Drawing: Line and Light

Where observation becomes a language.

About This Course

A pencil can describe almost anything, if you know how to use it. This course builds the real fundamentals: line, tone, light and shadow, through looking hard at real things and translating what's seen onto paper.

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
9-11
Term
Term 1
Schedule
Mondays, 4:15pm
Duration
10 weeks
Price
$480
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What You'll Learn

  • You'll use line to describe an edge, a shape, a feeling.
  • You'll turn a flat shape solid with shading.
  • You'll use light and shadow to give something real form.
  • You'll draw from observation, not guesswork.
  • You'll talk about your drawing and the choices you made.

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 makes a drawing convincing. Looking, not guessing. Line. Describing an edge with confidence.

Week 2: Basic shapes hiding inside complicated objects.

Week 3: Shading. Turning flat shapes solid.

Week 4: Light and shadow on a single object.

Week 5: Drawing from observation, not memory. Texture. Showing what something feels like.

Week 6: A drawing with more than one object, in the same light.

Week 7: Choosing and refining a final piece.

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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