Drawing Basics
NOTE: This course was designed so you could enroll at any time and go at your own pace. You can watch lessons that have already been released. Expect new content once per week.
This course is currently active, so if you submit your work for the latest projects, you could be included in the critique videos!
Anyone can learn how to draw, like anyone can learn how to speak. Drawing is a visual language. If you learn the vocabulary and grammar of the visual language, you can communicate with pictures!
You’ll learn the most important foundational concepts for drawing anything and soon you’ll be able to draw pictures from imagination or from reference. This course is designed to keep you drawing, without getting burned out or discouraged.
It’s heavy on information, lame jokes, and projects. There's even two levels of each project - one for absolute beginners and one for intermediate folks who are here to review and polish their fundamentals. That means you can go through the course twice! First as a beginner and then as an intermediate artist. What? A two in one?!
We'll start by building habits to draw with good line quality. Then we'll move on to shape, which is the main concept that communicates the subject you're drawing. So, it's important to understand how to design interesting shapes to design your own characters and objects. Then we'll make those shapes 3D! We'll learn the basics of perspective and how to construct form intuitively, without complex math and grids. Finally, we'll learn how to add light and shading to our drawings by controlling values and edges.
If you commit to this course and follow along with the projects, you will get better at drawing. You’ll have a good foundation of skills that carry over to every specialty. Whether you plan on becoming a fine art painter, concept artist, or comic artist, this is the prerequisite course!
Nope! You can join and watch the lessons at any time. This course was designed so you could go at your own pace.
This course is currently active, so if you submit your work for the latest projects, you could be included in the critique videos!
This course will be adding content for a while and you can expect at least one new video every week.
No, it’s a one-time payment and you have access to the ‘Drawing Basics' videos forever. You are essentially purchasing a product. It’s not a subscription.
Yup! Each video is downloadable as an mp4 file at 1080p. Please don’t share the videos. Each purchase helps to create future videos like these.
No, this includes only ‘Drawing Basics' lessons.
Nope! This course is the prerequisite. The only thing you need to take this course is some paper and a pencil.
Absolutely! Just enter in the gift receivers email address at checkout.
Premium videos are extended versions of free videos. This includes additional demonstrations and critique videos. Whenever diagrams or photos are provided, premium students get high resolution versions, which you can download and print for your reference.
The videos are downloadable, so you can watch them without internet access and transfer them to a tablet like an iPad. Going on vacation? Download them so you can watch them on the plane and in that cabin in the woods.
You also get access to 3D models.
Just a pencil and paper will work! But I will go over details of pencils, sketchbooks, erasers, pens, and markers so that you know what's available to you and how to expand beyond a simple pencil to better suit your needs.
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