In week eight, Patrick emphasizes the importance of storytelling in figure drawing, encouraging you to focus on narrative before style and technique. Using Rajiv’s “Perseus Betrayed” pose, he demonstrates how to lay in and build rhythm in your work while balancing contrast and highlights. You’ll continue refining your rendering skills as Patrick revisits an earlier Amanda drawing to demonstrate motifs and advanced techniques. By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand how to integrate story, rhythm, and rendering into a cohesive artistic expression.

Throughout this course, you’ll have access to the NMA community for feedback and critiques to improve your work as you progress.