Jan 2 (edited) • 🔴 Monthly Project ✏️📋
🖼️ Masters Project #1 (Jan 2026) - Master Thread ✍️🎨🤝
⭐ New group project starts this month. Our master work of the month is:
"La Femme" (1895) by Giacomo Grosso
Articles (use browser to translate the Italian):
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👉 To join the project:
#1. Study this masterwork to the best of your ability and current skill level.
#2. Study with intent and care. Learn from the master, don't just copy.
#3. Post your work here in this thread.
#4. Along with your work share your lessons and thoughts. Drawing/painting with thought and intention = massive learning.
#5. Support, encourage and teach your classmates. Treat this project like we are in a live classroom. In live class rooms students collaborate and mentor others.
Complete at least 1 master study per week before the deadline so I can give you feedback. I will also do live demo every week on one of the master study paths.
For details on how to study at your level scroll down or read the full project post here 👇: https://www.skool.com/drawing-academy/new-group-project-concept-please-read-and-vote?p=1a7d8fe1
🟢 Basically you can be as ambitious as you want - sketches, line drawings, thumbnails or full size/ambitious copies. It's up to you and your current level.
Good Luck!
✔️ If you guys enjoy this project or if it's valuable to you we'll keep going. This is our first run so please share your thoughts and feedback here as we go.
👉 Deadline:
Week 1 = Jan 11, 2026
Week 2 = Jan 12, 2026
Week 3 = Jan 18, 2026
Week 4 = Jan 25, 2026
Final Due (full scale / ambitious copy) = Jan 31, 2026
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🔴 How You Can Study this Master Work 🔴
Choose the approach that fits your current focus:
#1. Figure focused:
- gesture & construction analysis
- anatomy analysis and study
- perspective and foreshortening breakdown
- contour and design study
#2. Portrait focused study
- construction, planes and rhythms analysis and study
- facial anatomy analysis and study
- head turns and difficult angles
#3. Light, form and realism
- light and form studies: head, figure or section
- shading techniques and materials - experiment with or master your shading materials
- careful and intentional fabric study
#4. Painters
- tonal composition sketch - drawing or paint
- color composition in paint
- b/w copy
- full color copy
- brushwork, technique and paint handing
#5. Picture Maker
- deep composition analysis: visual diagrams and essay
- detailed, large-scale drawing copies
- detailed, large-scale color/painting copies
- Biographical essay or article
👉 P.S.
- Please post your work in this thread to help keep things organized.
- Include any lessons, thoughts and commentary on the masterwork. Mindless copies or careless studies will be called out.
- this group activity is new, if you have any comments, feedback, requests etc, please reply here to help improve and refine this group project
- This is all voluntary :) Just something new and fun I'd like to try. Please continue with your current coursework.
Good luck ✍️
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🖼️ Masters Project #1 (Jan 2026) - Master Thread ✍️🎨🤝
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