Bayar has intensively been working with ink for the last couple of years, focusing mostly on life drawing, portrait drawing, and crowd scenes. As a founding member of Drink and Draw Berlin he has been teaching life drawing classes and workshops since 2015. Next to his obligations at drink and draw he is working as a freelance artist, doing commissions, live event sketching and selling his original artworks. His clients include Miro, Berliner Sparkasse, Karakter Design Studio and Materia Design Studio, Playgrounds the Art Department, Feel Festival, Artlake Festival and Kauf dich Glücklich.

Attention to Detail 

A worlshop by Bayar Tsedensodnom

Life drawing is a great practice to hone your drawing skills, no matter what form of art one aspires to get better at. It combines structure with flow, proportion with perspective, and broad forms with meaningful details. Finding a balance between all of these things, while also considering working in different media and styles is a puzzle that all artists deal with and solve in their own time and in their unique way. This workshop deals with an interesting part of this journey, namely the balance between details and leaving enough space for the drawing to breathe and be expressive. In this context it is important to differentiate between details as visual clutter compared to details giving us valuable information about the underlying structure and story of the figure. Adding precise and meaningful details to figures can elevate their visual impact and also forces us as artists to consciously decide when to simplify and give space versus when to slow down and take the time to get down to the nitty gritty. 

Bayar Tsedensodnom has been practicing and teaching life drawing for more than a decade now and is best known for his drawing practice using brushpens and ink as his medium of choice. This workshop condenses his experience and practical know-how into a full day boot-camp, consisting of demos, plenty of life drawing exercises with a nude model and personal feedback as well as group feedback. Bayar will be using brushpens throughout this workshop, and will explain their merits, treadfalls and benefits but other media are also welcome. This workshop is suitable for intermediate to advanced level artists, which means that you should have some experience with figure drawing already. Brushpen experience is nice to have but not a requirement.