Any class listed below will be taught in English or bilingually Danish/English. Click on each course to see details and price.

If you are interested in becoming a life drawing model, please send an e-mail to tegneskolekbh@gmail.com, including your Facebook user name and profile photo as well as personal data and relevant experience.

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TegneskoleKBH was founded by Rasmus Aagaard in 2012, and has been run by him ever since.

Rasmus’ teaching is rooted in the classical discipline of figure drawing, 
with the belief that if you can draw the human figure, you can draw anything.

Rasmus Aagaard has many years of experience in teaching classical drawing,and has studied drawing at several art schools himself.

Rasmus also has a BA in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, so his classes will be both practical and theoretical.

Most classes at TegneskoleKBH are taught bilingually Danish/English.

The place for you?

TegneskoleKBH is the place for you, if you want to enhance your level of classical drawing.
Classical drawing is the foundation of animation / cartoons / illustration / architecture / painting and sculpting alike, and no matter what your career or dreams may be, it’s vitally important that the foundation is rock solid. 

Visual tools

During the course you will be forced to think about what you are doing, when you draw, and why you are doing it.
You will get a thorough introduction to visual tools such as composition, line/tone, crosshatching,
anatomy, construction, perspective, etc. As Glenn Vilppu famously stated: “There are no rules, only tools”.

What to expect

Expect a lot of critique, and a lot of practice.
This can sometimes be very hard, but this is how you will grow as an artist.
Don’t expect to be told that your drawings are beautiful.

What makes TegneskoleKBH unique?

Focus
A lot of people are easily impressed with photo realistic drawings. They think that the more a drawing resembles a photography, the better the drawing.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
A great artist is known not on the ability to reproduce everything, but on the ability to select and recreate only those things that are important, and disregard everything else.
This is what you see when you look at the drawings by Da Vinci, Michellangelo, Pontormo and other great artists from the past, and these are our source of inspiration at TegneskoleKBH

Competent teachers
All drawing course at TegneskoleKBH are taught by Rasmus Aagaard personally or by teachers carefully chosen by him to reflect the standarts and concept of his teaching.

Life drawing 
In many art schools today, (even classical art schools), life drawing is replaced entirely with cast drawings, master copies or drawing from photos. This kind of drawing will kill your art. (Especially drawing from photos).
If you want your art to live and breathe, you should draw living and breathing people, and at TegneskoleKBH we have life drawing several times a week!

Short and long poses
The poses at TegneskoleKBH vary from 30 seconds to around 10 hours.
This is based on the philosophy that drawing quick sketches will improve your long studies, and your long studies will improve your quick sketches.
This is also different from a lot of other classical drawing schools, where they teach only one or the other.

Construction
At TegneskoleKBH you will learn to construct what you see, instead of just copy what you see.
This is one of the major differences between this school, and other schools of classical art.
The reason why you want to construct instead of copy, is that when you construct what you see, you will learn from it.
You can not learn to draw from imagination, if all you do is copy.
One of the goals of TegneskoleKBH is to make you capable of drawing the human figure from imagination, and this is not possible if you only copy the model.

Our in-house teachers

No school is better that its teachers. Look below to find 7 good reasons why TegneskoleKBH is the place to sign up, if you seriously want to improve your skills and understanding within art.

Rasmus Aaggard Foto Kvadratisk

Rasmus Aagaard

Head master

Founder and head of TegneskoleKBH.
Winner of the 2018 edition of the "Best Portrait Painter" show on Danish national TV channel DR1.

Simon Eriksen

Simon Eriksen

Teacher

Simon has several years of professional drawing experience with a special interest in portrait. He has a profound understanding of TegneskoleKBH's construction-based approach to drawing. Simon teaches Portrait Drawing evening class.

Xenia Michaelsen

Xenia Michaelsen

Teacher and portrait artist

Xenia is an experienced Russian/Danish portrait painter, graduated from Moscow Academy of Fine Arts and Dansish School of Design. She reached the finals in the 2018 edition of Denmark's best Portrait Painter.
See more at her home page portraetter.dk
or follow her on Instagram here.

