The first project of the Drawing Basics course is to challenge yourself to simplify the shapes, edges, and values of a pear or portrait from observation.

Drawing is a visual language that can be learned just like any other language, and anyone can pick it up with the right guidance and practice.

In this video, I’ll give you an in depth look at what you’ll learn in my Drawing Basics course.

A beginner's guide to sketchbooks and paper! Learn about paper types, texture, weight, archivability, and common pitfalls.

There is an endless number of ways to use lines as an artist, so let's jump in and take a look at the basics.

Here’s a project to help you avoid chicken scratch. We’re going to simplify our drawings to C curves, S curves, and straight lines.

Master the Tapered Stroke for confident line quality in your sketches! Learn how to construct complex shapes & add energy to your loose sketches.

Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first assignment for level 1 students.

Before we start, let's go over tools. I've included an extensive materials shopping list of paper, pencils, markers, erasers, and sharpeners.

All the ways I sharpen pencils. Wooded and woodless graphite pencils, 2.0 and 5.6mm mechanical pencils, charcoal pencils, and eraser pencils!

This warmup is a fun way to help you practice drawing ellipses.

Master line quality with 6 key habits: avoid common mistakes, find a comfortable speed, follow-through, ghosting, rotate the paper, and use simple strokes.

In this lesson, I show you 5 line quality warm-ups that you can practice to improve your line control.

This is our first stop on the path to drawing from imagination.

In this project, we'll start learning how to sketch using simple loose lines.

In this lesson, we’ll learn about the importance of line weight when creating engaging and interesting art.

A beginner's guide to pencils and erasers! A breakdown of the many different pencil and eraser options out there.

In this bonus demo, I’ll attempt to use ALL 3 line weight methods in the same drawing and show how you can be creative in the way you combine them.

In our very first critique of the course, I take a look through your simplified pear submissions and give feedback on some of the most common mistakes.