About

The lecturers of the Department of Drawing offer students of all disciplines classical or academic drawing courses that teach them to understand, analyze, and render on the plane a complex set of forms and volumes in their variety of characters and movements.

Drawing occupies a significant place in art education. Students train to evaluate the tonal relationships created by lights and darks according to form and illumination and to represent materiality with the help of tonal relationships.

The Drawing course is complemented by Contextual Drawing, taught by guest lecturers from Latvia and abroad; often, lectures take place outside the Academy.