The key to mastering drawing is learning to see, instead of drawing symbols of what we think we see. From the age of five, children in Hong Kong begin to copy their favourite cartoon characters and lose their originality. They want to draw real objects from the age of nine and then usually give up art forever if they cannot do that by age thirteen. This is unfortunately due to lacking formal art instruction in a very rigid education environment with emphasis on left-brain development.  

Drawing is actually teachable and learnable. Seeing is the problem: there has to be a mental shift from verbal and analytic left-brain mode to visual and perceptual right-brain mode to experience a focus in your awareness and then to see things in an artist's way. So ’learning to draw’ really means learning to make that mental shift from left-brain to right-brain mode.  

Adapted from the drawing programme developed by Dr. Betty Edwards in the United States, this is an excellent introductory course for all ages. It is uniquely designed to train right-brain thinking and stimulate creative potential. This course aims to cultivate visual problem-solving skills, observational perception, spatial intelligence, and creative associations. Students will discover their drawing potential, enhance their personal confidence, unleash unlimited creativity, and enjoy the process. 

Students will benefit through:  

1. Mastering Seeing and Drawing  

2. Exercising Right-Brain Power – Actual, Analogue & Spatial Abilities  

3. Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence 

Lesson 1: 

How Do the Left and Right Brains Work? How to Effectively Use the Right Brain – Reversed Drawing Exercises 

Lesson 2:  

How to See Lines: Outline Drawing – Hand Sketching 

Lesson 3:  

How to See Space: Distinguish the Reality of Flat Space – Wooden Figure Sketching 

Lesson 4:  

How to See Linkage: Manage the Linkage Between Different Objects in the Composition – Proportion and Perspective; – Indoor Still Life Drawing 

Lesson 5: 

How to See Light and Shadow: Express Three-Dimensionality – Profile Portrait Sketching 

Lesson 6:  

Integrate the above four perceptual skills – Self-Portrait Sketching 

Tutor 

Carl Cheng 

Carl Cheng holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and received his Master of Fine Art from RMIT University with the Outstanding MFA Achievement Award in 2008. He has served as the Creative Director at design firms and as the Art Director for “Reader's Digest”. He works with all kinds of media but mainly focuses on installation and drawing. His works feature issues on urbanism, human condition, and game theory. Cheng held 10 solo exhibitions from 1998 to 2018 and was awarded the accolade of Bloomberg Emerging Artist in 2009. He has been invited to work on many site-specific installations including Soaring Dragon, a work commissioned by the Esplanade -- Theatres on the Bay (Singapore) for the Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts in 2014. He is dedicated to promoting local visual arts and engages in art publishing and curating local art documentation, including the "Oasis: Artists' Studio in Hong Kong" series and the "Hong Kong Photographers" series. 

As a seasoned art educator, Cheng founded "Arthome" in 2004. He travelled to the United States that same year to study under Mr. Brian Bomeisler, son of Dr. Betty Edwards, the originator of the "Right-Brain Drawing" course, where he also served as a teaching assistant. He became the first dedicated instructor of the "Right-Brain Drawing" course in Hong Kong and has since taught over 2,000 students of various ages. He teaches this course at the Polytechnic University, Baptist University, and several primary and secondary schools as well as a "Programme for the Gifted and Talented" course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2016, Cheng co-founded the social enterprise "Playtao Dreamland" to provide art learning opportunities for under-privileged children.