Hello, I recently started as a teacher of drawing and painting in a small rural art school, that is an after school activity for local kids. According to the curriculum document, the school is supposed to teach the classic fundamentals of art and prepare kids for potentially pursuing higher education in arts.
I work with a small group of middle schoolers (13-14 year olds) that have been going to the school for years, but they don't really know anything about basic construction/perspective and according to the curriculum, we should be learning human anatomy already. Do you have any tips to approach this, they draw like complete beginners and I'm stumped on how to get them to approach things more classically/technically, while also keeping things light and creative. A lot of classical drawing guides out there but they seem to be aimed at grown ups or at least high schoolers and are quite serious and technical and a bit of a jump from whatever they have been used to before (generic creative assignments where there are no wrong answers, nothing systematic).