Introduction to Portrait Drawing
Wed, Jul 09
|Arts Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center
Learn the anatomy and approaches to drawing faces along with drawing fundamentals and basic shading techniques. Ages 16+
Time & Location
Jul 09, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Arts Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center, 106 E Colby St, Whitehall, MI 49461, USA
Guests
About the event
Join Tatsuki Hakoyama for an introductory class on drawing portraits. Students will learn the anatomy and approaches to drawing faces along with drawing fundamentals and basic shading techniques. All skill levels are welcome.
Class minimum: 6
Class maximum: 10
About the Instructor:
Tatsuki Hakoyama is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI. Although he works with a broad range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and papermaking, his passion is creating allegorical figurative paintings influenced by magical realist painters. Aside from exhibiting his work in various solo and juried group shows, he teaches as an adjunct faculty at Kendall College of Art & Design and Grand Rapids Community College.
ACWL-Nuveen classes are supported by CatchMark Technologies, Michigan Arts & Culture Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nuveen Benevolent Trust.