The Indomitable Stickman – Principles of Composition & Figures

Over 4 weekly sessions, you’ll learn the 6 principles of composition, to sharpen your visual awareness and understand the scaffolding behind every strong artwork. All 4 sessions are included in the price: 2nd Aug, 9 Aug, 16th Aug, 23rd Aug.


Want to be an artist, but the best you can draw is a stick figure?
It’s been my experience that the strongest artists craft with their eye rather than their hand. So how does one see?

Over 4 weekly sessions, you’ll learn the 6 principles of composition—Scale, Emphasis, Space, Balance, Repetition, and Movement—to sharpen your visual awareness and understand the scaffolding behind every strong artwork. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to compose and draw simple figures, using stick figures as a tool to explore gesture, proportion, and placement within a scene.

No advanced drawing skills required—just your curiosity, your imagination, and a pencil.

Materials List-
You are required to provide your own materials for this workshop. Material list via the website.


Your Teacher
Joey Smith

Joey is an artist with a hand in several mediums, but specialises in inks and digital compositry. He recognises art is as much the architecture of one’s soul, and in the process of its construction is where he finds intent. He often signs work under the alias Smoe.

You may also like the following events from Margaret Street Gallery, Toowoomba:

• Next month, 4th July, 10:00 am, Art Day at Pop'd in North Toowoomba
• Next month, 12th July, 12:00 am, Script Hand Lettering 101 in North Toowoomba
• Next month, 19th July, 11:30 am, Art Bites – Networking for humans who make art in North Toowoomba

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