Anna Lund Konnerup

Anna Lund Konnerup

Anna Lund Konerup’s journey in arts has taken around places like Holbæk Kunstskole, The Drawing Academy, The Animation Workshop, as well as Art Residency, Open Workshop. Receiving an education as animator and animation director Anna has found her vocation in an expressive depiction of the human body and soul.

Christoffer Gertz Bech

Christoffer Gertz Bech

Christoffer has been drawing and painting all his life. He gained thorough insight in classical drawing and painting techniques at Studio Éscalier in Paris. Besides that, he holds an MA in philosophy and Greek. He has many years of experience as an art teacher at evening schools and at the Medical Museion and has illustrated several books.

Mariyah Rahman

Mariyah Rahman

Mariyah Rahman is a children’s book illustrator and background artist, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, who has worked in animation, video games and publishing.
She has a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design, specializing in Entertainment Arts. Her list of clients includes Titmouse Animation, Nix Hydra, Heinemann Publishing, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.
Her inspirations include literature, history, fantasy and folklore, and when she is not drawing, she can be found reading, swimming in the ocean, or rolling around with her cats and dogs.

Filip Ellstroem

Filip Marcus von Buchwald

Guest teachers

Over the years, we have hosted a wide range of workshops with renowned art teachers, both Danish and from abroad. The list below is far from complete - it covers only the last couple of years.

Will Weston

Will Weston

Will Weston’s 250,000+ Instagram followers know him as a master draftsman whose blackboard drawings break down complex forms and concepts into lessons that can make any artist better. Will worked in illustration and then in animation at studios including Disney, Sony and Nickelodeon before becoming a full-time professor of entertainment art at the prestigious ArtCenter College of Design.

Aljoscha Blau

Aljoscha Blau

Aljoscha Blau is an internationally successful book author, illustrator and multidisciplinary artist. Over 60 books published to date in over 10 languages, many internationally recognized with prestigious awards. Has taught drawing and illustration for over 20 years at various art academies in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. Lives in Berlin.

Misha Golo

Misha Bart

Misha is a contemporary figurative artist with a degree in Chemical Engineering that he received from Politecnico di Milano. His technical background has a strong influence on the way the space, line, values, and shapes are manipulated and expressed.  Complexity, ambiguity, emotional charge, and realistic appearance are the main aspects of his work.

Jasmine Er

Jasmine Er

Experienced gardener, illustrator, and art teacher for both adults and children. Bachelor of arts in Photography with Media and Culture (University of Roehampton). Diploma in Botanical Illustration (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)

Roberto Marchesi

Roberto Marchesi

Roberto Marchesi was born in 1977 and grew up in Milano with abundant access to classical art and has since childhood been fascinated by the technique of the greatest painters, their simple yet confident brush strokes and treatment of light. Perhaps there is at striving towards that tradition, perfection and correctness in his expression and style and he has several times received tuition at Florence Academy of Art, a school celebrating the language of classical art.

Francisco Mauleon

Francisco de Olano Mauléon

Fran is a Visual Development Artist for film and Series, educated in The Animation Workshop with a background in CGA. He’s currently a Concept artist freelancer and in the past he has worked for companies such as Cartoon Saloon, Boulder media, Bento box and Hydralab amongst others.

Andreas Welin

Andreas Welin

Welin is an internationally renowned artist using the streets as his medium. He grew up in Sønderborg, Denmark where he started painting murals on permissioned walls around town. Quickly he gained experience in mastering the spray. This made it possible for him to attend several graffiti and street art festivals such as Roskilde Festival. From here he gained more know-how about different styles and techniques by seeing many local and international artists working. This network of artists also gave him the opportunity to travel and work in other countries. Welin spent a lot of time painting in New York and Melbourne, but he also made shorter visits to other cities such as Amsterdam, Toronto, Glasgow, London and many more.
Welin's style usually comes out figurative. Educating himself in classical drawing at TegneskoleKBH gave him strong foundation in construction, form, and lighting.