Roll for Inspiration: Emotions and Expressions

Class Description:

Want to give your portrait drawings more spice and liveliness? Join us for this interactive session focused on capturing facial expressions through spontaneous prompts! We’ll use the Roll for Inspiration system to explore various emotions and their visual representations. This session encourages artists to be flexible, work quickly, and develop their observational skills and expressive capabilities in portrait drawing.

What You Will Learn:

Warm-up exercises to loosen up and prepare for capturing emotions.
Methods for studying and portraying a range of facial expressions.
Techniques for combining traits to create unique and exaggerated expressions.

Supplies You'll Need:

Sketchbook or drawing paper
Pencils or pens
Erasers
Small mirror (optional)
Colored pencils or markers (optional)

About Instructor

Shelby Abrahamsen (Foxsy)

Shelby is the co-founder of Foxsy and the creator at Little Coffee Fox. She is a professional watercolorist, letterer, and artist with a passion for teaching others to reintroduce creativity back into their lives. Shelby lives in Chicago, IL with her husband Jon and her pets Summer, Basil, and Korra.

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