The workshop explores a wide range of issues in hand drawing - tone, line, contour, gesture, composition, and the humanistic forces that shape them. The great Renaissance masters, Raphael, Michelangelo, da Vinci and others are used as a research standard for this investigation. Throughout the term we invite guest artists, scientists, life drawing models, and philosophers to participate in the discussion. All these disciplines form the intellectual basis for understanding the world that we inhabit and therefore, the world that we must preserve.