Seizing the World With Line (Online Course) Spring 2025 w/ Joseph Podlesnik
April 2 to April 23 (Wednesdays), 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/0m4oYzk2fhY
Course Description
There’s something exciting and slightly scary about committing oneself to just line. Not only line, but continuous line, with no chances to lift your tool to second-guess and reconsider things.
Instead, we will dive in and commit ourselves to paper with continuous line, drawing along edges of forms, across forms and drawing over lines already drawn; making discoveries along the way.
This course will cover some of the ways of reducing and drawing the 3D world (and 2D photo images) with continuous contour line (blind contour line, modified blind contour line and cross contour line), while working from portraits, still-life and landscape. Sure, working with just line is limiting, but it's been said that through limitation we discover how inventive we are.
We’ll also study visual constancies - what are they?
At the same time, we’ll develop our perception of negative space, while working from inverted images. We’ll work with timed drawings, with no opportunity for stopping for revision.
We’ll work with non-dominant hand drawing, too, to discover a spontaneous, vulnerable approach to line.
Course Outline
Week 1 -
Introductions
Summary of the course
Visual constancies (perceptual shortcuts)
Introducing Contour line and Cross-Contour
Slide presentation
Blind Contour Line
Week 2 -
Modified Blind Contour
Negative space
Continuous line drawing – edge contour and cross-contour line, from portraits and still-life
Week 3 -
More work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life
Review drawings on the Padlet
Week 4 -
Continued work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life and landscape
Review drawings on the Padlet
Course Materials List
Papers of your choice (archival paper is preferred)
Mark-making tools of your choice (graphite, charcoal, pastel, ball-point pen, markers, any tool capable of making a continuously drawn line)
Plastic and/or rubber erasers or cloths
Fixative (if you choose to fix your graphite or charcoal drawings)
Suggested text: Observational Drawing by Joseph Podlesnik
https://www.amazon.com/Observational-Drawing-Joseph-Podlesnik/dp/0986163759
April 2 to April 23 (Wednesdays), 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/0m4oYzk2fhY
Course Description
There’s something exciting and slightly scary about committing oneself to just line. Not only line, but continuous line, with no chances to lift your tool to second-guess and reconsider things.
Instead, we will dive in and commit ourselves to paper with continuous line, drawing along edges of forms, across forms and drawing over lines already drawn; making discoveries along the way.
This course will cover some of the ways of reducing and drawing the 3D world (and 2D photo images) with continuous contour line (blind contour line, modified blind contour line and cross contour line), while working from portraits, still-life and landscape. Sure, working with just line is limiting, but it's been said that through limitation we discover how inventive we are.
We’ll also study visual constancies - what are they?
At the same time, we’ll develop our perception of negative space, while working from inverted images. We’ll work with timed drawings, with no opportunity for stopping for revision.
We’ll work with non-dominant hand drawing, too, to discover a spontaneous, vulnerable approach to line.
Course Outline
Week 1 -
Introductions
Summary of the course
Visual constancies (perceptual shortcuts)
Introducing Contour line and Cross-Contour
Slide presentation
Blind Contour Line
Week 2 -
Modified Blind Contour
Negative space
Continuous line drawing – edge contour and cross-contour line, from portraits and still-life
Week 3 -
More work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life
Review drawings on the Padlet
Week 4 -
Continued work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life and landscape
Review drawings on the Padlet
Course Materials List
Papers of your choice (archival paper is preferred)
Mark-making tools of your choice (graphite, charcoal, pastel, ball-point pen, markers, any tool capable of making a continuously drawn line)
Plastic and/or rubber erasers or cloths
Fixative (if you choose to fix your graphite or charcoal drawings)
Suggested text: Observational Drawing by Joseph Podlesnik
https://www.amazon.com/Observational-Drawing-Joseph-Podlesnik/dp/0986163759
April 2 to April 23 (Wednesdays), 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/0m4oYzk2fhY
Course Description
There’s something exciting and slightly scary about committing oneself to just line. Not only line, but continuous line, with no chances to lift your tool to second-guess and reconsider things.
Instead, we will dive in and commit ourselves to paper with continuous line, drawing along edges of forms, across forms and drawing over lines already drawn; making discoveries along the way.
This course will cover some of the ways of reducing and drawing the 3D world (and 2D photo images) with continuous contour line (blind contour line, modified blind contour line and cross contour line), while working from portraits, still-life and landscape. Sure, working with just line is limiting, but it's been said that through limitation we discover how inventive we are.
We’ll also study visual constancies - what are they?
At the same time, we’ll develop our perception of negative space, while working from inverted images. We’ll work with timed drawings, with no opportunity for stopping for revision.
We’ll work with non-dominant hand drawing, too, to discover a spontaneous, vulnerable approach to line.
Course Outline
Week 1 -
Introductions
Summary of the course
Visual constancies (perceptual shortcuts)
Introducing Contour line and Cross-Contour
Slide presentation
Blind Contour Line
Week 2 -
Modified Blind Contour
Negative space
Continuous line drawing – edge contour and cross-contour line, from portraits and still-life
Week 3 -
More work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life
Review drawings on the Padlet
Week 4 -
Continued work with continuous contour line drawing, from portraits and still-life and landscape
Review drawings on the Padlet
Course Materials List
Papers of your choice (archival paper is preferred)
Mark-making tools of your choice (graphite, charcoal, pastel, ball-point pen, markers, any tool capable of making a continuously drawn line)
Plastic and/or rubber erasers or cloths
Fixative (if you choose to fix your graphite or charcoal drawings)
Suggested text: Observational Drawing by Joseph Podlesnik
https://www.amazon.com/Observational-Drawing-Joseph-Podlesnik/dp/0986163759