Sketching Anatomy: A Special Sketch Night with Kriota Willberg & R. Sikoryak
No matter what we do, the shapes of our bodies are determined by the positions of our bones, the contraction and stretch of our muscles, and the contours of our tissues and skin covering the anatomy underneath. Understanding anatomy helps us create real or imaginary characters—in any style—that are consistent and physically believable.
This sketch night/anatomy lesson focuses on learning to recognize the skeletal and muscular anatomy of the human body. Participants will practice drawing bodies from the inside out! Anatomist and graphic medicine cartoonist Kriota Willberg will—literally—draw on a live model, tracing muscles and bones, and share information regarding identifying and sketching the anatomy of the model, which you could draw in any style you choose. Cartoonist R. Sikoryak will present some images of various cartooning styles based on drawing techniques.
Artists of all skill levels are invited for figure drawing at the Society of Illustrators. Model will be nude. Chairs and sketch boards will be provided, but artists should come prepared with their own art materials.
Ticketed guests are also invited to enjoy their favorite cocktail at our 128 Bar.
Please note, doors for this event will open at 6:00pm. No outside food or drink.
Kriota Willberg is a former massage therapist and is now a graphic medicine cartoonist. She’s best known for Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists (Uncivilized Books). Her works have also appeared in 4PANEL.ca, SubCultures, Comics For Choice, The Graphic Canon, Strumpet 5, The Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Meandering Realms, among others. Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award. She has been an inaugural Artist in Residence for the New York Academy of Medicine Library and for the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai, plus had a residency in the Humanistic Medicine department at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Currently, Willberg teaches at NYU and Parsons School of Design. Together, Willberg and Sikoryak have taught many anatomy workshops at the Society of Illustrators.
R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and the author of the graphic novels Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (all published by Drawn & Quarterly). He illustrated the comic books that appear in Tom Hanks’ novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. His comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, as well as in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, MAD, and more. He currently teaches at Parsons School of Design, and previously at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he has presented his live comics performance series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada.