Sauka, Abuja (FCT)2 drawing professors near you

A true drawing teacher has excellent skills in visual arts and teaching. A profession of passion and often a calling, a drawing teacher must be both a pedagogue, patient, and calm as his main students are children who are developing their artistic senses and some are at an advanced stage. As such, he must master perfectly all the techniques he teaches, and these can be mixed techniques combining charcoal and felt-tip pen, or specific styles like manga. Before becoming a drawing teacher, one must first have a diploma in drawing and there are numerous courses ranging from BAC+3 to BAC+5, usually in art schools in applied arts or in Fine Arts, but it is also possible to go through an illustration or graphic design school: - National Diploma in Crafts and Design - BAC+3; - National Art Diploma - prestigious diploma at BAC+3 level at the Beaux-arts; - Higher Diploma in Applied Arts - BAC+4; - National Diploma in Plastic Expression - BAC+5 with several mentions: illustration, edition, digital arts. And if one wishes to become a visual arts teacher for the National Education, it will be necessary to take some exams: - The certificate of aptitude for secondary school teaching allowing to become a certified drawing teacher in a public general education college or high school; - The certificate of aptitude for technical education teaching to become a drawing teacher in a technological high school; - The certificate of aptitude for professional high school teaching to become a drawing teacher in a professional high school.

The drawing teacher runs drawing and painting workshops, provides private lessons during school holidays or on Wednesday afternoons, as well as in the evenings or weekends, and offers weekly courses for beginners as well. He enables children, teenagers, and adults to develop their manual artistic skills, to learn the basics (drawing and painting), to improve their artistic practice, to perfect specific techniques (crosshatching, dry pastel, shadows, pigments, sketching, etc.), and more. When the drawing teacher works with schools, colleges, and high schools, he becomes a visual arts teacher and spends up to 19 hours per week in the classroom on average. Thus, his role can be summarized as follows: - Running a class: excellent organization to keep students interested and attentive; - Planning courses during the school year: teaching drawing involves pedagogy and creativity, and the teacher decides how the topics will unfold in accordance with the dedicated program; - Providing materials: the teacher orders supplies according to his inventory (pencils, pastels, papers, brushes, graphites, charcoal, oil paint, gouache, stencils, colored pencils, sketchbooks, easels, chalks, erasers, inks...); - Teaching the basics and the history of art: at the beginning of the course, the drawing teacher introduces his students to pictorial basics, painting, and sculpture to awaken their creative potential and teach them the foundations of art history. When working independently, the drawing teacher offers collective art workshops, drawing and painting courses at home, plastic arts workshops for adults, painting workshops, illustration courses, easel painting lessons, and many other formats depending on the learners' needs. To transmit his knowledge of artistic drawing, academic drawing, and drawing as a whole, the teacher can use various techniques with styles that can be mixed.

It is often said that being able to draw is a gift and that it manifests itself from childhood. But when we look closer at children who draw, the majority make squiggles with wonky shapes - far from being visual arts. Ultimately, children of the same age have about the same level if their manual dexterity is similar - some are more advanced than others, of course. If we see that our child has potential, we can then have them take drawing lessons at home from a private drawing teacher, for example. As they grow up, they can further develop their creative spirit (deepening artistic practices) and move on to abstract art, live models, anatomy (the human body), still life and many others, make nude drawings and artistic drawings, take intensive courses in small groups (for initiates), participate in workshops with artist-painters, etc. We are not immediately obliged to send our child to an art school (applied arts, decorative arts...) nor ourselves for that matter. We can very well, for a time, take drawing workshops proposed by an artist-painter or even plastic arts courses to learn the basics of drawing. The great art schools like the Beaux-Arts will be later when the vocation arises. Otherwise, drawing classes can represent preparatory courses with a view to taking the entrance exam for the Beaux-Arts precisely or other art schools to make it one's profession later.

To find a drawing teacher, it is possible to go through a directory such as StarOfService on which many artists, painters and other professionals offer their services. It is enough to fill in the information on the screen to get in touch with many teachers in one's area.

Graphite, charcoal, watercolor, pastel, black stone... Drawing classes are a great way to get started with all existing techniques. Whether you want to pursue a career in drawing or simply learn how to draw characters, learning to draw (sketching, outlining, hatching, portraiture...) brings numerous benefits. Indeed, it also allows you to learn patience, concentration, hand dexterity, and most importantly, creativity. Drawing lessons can have various prices depending on their form. For example, for drawing and fine arts workshops, they offer packages per session, such as a one-hour session for €15 and a full workshop of 20 sessions for €250. Prices may also vary depending on the training levels and family income, with double to triple rates for advanced drawing courses.

To choose a good drawing teacher, one must consider several criteria. The first of which is professionalism. It is better to prefer a professional over an amateur running their own studio. One can ask about their qualifications, such as their degree and experience teaching drawing and painting. Next, one should be cautious about well-known artists as they tend to have a well-defined style that may not suit everyone’s taste. Additionally, some artist-teachers fear plagiarism from their students and limit their teaching as a result. Then there is the diversity of proposals in terms of mediums and styles. One should ask about which style they wish to learn or which artistic techniques they want such as awakening, manga, press drawing, impressionism, figurative, fauvism, pop art, etc. In terms of mediums, one can use charcoal, graphite, pastel, and many others. Drawing and painting are closely related, so one might ask a visual arts and creative leisure teacher if they are trained in watercolor painting techniques or teach acrylic painting...

Questions to ask a drawing teacher during the first contact