You'll Learn

  • You'll develop one idea across a sustained body of work.
  • You'll start recognising the habits that make up your own style.
  • You'll push one idea further, instead of starting over each week.
  • You'll edit your own work down to its strongest pieces.
  • You'll present and talk about finished work, in public.

The Support You'll Get

You won't be handed the answer. You'll be shown how to find it.

Your practitioner has spent years making their own work, and their own mistakes. In the studio they work alongside you: asking the right questions, pointing out options you hadn't seen, helping you push through the moment you get stuck. The ideas stay yours. The decisions stay yours. They're there so you're never finding the way through alone.

Week by Week

Week 1: What a personal style actually is. Not decoration, decisions. Finding a starting idea worth spending a term on.

Week 2: First attempts. Testing the idea in different ways.

Week 3: Identifying which choices are becoming "yours."

Week 4: Pushing the idea further, not starting over.

Week 5: A turning point piece. The strongest version yet.

Week 6: Building a small series around the idea.

Week 7: Getting critical feedback, then editing the series down to its best work.

Week 8: Exhibition. Public showing, families attend.

Every course ends with an exhibition

Celebrate what you created with the people and our community. Every term concludes with a presentation or exhibition of your work: a chance to share your process, your ideas, and what you've made.

Your Instructor

Charlotte Lance

Charlotte Lance

Author & Illustrator

Charlotte has illustrated and written children's books published by Penguin, Pan Macmillan, Allen & Unwin and Scholastic. Her work includes A Really Super Hero, This Girl, That Girl, and Moth in a Fancy Cardigan. She builds worlds that hold stories within stories, working across traditional and digital media. She teaches the way she works: look closely, draw what's actually there, then make it yours.

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