I’m flipping through two sketchbooks to show how I balance polished client work with the fun of messy, personal experimentation.

I’m reviewing your final character renders to show how small tweaks to lighting and anatomy can make your designs stand out.

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.

You can create a stronger focal point by merging shadow shapes into the background to lose specific edges.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I’m basing this drawing on a reference but adding my own design elements. We’ll balance realistic structure with graphic shapes for a stylized look.

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

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

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