Let’s get together and practice some drawing techniques for abstraction and simplification! This session will be all about how to create a representation of something as minimally as possible.

Don’t worry if you aren’t experienced with drawing/painting, that’s not the point :) We are going to be experimenting with a number of techniques and doing some fun collaobrative exercises. The goal of the session is just to experiment and have fun!

Some abstraction ideas that we will be trying:

1. Drawing something organic using only straight lines.
2. Drawing with taking your pencil off the paper as few times as possible
3. Drawing using only a specific shape, like circles or squares.
4. Creating a scene using only a few fixed colours and shapes etc.

All materials provided.

See you guys soon!

Flo and Ed.

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“Creative afterwork” was founded to bring creative people together in Lisbon on a weekly basis to share techniques and ideas through fun varied exercises. Every session will feature a different activity such as painting, sketching, creative writing, handicraft, origami, stop-motion-animation etc. The goal is that each person can create something in each session they can take away at the end.

Events are donation based, participants can choose to give based on what they feel they got out of the session. These funds are used to pay meetup fees and buy materials for future sessions.