Sight-Size – Life Drawing

Ages: 18+
Term: Autumn, spring
Length: 10 weeks

Overview

This 10-week course will equip you with the sight-size life drawing skills you need to unleash your inner creativity or enhance your existing capabilities.

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What you need to know

A student stands painting two cherries in a sketch book.

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About this course

Sight-size drawing is an effective way of training the artist's eye, whereby the artist stands back from the easel to compare artwork with the subject at the same scale. This method of teaching has been used in Florence since the Renaissance period.

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Meet your tutor

Dhanraz Ramdharry

Dhanraz Ramdharry is a Bournemouth-based artist, specialising in portraits, classically trained in sight-sized techniques.

Life drawing gallery

Painting of a man with a bard wearing a brown and white fleece and white T-shirt, holding a sword in one hand, the blade leant on his shoulder.

Close-up of a portrait of a man with a beard and a fleece jacket being painted. The model is visible on the left.

An artist in the middle of painting a full-length portrait of G Farquhar.

Full-length colour portrait of Mayor G Farquhar sitting in a chair next to a dog. The background of the portrait is a line drawing only.

Portrait of a young woman in Medieval-style costume petting a dog and holding the pommel of a sword.

An artist viewed from the back in the process of drawing a woman's face. The model is visible in the background.

A framed portrait of a woman wearing a white blouse holding a tea cup and saucer, and the model sitting next to it.

Beyond the course

This could just be the start of your creative journey! After this course, you could further your artistic skills with another short course or look to the future and explore our creative qualifications that can prepare you to further your current career, enable you to retrain to an alternative career path or prepare you for future creative arts studies.